title: Distortional binding of transition state analogs to human purine nucleoside phosphorylase probed by magic angle spinning solid-state NMR.
abstract: Transition state analogs mimic the geometry and electronics of the transition state of enzymatic reactions. These molecules bind to the active site of the enzyme much tighter than substrate and are powerful noncovalent inhibitors. Immucillin-H (ImmH) and 4'-deaza-1'-aza-2'-deoxy-9-methylene Immucillin-H (DADMe-ImmH) are picomolar inhibitors of human purine nucleoside phosphorylase (hPNP). Although both molecules are electronically similar to the oxocarbenium-like dissociative hPNP transition state, DADMe-ImmH is more potent than ImmH. DADMe-ImmH captures more of the transition state binding energy by virtue of being a closer geometric match to the hPNP transition state than ImmH. A consequence of these similarities is that the active site of hPNP exerts greater distortional forces on ImmH than on DADMe-ImmH to "achieve" the hPNP transition state geometry. By using magic angle spinning solid-state NMR to investigate stable isotope-labeled ImmH and DADMe-ImmH, we have explored the difference in distortional binding of these two inhibitors to hPNP. High-precision determinations of internuclear distances from NMR recoupling techniques, rotational echo double resonance, and rotational resonance, have provided unprecedented atomistic insight into the geometric changes that occur upon binding of transition state analogs. We conclude that hPNP stabilizes conformations of these chemically distinct analogs having distances between the cation and leaving groups resembling those of the known transition state.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY 10461.
authors.forename: Mathew J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Vetticatt
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Itin
authors.forename: Gary B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Vern L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Schramm
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011485:Protein Binding; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011683:Purine-Nucleoside Phosphorylase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D011683:Purine-Nucleoside Phosphorylase
keywords: catalytic site interactions; ground state destabilization; optimizing transition state analogs
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