InhA, the enoyl reductase
from
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, catalyzes the NADH-dependentreduction o
f trans-2-enoyl-ACPs. In the present work, Raman spectroscopy has been used to identi
fycatalytically relevant changes in the con
formation o
f the nicotinamide ring that occur when NADH binds toInhA. For 4(
S)-NADD, there is an 11 cm
-1 decrease in the wavenumber o
f the C4-D stretching band(
fchars/nu.gi
f" BORDER=0 >
C-D) and a 50% decrease in the width o
f this band upon binding to InhA. While a similar reduction in linewidth is observed
for the corresponding band arising
from 4(
R)-NADD,
fchars/nu.gi
f" BORDER=0 >
C-D for this isomer increases 34cm
-1 upon binding to InhA. These changes in
fchars/nu.gi
f" BORDER=0 >
C-D indicate that the nicotinamide ring adopts a boundcon
formation in which the 4(
S)C-D bond is in a pseudoaxial orientation. Mutagenesis o
f F149, a conservedactive site residue close to the co
factor, demonstrates that this enzyme-induced modulation in co
factorstructure is directly linked to catalysis. In contrast to the wild-type enzyme, Raman spectra o
f NADD boundto F149A InhA resemble those o
f NADD in solution. Consequently, F149A is no longer able to optimallyposition the co
factor
for hydride trans
fer, which correlates with the 30-
fold decrease in
kcat and 2-
fold increasein
D(
V/
KNADH) caused by this mutation. These studies thus substantiate the proposal that hydride trans
feris promoted by pseudoaxial positioning o
f the NADH pro-4S bond, and indicate that catalysis o
f substratereduction by InhA results, in part,
from correct orientation o
f the co
factor in the ground state.