PMID:10493793
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Carlow, DC, Carter, CW Jr, Mejlhede, N, Neuhard, J and Wolfenden, R (1999) Cytidine deaminases from B. subtilis and E. coli: compensating effects of changing zinc coordination and quaternary structure. Biochemistry 38:12258-65 |
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| Abstract |
Cytidine deaminase from E. coli is a dimer of identical subunits (M(r) = 31 540), each containing a single zinc atom. Cytidine deaminase from B. subtilis is a tetramer of identical subunits (M(r) = 14 800). After purification from an overexpressing strain, the enzyme from B. subtilis is found to contain a single atom of zinc per enzyme subunit by flame atomic absorption spectroscopy. Fluorescence titration indicates that each of the four subunits contains a binding site for the transition state analogue inhibitor 5-fluoro-3,4-dihydrouridine. A region of amino acid sequence homology, containing residues that are involved in zinc coordination in the enzyme from E. coli, strongly suggests that in the enzyme from B. subtilis, zinc is coordinated by the thiolate side chains of three cysteine residues (Cys-53, Cys-86, and Cys-89) [Song, B. H., and Neuhard, J. (1989) Mol. Gen. Genet. 216, 462-468]. This pattern of zinc coordination appears to be novel for a hydrolytic enzyme, and might be expected to reduce the reactivity of the active site substantially compared with that of the enzyme from E. coli (His-102, Cys-129, and Cys-132). Instead, the B. subtilis and E. coli enzymes are found to be similar in their activities, and also in their relative binding affinities for a series of structurally related inhibitors with binding affinities that span a range of 6 orders of magnitude. In addition, the apparent pK(a) value of the active site is shifted upward by less than 1 unit. Sequence alignments, together with model building, suggest one possible mechanism of compensation. |
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Amino Acid Sequence; Bacillus subtilis/enzymology; Binding Sites; Cysteine/chemistry; Cytidine Deaminase/antagonists & inhibitors; Cytidine Deaminase/chemistry; Cytidine Deaminase/metabolism; Enzyme Inhibitors/chemistry; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Kinetics; Models, Molecular; Molecular Sequence Data; Protein Conformation; Pyrimidine Nucleosides/metabolism; Zinc/chemistry; Zinc/metabolism |
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