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== Substrate specificities == | == Substrate specificities == | ||
− | + | [[Image:CBP21_binding_chitin_modeled.jpg|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 1. Hypothetical representation of the interaction between CBP21 and chitin (side view, left; top view, right) that highlights how the flat surface of CBP21 might fit the flat surface of a β-chitin crystal.''' Please note that this complex has not been determined by direct experimentation nor computational molecular modelling. The surfaces of residues known to interact with chitin <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2005-1</cite> are coloured magenta and the side chains of these residues are shown. In the side view some of the magenta surface is hidden by the white surface of other residues. This picture has been adapted from <cite>Horn2012</cite>.]] | |
+ | Members of the AA10 family of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases were previously classified as [[Carbohydrate Binding Module Family 33]] members). They are known to cleave chitin <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2010 Vaaje-Kolstad2012 Aachmann2012</cite> and cellulose <cite>Forsberg2011 Forsberg2014</cite>. Most characterized AA10 LPMO oxidize the C1 of the scissile glycosidic bond, but some also oxidize C4 <cite>Forsberg2014 Forsberg2018</cite>. AA10 LPMOs are closely related to LPMOs in families AA11 and AA13, known to cleave chitin and starch, respectively. AA10 modules often occur in combination with additional modules, in particular [[carbohydrate-binding modules]] (CBMs), but also catalytic domains such as GH18 chitinases <cite>Horn2012</cite>. The CBMs contribute to substrate-binding and may also affect operational stability of the LPMO <cite>Forsbergb2014 Crouch2016 Forsberg2018</cite>. | ||
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+ | Before proteins belonging to AA10 were identified as enzymes, they were generally known as chitin binding proteins (CBPs) and as carbohydrate-binding modules belonging to family CBM33. The reason for this was that most AA10s studied had been identified in chitinolytic systems such as that of ''Serratia marcescens'' <cite>Fuchs1986, Suzuki1998</cite>, several ''Streptomyces'' species <cite>Zeltins1997 Kolbe1998 Saito2001</cite>, ''Bacillus amyloliquefaciens'' <cite>Chu2001</cite>,''Vibrio cholerae'' <cite>Wong2012</cite>, ''Pseudomonas aeruginosa'' <cite>Folders2000</cite> and ''Lacotococcus lactis'' <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2009</cite>. Upon their characterization no other function than substrate binding could be identified, thus the name "chitin binding protein" was coined. Substrates and potential substrates identified by binding studies include alpha-chitin <cite>Kolbe1998 Zeltins1997</cite>, beta-chitin <cite>Suzuki1998 Vaaje-Kolstad2005-1</cite>, both the alpha- and beta-chitin allomorphs <cite>Chu2001 Vaaje-Kolstad2009 Vaaje-Kolstad2012</cite> chitosan <cite>Saito2001</cite>, cellulose <cite>Walter2008 Forsberg2011</cite> and even bacterial and eptihelial cell surfaces where the binding interaction substrate has been suggested to be GlcNAc-containing glycoproteins or proteoglycans <cite>Sanches2011 Wong2012</cite>. It should be noted that studies on AA10s prior to their identification as copper-dependent metalloenzymes were conducted in the absence of Cu(II), which may have had influence on the binding affinity and specificity of the enzyme. | ||
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+ | As previously noted, AA10s exist both as single module entities and in multimodular forms. CBP21 from ''S. marcescens'' <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2010</cite> and EfCBM33A from ''E. faecalis'' <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2012 </cite> are catalytically functional single-module AA10s that both bind well to chitin (CBP21 is specific for beta-chitin, whereas EfCBM33A binds to both alpha and beta-chitin). The cellulose targeting AA10 from ''S. coelicolor'' (CelS2) on the other hand, is bimodular and contains a cellulose binding CBM2 in addition to the catalytic AA10 module <cite>Forsberg2011 Forsberg2014 Forsbergb2014</cite>. The V. cholerae AA10 is an elongated tetra-modular protein where the N-terminal catalytically active AA10 module binds mucin, the two following modules bind bacterial cell walls and the C-terminal CBM5/12 binds chitin <cite>Wong2012 Loose2014</cite>. | ||
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+ | The substrate binding surface of AA10s is flat and lacks the typical arrangement of aromatic amino acids that is common for carbohydrate binding proteins <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2005-1 Vaaje-Kolstad2017</cite>. It is therefore thought that substrate binding is predominantly mediated by hydrogen bonds, as is substantiated by a recent study of CelS2 <cite>Forsberg2018</cite>. The flat substrate binding surface seems optimal for binding the flat surface of crystalline carbohydrate structures like cellulose and chitin (Fig. 1). | ||
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== Kinetics and Mechanism == | == Kinetics and Mechanism == | ||
− | + | [[Image:Rx_scheme_LPMOs.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 2. Reaction schemes proposed for LPMOs in a) 2010 and b) 2017.''']] | |
+ | The catalytic mechanism of LPMOs is a matter of intense research and debate. Using labeled water and molecular oxygen, Vaaje-Kolstad et al <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2010</cite> showed that one LPMO reaction requires two externally delivered electrons and molecular oxygen (Figure 2). Phillips ''et al'' <cite>Phillips2011</cite> pointed out that hydrogen abstraction (from the C1 or the C4) by a reactive oxygen species coordinated by the copper would be followed by hydroxylation and that this would lead to spontaneous cleavage of the glycosidic bond, leaving either the C1 or the C4 oxidized (yielding a lactone in equilibrium with carboxylic acid or a 4-keto group in equilibrium with a gemdiol, respectively <cite>Isaksen2014</cite>). The nature of the hydrogen abstracting oxygen species is not known. Current literature seems to be converging towards a Cu(II)-oxyl species <cite> Phillips2011 Kim2014 Bissaro2017 Bertini2018 Meier2018</cite>, but there are plausible alternatives that cannot be excluded, as outlined in e.g. <cite>Beeson2015 Walton2016 Bissaro2017 Meier2018</cite>. | ||
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+ | One challenging element of understanding how LPMOs work relates to the required delivery of two electrons to a substrate-bound enzyme whose single co-factor only allows storage of one electron. While several scenarios have been proposed, a radical and experimentally supported solution to this problem was recently proposed by Bissaro et al <cite>Bissaro2017</cite>. As shown in Fig. 2, panel b, the proposal is that hydrogen peroxide rather than molecular oxygen is the preferred co-substrate of LPMOs. The H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>-based mechanism would only require a priming reduction of the LPMO to its Cu(I) state, which would then be capable of carrying out multiple catalytic cycles while having its electrons and oxygen delivered in the form of partially reduced O<sub>2</sub>, namely H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>. Bissaro ''et al.'' point out that H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> will be generated under the reaction conditions that are normally used to assess LPMO functionality. Further work is needed to assess the validity of the various proposed LPMO mechanisms. One key challenge in such work is that LPMOs become rapidly inactivated due to oxidative damage in the catalytic center <cite>Bissaro2017 Kuusk2018</cite> | ||
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+ | Reported catalytic rates of LPMOs, including AA10 LPMOs, under standard conditions (= the presence of a reductant and O<sub>2</sub>), are remarkably low and tend to vary from 1 to 10 per minute (e.g. <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2010 Agger2014 Frandsen2016</cite>). Although not usually reported in the literature, progress curves for LPMO reactions are notoriously non-linear and there is thus little available kinetic data (see <cite>Frandsen2016 Kuusk2018</cite> for relatively high quality kinetic data). Importantly, it has been shown that LPMO rates can be drastically enhanced by using light <cite>Cannella2016</cite> or H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> <cite>Bissaro2017</cite> to drive the LPMO reaction. In a recent detailed kinetic study of CBP21, using hydrogen peroxide to drive the reaction, Kuusk et al <cite>Kuusk2018</cite> determined the k<sub>cat</sub> for chitin oxidation to be 5.6 s<sup>-1</sup>, and concluded that the k<sub>cat</sub>/K<sub>m</sub> for H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>-driven degradation of chitin was in the order of 10<sup>6</sup> M<sup>-1</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>. | ||
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+ | == Catalytic Residues and copper coordination == | ||
+ | [[Image:His_brace_4ALC_label.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 3. The active site of ''Ef''LPMO10 (''Ef''CBM33).''' The residues involved in, and in close proximity to, the histidine brace are shown in stick representation. The copper atom is shown as a golden sphere. Water molecules are shown as red spheres. The copper atom is coordinated in a trigonal bipyrimidal geometry. The figure is made from the structure of ''Ef''LPMO10 (also known as "''Ef''CBM33" from ''Enterococcus faecalis'' <cite>Gudmundsson2014</cite>) which was obtained by a low radiation dose X-ray crystallographic experiment that yielded an active site containing a copper atom in its Cu(II) state (normally copper atoms are reduced by X-ray photoreduction).]] | ||
+ | Catalysis happens at the single catalytic copper ion that is coordinated by a so-called histidine brace <cite>Quinlan2011</cite> (Fig. 3) that is strictly conserved in all LPMOs. Originally, there was some confusion about the nature of the metal ion <cite>Harris2010 Vaaje-Kolstad2010</cite>, which is due to the high copper affinity of LPMOs, which allows the enzymes to acquire copper even in the "absence" of copper. This issue was settled for AA9 LPMOs by Quinlan et al <cite>Quinlan2011</cite> and Phillips et al <cite>Phillips2011</cite> and further elaborated for AA10s in subsequent publications <cite>Aachmann2012 Hemsworth2013</cite>. The two histidines making up the histidine brace coordinate the copper in three positions that, for practical reasons are often referred to as "equatorial", although this is not always formally correct (as exemplified by Fig. 3). One of the histidines is the N-terminus of the mature protein and contributes with both its N-terminal amino group and a its imidazole side chain, whereas the other histidine contribute only with its side chain. In oxidized LPMOs, i.e. the Cu(II) form, the fourth equatorial position is occupied by a water <cite>Hemsworth2013-2 Gudmundsson2014</cite>. There are strong indications that the reactive oxygen species formed during catalysis emerges at this fourth equatorial position <cite>Frandsen2016 Bacik2017</cite>. The final two coordination positions, often referred to as axial, vary. The proximal axial coordination site (Fig. 3) is occupied by a phenylalanine or a tyrosine. The functional implications, if any, of this difference remains unknown. It should be noted that, while the hydroxyl group of the tyrosine does point towards the copper ion, the distance to the copper is too long for a strong interaction. The distal, solvent-exposed axial position tends to be occupied by a water in oxidized LPMOs and recent studies on AA9s <cite>Courtade2016 Frandsen2016</cite> suggest that this water will be displaced by substrate binding. The copper ion is partly shielded from the solvent in this axial position by a conserved alanine residue, the role of which has received considerable attention in the literature <cite>Hemsworth2013-2 Forsberg2014 Forsberg2018</cite>. Current data do not point at a particular effect of the presence of this alanine nor an effect of its exact position, which varies among AA10 LPMOs. | ||
− | + | [[Image:AA10_diversityPNG.PNG|thumb|right|600px|'''Figure 4. LPMO active sites.''' Active sites and their "second shell" of residues surrounding the histidine brace. CBP21 (dark grey) CelS2 (green), ScLPMO10B (orange) and TaLPMO9A (pink). The figure is adapted from <cite>Forsberg2014</cite>.]] | |
− | + | The immediate environment of the copper binding site, sometimes referred to as the second shell, shows functionally conserved features that are known from experiment to be important for catalysis (e.g. <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2005-2 Span2017 Forsberg2018</cite>). Further analysis and discussion of the roles of these residues awaits deeper insights into the catalytic mechanism of LPMOs and better assays for testing the true catalytic potential of LPMO variants. Figure 4 shows an example of such functionally conserved additional structural features and reference <cite>Forsberg2018</cite> describes a recent mutagenesis study on an AA10, including a discussion of the many pitfalls when trying to functionally interprete mutational effects. | |
== Three-dimensional structures == | == Three-dimensional structures == | ||
− | + | In 2005 the structure CBP21 from ''S. marcescens'' was solved and represents the first structure in the AA10 family [{{PDBlink}}2bem 2BEM] <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2005-1</cite> and the first structure of an LPMO. The CBP21 wild type structure has three molecules in the asymetric unit, of which only chain C shows electron density for a metal bound in the metal binding motif (modeled as a sodium ion, but, in retrospect this is probably a reduced copper ion with low occupancy). Later the same year the structure of the CBP21-Y54A mutant was solved (different crystal form and space group), showing two molecules in the asymetric unit with no trace of electron density for a metal ion bound in the active site [{{PDBlink}}2ben 2BEN] <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2005-2</cite>. The second AA10 structure, one of two AA10 from ''Burkholderia pseudomallei'' 1710b (Uniprot ID: Q3JY22), was published in the PDB late in 2011 by the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease [{{PDBlink}}3uam 3UAM]. The structure contains five molecules in the asymetric unit that all have two amino acids from the signal peptide still attached to the N-terminus, most likely disrupting the active site. The third unique AA10 structure to be solved was GbpA from ''Vibrio cholerae'' O1 biovar El Tor str. N16961 [{{PDBlink}}2xwx 2XWX] <cite>,Wong2012</cite>. GbpA is unique in the sense that it contains four discrete modules: a catalytically active N-terminal AA10 module, two modules likely involved in binding to bacterial cell walls and a C-terminal CBM5/12. The published structure of GbpA only lacks the C-termainal CBM5/12 and is thus the first multimodular AA10 structure to be published. Shortly after the release of the GbpA, the structure of EfCBM33A from ''Enterococcus faecalis'' [{{PDBlink}}4a02 4A02] <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2012</cite> was published. The structure of EfCBM33A was solved at very high resolution (0.95Å), but similar to the other structures solved, no metal ion was observed bound in the active site. In 2012 the solution structure of CBP21 wild type (apo-form) was solved by NMR [{{PDBlink}}2lhs 2LHS] <cite>Aachmann2012</cite>, and this study also provided evidence for copper being the active site metal, as had been previously shown for AA11 LPMOs <cite>Quinlan2011</cite>. In spring 2013 the structure of the single AA10 harbored by''Bacillus amyloliquefaciens'' DSM7 (BaCBM33) was published <cite>Hemsworth2013</cite>. The latter publication contained three structures: the apo-enzyme [{{PDBlink}}2yow 2YOW] and two structures containing a reduced copper ion bound to the active site [{{PDBlink}}2yoy 2YOY][{{PDBlink}}2yox 2YOX], thus being the first AA10 structures with a copper ion bound in the active site. The first structures of AA10 LPMOs known to be active on cellulose came in 2014 <cite>Forsberg2014</cite>. It is worth noting that the oxidation state of the copper ion is affected by the reducing power of the X-ray beam as discussed by Hemsworth et al <cite>Hemsworth2013-2</cite> and Gudmundsson et al <cite>Gudmundsson2014</cite>. | |
== Family Firsts == | == Family Firsts == | ||
− | ;First | + | ;First AA10 protein identified: The first proteins studied from the AA10 family were all isolated and cloned from various ''Streptomyces'' strains, a major effort carried out by the Schrempf group of Osnabrück University. The first family AA10 protein to be isolated and characterized was CHB1 from ''Streptomyces olivaceoviridis'' a study published in 1994 <cite>Schnellman1994</cite>. CHB1 was shown to bind strongly to alpha-chitin and was also observed to bind to fungal hyphae. When these proteins originally were included into CAZy, they were classified as CBM33. |
− | ;First catalytic | + | ;First demonstration of synergy between AA10 and canonical glycoside hydrolases: In 2005, Vaaje-Kolstad and co-workers showed that CBP21 from ''S. marcescens'' is able to increase the rate of chitin hydrolysis by a variety of chitinases, including all three ''S. marsescens'' GH18 chitinases and a GH19 chitinase from ''Streptomyces coelicolor'' <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2005-2</cite>. It is worth noting that the title of the original publication erroneously qualified CBP21 as "non-catalytic"; this is due to how one was thinking about possible substrate-disrupting effects of CBMs at the time. |
− | ;First | + | ;First demonstration of oxidative cleavage by an AA10 protein: Catalysis of lytic oxidation of a glycosidic bond by an AA10 enzyme was first shown for CBP21 in 2010, where oxidative cleavage of chitin was demonstrated <cite>Vaaje-Kolstad2010</cite>. This finding also represents the first demonstration of the true nature of LPMO activity, regardless of AA family. Oxidative cleavage of cellulose by an AA10 was demonstrated by the same group in 2011 <cite>Forsberg2011</cite>. |
− | ;First 3-D structure: CBP21, the single AA10-type LPMO from the Gram negative bacterium ''Serratia marcescens'' | + | ;First 3-D structure: CBP21, the single AA10-type LPMO from the Gram negative bacterium ''Serratia marcescens'', PDB ID [{{PDBlink}}2bem 2BEM]. |
== References == | == References == | ||
<biblio> | <biblio> | ||
− | # | + | #Forsberg2011 pmid=21748815 |
− | # | + | #Vaaje-Kolstad2005-1 pmid=15590674 |
+ | #Vaaje-Kolstad2005-2 pmid=15929981 | ||
+ | #Vaaje-Kolstad2010 pmid=20929773 | ||
+ | #Aachmann2012 pmid=23112164 | ||
+ | #Vaaje-Kolstad2012 pmid=22210154 | ||
+ | #Wong2012 pmid=22253590 | ||
+ | #Hemsworth2013 pmid=23540833 | ||
+ | #Fuchs1986 pmid=16347012 | ||
+ | #Suzuki1998 pmid=9501524 | ||
+ | #Walter2008 pmid=18438642 | ||
+ | #Chu2001 pmid=11429457 | ||
+ | #Saito2001 pmid=11229920 | ||
+ | #Kolbe1998 pmid=9611804 | ||
+ | #Zeltins1997 pmid=9208950 | ||
+ | #Folders2000 pmid=10671445 | ||
+ | #Sanches2011 pmid=21131525 | ||
+ | #Hemsworth2013-2 pmid=23769965 | ||
+ | #Horn2012 pmid=22747961 | ||
+ | #Schnellman1994 pmid=7815940 | ||
+ | #Forsberg2014 pmid=24912171 | ||
+ | #Forsbergb2014 pmid=24559135 | ||
+ | #Forsberg2018 pmid=29222333 | ||
+ | #Vaaje-Kolstad2009 pmid=19348025 | ||
+ | #Loose2014 pmid=25109775 | ||
+ | #Vaaje-Kolstad2017 pmid=28086105 | ||
+ | #Gudmundsson2014 pmid=24828494 | ||
+ | #Quinlan2011 pmid=21876164 | ||
+ | #Harris2010 pmid=20230050 | ||
+ | #Frandsen2016 pmid=26928935 | ||
+ | #Span2017 pmid=28257189 | ||
+ | #Bacik2017 pmid=28481095 | ||
+ | #Courtade2016 pmid=27152023 | ||
+ | #Phillips2011 pmid=22004347 | ||
+ | #Isaksen2014 pmid=24324265 | ||
+ | #Beeson2015 pmid=25784051 | ||
+ | #Walton2016 pmid=27094791 | ||
+ | #Bissaro2017 pmid=28846668 | ||
+ | #Bertini2018 pmid=29232119 | ||
+ | #Meier2018 pmid=29155571 | ||
+ | #Kuusk2018 pmid=29138240 | ||
+ | #Agger2014 pmid=24733907 | ||
+ | #Cannella2016 pmid=27041218 | ||
+ | #Crouch2016 pmid=26801613 | ||
</biblio> | </biblio> | ||
[[Category:Auxiliary Activity Families|AA010]] | [[Category:Auxiliary Activity Families|AA010]] |
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Auxiliary Activity Family 10 | |
Clan | Structurally related to AA9 & AA11 & AA13 |
Mechanism | lytic oxidase |
Active site residues | mononuclear copper ion |
CAZy DB link | |
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Substrate specificities
Members of the AA10 family of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases were previously classified as Carbohydrate Binding Module Family 33 members). They are known to cleave chitin [3, 4, 5] and cellulose [6, 7]. Most characterized AA10 LPMO oxidize the C1 of the scissile glycosidic bond, but some also oxidize C4 [7, 8]. AA10 LPMOs are closely related to LPMOs in families AA11 and AA13, known to cleave chitin and starch, respectively. AA10 modules often occur in combination with additional modules, in particular carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs), but also catalytic domains such as GH18 chitinases [2]. The CBMs contribute to substrate-binding and may also affect operational stability of the LPMO [8, 9, 10].
Before proteins belonging to AA10 were identified as enzymes, they were generally known as chitin binding proteins (CBPs) and as carbohydrate-binding modules belonging to family CBM33. The reason for this was that most AA10s studied had been identified in chitinolytic systems such as that of Serratia marcescens [11, 12], several Streptomyces species [13, 14, 15], Bacillus amyloliquefaciens [16],Vibrio cholerae [17], Pseudomonas aeruginosa [18] and Lacotococcus lactis [19]. Upon their characterization no other function than substrate binding could be identified, thus the name "chitin binding protein" was coined. Substrates and potential substrates identified by binding studies include alpha-chitin [13, 14], beta-chitin [1, 12], both the alpha- and beta-chitin allomorphs [4, 16, 19] chitosan [15], cellulose [6, 20] and even bacterial and eptihelial cell surfaces where the binding interaction substrate has been suggested to be GlcNAc-containing glycoproteins or proteoglycans [17, 21]. It should be noted that studies on AA10s prior to their identification as copper-dependent metalloenzymes were conducted in the absence of Cu(II), which may have had influence on the binding affinity and specificity of the enzyme.
As previously noted, AA10s exist both as single module entities and in multimodular forms. CBP21 from S. marcescens [3] and EfCBM33A from E. faecalis [4] are catalytically functional single-module AA10s that both bind well to chitin (CBP21 is specific for beta-chitin, whereas EfCBM33A binds to both alpha and beta-chitin). The cellulose targeting AA10 from S. coelicolor (CelS2) on the other hand, is bimodular and contains a cellulose binding CBM2 in addition to the catalytic AA10 module [6, 7, 9]. The V. cholerae AA10 is an elongated tetra-modular protein where the N-terminal catalytically active AA10 module binds mucin, the two following modules bind bacterial cell walls and the C-terminal CBM5/12 binds chitin [17, 22].
The substrate binding surface of AA10s is flat and lacks the typical arrangement of aromatic amino acids that is common for carbohydrate binding proteins [1, 23]. It is therefore thought that substrate binding is predominantly mediated by hydrogen bonds, as is substantiated by a recent study of CelS2 [8]. The flat substrate binding surface seems optimal for binding the flat surface of crystalline carbohydrate structures like cellulose and chitin (Fig. 1).
Kinetics and Mechanism
The catalytic mechanism of LPMOs is a matter of intense research and debate. Using labeled water and molecular oxygen, Vaaje-Kolstad et al [3] showed that one LPMO reaction requires two externally delivered electrons and molecular oxygen (Figure 2). Phillips et al [24] pointed out that hydrogen abstraction (from the C1 or the C4) by a reactive oxygen species coordinated by the copper would be followed by hydroxylation and that this would lead to spontaneous cleavage of the glycosidic bond, leaving either the C1 or the C4 oxidized (yielding a lactone in equilibrium with carboxylic acid or a 4-keto group in equilibrium with a gemdiol, respectively [25]). The nature of the hydrogen abstracting oxygen species is not known. Current literature seems to be converging towards a Cu(II)-oxyl species [24, 26, 27, 28, 29], but there are plausible alternatives that cannot be excluded, as outlined in e.g. [27, 29, 30, 31].
One challenging element of understanding how LPMOs work relates to the required delivery of two electrons to a substrate-bound enzyme whose single co-factor only allows storage of one electron. While several scenarios have been proposed, a radical and experimentally supported solution to this problem was recently proposed by Bissaro et al [27]. As shown in Fig. 2, panel b, the proposal is that hydrogen peroxide rather than molecular oxygen is the preferred co-substrate of LPMOs. The H2O2-based mechanism would only require a priming reduction of the LPMO to its Cu(I) state, which would then be capable of carrying out multiple catalytic cycles while having its electrons and oxygen delivered in the form of partially reduced O2, namely H2O2. Bissaro et al. point out that H2O2 will be generated under the reaction conditions that are normally used to assess LPMO functionality. Further work is needed to assess the validity of the various proposed LPMO mechanisms. One key challenge in such work is that LPMOs become rapidly inactivated due to oxidative damage in the catalytic center [27, 32]
Reported catalytic rates of LPMOs, including AA10 LPMOs, under standard conditions (= the presence of a reductant and O2), are remarkably low and tend to vary from 1 to 10 per minute (e.g. [3, 33, 34]). Although not usually reported in the literature, progress curves for LPMO reactions are notoriously non-linear and there is thus little available kinetic data (see [32, 34] for relatively high quality kinetic data). Importantly, it has been shown that LPMO rates can be drastically enhanced by using light [35] or H2O2 [27] to drive the LPMO reaction. In a recent detailed kinetic study of CBP21, using hydrogen peroxide to drive the reaction, Kuusk et al [32] determined the kcat for chitin oxidation to be 5.6 s-1, and concluded that the kcat/Km for H2O2-driven degradation of chitin was in the order of 106 M-1 s-1.
Catalytic Residues and copper coordination
Catalysis happens at the single catalytic copper ion that is coordinated by a so-called histidine brace [37] (Fig. 3) that is strictly conserved in all LPMOs. Originally, there was some confusion about the nature of the metal ion [3, 38], which is due to the high copper affinity of LPMOs, which allows the enzymes to acquire copper even in the "absence" of copper. This issue was settled for AA9 LPMOs by Quinlan et al [37] and Phillips et al [24] and further elaborated for AA10s in subsequent publications [5, 39]. The two histidines making up the histidine brace coordinate the copper in three positions that, for practical reasons are often referred to as "equatorial", although this is not always formally correct (as exemplified by Fig. 3). One of the histidines is the N-terminus of the mature protein and contributes with both its N-terminal amino group and a its imidazole side chain, whereas the other histidine contribute only with its side chain. In oxidized LPMOs, i.e. the Cu(II) form, the fourth equatorial position is occupied by a water [36, 40]. There are strong indications that the reactive oxygen species formed during catalysis emerges at this fourth equatorial position [34, 41]. The final two coordination positions, often referred to as axial, vary. The proximal axial coordination site (Fig. 3) is occupied by a phenylalanine or a tyrosine. The functional implications, if any, of this difference remains unknown. It should be noted that, while the hydroxyl group of the tyrosine does point towards the copper ion, the distance to the copper is too long for a strong interaction. The distal, solvent-exposed axial position tends to be occupied by a water in oxidized LPMOs and recent studies on AA9s [34, 42] suggest that this water will be displaced by substrate binding. The copper ion is partly shielded from the solvent in this axial position by a conserved alanine residue, the role of which has received considerable attention in the literature [7, 8, 40]. Current data do not point at a particular effect of the presence of this alanine nor an effect of its exact position, which varies among AA10 LPMOs.
The immediate environment of the copper binding site, sometimes referred to as the second shell, shows functionally conserved features that are known from experiment to be important for catalysis (e.g. [8, 43, 44]). Further analysis and discussion of the roles of these residues awaits deeper insights into the catalytic mechanism of LPMOs and better assays for testing the true catalytic potential of LPMO variants. Figure 4 shows an example of such functionally conserved additional structural features and reference [8] describes a recent mutagenesis study on an AA10, including a discussion of the many pitfalls when trying to functionally interprete mutational effects.
Three-dimensional structures
In 2005 the structure CBP21 from S. marcescens was solved and represents the first structure in the AA10 family 2BEM [1] and the first structure of an LPMO. The CBP21 wild type structure has three molecules in the asymetric unit, of which only chain C shows electron density for a metal bound in the metal binding motif (modeled as a sodium ion, but, in retrospect this is probably a reduced copper ion with low occupancy). Later the same year the structure of the CBP21-Y54A mutant was solved (different crystal form and space group), showing two molecules in the asymetric unit with no trace of electron density for a metal ion bound in the active site 2BEN [43]. The second AA10 structure, one of two AA10 from Burkholderia pseudomallei 1710b (Uniprot ID: Q3JY22), was published in the PDB late in 2011 by the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease 3UAM. The structure contains five molecules in the asymetric unit that all have two amino acids from the signal peptide still attached to the N-terminus, most likely disrupting the active site. The third unique AA10 structure to be solved was GbpA from Vibrio cholerae O1 biovar El Tor str. N16961 2XWX [17]. GbpA is unique in the sense that it contains four discrete modules: a catalytically active N-terminal AA10 module, two modules likely involved in binding to bacterial cell walls and a C-terminal CBM5/12. The published structure of GbpA only lacks the C-termainal CBM5/12 and is thus the first multimodular AA10 structure to be published. Shortly after the release of the GbpA, the structure of EfCBM33A from Enterococcus faecalis 4A02 [4] was published. The structure of EfCBM33A was solved at very high resolution (0.95Å), but similar to the other structures solved, no metal ion was observed bound in the active site. In 2012 the solution structure of CBP21 wild type (apo-form) was solved by NMR 2LHS [5], and this study also provided evidence for copper being the active site metal, as had been previously shown for AA11 LPMOs [37]. In spring 2013 the structure of the single AA10 harbored byBacillus amyloliquefaciens DSM7 (BaCBM33) was published [39]. The latter publication contained three structures: the apo-enzyme 2YOW and two structures containing a reduced copper ion bound to the active site 2YOY2YOX, thus being the first AA10 structures with a copper ion bound in the active site. The first structures of AA10 LPMOs known to be active on cellulose came in 2014 [7]. It is worth noting that the oxidation state of the copper ion is affected by the reducing power of the X-ray beam as discussed by Hemsworth et al [40] and Gudmundsson et al [36].
Family Firsts
- First AA10 protein identified
- The first proteins studied from the AA10 family were all isolated and cloned from various Streptomyces strains, a major effort carried out by the Schrempf group of Osnabrück University. The first family AA10 protein to be isolated and characterized was CHB1 from Streptomyces olivaceoviridis a study published in 1994 [45]. CHB1 was shown to bind strongly to alpha-chitin and was also observed to bind to fungal hyphae. When these proteins originally were included into CAZy, they were classified as CBM33.
- First demonstration of synergy between AA10 and canonical glycoside hydrolases
- In 2005, Vaaje-Kolstad and co-workers showed that CBP21 from S. marcescens is able to increase the rate of chitin hydrolysis by a variety of chitinases, including all three S. marsescens GH18 chitinases and a GH19 chitinase from Streptomyces coelicolor [43]. It is worth noting that the title of the original publication erroneously qualified CBP21 as "non-catalytic"; this is due to how one was thinking about possible substrate-disrupting effects of CBMs at the time.
- First demonstration of oxidative cleavage by an AA10 protein
- Catalysis of lytic oxidation of a glycosidic bond by an AA10 enzyme was first shown for CBP21 in 2010, where oxidative cleavage of chitin was demonstrated [3]. This finding also represents the first demonstration of the true nature of LPMO activity, regardless of AA family. Oxidative cleavage of cellulose by an AA10 was demonstrated by the same group in 2011 [6].
- First 3-D structure
- CBP21, the single AA10-type LPMO from the Gram negative bacterium Serratia marcescens, PDB ID 2BEM.
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