Insight into substrate-assisted catalytic mechanism and stereoselectivity of bifunctional nocardicin thioesterase.
MD simulations
QM/MM
epimerization
peptide drug
thioesterase
Journal
Proteins
ISSN: 1097-0134
Titre abrégé: Proteins
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8700181
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2022
12 2022
Historique:
revised:
30
05
2022
received:
16
05
2022
accepted:
21
06
2022
pubmed:
8
7
2022
medline:
4
11
2022
entrez:
7
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The inversion from L- to D-stereochemistry endows peptides improved bioactivity and enhanced resistance to many proteases and peptidases. To strengthen the biostability and bioavailability of peptide drugs, enzymatic epimerization becomes an important way to incorporate D-amino acid into peptide backbones. Recently, a bifunctional thioesterase NocTE, which is responsible for the epimerization and hydrolysis of the C-terminal (p-hydroxyphenyl)glycine residue of β-lactam antibiotic nocardicin A, exclusively directs to the generation of D-diastereomers. Different from other epimerases, NocTE exhibits unique stereochemical selectivity. Herein, we investigated the catalytic mechanism of NocTE via molecular dynamic (MD) simulations and quantum mechanical/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) calculations. Through structural analyses, two key water molecules around the reaction site were found to serve as proton mediators in epimerization. The structural characteristics inspired us to propose a substrate-assisted mechanism for the epimerization, where multi-step proton transfers were mediated by water molecules and β-lactam ring, and the free energy barrier was calculated to be 20.3 kcal/mol. After that, the hydrolysis of D-configured substrate was energetically feasible with the energy barrier of 14.3 kcal/mol. As a comparison, the energy barrier for the direct hydrolysis of L-configured substrate was obtained to be 24.0 kcal/mol. Our study provides mechanistic insights into catalytic activities of bifunctional thioesterase NocTE, uncovers more clues to the molecular basis for stereochemical selectivity and paves the way for the directed biosynthesis of novel peptide drugs with various stereostructural characteristics by enzyme rational design.
Substances chimiques
nocardicin
76631-42-0
Protons
0
beta-Lactams
0
Peptides
0
Water
059QF0KO0R
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2035-2044Informations de copyright
© 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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