Structural highlights
Function
[DNK_DROME] Deoxyribonucleoside kinase that has a broad specificity phosphorylating thymidine, deoxyadenosine, deoxycytidine and deoxyguanosine. Specificity is higher for pyrimidine nucleosides. Several anti-viral and anti-cancer nucleoside analogs are also efficiently phosphorylated.[1] [2] [3]
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Deoxyribonucleoside kinases are feedback inhibited by the final products of the salvage pathway, the deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates. In the present study, the mechanism of feedback inhibition is presented based on the crystal structure of a complex between the fruit fly deoxyribonucleoside kinase and its feedback inhibitor deoxythymidine triphosphate. The inhibitor was found to be bound as a bisubstrate inhibitor with its nucleoside part in the nucleoside binding site and with its phosphate groups partially occupying the phosphate donor site. The overall structure of the enzyme--inhibitor complex is very similar to the enzyme--substrate complexes with deoxythymidine and deoxycytidine, except for a conformational change within a region otherwise directly involved in catalysis. This conformational change involves a magnesium ion, which is coordinated in the inhibitor complex to the phosphates and to the primary base, Glu52, that normally is positioned close to the 5'-OH of the substrate deoxyribose.
Structural basis for feedback inhibition of the deoxyribonucleoside salvage pathway: studies of the Drosophila deoxyribonucleoside kinase.,Mikkelsen NE, Johansson K, Karlsson A, Knecht W, Andersen G, Piskur J, Munch-Petersen B, Eklund H Biochemistry. 2003 May 20;42(19):5706-12. PMID:12741827[4]
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References
- ↑ Johansson M, van Rompay AR, Degreve B, Balzarini J, Karlsson A. Cloning and characterization of the multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase of Drosophila melanogaster. J Biol Chem. 1999 Aug 20;274(34):23814-9. PMID:10446143
- ↑ Munch-Petersen B, Knecht W, Lenz C, Sondergaard L, Piskur J. Functional expression of a multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase from Drosophila melanogaster and its C-terminal deletion mutants. J Biol Chem. 2000 Mar 3;275(9):6673-9. PMID:10692477
- ↑ Welin M, Skovgaard T, Knecht W, Zhu C, Berenstein D, Munch-Petersen B, Piskur J, Eklund H. Structural basis for the changed substrate specificity of Drosophila melanogaster deoxyribonucleoside kinase mutant N64D. FEBS J. 2005 Jul;272(14):3733-42. PMID:16008571 doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04803.x
- ↑ Mikkelsen NE, Johansson K, Karlsson A, Knecht W, Andersen G, Piskur J, Munch-Petersen B, Eklund H. Structural basis for feedback inhibition of the deoxyribonucleoside salvage pathway: studies of the Drosophila deoxyribonucleoside kinase. Biochemistry. 2003 May 20;42(19):5706-12. PMID:12741827 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bi0340043
