Further Studies on the Role of Water in R67 Dihydrofolate Reductase

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• 作者：Mary Jane Timson ; Michael R. Duff ; Jr. ; Greyson Dickey ; Arnold M. Saxton ; Jos茅 I. Reyes-De-Corcuera ; Elizabeth E. Howell
• 刊名：Biochemistry
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：March 26, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：52
• 期：12
• 页码：2118-2127
• 全文大小：472K
• 年卷期：v.52,no.12(March 26, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-4995

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Previous osmotic pressure studies of two nonhomologous dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) enzymes found tighter binding of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate cofactor upon addition of neutral osmolytes. This result is consistent with water release accompanying binding. In contrast, osmotic stress studies found weaker binding of the dihydrofolate (DHF) substrate for both type I and type II DHFRs in the presence of osmolytes; this observation can be explained if dihydrofolate interacts with osmolytes and shifts the equilibrium from the enzyme-bound state toward the unbound substrate. Nuclear magnetic resonance experiments support this hypothesis, finding that osmolytes interact with dihydrofolate. To consider binding without added osmolytes, a high-pressure approach was used. In this study, the type II enzyme, R67 DHFR, was subjected to high hydrostatic pressure (HHP). Both enzyme activity and fluorescence measurements find the protein tolerates pressures up to 200 MPa. Binding of the cofactor to R67 DHFR weakens with increasing pressure, and a positive association volume of 11.4 卤 0.5 cm³/mol was measured. Additionally, an activation volume of 3.3 卤 0.5 cm³/mol describing k_cat/K_m(DHF) was determined from progress curve analysis. Results from these HHP experiments suggest water release accompanies binding of both the cofactor and DHF to R67 DHFR. In an additional set of experiments, isothermal titration calorimetry studies in H₂O and D₂O find that water reorganization dominates the enthalpy associated with binding of DHF to R67 DHFR路NADP⁺, while no obvious effects occur for cofactor binding. The combined results indicate that water plays an active role in ligand binding to R67 DHFR.