X-ray-driven chemistry and conformational heterogeneity in atomic resolution crystal structures of bacterial dihydrofolate reductases
Smith, N.; Horswill, A. R.; Wilson, M. A.
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Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) catalyzes the NADPH-dependent reduction of dihydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate. Bacterial DHFRs are targets of several important antibiotics as well as model enzymes for the role of protein conformational dynamics in enzyme catalysis. We collected 0.93 [A] resolution X-ray diffraction data from both Bacillus subtilis (Bs) and E. coli (Ec) DHFRs bound to folate and NADP+. These oxidized ternary complexes should not be able to perform chemistry, however electron density maps suggest hydride transfer is occurring in both enzymes. Comparison of low- and high-dose EcDHFR datasets show that X-rays drive partial production of tetrahydrofolate. Hydride transfer causes the nicotinamide moiety of NADP+ to move towards the folate as well as correlated shifts in nearby residues. Higher radiation dose also changes the conformational heterogeneity of Met20 in EcDHFR, supporting a solvent gating role during catalysis. BsDHFR has a different pattern of conformational heterogeneity and an unexpected disulfide bond, illustrating important differences between bacterial DHFRs. This work demonstrates that X-rays can drive hydride transfer similar to the native DHFR reaction and that X-ray photoreduction can be used to interrogate catalytically relevant enzyme dynamics in favorable cases.
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