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C3
C2
C2
C4
D-Fructose
L-Sorbose
L-Arabinose
C2
C2 or C4
C2
4C1 Glucose
1C4 Glucose
Xylitol
L-Arabinitol
Figure 3. Proposed mode of recognition of polyhydroxylated acceptors by sucrose phosphorylase compared to the experimentally determined (PDB-entry 2gdu, molecule A)
orientation of the -fructosyl moiety in the acceptor/leaving group binding site of the enzyme (from B. adolescentis).
D
thetic yields are useful, however not always directly revealing (Table
1). Kinetic partition coefficients, obtained in assays in which break-
down of the glucosylated enzyme via reaction with acceptor and
reaction with water (hydrolysis) is compared, are direct measures
ofreactivity. Accordingto Table1, theglucosyltransferefficiencyde-
and between C –Cd in Glu232. Glycerol was set flexible with two
c
torsions (C1–C2, C2–C3). Three clusters were obtained using a ge-
netic algorithm with 10 runs and a root-mean-square-deviation
tolerance of 2.0 Å for clustering. The interactions of the enzyme
with bound glycerol in the obtained models were compared with
those of the bound fructosyl moiety in an experimental structure
of sucrose phosphorylase in complex with sucrose (PDB-entry
2gdu; molecule A). The model giving the best correspondence to
the experimental data was chosen for structural interpretation.
creases in the order
itol. Using data from synthesis,
fivefold over xylitol. The product of enzymatic glucosylation was
determined as 2-O-
-glucopyranosyl xylitol.14 However, the
D-fructose >
L-arabinitol >
D-arabinitol > D-gluc-
L
-arabinitol is preferred about
a-D
absolute configuration of the compound, in which two diastereo-
mers (3R and 3S) are possible, was not determined. Figure 3 depicts
how the energy-minimized solution structure of xylitol might be
accommodated in the acceptor binding site of sucrose phosphory-
lase. In the shown orientation, xylitol directs its C4–OH toward
Phe156andwouldthereforebeunabletoformahydrogenbondwith
Gln345. In the case of L-arabinitol for which unfortunately the site of
glucosylation is not known, we would predict a hydrogen bond be-
tween C4–OH and Gln345, implying reaction at C2–OH. Further-
1.2. Transglucosylation—determination of kinetic partition
coefficients
Purified sucrose phosphorylase from L. mesenteroides was pre-
pared by reportedmethods.10 The reactionmixture for kinetic studies
of transglucosylation contained 0.1 M a-D-glucose 1-phosphate, 0–
0.2 M acceptor, and 3 U mlÀ1 (determined as described in Ref. 15) of
sucrose phosphorylase dissolved in 20 mM MES buffer, pH 7.0. It
was incubated at 30 °C using an agitation rate of 550 rpm (Thermom-
ixer comfort; Eppendorf). Reactions were stopped after 10 min by
heating (99 °C, 5 min), and sample work-up included centrifugation
at 10,000 rpm for 10 min to remove precipitated protein. The amount
of released phosphate was determined colorimetrically at 850 nm.17
Glucose was measured using a coupled enzymatic assay in which
hexokinase and glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase were em-
ployed.18 Dataanalysis wasperformed accordingtoScheme 1. Kinetic
partition coefficients (kacceptor/kwater) were determined from plots of
more, glucosyl transfer to C4–OH is predicted for
whereby the C2–OH would interact with Gln345. The relatively poor
reactivity of -glucitol could be explained by structural similarity to
D-arabinitol
D
xylitol, that is, the absence of bonding with Gln345 due to ‘wrong’
orientation of C4–OH.
In conclusion, this communication brings structural informa-
tion on sucrose phosphorylase and biochemical data on the accep-
tor specificity of the enzyme into a coherent whole. We hope that it
will be considered useful in the selection and perhaps develop-
ment of novel acceptor substrates to become glucosylated by the
phosphorylase. The proposed model of enzyme–substrate recogni-
tion is expected to support molecular design approaches in which
phosphorylase mutants having altered acceptor specificities will be
generated.
the ratio of phosphate and glucose release rates (vphosphate/vglucose
)
versus the acceptor concentration using following equation: vphos-
phate/vglucose = 1 + (kacceptor/kwater) Â [acceptor]. Note: vphosphate is the
total reaction rate whereas vglucose measures the hydrolysis rate.
Acknowledgment
1. Experimental
Financial support from the Austrian Science Fund FWF (Project
L586-B03) is gratefully acknowledged.
1.1. Energy-minimized molecular docking
tion of energy-minimized solution structures, enzyme–ligand
docking, and visualization, respectively. The X-ray crystal structure
of B. adolescentis sucrose phosphorylase having a b-glucosyl resi-
due covalently bound to Asp192 (PDB-entry: 2gdv, molecule A)
was used as macromolecule in a molecular docking experiment
that employed glycerol as the ligand. One twistable bond was al-
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