title: Interconversion of E and S isoenzymes of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase. Several residues contribute indirectly to catalysis.
abstract: The E and S isoenzymes of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase differ by 10 amino acid residues, but only the S isoenzyme is active on 3 beta-hydroxysteroids. This functional difference was correlated to the differences in structures of the isoenzymes by characterizing a series of chimeric enzymes, which could represent intermediates in the evolution of catalytic activity. Deletion of Asp-115 from the E isoenzyme created the E/D115 delta enzyme that is active on steroids. The deletion alters the substrate binding pocket by moving Leu-116, which sterically hinders binding of steroids in the E isoenzyme. A chimeric enzyme (ESE) that has four changes in or near the substrate binding pocket (T94I/R101S/F110L/D115 delta) was 15-30-fold more catalytically efficient (V/Km) on uncharged steroids than was the E/D115 delta enzyme. Molecular modeling suggests that the substitutions at residues 94 and 110 indirectly affect the activity on steroids. ESE enzyme was 6-fold more active than the S isoenzyme on neutral steroids, due to substitutions not in the substrate binding pocket. The K366E and the Q17E/A43T/A59T substitutions in the S isoenzyme gave 2-fold increases in V/Km on steroids, which together can account for the changes observed with the ESE enzyme. The enzymes that are active on steroids did not bind 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol as tightly and were catalytically less efficient than the E isoenzyme with small alcohols. However, these enzymes were two to three and four to five orders of magnitude more efficient with 1-hexanol and 5 beta-androstane-3 beta,17 beta-diol, respectively, than with ethanol. These results demonstrate that several residues not directly participating in substrate binding or chemical catalysis contribute to catalytic efficiency.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242.
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: B V
authors.initials: BV
authors.lastname: Plapp
mesh_terms: D000426:Alcohol Dehydrogenase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D006736:Horses; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D010957:Plasmids; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D000426:Alcohol Dehydrogenase