ESCHERICHIA-COLI IMIDAZOLEGLYCEROL PHOSPHATE DEHYDRATASE - SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ENZYMATIC PRODUCT AND THE STERIC COURSE OFTHE REACTION
Ar. Parker et al., ESCHERICHIA-COLI IMIDAZOLEGLYCEROL PHOSPHATE DEHYDRATASE - SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ENZYMATIC PRODUCT AND THE STERIC COURSE OFTHE REACTION, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 117(43), 1995, pp. 10605-10613
Recombinant strains of Escherichia coli have been developed for the hi
gh-level production of imidazoleglycerol phosphate dehydratase (IGPD)
and imidazoleacetol phosphate aminotransferase (IAP aminotransferase).
These protein sources facilitated the determination of the IGPD react
ion stereochemistry and enabled the development of a continuous spectr
ophotometric enzyme assay for the IGPD reaction. D-erythro-IGP and D-e
rythro-[3-H-2]IGP were generated using a chemoenzymatic approach. D-((
-))-[3-H-2]Ribose5-phosphate was prepared synthetically, starting from
diacetone-D-glucose, and converted enzymatically to D-erythro-[3-H-2]
IGP. In separate reactions, D-erythro-IGP and D-erythro-[3-H-2]IGP wer
e converted to IAP using E. coli IGPD, The resulting IAP was transform
ed directly to histidinol using the coupled activities of E, coli IAP
aminotransferase and histidinol phosphate phosphatase. The enzymatical
ly generated histidinol samples were analyzed by H-1 and 2H NMR and co
mpared to a synthetically prepared sample of (2S,3S*)-[3-H-2]histidin
ol. This analysis demonstrated that the E. coil IGPD reaction proceeds
with inversion of configuration at C-3, and the proton added to C-3 o
f IAP during the course of the dehydration is derived from the solvent
. The observed stereochemical outcome is consistent with the idea that
if the IGPD reaction proceeds through an enol intermediate, then taut
omerization of the enol to IAP must be enzyme-mediated, The product of
the IGPD reaction, IAP, has been characterized by NMR spectroscopy in
aqueous solution. IAP undergoes rapid exchange of the C-3 protons wit
h the bulk medium and exists as a mixture of the ketone and its hydrat
e (a geminal diol). Additional solution chemistry of IAP was observed
using UV-vis and EPR spectroscopy and is consistent with the idea that
IAP coordinates to Mn2+ in a bi- or tridentate fashion in aqueous sol
utions.