Rafferty Flashcards
What is borohydride used for in chemistry?
- routine reductant and source of hydride ions
Why is there a problem with using borohydride in biological systems?
- boron can be harmful
- borohydride highly nonspecific
What are used as alts to borohydride in biology, and why are they better?
- cofactors, such as NAD(P)H
- much more gentle and precise
What part of NAD(P) is where the important chem happens?
- nicotinamide ring
What position does hydride transfer occur on in NAD(P)?
- C4 position on nicotinamide ring
What is the charge on NAD(P) and where is it located?
- +ve charge distributed over ring
- bit net overall charge is -ve, due to 2 phosphates
What diff sources can NAD(P) come from?
- nicotinic acid digested
- nicotinamide from breakdown of Trp
- nicotinamide mononucleotide –> ring system stuck onto ribose, in most systems take and use NAD pyrophosphorylase, which uses ATP to add on adenine-ribose-PO4- and add on 2 PO4- to make complete NAD molecule
What is the diff in shapes of NAD and NADH?
- NAD planar, and NADP not
How do NAD and NADH act as oxidoreductases?
- DIAG*
- hydride from NADH transferred to C of planar target molecule and one of bonds to O broken
- O tries to pull off proton from another functional group on surface of enzyme
- reaction also works in reverse using NAD
How is hydride ion stereospecific?
- enzyme differentiates between 2 hydrogens (pro-R or pro-S) on C where hydride transfer occurring
- transfers to 1 particular face on nicotinamide ring –> dep on whether sitting above or below substrate
How is distance of approach of hydride ion critical to its transfer?
- NAD(H) cofactor and molecule to which hydride transferred, or from which received typically at approx VDW contact distance (≈ 3-3.5Å)
How is angle of approach of hydride ion critical to its transfer?
- nucleophile attacks C=O at 107° angle, as orbitals lean away from node DIAG
- vertical is Burgi-Dunitz angle
- horizontal is Flippin-Lodge angle
What are FA synthetases (FAS) and what is their role?
- complex enzyme system
- carry out de novo biosynthesis
What are the 2 types of FAS and where are they found?
- type I have catalytic domains on 1 or 2 really big polypeptides –> in vertebrates, yeast and some bacteria
- type II have discrete polypeptides catalysing each enzymatic step –> in plants and many bacteria, inc E. coli and M. tuberculosis
What does chain elongation involve, and in what systems does it occur?
- successive addition of 2C units to S-acyl primed acyl carrier protein (ACP)
- occurs in type I and II systems
What occurs during the FA elongation cycle?
- DIAG*
- R group gets longer and longer
- C=C bond red by enoyl reductase and NAD(P) –> NAD(P)+
- release of FA products
- another molecule joined by β-ketoacyl synthetase, prod C=O
- ketone group on C3 red to hydroxyl by β-ketoacyl reductase and NAD(P)H –> NAD(P)+
- removal of water by β-hydroxyacyl deHydratase
What is the role of E. coli ACP, and how is the acyl group attached?
- transport protein that carries growing acyl chain
- attached via phosphopantetheine arm covalently linked to Ser32
What does the crystal structure of E. coli acylated ACP show?
- 4 helix bundle
- lipophilic cavity –> where put growing acyl chain, but can’t stay there all the time, as needs to do chem and undergo elongation
- ligand/acyl group exists in “bound”/buried and “unbound”/non-buried forms
How is the growing FA chain bound by ACP?
- binding pocket expands to accom growth
- binding stabilises ACP
- FA chain and phosphopantetheine arm adopt no. of diff binding modes
What is the role of beta keto reductase (BKR)
- catalyses 1st reductive step of FA elongation cycle
What is BKR dep on?
- NADPH
What is the structure of BKR?
- tetrameric –> 4 active sited indep
What family is BKR a member of?
- short chain deHase-reductase (SDR) family of NAD/NADP dep oxidoreductases
What common critical feature do SDR family of enzymes have?
- Rossman fold and S…YxxxK motif
What is in the active site of BKR, and how is there position important?
- conserved Tyr near nicotinamide ring of NAD cofactor
- conserved Lys also nearby
- sit in such way that nicotinamide ring in just right place on surface of enzyme
What is the reaction mechanism of BKR?
- C=O red when hydroxyl group gen from keto group, w/ aid of NAD(P)H cofactor and conserved Tyr
- DIAG*
- O starts to withdraw e-s towards itself (δ-), making C attractive centre to put hydride, so hydride transferred to position 3
- then gives formal -ve charge to O
- nearest available proton is on end of hydroxyl group of Tyr, ripped away by O
- overall get neutral compound, as taken H- an H+
- Tyr takes proton back from water molecule to remain neutral and system resets
Where was ENR (enoyl ACP reductase) isolated from?
- chloroplast of Brassica Napus
What did looking at structure of Brassic napus ENR show?
- tetramer in vitro
- looking at monomer showed nucleotide binding fold (Rossman fold)
- looks a lot like BKR
Does Brassic napus ENR use NADH or NAD(P)H?
- NADH specific
What did a comparison of B. napus BKR and ENR show?
- high degree of structural similarity
- but low seq similarity (<20% identity)
- active site critical Tyr residues do not directly superimpose, but phenyl hydroxyl groups v close in position
What is the catalytic mechanism of ENR?
- DIAG*
- hydride transfer from NADH to C3 position at double bond in acyl substrate
- rearrangement to form enolate anion intermediate
- proton donation from Tyr sidechain
- enol keto tautomerisation to give red products (classic resonance pair)
What is the diff in reaction mechanisms of B. napus ENR and BKR?
- in ENR hydride to position 3 and proton onto O attached to position 1
- in BKR hydride to position 3 and proton onto O attached to position 3
Why are Lys and Tyr closer together in BKR than ENR?
- diff in site of proton donation in respective reaction schemes
- point of transfer of hydride and proton separated by more bonds in ENR (3) than BKR (1)
- so Tyr needs to move slightly further away so can be used in ENR and in slightly diff orientation, using Lys as ref point
Why is it debatable whether BKR and ENR are a case of gene duplication?
- as seq identity so low