Structure of 5'-methylthionadenosine/S-Adenosylhomocysteine nucleosidase from S. pneumoniae with a transition-state inhibitor MT-ImmAStructure of 5'-methylthionadenosine/S-Adenosylhomocysteine nucleosidase from S. pneumoniae with a transition-state inhibitor MT-ImmA

Structural highlights

1zos is a 6 chain structure with sequence from Streptococcus pneumoniae R6. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:X-ray diffraction, Resolution 1.6Å
Ligands:
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Function

Q8DQ16_STRR6

Evolutionary Conservation

 

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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Streptococcus pneumoniae 5'-methylthioadenosine/S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase (MTAN) catalyzes the hydrolytic deadenylation of its substrates to form adenine and 5-methylthioribose or S-ribosylhomocysteine (SRH). MTAN is not found in mammals but is involved in bacterial quorum sensing. MTAN gene disruption affects the growth and pathogenicity of bacteria, making it a target for antibiotic design. Kinetic isotope effects and computational studies have established a dissociative S(N)1 transition state for Escherichia coli MTAN, and transition state analogues resembling the transition state are powerful inhibitors of the enzyme [Singh, V., Lee, J. L., Nunez, S., Howell, P. L., and Schramm, V. L. (2005) Biochemistry 44, 11647-11659]. The sequence of MTAN from S. pneumoniae is 40% identical to that of E. coli MTAN, but S. pneumoniae MTAN exhibits remarkably distinct kinetic and inhibitory properties. 5'-Methylthio-Immucillin-A (MT-ImmA) is a transition state analogue resembling an early S(N)1 transition state. It is a weak inhibitor of S. pneumoniae MTAN with a K(i) of 1.0 microM. The X-ray structure of S. pneumoniae MTAN with MT-ImmA indicates a dimer with the methylthio group in a flexible hydrophobic pocket. Replacing the methyl group with phenyl (PhT-ImmA), tolyl (p-TolT-ImmA), or ethyl (EtT-ImmA) groups increases the affinity to give K(i) values of 335, 60, and 40 nM, respectively. DADMe-Immucillins are geometric and electrostatic mimics of a fully dissociated transition state and bind more tightly than Immucillins. MT-DADMe-Immucillin-A inhibits with a K(i) value of 24 nM, and replacing the 5'-methyl group with p-Cl-phenyl (p-Cl-PhT-DADMe-ImmA) gave a K(i) value of 0.36 nM. The inhibitory potential of DADMe-Immucillins relative to the Immucillins supports a fully dissociated transition state structure for S. pneumoniae MTAN. Comparison of active site contacts in the X-ray crystal structures of E. coli and S. pneumoniae MTAN with MT-ImmA would predict equal binding, yet most analogues bind 10(3)-10(4)-fold more tightly to the E. coli enzyme. Catalytic site efficiency is primarily responsible for this difference since k(cat)/K(m) for S. pneumoniae MTAN is decreased 845-fold relative to that of E. coli MTAN.

Structure and inhibition of a quorum sensing target from Streptococcus pneumoniae.,Singh V, Shi W, Almo SC, Evans GB, Furneaux RH, Tyler PC, Painter GF, Lenz DH, Mee S, Zheng R, Schramm VL Biochemistry. 2006 Oct 31;45(43):12929-41. PMID:17059210[1]

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References

  1. Singh V, Shi W, Almo SC, Evans GB, Furneaux RH, Tyler PC, Painter GF, Lenz DH, Mee S, Zheng R, Schramm VL. Structure and inhibition of a quorum sensing target from Streptococcus pneumoniae. Biochemistry. 2006 Oct 31;45(43):12929-41. PMID:17059210 doi:10.1021/bi061184i

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