期刊
JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 154, 期 -, 页码 42-49出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2015.11.003
关键词
Urease; Sulfite; Nickel; Crystallography; Calorimetry; Enzyme kinetics
资金
- Specialty Fertilizer Products (Leawood, KS, USA)
- CIRMMP (Consorzio Interuniversitario di Risonanze Magnetiche di Metallo-Proteine)
- University of Bologna
- University of Bologna through a FARB Program (Finanziamenti dell'Alma Mater Studiorum alla Ricerca di Base)
Urease is the most efficient enzyme known to date, and catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea using two Ni(II) ions in the active site. Urease is a virulence factor in several human pathogens, while causing severe environmental and agronomic problems. Sporosarcina pasteurii urease has been used extensively in the structural characterization of the enzyme. Sodium sulfite has been widely used as a preservative in urease solutions to prevent oxygen-induced oxidation, but its role as an inhibitor has also been suggested. In the present study, isothermal titration microcalorimetry was used to establish sulfite as a competitive inhibitor for S. pasteurii urease, with an inhibition constant of 0.19 mM at pH 7. The structure of the urease-sulfite complex, determined at 1.65 angstrom resolution, shows the inhibitor bound to the dinuclear Ni(II) center of urease in a tridentate mode involving bonds between the two Ni(II) ions in the active site and all three oxygen atoms of the inhibitor, supporting the observed competitive inhibition kinetics. This coordination mode of sulfite has never been observed, either in proteins or in small molecule complexes, and could inspire synthetic coordination chemists as well as biochemists to develop urease inhibitors based on this chemical moiety. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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