Structural insight into antibiotic fosfomycin biosynthesis by a mononuclear iron enzyme

Luke J. Higgins, Feng Yan, Pinghua Liu, Hung-wen Liu and Catherine L. Drennan ()
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Luke J. Higgins: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feng Yan: University of Texas at Austin
Pinghua Liu: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hung-wen Liu: University of Texas at Austin
Catherine L. Drennan: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nature, 2005, vol. 437, issue 7060, 838-844

Abstract: Abstract The biosynthetic pathway of the clinically important antibiotic fosfomycin uses enzymes that catalyse reactions without precedent in biology. Among these is hydroxypropylphosphonic acid epoxidase, which represents a new subfamily of non-haem mononuclear iron enzymes. Here we present six X-ray structures of this enzyme: the apoenzyme at 2.0 Å resolution; a native Fe(ii)-bound form at 2.4 Å resolution; a tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane–Co(ii)-enzyme complex structure at 1.8 Å resolution; a substrate–Co(ii)-enzyme complex structure at 2.5 Å resolution; and two substrate–Fe(ii)-enzyme complexes at 2.1 and 2.3 Å resolution. These structural data lead us to suggest how this enzyme is able to recognize and respond to its substrate with a conformational change that protects the radical-based intermediates formed during catalysis. Comparisons with other family members suggest why substrate binding is able to prime iron for dioxygen binding in the absence of α-ketoglutarate (a co-substrate required by many mononuclear iron enzymes), and how the unique epoxidation reaction of hydroxypropylphosphonic acid epoxidase may occur.

Date: 2005
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