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Masahiro Fujihashi¹, Toyokazu Ishida, Shingo Kuroda

¹Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University , Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

|October 25, 2013

Resumen

La orotidina 5'-monofosfato descarboxilasa (ODCasa) acelera una reacción clave en más de 10^17 veces. Nuevas estructuras cristalinas revelan cómo ODCase utiliza la distorsión del sustrato y la estabilización del estado de transición para catalizar la descarboxilación de orotidina 5'-monofosfato (OMP).

Área de la Ciencia:

La bioquímica es la bioquímica.
Enzimología Enzimología.
Biología Estructural Biología estructural.

Sus antecedentes:

La orotidina 5 - monofosfato descarboxilasa (ODCasa) cataliza la descarboxilación esencial de orotidina 5 - monofosfato (OMP) a uridina 5 - monofosfato (UMP).La descarboxilación de orotidina 5 - monofosfato (ODCasa) es una reacción en la que se produce la descarboxilación esencial de orotidina 5 - monofosfato (OMP) a uridina 5 - monofosfato (UMP).
El mecanismo de reacción preciso de ODCase sigue siendo un tema de debate, particularmente con respecto a las funciones de distorsión del sustrato y la estabilización del estado de transición.

Objetivo del estudio:

Para dilucidar el controvertido mecanismo de reacción de la orotidina 5 monofosfato descarboxilasa (ODCasa).
Investigar las contribuciones de la distorsión del sustrato y la estabilización del estado de transición en la catálisis de ODCase.

Principales métodos:

Adquisición y análisis de ocho nuevas estructuras cristalinas de ODCasa compleja con análogos de ligando.
Análisis computacionales, incluidos los métodos de dinámica molecular y mecánica cuántica / mecánica molecular (QM / MM), de intermediarios enzima-sustrato y energías electrónicas.
Examen de los cambios estructurales inducidos por ligandos dentro del sitio activo de la enzima.

Principales resultados:

Las estructuras cristalinas revelaron distorsiones significativas en los análogos del ligando (por ejemplo, 6-metil-UMP, ésteres de OMP) dentro del sitio activo de la ODCasa.
Los estudios computacionales indicaron la distorsión del enlace entre el grupo carboxilato y el anillo pirimidino en el complejo enzima-sustrato.
Se descubrió que esta distorsión disminuye la energía libre de activación (ΔΔG()) en un 10-15%.

Conclusiones:

ODCase emplea una doble estrategia que involucra la distorsión del sustrato y la estabilización del estado de transición para la catálisis.
La eficiencia catalítica de la enzima se mejora significativamente al estabilizar el estado de transición, con la lisina 72 (K72) jugando un papel principal.

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