Glycoside Hydrolase Family 20

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Glycoside Hydrolase Family GH20
Clan	GH-K
Mechanism	retaining
Active site residues	known
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Substrate specificities

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Kinetics and Mechanism

History of neighbouring group participation in enzyme-catalyzed REF Lowe and Sinnott and aqueous REF Sinnott and Bruice reactions of glycosides. Use of free energy relationships ships to infer neighbouring group participation. Early japanese work;REF A comparative analysis of the activity of Streptomyces plicatus b-hexosaminidase (SpHex, GH20) and Vibrio furnisii b-hexosaminidase (ExoII, GH3) towards p-nitrophenyl N-acyl glucosaminides highlights contrasting reactivity trends expected for families of b-glucosaminidase utilizing a mechanism of substrate-assisted catalysis (GH20) and those which do not (GH3): sharp decreases in activity with increasing N-acyl fluorination are observed in the case of the SpHex enzyme whereas negligible changes in activity are observed for ExoII.REF Loss of activity upon non-reducing end deacatylation [5].

Catalytic Residues

Kinetic and crystallographic analyses of Asp313 mutants of Streptomyces plicatus b-hexosaminidase show that it plays a critical role in orienting and polarising the substrate's N-acetyl group to act as a nucleophile towards the anomeric centre.

Three-dimensional structures

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Family Firsts

First sterochemistry determination

The stereochemistry of hydrolysis of three different hexosaminidases (human placenta, jack bean, and bovine kidney) was shown by the Withers group in 1994 [6] and it is (now) assumed that (some of) these are GH20 enzymes. The first stereochemical determination for a fully sequences GH20 was on the Serratia marscescens enzyme [5].

First catalytic nucleophile identification

This is a neighboring-group participation enzyme with the mechanism suggested both from 3-D structure [7], by analogy with GH18 enzymes and through work in which the non-reducing end sugar was de-acetylated resulting in total loss in activity [5].

First general acid/base residue identification

Inferred from the 3-D structure [7] and by analogy with closely related GH18 chitinases.

First 3-D structure

The 3-D structure of the Serratia marscescens chitobiase [7].

References

1. Comfort DA, Bobrov KS, Ivanen DR, Shabalin KA, Harris JM, Kulminskaya AA, Brumer H, and Kelly RM. (2007). Biochemical analysis of Thermotoga maritima GH36 alpha-galactosidase (TmGalA) confirms the mechanistic commonality of clan GH-D glycoside hydrolases. Biochemistry. 2007;46(11):3319-30. DOI:10.1021/bi061521n |
2. He S and Withers SG. (1997). Assignment of sweet almond beta-glucosidase as a family 1 glycosidase and identification of its active site nucleophile. J Biol Chem. 1997;272(40):24864-7. DOI:10.1074/jbc.272.40.24864 |
3. Robert V. Stick and Spencer J. Williams. (2009) Carbohydrates. Elsevier Science.

4. Sinnott, M.L. (1990) Catalytic mechanisms of enzymic glycosyl transfer. Chem. Rev. 90, 1171-1202. DOI: 10.1021/cr00105a006

5. Drouillard S, Armand S, Davies GJ, Vorgias CE, and Henrissat B. (1997). Serratia marcescens chitobiase is a retaining glycosidase utilizing substrate acetamido group participation. Biochem J. 1997;328 ( Pt 3)(Pt 3):945-9. DOI:10.1042/bj3280945 |
6. Lai EC and Withers SG. (1994). Stereochemistry and kinetics of the hydration of 2-acetamido-D-glucal by beta-N-acetylhexosaminidases. Biochemistry. 1994;33(49):14743-9. DOI:10.1021/bi00253a012 |
7. Tews I, Perrakis A, Oppenheim A, Dauter Z, Wilson KS, and Vorgias CE. (1996). Bacterial chitobiase structure provides insight into catalytic mechanism and the basis of Tay-Sachs disease. Nat Struct Biol. 1996;3(7):638-48. DOI:10.1038/nsb0796-638 |