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Enzymatic Characterization and Elucidation of the Catalytic Mechanism of a Recombinant Bovine Glycine N-Acyltransferase

Christoffel P. S. Badenhorst, Maritza Jooste and Alberdina A. van Dijk
Drug Metabolism and Disposition February 2012, 40 (2) 346-352; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/dmd.111.041657
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Glycine conjugation, a phase II detoxification process, is catalyzed by glycine N-acyltransferase (GLYAT; E.C. 2.3.1.13). GLYAT detoxifies various xenobiotics, such as benzoic acid, and endogenous organic acids, such as isovaleric acid, which makes GLYAT important in the management of organic acidemias in humans. We cloned the open reading frame encoding the bovine ortholog of GLYAT from bovine liver mRNA into the bacterial expression vector pColdIII. The recombinant enzyme was expressed, partially purified, and enzymatically characterized. Protein modeling was used to predict Glu226 of bovine GLYAT to be catalytically important. This was assessed by constructing an E226Q mutant and comparing its enzyme kinetics to that of the wild-type recombinant bovine GLYAT. The Michaelis constants for benzoyl-CoA and glycine were determined and were similar for wild-type recombinant GLYAT, E226Q recombinant GLYAT, and GLYAT present in bovine liver. At pH 8.0, the E226Q mutant GLYAT had decreased activity, which could be compensated for by increasing the reaction pH. This suggested a catalytic mechanism in which Glu226 functions to deprotonate glycine, facilitating nucleophilic attack on the acyl-CoA. The recombinant bovine GLYAT enzyme, combined with this new understanding of its active site and reaction mechanism, could be a powerful tool to investigate the functional significance of GLYAT sequence variations. Eventually, this should facilitate investigations into the impact of known and novel sequence variations in the human GLYAT gene.

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  • This work was supported by BioPAD [Grant BPP007]; and the National Research Foundation [Grant FA2005031700015].

  • A portion of this work was previously published as an abstract as follows: Badenhorst CPS, Jooste M, and Van Dijk AA (2010) Bacterial expression and elucidation of the catalytic mechanism of glycine N-acyltransferase. J Inherit Metab Dis 33, S52.

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    doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1124/dmd.111.041657.

  • ABBREVIATIONS:

    GLYAT
    glycine N-acyltransferase
    GNAT
    Gcn5-related N-acyltransferase
    CASTOR
    CoA sequestration, toxicity, or redistribution
    PDB
    Protein Data Bank
    PAGE
    polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
    DTNB
    5,5′-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid)
    BLAST
    Basic Local Alignment Search Tool.

  • Received July 7, 2011.
  • Accepted November 9, 2011.
  • Copyright © 2012 by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
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Drug Metabolism and Disposition February 1, 2012, 40 (2) 346-352; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/dmd.111.041657
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