Glycoside Hydrolase Family 140

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• Author: ^^^Alan Cartmell^^^
• Responsible Curator: ^^^Harry Gilbert^^^

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Glycoside Hydrolase Family GH140
Clan	GH-x
Mechanism	retaining
Active site residues	known
CAZy DB link
https://www.cazy.org/GH140.html

Substrate specificities

Thus far only one member of the family has been characterised, BT1012 from bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. BT1012 displays endo-apiosidase activity targeting α1,2 linked apiose at the base of the sidechains A and B in the complex glycan rhamnogalacturonan ii (RGII)[1]. Cleavage of the RGII backbone must occur before BT1012 can act[1].

Kinetics and Mechanism

GH140 likely uses a, retaining, double displacement mechanism. This is strongly supported by methanolysis experiments where BT1012 was incubated with trisaccharide L-rhamnose-β1,3-D-apiose-α1,2-D-galacturonic acid-O-methyl in the presence of 10 % methanol. This experiment performed with BT1012 generated the product L-rhamnose-β1,3-D-apiose-O-methyl suggesting a retaining mechanism[1]. Glycoside hydrolases that utilise a retaining mechanism, but not those that use an inverting mechanism, can utilise methanol as an external nucleophile and thus generate a methylated product.

Catalytic Residues

The catalytic residues are an aspartate and glutamate located on the top of β-strands 4 and 7, respectively[1]. This could mean GH140 is a distant relative of Clan GH-A enzymes, however in with GH-A the catalytic residue atop of β-strands 4 and 7 are both glutamates. In the absence of a ligand bound complex or more detailed biochemical analysis [2] (preferably both) it is not possible to say which of the catalytic residues is the nucleophile or acid/base.

Three-dimensional structures

GH140 adopts a (β/α)₈ , TIM barrel, where a central barrel of eight β strands are encircled by eight α helices[1]. BT1012, the only GH140 structure available, also has a Ig like domain that stacks against the TIM barrel likely providing structural stability, similar to the role of Ig like domains in GH43 enzymes [3, 4].

Family Firsts

First stereochemistry determination

Methanolysis experiments suggest a retaining mechanism[1].

First catalytic nucleophile identification

Not known.

First general acid/base residue identification

Not Known.

First 3-D structure

BT1012 from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron [1].

References

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2. Shallom D, Belakhov V, Solomon D, Shoham G, Baasov T, and Shoham Y. (2002). Detailed kinetic analysis and identification of the nucleophile in alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus T-6, a family 51 glycoside hydrolase. J Biol Chem. 2002;277(46):43667-73. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M208285200 |
3. McKee LS, Peña MJ, Rogowski A, Jackson A, Lewis RJ, York WS, Krogh KB, Viksø-Nielsen A, Skjøt M, Gilbert HJ, and Marles-Wright J. (2012). Introducing endo-xylanase activity into an exo-acting arabinofuranosidase that targets side chains. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012;109(17):6537-42. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1117686109 |
4. Cartmell A, McKee LS, Peña MJ, Larsbrink J, Brumer H, Kaneko S, Ichinose H, Lewis RJ, Viksø-Nielsen A, Gilbert HJ, and Marles-Wright J. (2011). The structure and function of an arabinan-specific alpha-1,2-arabinofuranosidase identified from screening the activities of bacterial GH43 glycoside hydrolases. J Biol Chem. 2011;286(17):15483-95. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M110.215962 |
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