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The Chemistry of Protein Catalysis. John Mitchell University of St Andrews. The MACiE Database. M echanism, A nnotation and C lassification i n E nzymes . http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/MACiE/. Gemma Holliday, Daniel Almonacid, Noel O’Boyle,
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The Chemistry of Protein Catalysis John Mitchell University of St Andrews
The MACiE Database Mechanism,AnnotationandClassificationin Enzymes. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/MACiE/ Gemma Holliday, Daniel Almonacid, Noel O’Boyle, Janet Thornton, Peter Murray-Rust, Gail Bartlett, James Torrance, John Mitchell G.L. Holliday et al., Nucl. Acids Res., 35, D515-D520 (2007)
EC Classification Class Subclass Sub-subclass Serial number Enzyme Nomenclature and Classification
The EC Classification • Deals with overall reaction, not mechanism • Reaction direction arbitrary • Cofactors and active site residues ignored • Doesn’t deal with structural and sequence information • However, it was never intended to do so
A New Representation of Enzyme Reactions? • Should be complementary to, but distinct from, the EC system • Should take into account: • Reaction Mechanism • Structure • Sequence • Active Site residues • Cofactors • Need a database of enzyme mechanisms
MACiE Database Mechanism,AnnotationandClassificationin Enzymes. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/MACiE/
Difficulties of Hierarchical Classification • Very similar mechanisms can end up in different first level classes. • In the case of phosphoinositide-specific phospholipases C, this is due to a slow final hydrolysis step occurring in one of the two enzymes.
Classifying Related Enzymes:Phosphoinositide-specific Phospholipases C Eukaryotic (rat) Cell Signalling Multidomain Catalytic TIM Barrel EC 3.1.4.11 Hydrolase Final hydrolysis step Prefers bisphosphate Acid-base mechanism Calcium dependent Prokaryotic (B. cereus) Virulence factor Single domain Catalytic TIM Barrel EC 4.6.1.13 Lyase No/slow final hydrolysis Disfavours bisphosphate Acid-base mechanism Not calcium dependent
Difficulties of Hierarchical Classification • Different mechanisms can occur with exactly the same EC number. • MACiE has six beta-lactamases, all with different mechanisms but the same overall reaction.
Coverage of MACiE Representative – based on a non-homologous dataset, and chosen to represent each available EC sub-subclass.
EC Coverage of MACiE Structures exist for: 6 EC 1.-.-.- 57 EC 1.2.-.- 194 EC 1.2.3.- 1450 EC 1.2.3.4 MACiE covers: 6 EC 1.-.-.- 54 EC 1.2.-.- 165 EC 1.2.3.- 249 EC 1.2.3.4 Representative – based on a non-homologous dataset, and chosen to represent each available EC sub-subclass.
Repertoire of Enzyme Catalysis G.L. Holliday et al.,J. Molec. Biol., 372, 1261-1277 (2007) G.L. Holliday et al.,J. Molec. Biol., 390, 560-577 (2009)
Repertoire of Enzyme Catalysis Enzyme chemistry is largely nucleophilic
Repertoire of Enzyme Catalysis Enzyme chemistry is largely nucleophilic
Proton transfer AdN2 E1 SN2 E2 Radical reaction Tautom. Others Repertoire of Enzyme Catalysis
Repertoire of Enzyme Catalysis We do see a few steps corresponding to well-known organic reactions; but these are the exception.
We divide residue roles into three categories: Reactant: Covalently involved in the reaction step, Spectator: Stabilisation, activation, steric roles, Interaction: Hydrogen bonding etc.
Convergent Evolution of Enzyme Function N.M. O’Boyle et al., J. Molec. Biol., 368, 1484-1499 (2007) D.E. Almonacid et al., PLoS Computational Biology, accepted
We use a combination of bioinformatics & chemoinformatics to identify similarities between enzyme-catalysed reaction mechanisms
Similarity of Mechanisms: Compare Steps Just like sequence alignment! We can measure their similarity …
Carrying out an analysis of pairwise similarity of reactions in MACiE ...
Mechanistic similarity is only weakly related to proximity in the EC classification
EC in common 0 -.-.-.- 1 c.-.-.- 2 c.s.-.- 3 c.s.ss.-
Similarity of Analogous Reactions • We take all possible pairs of analogous enzyme reactions from MACiE 2.3.9 • Analogous means that they carry out similar functions (EC 1.2.3.- conserved) ... • ... and that the enzymes are not homologous • We find 95 analogous pairs (convergent evolution).
43 out of 95 pairs that are analogous according to EC have no significant reaction or mechanistic similarity Shared EC sub-subclass and Bond Change based reaction similarity are quite different criteria.