Erratum: <i>S</i>-Adenosylhomocysteine metabolism in various species

Walker, R. D.; Duerre, John A.

doi:10.1139/o79-008

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“…In eukaryotes, SAH is broken up to form adenosine and homocysteine in the reaction catalysed by SAH hydrolase [27]. In contrast, in prokaryotic cells, the predominant route of SAH metabolism is the formation of adenine and S‐ribosylhomocysteine catalysed by SAH nucleosidase [28]. All known prokaryotic nucleosidases are three‐substrate enzymes capable of cleaving adenine not only from SAH but also from MTA and 5′‐deoxyadenosine (5′dAdo) [29].…”

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Williams–Beuren syndrome‐related methyltransferase WBSCR27: cofactor binding and cleavage

et al. 2020

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Williams-Beuren syndrome, characterized by numerous physiological and mental problems, is caused by the heterozygous deletion of chromosome region 7q11.23, which results in the disappearance of 26 protein-coding genes. Protein WBSCR27 is a product of one of these genes whose biological function has not yet been established and for which structural information has been absent until now. Using NMR, we investigated the structural and functional properties of murine WBSCR27. For protein in the apo form and in a complex with S-(5 0-adenosyl)-L-homocysteine (SAH), a complete NMR resonance assignment has been obtained and the secondary structure has been determined. This information allows us to attribute WBSCR27 to Class I methyltransferases. The interaction of WBSCR27 with the cofactor S-(5 0-adenosyl)-L-methionine (SAM) and its metabolic products-SAH, 5 0-deoxy-5 0-methylthioadenosine (MTA) and 5 0-deoxyadenosine (5 0 dAdo)was studied by NMR and isothermal titration calorimetry. SAH binds WBSCR27 much tighter than SAM, leaving open the question of cofactor turnover in the methylation reaction. One possible answer to this question is the presence of weak but detectable nucleosidase activity for WBSCR27. We found that the enzyme catalyses the cleavage of the adenine moiety from SAH, MTA and 5 0 dAdo, similar to the action of bacterial SAH/MTA nucleosidases. We also found that the binding of SAM or SAH causes a significant change in the structure of WBSCR27 and in the conformational mobility of the protein fragments, which can be attributed to the substrate recognition site. This indicates that the binding of the cofactor modulates the folding of the substrate-recognizing region of the enzyme.

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