Computational mechanistic study of human liver glycerol 3‐phosphate dehydrogenase using ONIOM method

Yildiz, İbrahim; Yildiz, Banu Sizirici

doi:10.1002/poc.4104

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“…We note again, however, that the presence of this side chain in its protonated form is a rare event, and the deprotonated form of D260 will still dominate. In addition, a recent computational study 71 has suggested that the protonated form of D260 acts as a general base donating a proton also in the wild-type enzyme; however, it is implausible that the D260 side chain would be protonated in the wild-type enzyme as this side chain clearly forms a salt-bridge with the side chain of K120 ( Figure 1 ).…”

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Modeling the Role of a Flexible Loop and Active Site Side Chains in Hydride Transfer Catalyzed by Glycerol-3-phosphate Dehydrogenase

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Glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase is a biomedically important enzyme that plays a crucial role in lipid biosynthesis. It is activated by a ligand-gated conformational change that is necessary for the enzyme to reach a catalytically competent conformation capable of efficient transition-state stabilization. While the human form ( hl GPDH) has been the subject of extensive structural and biochemical studies, corresponding computational studies to support and extend experimental observations have been lacking. We perform here detailed empirical valence bond and Hamiltonian replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations of wild-type hl GPDH and its variants, as well as providing a crystal structure of the binary hl GPDH·NAD R269A variant where the enzyme is present in the open conformation. We estimated the activation free energies for the hydride transfer reaction in wild-type and substituted hl GPDH and investigated the effect of mutations on catalysis from a detailed structural study. In particular, the K120A and R269A variants increase both the volume and solvent exposure of the active site, with concomitant loss of catalytic activity. In addition, the R269 side chain interacts with both the Q295 side chain on the catalytic loop, and the substrate phosphodianion. Our structural data and simulations illustrate the critical role of this side chain in facilitating the closure of hl GPDH into a catalytically competent conformation, through modulating the flexibility of a key catalytic loop (292-LNGQKL-297). This, in turn, rationalizes a tremendous 41,000 fold decrease experimentally in the turnover number, k cat , upon truncating this residue, as loop closure is essential for both correct positioning of key catalytic residues in the active site, as well as sequestering the active site from the solvent. Taken together, our data highlight the importance of this ligand-gated conformational change in catalysis, a feature that can be exploited both for protein engineering and for the design of allosteric inhibitors targeting this biomedically important enzyme.

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