PMID- 24955657 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150526 LR - 20211203 IS - 1520-5126 (Electronic) IS - 0002-7863 (Print) IS - 0002-7863 (Linking) VI - 136 IP - 30 DP - 2014 Jul 30 TI - Molybdopterin biosynthesis: trapping of intermediates for the MoaA-catalyzed reaction using 2'-deoxyGTP and 2'-chloroGTP as substrate analogues. PG - 10609-14 LID - 10.1021/ja502663k [doi] AB - MoaA is a radical S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) enzyme that catalyzes a complex rearrangement of guanosine-5'-triphosphate (GTP) in the first step of molybdopterin biosynthesis. In this paper, we provide additional characterization of the MoaA reaction product, describe the use of 2'-chloroGTP to trap the GTP C3' radical, generated by hydrogen atom transfer to the 5'-deoxyadenosyl radical, and the use of 2'-deoxyGTP to block a late step in the reaction sequence. These probes, coupled with the previously reported trapping of an intermediate in which C3' of the ribose is linked to C8 of the purine, allow us to propose a plausible mechanism for the MoaA-catalyzed reaction. FAU - Mehta, Angad P AU - Mehta AP AD - Department of Chemistry, Texas A & M University , College Station, Texas 77843, United States. FAU - Abdelwahed, Sameh H AU - Abdelwahed SH FAU - Xu, Hui AU - Xu H FAU - Begley, Tadhg P AU - Begley TP LA - eng GR - R01 DK044083/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R37 DK044083/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - DK44083/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20140718 PL - United States TA - J Am Chem Soc JT - Journal of the American Chemical Society JID - 7503056 RN - 0 (Coenzymes) RN - 0 (Escherichia coli Proteins) RN - 0 (Metalloproteins) RN - 0 (Molybdenum Cofactors) RN - 0 (Pteridines) RN - 86-01-1 (Guanosine Triphosphate) RN - ATN6EG42UQ (molybdenum cofactor) RN - EC 5.- (Isomerases) RN - EC 5.- (MoaA protein, E coli) SB - IM MH - Coenzymes/*metabolism MH - Escherichia coli/*enzymology/metabolism MH - Escherichia coli Proteins/*metabolism MH - Guanosine Triphosphate/*analogs & derivatives/metabolism MH - Halogenation MH - Isomerases/*metabolism MH - Metalloproteins/*metabolism MH - Molybdenum Cofactors MH - Pteridines/*metabolism MH - Substrate Specificity PMC - PMC4227724 EDAT- 2014/06/24 06:00 MHDA- 2015/05/27 06:00 PMCR- 2015/06/23 CRDT- 2014/06/24 06:00 PHST- 2014/06/24 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/06/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/05/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2015/06/23 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1021/ja502663k [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Am Chem Soc. 2014 Jul 30;136(30):10609-14. doi: 10.1021/ja502663k. Epub 2014 Jul 18.