Abstract
Conversion of aldo to keto sugars by the metalloenzyme D-xylose isomerase (XI) is a multistep reaction that involves hydrogen transfer. We have determined the structure of this enzyme by neutron diffraction in order to locate H atoms (or their isotope D). Two studies are presented, one of XI containing cadmium and cyclic D-glucose (before sugar ring opening has occurred), and the other containing nickel and linear D-glucose (after ring opening has occurred but before isomerization). Previously we reported the neutron structures of ligand-free enzyme and enzyme with bound product. The data show that His54 is doubly protonated on the ring N in all four structures. Lys289 is neutral before ring opening and gains a proton after this; the catalytic metal-bound water is deprotonated to hydroxyl during isomerization and O5 is deprotonated. These results lead to new suggestions as to how changes might take place over the course of the reaction.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 688-699 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Structure |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
Funding
The PCS is funded by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the Department of Energy. The PCS is located at the Lujan Center at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, funded by the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences. M.M. and P.L. were partly supported by an NIH-NIGMS funded consortium (1R01GM071939-01) between LANL and LNBL to develop computational tools for neutron protein crystallography. A.Y.K. was partly supported by LANL, LDRD grant (20080789PRD3). A.Y.K. and P.L. were partly supported by a LANL, LDRD grant (20070131ER), JPG CA10925 and Fox Chase CA06927, both from NIH. B.L.H. is supported by NSF 446218. V.T.F. and S.A.M. acknowledge support from EPSRC under grants GR/R47950/01, GR/R99393/01, EP/C015452/1. The new D19 diffractometer was built as part of a collaboration between Durham University, Keele University, Bath University, and ILL. We gratefully acknowledge the help of John Archer, John Allibon, and the efforts of the ILL detector group.
Funders | Funder number |
---|---|
DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences | |
NIH-NIGMS | 1R01GM071939-01 |
Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the Department of Energy | |
National Science Foundation | 446218 |
National Institutes of Health | |
National Cancer Institute | P30CA006927 |
Laboratory Directed Research and Development | CA06927, JPG CA10925, 20080789PRD3, 20070131ER |
Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | EP/C015452/1, GR/R99393/01, GR/R47950/01 |
Keywords
- Proteins