Structural highlights
Function[THER_BACTH] Extracellular zinc metalloprotease. Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMedThe mode of binding to thermolysin of the unsubstituted phosphoramidate inhibitor N-phosphoryl-L-leucinamide (P-Leu-NH2) has been determined crystallographically and refined at high resolution (R = 17.9% to 0.16-nm resolution). The mode of binding of the naturally occurring thermolysin inhibitor phosphoramidon reported previously [Weaver, L. H., Kester, W. R. and Matthews, B. W. (1977) J. Mol. Biol. 114, 119-132] has also been confirmed by crystallographic refinement (R = 17.4% to 0.23-nm resolution). Phosphoramidon binds to the enzyme with a single oxygen of the phosphoramidate moiety as a zinc ligand. Together with three ligands to the metal from the protein the resultant complex has approximately tetrahedral geometry. However, in the case of P-Leu-NH2, two of the phosphoramidate oxygens interact with the zinc to form a complex that tends towards pentacoordinate. In this respect, P-Leu-NH2 appears to be a better transition-state analog than is phosphoramidon. In addition, the phosphorus-nitrogen bond length in P-Leu-NH2 is 0.18 nm, suggesting that the nitrogen is protonated whereas the same bond in phosphoramidon is much shorter (0.15 nm) suggesting that the nitrogen does not carry a charge. In phosphoramidon the distance from the phosphoramide nitrogen to Glu-143 is 0.39 nm whereas in P-Leu-NH2 this distance decreases to 0.34 nm. Taken together, these observations provide additional evidence in support of the participation of pentacoordinate intermediates in the mechanism of action of thermolysin [Holmes, M. A. and Matthews, B. W. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 6912-6920] and the role of Glu-143 in first promoting the attack of a water molecule on the carbonyl carbon of the scissile bond and subsequently acting as a 'proton shuttle' to transfer the proton to the leaving nitrogen [Monzingo, A. F. and Matthews, B. W. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 5724-5729; Hangauer, D. G., Monzingo, A. F. and Matthews, B. W. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 5730-5741]. Crystallographic structural analysis of phosphoramidates as inhibitors and transition-state analogs of thermolysin.,Tronrud DE, Monzingo AF, Matthews BW Eur J Biochem. 1986 Jun 2;157(2):261-8. PMID:3709536[1] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See AlsoReferences | ||||||||||||||||||||
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