Biology:Aconitase
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 Illustration of pig aconitase in complex with the [Fe4S4] cluster. The protein is colored by secondary structure, and iron atoms are blue and the sulfur red.[1] | |||||||||
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| EC number | 4.2.1.3 | ||||||||
| CAS number | 9024-25-3 | ||||||||
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| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
| Gene Ontology | AmiGO / QuickGO | ||||||||
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| Aconitase family (aconitate hydratase) | |||||||||
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 Structure of aconitase.[2] | |||||||||
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| Symbol | Aconitase | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF00330 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR001030 | ||||||||
| PROSITE | PDOC00423 | ||||||||
| SCOP2 | 1aco / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||
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Aconitase (aconitate hydratase; EC 4.2.1.3) is an enzyme that catalyses the stereo-specific isomerization of citrate to isocitrate via cis-aconitate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle, a non-redox-active process.[3][4][5]
Structure
Aconitase, displayed in the structures in the right margin of this page, has two slightly different structures, depending on whether it is activated or inactivated.[6][7] In the inactive form, its structure is divided into four domains.[6] Counting from the N-terminus, only the first three of these domains are involved in close interactions with the [3Fe-4S] cluster, but the active site consists of residues from all four domains, including the larger C-terminal domain.[6] The Fe-S cluster and a SO2−4 anion also reside in the active site.[6] When the enzyme is activated, it gains an additional iron atom, creating a [4Fe-4S] cluster.[7][8] However, the structure of the rest of the enzyme is nearly unchanged; the conserved atoms between the two forms are in essentially the same positions, up to a difference of 0.1 angstroms.[7]
Function
In contrast with the majority of iron-sulfur proteins that function as electron carriers, the iron-sulfur cluster of aconitase reacts directly with an enzyme substrate. Aconitase has an active [Fe4S4]2+ cluster, which may convert to an inactive [Fe3S4]+ form. Three cysteine (Cys) residues have been shown to be ligands of the [Fe4S4] centre. In the active state, the labile iron ion of the [Fe4S4] cluster is not coordinated by Cys but by water molecules.
The iron-responsive element-binding protein (IRE-BP) and 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase (α-isopropylmalate isomerase; EC 4.2.1.33), an enzyme catalysing the second step in the biosynthesis of leucine, are known aconitase homologues. Iron regulatory elements (IREs) constitute a family of 28-nucleotide, non-coding, stem-loop structures that regulate iron storage, heme synthesis and iron uptake. They also participate in ribosome binding and control the mRNA turnover (degradation). The specific regulator protein, the IRE-BP, binds to IREs in both 5' and 3' regions, but only to RNA in the apo form, without the Fe-S cluster. Expression of IRE-BP in cultured cells has revealed that the protein functions either as an active aconitase, when cells are iron-replete, or as an active RNA-binding protein, when cells are iron-depleted. Mutant IRE-BPs, in which any or all of the three Cys residues involved in Fe-S formation are replaced by serine, have no aconitase activity, but retain RNA-binding properties.
Aconitase is inhibited by fluoroacetate, therefore fluoroacetate is poisonous. Fluoroacetate, in the citric acid cycle, can innocently enter as fluorocitrate. However, aconitase cannot bind this substrate and thus the citric acid cycle is halted. The iron sulfur cluster is highly sensitive to oxidation by superoxide.[9]
Mechanism
File:Arrow Pushing Aconitase Final draft.tif
Aconitase employs a dehydration-hydration mechanism.[10] The catalytic residues involved are His-101 and Ser-642.[10] His-101 protonates the hydroxyl group on C3 of citrate, allowing it to leave as water, and Ser-642 concurrently abstracts the proton on C2, creating a double bond between C2 and C3, and forming the so-called cis-aconitate intermediate (the two carboxyl groups on the double bond are cis).[10][13] The carbon atom from which the hydrogen is removed is the one that came from oxaloacetate in the previous step of the citric acid cycle, not the one that came from acetyl CoA, even though these two carbons are equivalent except that one is "pro-R" and the other "pro-S" (see Prochirality).[14]:393 At this point, the intermediate is rotated 180°.[10] This rotation is referred to as a "flip."[11] Because of this flip, the intermediate is said to move from a "citrate mode" to a "isocitrate mode."[15]
How exactly this flip occurs is debatable. One theory is that, in the rate-limiting step of the mechanism, the cis-aconitate is released from the enzyme, then reattached in the isocitrate mode to complete the reaction.[15] This rate-limiting step ensures that the right stereochemistry, specifically (2R,3S), is formed in the final product.[15][16] Another hypothesis is that cis-aconitate stays bound to the enzyme while it flips from the citrate to the isocitrate mode.[10]
In either case, flipping cis-aconitate allows the dehydration and hydration steps to occur on opposite faces of the intermediate.[10] Aconitase catalyzes trans elimination/addition of water, and the flip guarantees that the correct stereochemistry is formed in the product.[10][11] To complete the reaction, the serine and histidine residues reverse their original catalytic actions: the histidine, now basic, abstracts a proton from water, priming it as a nucleophile to attack at C2, and the protonated serine is deprotonated by the cis-aconitate double bond to complete the hydration, producing isocitrate.[10]
Family members
Aconitases are expressed in bacteria to humans. Humans express the following two aconitase isozymes:
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Interactive pathway map
References
- ↑ PDB: 7ACN; Lauble, H.; Kennedy, M. C.; Beinert, H.; Stout, C. D. (1992). "Crystal structures of aconitase with isocitrate and nitroisocitrate bound". Biochemistry 31 (10): 2735–48. doi:10.1021/bi00125a014. PMID 1547214.
- ↑ PDB: 1ACO; Lauble, H; Kennedy, MC; Beinert, H; Stout, CD (1994). "Crystal Structures of Aconitase with Trans-aconitate and Nitrocitrate Bound". Journal of Molecular Biology 237 (4): 437–51. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1994.1246. PMID 8151704.
- ↑ "Aconitase, a two-faced protein: enzyme and iron regulatory factor". FASEB Journal 7 (15): 1442–9. Dec 1993. doi:10.1096/fasebj.7.15.8262329. PMID 8262329.
- ↑ Flint, Dennis H.; Allen, Ronda M. (1996). "Iron−Sulfur Proteins with Nonredox Functions". Chemical Reviews 96 (7): 2315–34. doi:10.1021/cr950041r. PMID 11848829.
- ↑ "Aconitase as Ironminus signSulfur Protein, Enzyme, and Iron-Regulatory Protein". Chemical Reviews 96 (7): 2335–2374. Nov 1996. doi:10.1021/cr950040z. PMID 11848830.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "The structure of aconitase". Proteins 5 (4): 289–312. 1989. doi:10.1002/prot.340050406. PMID 2798408.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Structure of activated aconitase: formation of the [4Fe-4S cluster in the crystal"]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 86 (10): 3639–43. May 1989. doi:10.1073/pnas.86.10.3639. PMID 2726740. Bibcode: 1989PNAS...86.3639R.
- ↑ "Crystal structures of aconitase with isocitrate and nitroisocitrate bound". Biochemistry 31 (10): 2735–48. Mar 1992. doi:10.1021/bi00125a014. PMID 1547214.
- ↑ Gardner, Paul R. (2002). "Aconitase: Sensitive target and measure of superoxide". Superoxide Dismutase. Methods in Enzymology. 349. pp. 9–23. doi:10.1016/S0076-6879(02)49317-2. ISBN 978-0-12-182252-1.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 Takusagawa F. "Chapter 16: Citric Acid Cycle". Takusagawa’s Note. The University of Kansas. http://web.ku.edu/~crystal/taksnotes/Biol_638/notes/chp_16.pdf.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Aconitase as Ironminus signSulfur Protein, Enzyme, and Iron-Regulatory Protein". Chemical Reviews 96 (7): 2335–2374. Nov 1996. doi:10.1021/cr950040z. PMID 11848830. http://alchemy.chem.uwm.edu/classes/chem601/Handouts/beinert.pdf. Retrieved 2011-05-16.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 PDB: 1C96; "The mechanism of aconitase: 1.8 A resolution crystal structure of the S642a:citrate complex". Protein Sci. 8 (12): 2655–62. December 1999. doi:10.1110/ps.8.12.2655. PMID 10631981.
- ↑ "Sites and mechanisms of aconitase inactivation by peroxynitrite: modulation by citrate and glutathione". Biochemistry 44 (36): 11986–96. Sep 2005. doi:10.1021/bi0509393. PMID 16142896.
- ↑ Lubert Stryer (1981). Biochemistry (2nd ed.). pp. 295–296.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 "Steric and conformational features of the aconitase mechanism". Proteins 22 (1): 1–11. May 1995. doi:10.1002/prot.340220102. PMID 7675781.
- ↑ "Aconitase family". The Prosthetic groups and Metal Ions in Protein Active Sites Database Version 2.0. The University of Leeds. 1999-02-02. http://metallo.scripps.edu/PROMISE/ACONITASE.html.
Further reading
- "Conservation of aconitase residues revealed by multiple sequence analysis. Implications for structure/function relationships". European Journal of Biochemistry 239 (1): 197–200. Jul 1996. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0197u.x. PMID 8706708.
External links
- Aconitase at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- Proteopedia Aconitase - the Aconitase structure in interactive 3D
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