D-2-hydroxy-4-methylvalerate dehydrogenase from Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus. II. Mutagenic analysis of catalytically important residues.

Five residues involved in catalysis and coenzyme binding have been identified in D-2-hydroxy-4-methylvalerate dehydrogenase from Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus by using biochemical and genetical methods. Enzyme inactivation with diethylpyrocarbonate indicated that a single histidine residue was involved in catalysis. Since H296 is the only conserved histidine in the whole family of NAD-dependent D-2-hydroxyacid dehydrogenases, we constructed the H296Q and H296S mutants and showed that their catalytic efficiencies were reduced 10(5)-fold compared with the wild-type enzyme. This low residual activity was shown to be insensitive to diethylpyrocarbonate. Taken together these data demonstrate that H296 is responsible for proton exchange in the redox reaction. Two acidic residues (D259 and E264) were candidates for maintaining H296 in the protonated state and their roles were examined by mutagenesis. The D259N and E264Q mutant enzymes both showed similar and large reductions in their Kcat/K(m) ratios (200-800-fold, depending on pH), indicating that either D259 or E264 (or both) could partner H296. The conserved R235 residue was a candidate for binding the alpha-carboxyl group of the substrate and it was changed to lysine. The R235K mutant showed a 104-fold reduced Kcat/K(m) due to both an increased K(m) and a reduced Kcat for 2-oxo-4-methylvalerate. Thus R235 plays a role in binding the substrate carboxylate similar to R171 in the L-lactate dehydrogenases. Finally, we constructed the H205Q mutant to test the role of this partially conserved histidine residue (in 10/13 enzymes of the family). This mutant enzyme displayed a 7.7-fold increased Kcat and a doubled catalytic efficiency at pH 5, was as sensitive to diethylpyrocarbonate as the wild-type but showed a sevenfold increased K(m) for NADH and a 100-fold increase in Kd for NADH together with 10-30-fold lower substrate inhibition. The transient kinetic behaviour of the H205Q mutant is as predicted from our previous study on the enzymatic mechanism of D-2-hydroxy-4-methylvalerate dehydrogenase which showed that coenzyme binding is highly pH dependent and indicated that release of the oxidised coenzyme is a significant component of the rate-limiting processes in catalysis at pH 6.5.

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