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[27]
inhibitor. Similarly, thiazoline derivatives of N-acetylglu-
atom phasing was performed with autoSHARP, subsequent model
[
28]
[29]
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building with COOT,
and refinement with REFMAC.
atomic coordinates have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank
PDB) with accession codes 2JF4 (SeMet Tre37A with 2) and 2JG0
Tre37Awith 4); additional experimental details are given in the PDB
The
cosamine are tight-binding hexosaminidase inhibitors. In
this case, however, the thiazoline moiety mimics the covalent
oxazolinium ion intermediate, or a closely related transition
(
(
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state, formed during the substrate-assisted double-displace-
ment reaction of a retaining glycosidase. In contrast, 3 and 4
inhibit an inverting glycosidase, and their favorable tight
binding reflects an adventitious mimicry of the hydrogen
bonding of the transition state during a single-displacement
reaction mechanism. This situation is similar to general
glycosidase inhibition using five-membered rings (recently
headers.
The kinetics of the hydrolysis of trehalose by Tre37A was
investigated using a stopped assay, in which glucose was detected
using glucose oxidase/peroxidase linking enzymes (Megazyme).
Assays were performed at 378C in sodium maleate buffer (75 mm,
À1
pH 5.5) containing bovine serum albumin (BSA; 0.38 mgmL ).
Measurements were made at trehalose concentrations of 0.05–4 mm;
Tre37Awas present at a final concentration of 5.4 nm. 200-mL aliquots
of the reaction mixture were taken at time intervals, and after boiling
the aliquots for 2 min, 1 mL of the glucose oxidase/peroxidase
solution was added. Assays were otherwise performed as described
in the manufacturerꢀs instructions. The reaction rates were deter-
mined and the data were fitted to the Michaelis–Menten equation
using GRAFIT (Erithacus Software Ltd.). The inhibition constant
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described for mannostatins ). The exact nature of the
transition state conformation for glycoside hydrolysis by
4
trehalases remains undefined, with both H half-chair and
3
2
,5
B boat conformations of the six-membered rings being
[
22,23]
possible (by virtue of work on analogous systems
). A
feature of compounds 2–4 is that, whilst none closely mimic
(
K) values were determined in the same way, in the presence of 2 or 4
4
2,5
i
either the H or the B conformation, all are reasonable
3
(10 nm) and at a final Tre37A concentration of 1 nm (to ensure a 10-
mimics of both conformations. To some extent, the conforma-
tional flexibility of the hydroxymethyl group at C5 of 2 and of
both the axial and the equatorial substituents at C5 in 3 and 4,
allows the compounds to optimize hydrogen bonding, despite
the apparent differences in ring conformations. Such strat-
egies to overcome the chemical challenges of transition-state
mimicry, which build on the benefits of aglycon interactions
fold excess of the inhibitor). Tre37A was pre-incubated with each of
the inhibitors for 20 min prior to the start of the assay to prevent any
complications with slow-onset inhibition. The data were similarly
fitted using GRAFIT to obtain an apparent Michaelis constant
app
app
(
KM ), and K values were determined using the equation K
=
i
M
K (1+[I]/K), where [I]is the concentration of the inhibitor.
M
i
Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) was performed using a VC
calorimeter (Microcal) at 258C. Tre37A (31–37 mm) was dialyzed into
sodium phosphate buffer (50 mm, pH 7.0), and inhibitors 2 and 4
(0.5 mm) were diluted in the same buffer. Titrations were performed
by injecting 10-mL aliquots of the ligand into Tre37A. The data were
corrected for the heat of dilution by subtracting the heat at a high
molar ratio of inhibitor to enzyme. The stoichiometry (n), enthalpy
(
as illustrated by compounds 2–4), should provide inspiration
for future generations of glycosidase inhibitors.
Experimental Section
change (DH), and equilibrium association constant (K ) were
a
The gene encoding Tre37A was amplified by the polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) and ligated into the NdeI and XhoI sites of a pET22b
expression vector (Novagen) for periplasmic expression with the
native Tre37A signal peptide. E. coli BL21 (DE3) cells were
transformed with the plasmid containing the Tre37A gene and
determined by fitting a bimolecular model to the data using Microcal
Origin. The Gibbs free energy (DG) and TDS were calculated using
the equations DG = ÀRTlnK = DHÀTDS.
a
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grown at 378C in Luria–Bertani (LB) broth containing ampicillin
À1
(
50 mgmL ), until an optical density at 600 nm (OD600) of approx-
imately 0.7 AU was reached. Over-expression was initiated by the
addition of isopropyl thio-b-d-galactoside to a final concentration of
Keywords: inhibitors · protein structures · trehalases ·
trehazolins · validoxylamines
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1
mm, and cells continued to grow at 308C for 12 h. Cells were
harvested by centrifugation, and Tre37A was obtained by osmotically
shocking the cells. Tre37A was purified by ion-exchange chromatog-
raphy (HiTrap MonoQ, Amersham Biosciences), and by gel filtration
(
Superdex 200 16/60), using standard procedures. A selenomethio-
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induction methodology of Studier and purified in the same way.
Validoxylamine A (2) was prepared by the acid removal of
glucose from validamycin A, which was isolated from an agricultural
fungicide (Takeda Chemical Company; according to the method in
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buffer (0.1m, pH 6.5). These crystals were used as seeds for the
SeMet protein and for the native protein with 4 (1 mm). X-ray
diffraction data for SeMet Tre37A in complex with 2 and native
Tre37A in complex with 4 were collected at 100 K at the European
Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) on beamlines ID14-4 and
ID29, respectively. A single-wavelength anomalous dispersion (SAD)
experiment, optimized for the f’’ component of the anomalous
scattering, was used to collect the data for SeMet Tre37A. The data
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were processed using MOSFLM from the CCP4 suite. Heavy-
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