Structure-Function Studies of Enzymes from Ribose Metabolism
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Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 939 Structure-Function Studies of Enzymes from Ribose Metabolism BY C. EVALENA ANDERSSON ACTA UNIVERSITATIS UPSALIENSIS UPPSALA 2004 !"" #$"" % & % % ' ( ) * + &( , +( !""( - . - % + / % 0 ( , ( 1#1( ( ( 2-3 1. 45 ." 2 * & & * % * &( , % . * % % ( ) % / ( 0 6 / % ,)' & % % & ( )* % 6 % 6 * ( 0 6 * * % ( - % & 7 % & % & && ( ' && ,)' % /( 2 8 * ,)' & ,'.'' ( ) * % / % * 6 & & / 6 ( 0 . . . ( - * & * % %% & ( 9 * 6 / %% % ( -: % & * . & . , /( , & % * /( ) % / % & % ( ! 6 . . & / 6 % " # $ % # %& '()# %$# # *+',-. # ; ( + , !"" 2--3 ".!#!< 2-3 1. 45 ." $ $$$ .#111 = $>> (6(> ? @ $ $$$ .#111A List of Papers This thesis is based on the following papers, which are referred to in the text by their Roman numerals: I Andersson, C. E. & Mowbray, S. L. (2002). Activation of ribokinase by monovalent cations. J. Mol. Biol. 315, 409-19 II Zhang, R., Andersson, C. E., Savchenko, A., Skarina, T., Evdokimova, E., Beasley, S., Arrowsmith, C. H., Edwards, A. M., Joachimiak, A. & Mowbray, S. L. (2003). Structure of Escherichia coli ribose-5-phosphate isomerase: a ubiquitous enzyme of the pentose phosphate pathway and the Calvin cycle. Structure (Camb) 11, 31-42. III Zhang, R., Andersson, C. E., Savchenko, A., Skarina, T., Evdokimova, E., Beasley, S., Arrowsmith, C. H., Edwards, A. M., Joachimiak, A. & Mowbray, S. L. (2003)The 2.2 A resolution structure of RpiB/AlsB from Escherichia coli illustrates a new approach to the ribose-5-phosphate isomerase reaction. J Mol Biol 332(5): 1083-94. IV Andersson, C. E., Sigrell-Simon, J. A., Berg, F., Cameron, A. D., and Mowbray, S. L. (2004). Specificity and activity of Echerichia coli ribokinase. Manuscript. V Roos, A. K., Andersson, C. E., Bergfors, T., Jacobsson, M., Kareln, A., Unge, T., Jones, T. A. and Mowbray, S., L. (2004). Mycobacterium tuberculosis ribose-5-phosphate isomerase has a known fold, but a novel active site. J Mol Biol., 335(3): 799-809. The articles are reprinted with permission from the copyright holders. Contents Introduction.....................................................................................................1 General aspects of metabolism...................................................................1 The pentose phosphate pathway.................................................................2 Ribose uptake in Escherichia coli..............................................................4 Enzymes discussed in the thesis: Ribokinase and Ribose 5-phosphate isomerases ..................................................................................................4 Methods ..........................................................................................................6 Protein expression, purification and crystallization ...................................6 RK..........................................................................................................6 RpiA and RpiB ......................................................................................6 Crystallization........................................................................................6 Steady state kinetics ...................................................................................7 RK..........................................................................................................7 RpiA and RpiB ......................................................................................7 Treatment of data...................................................................................7 Dead end inhibition ....................................................................................8 Product inhibition.......................................................................................8 Fluorescence spectroscopy.........................................................................8 Crystallographic methods...........................................................................8 RK from E. coli.............................................................................................10 Overall structure of RK............................................................................11 Active site and substrate binding..............................................................12 Solved RK structures................................................................................13 Proposed mechanism................................................................................14 Objectives.................................................................................................14 Results: RK; paper I and IV .....................................................................15 Activation by monovalent ions............................................................15 Various aspects of RK structure ..........................................................17 Functional studies on wt RK................................................................19 Verification of the monovalent ion binding site: RK mutant S294K function and structure ..........................................................................22 Discussion ................................................................................................23 Ion binding...........................................................................................23 Binding of nucleotides and phosphates ...............................................24 Aspects of RK kinetic mechanism.......................................................25 Outlook.....................................................................................................27 Ribose 5-phosphate isomerases from E. coli ................................................28 The reaction..............................................................................................29 Objectives.................................................................................................30 Results: RpiA and RpiB; Paper II, III, V .................................................31 Structure of RpiA.................................................................................31 Structure of RpiB.................................................................................32 Structural analysis of the apo enzymes................................................33 Kinetics and inhibition.........................................................................34 Structure of RpiA with bound inhibitor...............................................35 Docking experiments...........................................................................36 Genome searches .................................................................................36 Discussion ................................................................................................37 Outlook.....................................................................................................39 Summary in Swedish ....................................................................................40 References.....................................................................................................42 Abbreviations RK Ribokinase AK Adenosine kinase tAK Adenosine kinase from Toxoplasma gondii RpiA/B Ribose 5-phosphate isomerase A/B RK-Cs RK structure in complex with cesium RK-ATP RK structure in complex with ATP RK-S294K RK mutant S294K structure ADP Adenosine diphosphate AMP-PCP ȕ-methyleneadenosine 5' triphosphate PDB Protein Data Bank O5* Atom bound to C5 of ribose 5C, 7C etc. Carbohydrates with 5 carbons, 7 carbons etc Introduction General aspects of metabolism Metabolism is the sum of all chemical transformations that occur in a cell or organism. It is a highly coordinated and directed cell activity, although it may at a first glance seem unordered and randomly arranged (Lehninger, 1993). Metabolism has been divided into two major branches. Catabolism is the set of reactions where nutrient molecules are converted into smaller products while energy and reductive power are produced in the form of ATP and NADH or NADPH. Anabolism (or biosynthesis) is another set of reactions where smaller molecules are arranged into more complex structures, which includes both production of the cell's own characteristic molecules, as well as production of fatty acids, proteins and other macromolecules. As catabolism is productive in terms of energy and reductive power, anabolism is demanding. It requires both energy and reductive power. Metabolic pathways can be linear, branched or even cyclic. In general, catabolic pathways are convergent and anabolic pathways are divergent. Since both anabolism and catabolism normally take place in an organism at the same time, some sort of regulation is needed so as to prevent wasteful reactions (for example, at the same time degrading and synthesizing the same fatty acid); when one occurs, the other is prevented. Although many