title: Mechanism-based inhibition and stereochemistry of glucosinolate hydrolysis by myrosinase.
abstract: Myrosinase is a particular glucosidase which hydrolyzes a variety of plant 1-thio-beta-D-glucosides known as the glucosinolates. This enzyme, which is the only glycosidase able to hydrolyze these naturally occurring thioglucosides, has been found previously to display strong sequence similarities with family 1 O-glycosidases. Myrosinase therefore offers the opportunity to compare the mechanism of enzymatic cleavage of S- vs O-glycosidic bonds. The stereochemistry of hydrolysis of sinigrin by Sinapis alba myrosinase was followed by 1H NMR and the enzyme was found to operate with a mechanism retaining the anomeric configuration at the cleavage point exactly like the related O-glycosidases found in family 1. Myrosinase was readily inactivated by 2-deoxy-2-fluoroglucotropaeolin with inactivation kinetic parameters of Ki = 0.9 mM and ki = 0.083 min-1. Reactivation kinetic parameters were determined in buffer only, with k(react) = 0.015 h-1 and t1/2 = 46 h, and also in the presence of acceptors of transglycosylation. No significant changes were observed in the presence of methyl beta-D-glucoside, but with azide anion the half-life of reactivation was found to be reduced to t1/2 = 20 h. These results suggest that myrosinase inhibition by 2-deoxy-2-fluoroglucotropaeolin occurs via the accumulation of a long-life glucosyl-enzyme intermediate and that the catalytic machinery of the enzyme is composed of only one catalytic residue, a nucleophilic glutamate, while the acid catalyst residue found in the corresponding O-glycosidases is missing.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cottaz
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Henrissat
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Driguez
mesh_terms: D005961:Glucosinolates / Q000378:metabolism*; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*; D006868:Hydrolysis; D006877:Hydroxamic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology; D007700:Kinetics; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D009149:Mustard Plant; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D013863:Thioglucosides / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: C102571:2-deoxy-2-fluroglucotropaeolin; D005961:Glucosinolates; D006877:Hydroxamic Acids; D013863:Thioglucosides; C010330:sinigrin; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; C022739:thioglucosidase