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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 279, Issue 31, 32968-32978, July 30, 2004

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Cross-talk between Thiamin Diphosphate Binding and Phosphorylation Loop Conformation in Human Branched-chain -Keto Acid Decarboxylase/Dehydrogenase^*

Jun Li, R. Max Wynn, Mischa Machius, Jacinta L. Chuang, Subramanian Karthikeyan, Diana R. Tomchick, and David T. Chuang¶

From the Departments of Biochemistry and Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390-9038

The decarboxylase/dehydrogenase (E1b) component of the 4-megadalton human branched-chain -keto acid dehydrogenase (BCKD) metabolic machine is a thiamin diphosphate (ThDP)-dependent enzyme with a heterotetrameric cofactor-binding fold. The E1b component catalyzes the decarboxylation of -keto acids and the subsequent reductive acylation of the lipoic acid-bearing domain (LBD) from the 24-meric transacylase (E2b) core. In the present study, we show that the binding of cofactor ThDP to the E1b active site induces a disorder-to-order transition of the conserved phosphorylation loop carrying the two phosphorylation sites Ser²⁹²- and Ser³⁰²-, as deduced from the 1.80-1.85 Å apoE1b and holoE1b structures. The induced loop conformation is essential for the recognition of lipoylated LBD to initiate E1b-catalyzed reductive acylation. Alterations of invariant Arg²⁸⁷-, Asp²⁹⁵-, Tyr³⁰⁰-, and Arg³⁰¹- that form a hydrogen-bonding network in the phosphorylation loop result in the disordering of the loop conformation as elucidated by limited proteolysis, accompanied by the impaired binding and diminished reductive acylation of lipoylated LBD. In contrast, k_cat values for E1b-catalyzed decarboxylation of the -keto acid are higher in these E1b mutants than in wild-type E1b, with higher K_m values for the substrate in the mutants. ThDP binding that orders the loop prevents phosphorylation of E1b by the BCKD kinase and averts the inactivation of wild-type E1b, but not the above mutants, by this covalent modification. Our results establish that the cross-talk between the bound ThDP and the phosphorylation loop conformation serves as a feed-forward switch for multiple reaction steps in the BCKD metabolic machine.

Received for publication, April 1, 2004 , and in revised form, May 24, 2004.

The atomic coordinates and structure factors (codes 1V1R, 1V11, 1V1M, and 1V16) have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (http://www.rcsb.org/).

^* This work was supported by Grants DK-26758 and DK-62306 from the National Institutes of Health and Grant I-1286 from the Welch Foundation. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

^¶ To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-9038. Tel.: 214-648-2457; Fax: 214-648-8856; E-mail: david.chuang{at}utsouthwestern.edu.

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