Enzymatic Catalysis of Proton Transfer at Carbon: Activation of Triosephosphate Isomerase by Phosphite Dianion
- 20 April 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 46 (19), 5841-5854
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi700409b
Abstract
More than 80% of the rate acceleration for enzymatic catalysis of the aldose−ketose isomerization of (R)-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (GAP) by triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) can be attributed to the phosphodianion group of GAP [Amyes, T. L., O'Donoghue, A. C., and Richard, J. P. (2001) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 11325−11326]. We examine here the necessity of the covalent connection between the phosphodianion and triose sugar portions of the substrate by “carving up” GAP into the minimal neutral two-carbon sugar glycolaldehyde and phosphite dianion pieces. This “two-part substrate” preserves both the α-hydroxycarbonyl and oxydianion portions of GAP. TIM catalyzes proton transfer from glycolaldehyde in D2O, resulting in deuterium incorporation that can be monitored by 1H NMR spectroscopy, with kcat/Km = 0.26 M-1 s-1. Exogenous phosphite dianion results in a very large increase in the observed second-order rate constant (kcat/Km)obsd for turnover of glycolaldehyde, and the dependence of (kcat/Km)obsd on [HPO32-] exhibits saturation. The data give kcat/Km = 185 M-1 s-1 for turnover of glycolaldehyde by TIM that is saturated with phosphite dianion so that the separate binding of phosphite dianion to TIM results in a 700-fold acceleration of proton transfer from carbon. The binding of phosphite dianion to the free enzyme (Kd = 38 mM) is 700-fold weaker than its binding to the fleeting complex of TIM with the altered substrate in the transition state (Kd⧧ = 53 μM); the total intrinsic binding energy of phosphite dianion in the transition state is 5.8 kcal/mol. We propose a physical model for catalysis by TIM in which the intrinsic binding energy of the substrate phosphodianion group is utilized to drive closing of the “mobile loop” and a protein conformational change that leads to formation of an active site environment that is optimally organized for stabilization of the transition state for proton transfer from α-carbonyl carbon.Keywords
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