The design and synthesis of transition-state
mi
mics reflects the growing need both to understandenzy
matic catalysis and to influence strategies for therapeutic intervention. I
minosugars are a
mong the
most potent inhibitors of glycosidases. Here, the binding of 1-deoxynojiri
mycin and (+)-isofago
mine to the"fa
mily GH-1"
mages/gifchars/beta2.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN="
middle">-glucosidase of
Thermotoga maritima is investigated by kinetic analysis, isother
mal titrationcalori
metry, and X-ray crystallography. The binding of both of these i
minosugar inhibitors is driven by alarge and favorable enthalpy. The greater inhibitory power of isofago
mine, relative to 1-deoxynojiri
mycin,however, resides in its significantly
more favorable entropy; indeed the differing ther
modyna
mic signaturesof these inhibitors are further highlighted by the
markedly different heat capacity values for binding. ThepH dependence of catalysis and of inhibition suggests that the inhibitory species are protonated inhibitorsbound to enzy
mes whose acid/base and nucleophile are ionized, while calori
metry indicates that one protonis released fro
m the enzy
me upon binding at the pH opti
mu
m of catalysis (pH 5.8). Given that these resultscontradict earlier proposals that the binding of race
mic isofago
mine to sweet al
mond
mages/gifchars/beta2.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN="
middle">-glucosidase wasentropically driven (B&uu
ml;low, A. et al.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000,
122, 8567-8568), we reinvestigated thebinding of 1-deoxynojiri
mycin and isofago
mine to the sweet al
mond enzy
me. Calori
metry confir
ms that thebinding of isofago
mine to sweet al
mond
mages/gifchars/beta2.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN="
middle">-glucosidases is, as observed for the
T. maritima enzy
me, drivenby a large favorable enthalpy. The crystallographic structures of the native
T. maritima mages/gifchars/beta2.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN="
middle">-glucosidase, andits co
mplexes with isofago
mine and 1-deoxynojiri
mycin, all at ~2.1 Å resolution, reveal that additionalordering of bound solvent
may present an entropic penalty to 1-deoxynojiri
mycin binding that does notpenalize isofago
mine.