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1 Institute for Health Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Yamashiro-cho, Tokushima 770-8514, Japan
2 Department of Biological Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan
Reprint requests to: Toshihisa Ohshima, Department of Biological Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokushima, 2-1 Minamijosanjimacho, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan; e-mail: tsuge{at}tokushima.bunri-u.ac.jp, ohshima{at}bio.tokushima-u.ac.jp; fax: +81-88-656-9071
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Article and publication are at http://www.proteinscience.org/cgi/doi/10.1110/ps.0215602.
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/ß-domains and small domains. However, a marked adjustment of the two domains, which is a 10-Å translation and a 20° rotation from the conserved GG sequence located at the center of the hinge, was observed between the apo-phGK and ADP-tlGK structures. The ADP-binding loop (430439) was disordered in the apo form. It is suggested that a large conformational change takes place during the enzymatic reaction. Keywords: Crystal structure; ADP-dependent glucokinase; P. horikoshii; conformational change; induced fit
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A novel sugar kinase, ADPGK, was first discovered in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus and was characterized (Kengen et al. 1994, 1995). The enzyme requires ADP as the phosphoryl group donor instead of ATP and is involved in a modified Embden-Meyerhof pathway in this organism (Schoenheit and Schaefer 1995; Selig et al. 1997). Recently, the genes of ADPGK from P. furiosus and Thermococcus litoralis were cloned, and the products were characterized (Koga et al. 2000). In a phylogenetic tree of the hexokinase family constructed by comparing 60 sequences of sugar kinases, Bork et al. (1993) categorized them in the following three families: (1) hexokinase, (2) ribokinase (RK), and (3) galactokinase. The RK family comprises pro- and eukaryotic RKs, bacterial fructokinases, and Escherichia coli 6-phosphofructokinase 2, 6-phosphotagatokinase, 1-phosphofructokinase, and inosine-guanosine kinase. The three-dimensional structures of enzymes belonging to the RK family such as E. coli RK (Sigrell et al. 1998), human adenosine kinase (humAK; Matthews et al. 1998), and Toxoplasma gondii adenosine kinase (tgAK; Schumacher et al. 2000) have been reported. Recently, the structure of tlGK with ADP (ADP-tlGK), which shares 56.7% sequence homology with ADPGK from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 (phGK; Fig. 1
), was revealed, and it was shown that the topology of tlGK is basically similar to those of ATP-dependent RK and AK (Ito et al. 2001), despite the lack of apparent sequence homology. In ATP-dependent RK and AK, a large conformational change between the apo and holo structures has been observed (Sigrell et al. 1999; Schumacher et al. 2000). However, the structure of apo-tlGK does not undergo a large conformational change compared with that of ADP-tlGK using the apo crystal, which is prepared by soaking a holo crystal in ADP-free solution (Ito et al. 2001). Thus, it has not been clear whether an induced fit is needed for the enzymatic reaction of ADPGK. Recently, it was found that an enzyme from Methanococcus jannaschii showed a high ADP-dependent activity for both glucokinase and phosphofructokinase (Sakuraba et al. 2002). To clarify the enzymatic mechanism of the ADPGK family including ADPFK, we have cloned, expressed, and determined the crystal structure of apo-phGK at 2.0-Å resolution. We found large conformational changes between apo-phGK and ADP-tlGK, indicating the catalytic reaction of glucokinase.
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/ß-domain and a small domain (Fig. 2
/ß-domain consisted of 11-stranded ß-sheets surrounded by 13
-helices and three 310 helices (
1ß1:
6ß5
7ß6ß73101:
8
9ß123102
10ß13
11ß14
12
13
14ß15ß16
153103
16ß17ß18
17). The small domain consisted of seven-stranded ß-sheets and four
-helices (ß2
2
3
4ß3
5ß4:ß8ß9ß10ß11).
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atoms of 310 residues of the large domain and 103 residues of the small domain, respectively). A marked difference, however, was observed in the relative position of each domain. When the large domain of the apo-phGK structure was superimposed on that of the ADP-tlGK structure, a large movement of the small domain could be seen, and it was >5 Å on average. The distances between identical CA atoms of apo-phGK and ADP-tlGK in relation to the residue number are plotted as shown in Figure 4
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levels, respectively. On the other hand, Asp443 appears to play a critical role in the glucose binding because the same residue Asp255 in RK interacts with the 5' OH of ribose. In the case of hexokinase (Anderson et al. 1978), adenylate kinase, and phosphofructokinase (Evans and Hudson 1979), the carboxylate group of an aspartic acid residue is hydrogen-bonded to the phosphoryl acceptor and functions as a general base catalyst (Anderson et al. 1979). It appears that the Asp443 in phGK plays a crucial role in abstracting a proton from the O6'-hydroxyl group of glucose.
The similarity of the structure and the substrate-induced fit with the RK and AK
The overall structure of phGK is similar to the two ATP-dependent kinases, which are RKs (Sigrell et al. 1998) and AKs (Matthews et al. 1998; Schumacher et al. 2000), although there is no apparent sequence similarity. There is less structural similarity in the small domain compared with the large domain (Figs. 3, 5![]()
). The small domain of RK consists of ß-sheets only and plays a crucial role as a hook for the dimerization of RK. In phGK, tlGK, and AK, the small domain consists of a mixed
/ß-structure, so that the additional
-helices disturb the dimerization. phGK exists as a monomer based on the gel filtration results (data not shown), and the crystallographic results show that one molecule exists in an asymmetric unit. It is interesting to note that only P. furiosus GK among ADPGK exists as a dimer, indicating the structural difference compared with other ADPGKs (Ito et al. 2001).
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/ß-domain, small-domain movements were observed in both RK and AK (Fig. 5A,B| Conclusions |
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-phosphorus of ATP. It was suggested that a similar and large conformational change exists for ADPGK. Not only glucose but also ADP stabilizes the loop and induces the conformational change. The large ADP-binding loop was flexible and disordered in the apo state. It appears to create a crucial environment for the kinase reaction. In the reaction mechanism, it is not adequate to consider the same scheme, which is an ordered sequential mechanism, proposed in RK, because ADP could bind initially without glucose in ADPGK. However, it is easy to expect the cooperative-induced fit accompanying the ADP and glucose binding. The precise reaction mechanism will be solved by the structures of glucoseADPGK and glucose-ADP-ADPGK taken together in the analysis of the enzymatic reaction. | Materials and methods |
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= 6.22 mM-1 cm-1).
All crystallization experiments were performed at 20°C using the hanging drop vapor diffusion method, in which 3 µL of 10 mg/mL protein solution was mixed with an equal volume of mother liquor, which included
9% to 13% polyethylene glycol 6000, 0.2 M LiSO4, and 0.1 M citrate buffer (pH 3.6). The crystal belonged to the orthorhombic space group P212121 with following unit cell parameters: a, 64.7 Å; b, 74.7 Å; and c, 99.2 Å. Heavy atom derivatives were prepared by soaking the crystals in a reservoir solution containing HgCl2. Data were collected using an ADSC Quantum4R CCD detector system (Area Detector Systems) on the BL-6A beamline at the Photon Factory in Tsukuba, Japan (Table 1
), at room temperature using a glass quartz capillary. Data processing was performed using DPS/mosflm (Rossmann and van Beek 1999) and scala (CCP4 1994).
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angle. The final model had 430 residues with 394 water molecules. Residues in the N-terminal (16) and three flexible surface loops (157162, 171174, and 431439) were not modeled into the current structure.
Coordinates
The coordinates have been deposited in the RCSB Protein Data Bank (accession code 1L2L).
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