Molecular basis for dysfunction of some mutant forms of methylmalonyl-CoA mutase: deductions from the structure of methionine synthase.
AUTOR(ES)
Drennan, C L
RESUMO
Inherited defects in the gene for methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (EC 5.4.99.2) result in the mut forms of methylmalonic aciduria. mut- mutations lead to the absence of detectable mutase activity and are not corrected by excess cobalamin, whereas mut- mutations exhibit residual activity when exposed to excess cobalamin. Many of the mutations that cause methylmalonic aciduria in humans affect residues in the C-terminal region of the methylmalonyl-CoA mutase. This portion of the methylmalonyl-CoA mutase sequence can be aligned with regions in other B12 (cobalamin)-dependent enzymes, including the C-terminal portion of the cobalamin-binding region of methionine synthase. The alignments allow the mutations of human methylmalonyl-CoA mutase to be mapped onto the structure of the cobalamin-binding fragment of methionine synthase from Escherichia coli (EC 2.1.1.13), which has recently been determined by x-ray crystallography. In this structure, the dimethylbenzimidazole ligand to the cobalt in free cobalamin has been displaced by a histidine ligand, and the dimethylbenzimidazole nucleotide "tail" is thrust into a deep hydrophobic pocket in the protein. Previously identified mut0 and mut- mutations (Gly-623 --> Arg, Gly-626 --> Cys, and Gly-648 --> Asp) of the mutase are predicted to interfere with the structure and/or stability of the loop that carries His-627, the presumed lower axial ligand to the cobalt of adenosylcobalamin. Two mutants that lead to severe impairment (mut0) are Gly-630 --> Glu and Gly-703 --> Arg, which map to the binding site for the dimethylbenzimidazole nucleotide substituent of adenosylcobalamin. The substitution of larger residues for glycine is predicted to block the binding of adenosylcobalamin.
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