期刊
ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
卷 544, 期 -, 页码 119-127出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2013.10.002
关键词
Asparate aminotransferase; Vitamin B6; Pyridoxal phosphate; Nitrogen metabolism; Coenzyme analogue; Binding isotope effect; Light activation; Bioinformatics
资金
- US National Institutes of Health [GM54779]
Aspartate aminotransferase (AAT) is a prototypical pyridoxal 5 '-phosphate (PLP) dependent enzyme that catalyzes the reversible interconversion of L-aspartate and alpha-ketoglutarate with oxalacetate and L-glutamate via a ping-pang catalytic cycle in which the pyridoxamine 5 '-phosphate enzyme form is an intermediate. There is a bountiful literature on AAT that spans approximately 60 years, and much fundamental mechanistic information on PLP dependent reactions has been gained from its study. Here, we review our recent work on AAT, where we again used it as a test bed for fundamental concepts in PLP chemistry. First, we discuss the role that coenzyme protonation state plays in controlling reaction specificity, then ground state destabilization via hyperconjugation in the external aldimine intermediate is examined. The third topic is light enhancement of catalysis of C alpha-H deprotonation by PLP in solution and in AAT, which occurs through a triplet state of the external aldimine intermediate. Lastly, we consider recent advances in our analyses of enzyme multiple sequence alignments for the purpose of predicting mutations that are required to interconvert structurally similar but catalytically distinct enzymes, and the application of our program JANUS to the conversion of AAT into tyrosine aminotransferase. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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