Domain swapping between Enterococcus faecalis FabN and FabZ proteins localizes the structural determinants for isomerase activity

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Lu, YJ
White, SW
Rock, CO
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[1] St Jude Childrens Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Memphis, TN 38105 USA
[2] St Jude Childrens Res Hosp, Dept Biol Struct, Memphis, TN 38105 USA
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10.1074/jbc.M504637200
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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Anaerobic unsaturated fatty acid synthesis in bacteria occurs through the introduction of a double bond into the growing acyl chain. In the Escherichia coli model system, FabA catalyzes both the dehydration of beta-hydroxydecanoyl-ACP and the isomerization of trans-2-decenoyl-ACP to cis-3-decenoyl-ACP as the essential step. A second dehydratase, FabZ, functions in acyl chain elongation but cannot carry out the isomerization reaction. Enterococcus faecalis has two highly related FabZ homologs. One of these, termed EfFabN, carries out the isomerization reaction in vivo, whereas the other, EfFabZ, does not ( Wang, H., and Cronan, J. E. ( 2004) J. Biol. Chem. 279, 34489 - 34495). We carried out a series of domain swapping and mutagenesis experiments coupled with in vitro biochemical analyses to define the structural feature( s) that specify the catalytic properties of these two enzymes. Substitution of the beta 3 and beta 4 strands of EfFabZ with the corresponding strands from EfFabN was necessary and sufficient to convert EfFabZ into an isomerase. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that the isomerase potential of beta-hydroxyacyl-ACP dehydratases is determined by the properties of the beta-sheets that dictate the orientation of the central alpha-helix and thus the shape of the substrate binding tunnel rather than the catalytic machinery at the active site.
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