Mechanistic Insight from Calorimetric Measurements of the Assembly of the Binuclear Metal Active Site of Glycerophosphodiesterase (GpdQ) from Enterobacter aerogenes

Autor: David L. Ollis, Dean E. Wilcox, Nataša Mitić, Gerhard Schenk, Margaret C. Carpenter, Lawrence R. Gahan, Marcelo Monteiro Pedroso, Fernanda Ely
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Biochemistry. 56:3328-3336
ISSN: 1520-4995
0006-2960
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b01200
Popis: Glycerophosphodiesterase (GpdQ) from Enterobacter aerogenes is a binuclear metallohydrolase with a high affinity for metal ions at its α site but a lower affinity at its β site in the absence of a substrate. Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) has been used to quantify the Co(II) and Mn(II) binding affinities and thermodynamics of the two sites in wild-type GpdQ and two mutants, both in the absence and in the presence of phosphate. Metal ions bind to the six-coordinate α site in an entropically driven process with loss of a proton, while binding at the β site is not detected by ITC. Phosphate enhances the metal affinity of the α site by increasing the binding entropy and the metal affinity of the β site by enthalpic (Co) or entropic (Mn) contributions, but no additional loss of protons. Mutations of first- and second-coordination sphere residues at the β site increase the metal affinity of both sites by enhancing the binding enthalpy. In particular, loss of the hydrogen bond from second-sphere Ser127 to the metal-coordinating Asn80 has a significant effect on the metal binding thermodynamics that result in a resting binuclear active site with high catalytic activity. While structural and spectroscopic data with excess metal ions have indicated a bridging hydroxide in the binuclear GpdQ site, analysis of ITC data here reveals the loss of a single proton in the assembly of this site, indicating that the metal-bound hydroxide nucleophile is formed in the resting inactive mononuclear form, which becomes catalytically competent upon binding the second metal ion.
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