The interactions of a transition state
mi
mic anilino
methyl glucoi
midazole (A
mGlcI
m), with a
Ki constant of 0.6 × 10
-9 M and a Gibbs free energy value of -53.5 k
J/
mol, with a fa
mily GH3
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D-glucan glucohydrolase fro
m barley have been analyzed crystallographically and by ab initio quantu
mmechanical
modeling. A
mGlcI
m binds 3 ti
mes
more tightly to the
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D-glucan glucohydrolase than apreviously investigated phenyl glucoi
midazole. In the enzy
me-A
mGlcI
m co
mplex, an additional residue,Tyr253, and a water
molecule positioned between subsites -1 and +1 are recruited for binding. Analysesof the two binary co
mplexes reveal the following. (i) An intricate network exists in which hydrogenbonds between the enzy
me's catalytic pocket residues Lys206, His207, Tyr253, Asp285, and Glu491 andthe glucoi
midazoles are shorter by 0.15-0.53 Å, co
mpared with distances of hydrogen bonds in theMichaelis co
mplex. (ii) The "glucose"
moiety of the glucoi
midazoles adopts a
4E confor
mation that isvital for the low-nano
molar binding. (iii) The N1 ato
ms of the glucoi
midazoles are positioned nearlyopti
mally for in-line protonation by the O
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m of the catalytic acid/base Glu491. (iv) The enzy
mederives binding energies fro
m both glycone and aglycone co
mponents of the glucoi
midazoles. (iv) Theprevalent libration
motion of the two do
mains of the enzy
me could play a significant role during inducedfit closure in the active site. (v) Modeling based on the structural data predicts that protons could bepositioned on the N1 ato
ms of the glucoi
midazoles, and the catalytic acid/base Glu491 could carry anoverall negative charge. (vi) The enzy
me-A
mGlcI
m co
mplex reveals the likely structure of an earlytransition state during hydrolysis. Finally, the high-resolution structures enabled us to define
mini
malstructures of oligosaccharides attached to Asn221, Asn498, and Asn600 N-glycosylation sites.