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The Essential Role of Water Molecules in the Reaction Mechanism of Protein O‐Fucosyltransferase 2
Protein O‐fucosyltransferase 2 (PoFUT2) is an inverting glycosyltransferase (GT) that fucosylates thrombospondin repeats (TSRs) from group 1 and 2. PoFUT2 recognizes a large and diverse number of TSRs through a dynamic network of water‐mediated interactions. By X‐ray structural studies of C. elegans...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9828666/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36260536 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202213610 |
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author | Sanz‐Martínez, Ignacio García‐García, Ana Tejero, Tomás Hurtado‐Guerrero, Ramón Merino, Pedro |
author_facet | Sanz‐Martínez, Ignacio García‐García, Ana Tejero, Tomás Hurtado‐Guerrero, Ramón Merino, Pedro |
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description | Protein O‐fucosyltransferase 2 (PoFUT2) is an inverting glycosyltransferase (GT) that fucosylates thrombospondin repeats (TSRs) from group 1 and 2. PoFUT2 recognizes a large and diverse number of TSRs through a dynamic network of water‐mediated interactions. By X‐ray structural studies of C. elegans PoFUT2 complexed to a TSR of group 2, we demonstrate that this GT recognizes similarly the 3D structure of TSRs from both groups 1 and 2. Its active site is highly exposed to the solvent, suggesting that water molecules might also play an essential role in the fucosylation mechanism. We applied QM/MM methods using human PoFUT2 as a model, and found that HsPoFUT2 follows a classical S(N)2 reaction mechanism in which water molecules contribute to a great extent in facilitating the release of the leaving pyrophosphate unit, causing the H transfer from the acceptor nucleophile (Thr/Ser) to the catalytic base, which is the last event in the reaction. This demonstrates the importance of water molecules not only in recognition of the ligands but also in catalysis. |
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spelling | pubmed-98286662023-01-10 The Essential Role of Water Molecules in the Reaction Mechanism of Protein O‐Fucosyltransferase 2 Sanz‐Martínez, Ignacio García‐García, Ana Tejero, Tomás Hurtado‐Guerrero, Ramón Merino, Pedro Angew Chem Int Ed Engl Research Articles Protein O‐fucosyltransferase 2 (PoFUT2) is an inverting glycosyltransferase (GT) that fucosylates thrombospondin repeats (TSRs) from group 1 and 2. PoFUT2 recognizes a large and diverse number of TSRs through a dynamic network of water‐mediated interactions. By X‐ray structural studies of C. elegans PoFUT2 complexed to a TSR of group 2, we demonstrate that this GT recognizes similarly the 3D structure of TSRs from both groups 1 and 2. Its active site is highly exposed to the solvent, suggesting that water molecules might also play an essential role in the fucosylation mechanism. We applied QM/MM methods using human PoFUT2 as a model, and found that HsPoFUT2 follows a classical S(N)2 reaction mechanism in which water molecules contribute to a great extent in facilitating the release of the leaving pyrophosphate unit, causing the H transfer from the acceptor nucleophile (Thr/Ser) to the catalytic base, which is the last event in the reaction. This demonstrates the importance of water molecules not only in recognition of the ligands but also in catalysis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-11-10 2022-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9828666/ /pubmed/36260536 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202213610 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Angewandte Chemie International Edition published by Wiley-VCH GmbH https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Sanz‐Martínez, Ignacio García‐García, Ana Tejero, Tomás Hurtado‐Guerrero, Ramón Merino, Pedro The Essential Role of Water Molecules in the Reaction Mechanism of Protein O‐Fucosyltransferase 2 |
title | The Essential Role of Water Molecules in the Reaction Mechanism of Protein O‐Fucosyltransferase 2 |
title_full | The Essential Role of Water Molecules in the Reaction Mechanism of Protein O‐Fucosyltransferase 2 |
title_fullStr | The Essential Role of Water Molecules in the Reaction Mechanism of Protein O‐Fucosyltransferase 2 |
title_full_unstemmed | The Essential Role of Water Molecules in the Reaction Mechanism of Protein O‐Fucosyltransferase 2 |
title_short | The Essential Role of Water Molecules in the Reaction Mechanism of Protein O‐Fucosyltransferase 2 |
title_sort | essential role of water molecules in the reaction mechanism of protein o‐fucosyltransferase 2 |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9828666/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36260536 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202213610 |
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