- 作者: 黃耀德、林達顯、陳金榜、張七鳳、李欣潔、蕭介夫、廖彥銓、黃太煌
- 作者服務機構: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, bInstitute of Botany and cInstitute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 11529, R.O.C.
- 中文摘要: Serine proteases are among the most studied enzymes for their role as model enzymes for studying the enzyme catalytic mechanism and medical interest in their inhibition. We have applied NMR methods to determine the structure, dynamics, and catalytic mechanism of a serine protease, E. coli thioesterase/protease I (TEP-I). In this article we review the results of our efforts. We showed that TEP-I is an α/β/α type SNGH-hydrolase with Ser10, Asp154 and His157 as the catalytic triad residues. In free TEP-I, His157 was found to form a strong hydrogen bond to Asp154, but not to Ser10-OgH. Modelfree analysis of 15N-T1, 15N-T2 and 1H-15N NOE data revealed that TEP-I is a rigid protein with a flexible catalytic binding pocket. Slow motion involving segments around the catalytic site was detected. The formation of Michaelis complex (MC) between TEP-I and a transition state analogue, diethyl p-nitrophenyl phosphate (DENP), and its subsequent conversion to the tetrahedral complex (TC) follow a two-step process, a fast formation of MC followed by a slow conversion to TC. In both steps residues perturbed were confined mainly to four conserved segments comprising the active site. Comparable magnitudes of chemical shift perturbations were detected in both steps. From the large chemical shift perturbation upon conversion from MC to TC we proposed that the amide protons of Ser10 and Gly44 serve as the oxyanion-hole proton donors to stabilize the tetrahedral adduct. The pattern of residues perturbed in both steps suggests a sequential, stepwise structural change upon binding of DENP.
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- 中文關鍵字: Enzyme catalysis; NMR; Protein structure; Thioesterase; Serine protease.
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