title: The power of two: arginine 51 and arginine 239* from a neighboring subunit are essential for catalysis in α-amino-β-carboxymuconate-epsilon-semialdehyde decarboxylase.
abstract: Although the crystal structure of α-amino-β-carboxymuconate-ε-semialdehyde decarboxylase from Pseudomonas fluorescens was solved as a dimer, this enzyme is a mixture of monomer, dimer, and higher order structures in solution. In this work, we found that the dimeric state, not the monomeric state, is the functionally active form. Two conserved arginine residues are present in the active site: Arg-51 and an intruding Arg-239* from the neighboring subunit. In this study, they were each mutated to alanine and lysine, and all four mutants were catalytically inactive. The mutants were also incapable of accommodating pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid, a competitive inhibitor of the native enzyme, suggesting that the two Arg residues are involved in substrate binding. It was also observed that the decarboxylase activity was partially recovered in a heterodimer hybridization experiment when inactive R51(A/K) and R239(A/K) mutants were mixed together. Of the 20 crystal structures obtained from mixing inactive R51A and R239A homodimers that diffracted to a resolution lower than 3.00 Å, two structures are clearly R51A/R239A heterodimers and belong to the C2 space group. They were refined to 1.80 and 2.00 Å resolutions, respectively. Four of the remaining crystals are apparently single mutants and belong to the P42212 space group. In the heterodimer structures, one active site is shown to contain dual mutation of Ala-51 and Ala-239*, whereas the other contains the native Arg-51 and Arg-239* residues, identical to the wild-type structure. Thus, these observations provide the foundation for a molecular mechanism by which the oligomerization state of α-amino-β-carboxymuconate-ε-semialdehyde decarboxylase could regulate the enzyme activity.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Chemistry and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303.
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Huo
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Lirong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Aimin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D001120:Arginine / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D002262:Carboxy-Lyases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D002384:Catalysis; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D020125:Mutation, Missense; D020836:Protein Structure, Quaternary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D021122:Protein Subunits; D011551:Pseudomonas fluorescens / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D021122:Protein Subunits; D001120:Arginine; D002262:Carboxy-Lyases; C024396:aminocarboxymuconate-semialdehyde decarboxylase
keywords: Crystal Structure; Decarboxylase; Dimerization; Enzyme Mechanisms; Hybridization; Metabolic Regulation; Protein Assembly; Protein Folding
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