title: Crystal structure of unsaturated glucuronyl hydrolase complexed with substrate: molecular insights into its catalytic reaction mechanism.
abstract: Unsaturated glucuronyl hydrolase (UGL), which is a member of glycoside hydrolase family GH-88, is a bacterial enzyme that degrades mammalian glycosaminoglycans and bacterial biofilms. The enzyme, which acts on unsaturated oligosaccharides with an alpha-glycoside bond produced by microbial polysaccharide lyases responsible for bacterial invasion of host cells, was believed to release 4-deoxy-l-threo-5-hexosulose-uronate (unsaturated glucuronic acid, or DeltaGlcA) and saccharide with a new nonreducing terminus by hydrolyzing the glycosidic bond. We detail the crystal structures of wild-type inactive mutant UGL of Bacillus sp. GL1 and its complex with a substrate (unsaturated chondroitin disaccharide), identify active site residues, and postulate a reaction mechanism catalyzed by UGL that triggers the hydration of the vinyl ether group in DeltaGlcA, based on the structural analysis of the enzyme-substrate complex and biochemical analysis. The proposed catalytic mechanism of UGL is a novel case among known glycosidases. Under the proposed mechanism, Asp-149 acts as a general acid and base catalyst to protonate the DeltaGlcA C4 atom and to deprotonate the water molecule. The deprotonated water molecule attacks the DeltaGlcA C5 atom to yield unstable hemiketal; this is followed by spontaneous conversion to an aldehyde (4-deoxy-l-threo-5-hexosulose-uronate) and saccharide through hemiacetal formation and cleavage of the glycosidic bond. UGL is the first clarified alpha(6)/alpha(6)-barrel enzyme using aspartic acid as the general acid/base catalyst.
authors.affiliation: Division of Applied Life Sciences and Division of Food Science and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan.
authors.forename: Takafumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: Wataru
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: Bunzo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mikami
authors.forename: Kousaku
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Murata
mesh_terms: D001407:Bacillus / Q000201:enzymology*; D001665:Binding Sites; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002384:Catalysis; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D011508:Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D003460:Crystallization; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D011508:Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; C120983:unsaturated glucuronyl hydrolase