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Lynn Kamerlin

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Examining the promiscuous phosphatase activity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa arylsulfatase : a comparison to analogous phosphatases

Author

  • Jinghui Luo
  • Bert van Loo
  • S C L Kamerlin

Summary, in English

Pseudomonas aeruginosa arylsulfatase (PAS) is a bacterial sulfatase capable of hydrolyzing a range of sulfate esters. Recently, it has been demonstrated to also show very high proficiency for phosphate ester hydrolysis. Such proficient catalytic promiscuity is significant, as promiscuity has been suggested to play an important role in enzyme evolution. Additionally, a comparative study of the hydrolyses of the p-nitrophenyl phosphate and sulfate monoesters in aqueous solution has demonstrated that despite superficial similarities, the two reactions proceed through markedly different transition states with very different solvation effects, indicating that the requirements for the efficient catalysis of the two reactions by an enzyme will also be very different (and yet they are both catalyzed by the same active site). This work explores the promiscuous phosphomonoesterase activity of PAS. Specifically, we have investigated the identity of the most likely base for the initial activation of the unusual formylglycine hydrate nucleophile (which is common to many sulfatases), and demonstrate that a concerted substrate-as-base mechanism is fully consistent with the experimentally observed data. This is very similar to other related systems, and suggests that, as far as the phosphomonoesterase activity of PAS is concerned, the sulfatase behaves like a "classical" phosphatase, despite the fact that such a mechanism is unlikely to be available to the native substrate (based on pK(a) considerations and studies of model systems). Understanding such catalytic versatility can be used to design novel artificial enzymes that are far more proficient than the current generation of designer enzymes.

Publishing year

2012-04

Language

English

Pages

26-1211

Publication/Series

Proteins

Volume

80

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Liss Inc.

Keywords

  • Arylsulfatases/chemistry
  • Bacterial Proteins/chemistry
  • Calcium/chemistry
  • Catalytic Domain
  • Enzyme Activation
  • Enzyme Assays
  • Hydrolysis
  • Nitrophenols/chemistry
  • Organophosphorus Compounds/chemistry
  • Oxygen/chemistry
  • Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases/chemistry
  • Protons
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa/chemistry
  • Static Electricity
  • Substrate Specificity

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0887-3585