title: Change of nucleotide specificity and enhancement of catalytic efficiency in single point mutants of Vibrio harveyi aldehyde dehydrogenase.
abstract: The fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase from the luminescent bacterium, Vibrio harveyi (Vh-ALDH), is unique with respect to its high specificity for NADP(+) over NAD(+). By mutation of a single threonine residue (Thr175) immediately downstream of the beta(B) strand in the Rossmann fold, the nucleotide specificity of Vh-ALDH has been changed from NADP(+) to NAD(+). Replacement of Thr175 by a negatively charged residue (Asp or Glu) resulted in an increase in k(cat)/K(m) for NAD(+) relative to that for NADP(+) of up to 5000-fold due to a decrease for NAD(+) and an increase for NADP(+) in their respective Michaelis constants (K(a)). Differential protection by NAD(+) and NADP(+) against thermal inactivation and comparison of the dissociation constants of NMN, 2'-AMP, 2'5'-ADP, and 5'-AMP for these mutants and the wild-type enzyme clearly support the change in nucleotide specificity. Moreover, replacement of Thr175 with polar residues (N, S, or Q) demonstrated that a more efficient NAD(+)-dependent enzyme T175Q could be created without loss of NADP(+)-dependent activity. Analysis of the three-dimensional structure of Vh-ALDH with bound NADP(+) showed that the hydroxyl group of Thr175 forms a hydrogen bond to the 2'-phosphate of NADP(+). Replacement with glutamic acid or glutamine strengthened interactions with NAD(+) and indicated why threonine would be the preferred polar residue at the nucleotide recognition site in NADP(+)-specific aldehyde dehydrogenases. These results have shown that the size and the structure of the residue at the nucleotide recognition site play the key roles in differentiating between NAD(+) and NADP(+) interactions while the presence of a negative charge is responsible for the decrease in interactions with NADP(+) in Vh-ALDH.
authors.affiliation: Biochemistry Department, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ahvazi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Szittner
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vrielink
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Meighen
mesh_terms: D000227:Adenine Nucleotides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology; D000249:Adenosine Monophosphate / Q000494:pharmacology; D000444:Aldehyde Dehydrogenase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002384:Catalysis; D004789:Enzyme Activation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D004795:Enzyme Stability / Q000235:genetics; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D009243:NAD / Q000378:metabolism; D009249:NADP / Q000378:metabolism; D009537:Nicotinamide Mononucleotide / Q000494:pharmacology; D017354:Point Mutation; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D014733:Vibrio / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D000227:Adenine Nucleotides; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D009243:NAD; D009537:Nicotinamide Mononucleotide; D000249:Adenosine Monophosphate; D009249:NADP; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate; D000444:Aldehyde Dehydrogenase