PMID- 25137435 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20141121 LR - 20211021 IS - 1520-4995 (Electronic) IS - 0006-2960 (Print) IS - 0006-2960 (Linking) VI - 53 IP - 35 DP - 2014 Sep 9 TI - Evidence that the C-terminal domain of a type B PutA protein contributes to aldehyde dehydrogenase activity and substrate channeling. PG - 5661-73 LID - 10.1021/bi500693a [doi] AB - Proline utilization A (PutA) is a bifunctional enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of proline to glutamate. Structures of type A PutAs have revealed the catalytic core consisting of proline dehydrogenase (PRODH) and Delta(1)-pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase (P5CDH) modules connected by a substrate-channeling tunnel. Type B PutAs also have a C-terminal domain of unknown function (CTDUF) that is absent in type A PutAs. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), mutagenesis, and kinetics are used to determine the contributions of this domain to PutA structure and function. The 1127-residue Rhodobacter capsulatus PutA (RcPutA) is used as a representative CTDUF-containing type B PutA. The reaction progress curve for the coupled PRODH-P5CDH activity of RcPutA does not exhibit a time lag, implying a substrate channeling mechanism. RcPutA is monomeric in solution, which is unprecedented for PutAs. SAXS rigid body modeling with target-decoy validation is used to build a model of RcPutA. On the basis of homology to aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs), the CTDUF is predicted to consist of a beta-hairpin fused to a noncatalytic Rossmann fold domain. The predicted tertiary structural interactions of the CTDUF resemble the quaternary structural interactions in the type A PutA dimer interface. The model is tested by mutagenesis of the dimerization hairpin of a type A PutA and the CTDUF hairpin of RcPutA. Similar functional phenotypes are observed in the two sets of variants, supporting the hypothesis that the CTDUF mimics the type A PutA dimer interface. These results suggest annotation of the CTDUF as an ALDH superfamily domain that facilitates P5CDH activity and substrate channeling by stabilizing the aldehyde-binding site and sealing the substrate-channeling tunnel from the bulk medium. FAU - Luo, Min AU - Luo M AD - Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia , Columbia, Missouri 65211, United States. FAU - Christgen, Shelbi AU - Christgen S FAU - Sanyal, Nikhilesh AU - Sanyal N FAU - Arentson, Benjamin W AU - Arentson BW FAU - Becker, Donald F AU - Becker DF FAU - Tanner, John J AU - Tanner JJ LA - eng GR - GM065546/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - P30GM103335/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 GM065546/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 GM061068/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - GM061068/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 GM103335/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 GM105404/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20140826 PL - United States TA - Biochemistry JT - Biochemistry JID - 0370623 RN - 0 (Bacterial Proteins) RN - 0 (Membrane Proteins) RN - 0 (PutA protein, Bacteria) RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) RN - EC 1.2.1.3 (Aldehyde Dehydrogenase) SB - IM MH - Aldehyde Dehydrogenase/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Amino Acid Substitution MH - Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism MH - Bradyrhizobium/genetics/metabolism MH - Catalytic Domain MH - Genes, Bacterial MH - Kinetics MH - Membrane Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism MH - Models, Molecular MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Mutagenesis, Site-Directed MH - Protein Conformation MH - Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs MH - Recombinant Proteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism MH - Rhodobacter capsulatus/genetics/*metabolism MH - Scattering, Small Angle MH - Sequence Homology, Amino Acid MH - Structural Homology, Protein MH - Substrate Specificity MH - X-Ray Diffraction PMC - PMC4159212 EDAT- 2014/08/20 06:00 MHDA- 2014/12/15 06:00 PMCR- 2015/08/19 CRDT- 2014/08/20 06:00 PHST- 2014/08/20 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/08/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/12/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2015/08/19 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1021/bi500693a [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochemistry. 2014 Sep 9;53(35):5661-73. doi: 10.1021/bi500693a. Epub 2014 Aug 26.