A parsimonious mechanism of sugar dehydration by human GDP-mannose-4,6-dehydratase

Abstract: Biosynthesis of 6-deoxy sugars, including l-fucose, involves a mechanistically complex, enzymatic 4,6-dehydration of hexose nucleotide precursors as the first committed step. Here, we determined pre- and postcatalytic complex structures of the human GDP-mannose 4,6-dehydratase at atomic resolution. These structures together with results of molecular dynamics simulation and biochemical characterization of wildtype and mutant enzymes reveal elusive mechanistic details of water elimination from GDP-mannose C5″ and C6″, coupled to NADP-mediated hydride transfer from C4″ to C6″. We show that concerted acid–base catalysis from only two active-site groups, Tyr179 and Glu157, promotes a syn 1,4-elimination from an enol (not an enolate) intermediate. We also show that the overall multistep catalytic reaction involves the fewest position changes of enzyme and substrate groups and that it proceeds under conserved exploitation of the basic (minimal) catalytic machinery of short-chain dehydrogenase/reductases

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
ACS catalysis. - 9, 4 (2019) , 2962-2968, ISSN: 2155-5435

Keyword
Kohlenhydrate
Enzymkatalyse
Reaktionsmechanismus

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Freiburg
(who)
Universität
(when)
2020
Creator
Pfeiffer, Martin
Johansson, Catrine
Krojer, Tobias
Kavanagh, Kathryn L.
Oppermann, Udo
Nidetzky, Bernd
Contributor
FRIAS Natur- und Lebenswissenschaften, Medizin und Ingenieurwissenschaften

DOI
10.1021/acscatal.9b00064
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-1526740
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated

  • Pfeiffer, Martin
  • Johansson, Catrine
  • Krojer, Tobias
  • Kavanagh, Kathryn L.
  • Oppermann, Udo
  • Nidetzky, Bernd
  • FRIAS Natur- und Lebenswissenschaften, Medizin und Ingenieurwissenschaften
  • Universität

Time of origin

  • 2020

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