Computationally Designed Ammelide DeaminaseComputationally Designed Ammelide Deaminase

Structural highlights

3e0l is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.37Å
Ligands:
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Function

GUAD_HUMAN Catalyzes the hydrolytic deamination of guanine, producing xanthine and ammonia (By similarity).

Evolutionary Conservation

 

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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Altering the specificity of an enzyme requires precise positioning of side-chain functional groups that interact with the modified groups of the new substrate. This requires not only sequence changes that introduce the new functional groups but also sequence changes that remodel the structure of the protein backbone so that the functional groups are properly positioned. We describe a computational design method for introducing specific enzyme-substrate interactions by directed remodeling of loops near the active site. Benchmark tests on 8 native protein-ligand complexes show that the method can recover native loop lengths and, often, native loop conformations. We then use the method to redesign a critical loop in human guanine deaminase such that a key side-chain interaction is made with the substrate ammelide. The redesigned enzyme is 100-fold more active on ammelide and 2.5e4-fold less active on guanine than wild-type enzyme: The net change in specificity is 2.5e6-fold. The structure of the designed protein was confirmed by X-ray crystallographic analysis: The remodeled loop adopts a conformation that is within 1-A Calpha RMSD of the computational model.

Alteration of enzyme specificity by computational loop remodeling and design.,Murphy PM, Bolduc JM, Gallaher JL, Stoddard BL, Baker D Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jun 9;106(23):9215-20. Epub 2009 May 21. PMID:19470646[1]

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

See Also

References

  1. Murphy PM, Bolduc JM, Gallaher JL, Stoddard BL, Baker D. Alteration of enzyme specificity by computational loop remodeling and design. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jun 9;106(23):9215-20. Epub 2009 May 21. PMID:19470646

3e0l, resolution 2.37Å

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