Structure and Inhibition of a Quorum Sensing Target from Streptococcus pneumoniae
- 1 October 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 45 (43), 12929-12941
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi061184i
Abstract
Streptococcus pneumoniae 5‘-methylthioadenosine/S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase (MTAN) catalyzes the hydrolytic deadenylation of its substrates to form adenine and 5-methylthioribose or S-ribosylhomocysteine (SRH). MTAN is not found in mammals but is involved in bacterial quorum sensing. MTAN gene disruption affects the growth and pathogenicity of bacteria, making it a target for antibiotic design. Kinetic isotope effects and computational studies have established a dissociative SN1 transition state for Escherichia coli MTAN, and transition state analogues resembling the transition state are powerful inhibitors of the enzyme [Singh, V., Lee, J. L., Núñez, S., Howell, P. L., and Schramm, V. L. (2005) Biochemistry 44, 11647−11659]. The sequence of MTAN from S. pneumoniae is 40% identical to that of E. coli MTAN, but S. pneumoniae MTAN exhibits remarkably distinct kinetic and inhibitory properties. 5‘-Methylthio-Immucillin-A (MT-ImmA) is a transition state analogue resembling an early SN1 transition state. It is a weak inhibitor of S. pneumoniae MTAN with a Ki of 1.0 μM. The X-ray structure of S. pneumoniae MTAN with MT-ImmA indicates a dimer with the methylthio group in a flexible hydrophobic pocket. Replacing the methyl group with phenyl (PhT-ImmA), tolyl (p-TolT-ImmA), or ethyl (EtT-ImmA) groups increases the affinity to give Ki values of 335, 60, and 40 nM, respectively. DADMe-Immucillins are geometric and electrostatic mimics of a fully dissociated transition state and bind more tightly than Immucillins. MT-DADMe-Immucillin-A inhibits with a Ki value of 24 nM, and replacing the 5‘-methyl group with p-Cl-phenyl (p-Cl-PhT-DADMe-ImmA) gave a Ki* value of 0.36 nM. The inhibitory potential of DADMe-Immucillins relative to the Immucillins supports a fully dissociated transition state structure for S. pneumoniae MTAN. Comparison of active site contacts in the X-ray crystal structures of E. coli and S. pneumoniae MTAN with MT-ImmA would predict equal binding, yet most analogues bind 103−104-fold more tightly to the E. coli enzyme. Catalytic site efficiency is primarily responsible for this difference since kcat/Km for S. pneumoniae MTAN is decreased 845-fold relative to that of E. coli MTAN.Keywords
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