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    Molecular recognition of physiological substrate noradrenaline by the adrenaline synthesising enzyme PNMT and factors influencing its methyltransferase activity

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    2009-09-15
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    Drinkwater, Nyssa
    Gee, Christine L.
    Puri, Munish
    Criscione, Kevin R.
    McLeish, Michael J.
    Grunewald, Gary L.
    Martin, Jennifer L.
    Publisher
    Portland Press
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    Abstract
    Substrate specificity is critically important for enzyme catalysis. In the adrenaline synthesising enzyme phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PNMT), minor changes in substituents can convert substrates into inhibitors. Here we report the crystal structures of 6 human PNMT complexes including the first structure of the enzyme in complex with its physiological ligand R-noradrenaline: determining this structure required rapid soak methods because of the tendency for noradrenaline to oxidize. Comparison of the PNMT:noradrenaline complex with the previously determined PNMT:octopamine complex demonstrates that these two substrates form almost equivalent interactions with the enzyme and show that octopamine is a valid model substrate for PNMT. The crystal structures illustrate the adaptability of the PNMT substrate binding site in accepting multi-fused ring systems such as substituted norbornene as well as noradrenochrome, the oxidation product of noradrenaline. Our data explain why only a subset of ligands recognised by PNMT are methylated by the enzyme: bulky substituents dictate the binding orientation of the ligand and can thereby place the acceptor amine too far from the donor methyl group for methylation to occur. We also show how the critical Glu185 catalytic residue can be replaced by Asp with a loss of only 10-fold catalytic efficiency because protein backbone movements place the Asp185 carboxylate almost coincident with the carboxylate of Glu185. Conversely, replacement of Glu185 by Gln reduces catalytic efficiency almost 300-fold not only because of the loss of charge but also because the variant residue does not adopt the same conformation as Glu185.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26489
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1042/BJ20090702
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    Drinkwater, N., Gee, C. L., Puri, M., Criscione, K. R., McLeish, M. J., Grunewald, G. L., & Martin, J. L. (2009). Molecular recognition of physiological substrate noradrenaline by the adrenaline synthesising enzyme PNMT and factors influencing its methyltransferase activity. The Biochemical Journal, 422(3), 463–471. http://doi.org/10.1042/BJ20090702

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