title: Strategies for the chemoenzymatic synthesis of deoxysugar nucleotides: substrate binding versus catalysis.
abstract: Sugar nucleotidyltransferases, also known as sugar pyrophosphorylases, catalyze the formation of a phosphate linkage to produce sugars activated for use by Leloir pathway glycosyltransferases and are subjects of protein engineering for chemoenzymatic synthesis strategies. Herein we present evidence that differences in substrate binding affinity do not primarily account for substantial contrasts in deoxysugar nucleotide product yields with this class of enzymes. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferases (EC 2.7.7.9) can exercise kinetic discrimination in choosing carbohydrates of comparable binding affinity for catalytic turnover. These findings have implications for the in vivo and in vitro function and use of these enzymes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and the Plant Sciences Institute, Gilman Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, USA.
authors.forename: Kwang-Seuk
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Corbin J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Zea
authors.forename: Nicola L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Pohl
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002384:Catalysis; D003847:Deoxyglucose / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D003854:Deoxyribonucleotides / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D009713:Nucleotidyltransferases / Q000737:chemistry*; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D003854:Deoxyribonucleotides; D003847:Deoxyglucose; D009713:Nucleotidyltransferases