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Publication : Kynurenine formamidase: determination of primary structure and modeling-based prediction of tertiary structure and catalytic triad.

First Author  Pabarcus MK Year  2002
Journal  Biochim Biophys Acta Volume  1596
Issue  2 Pages  201-11
PubMed ID  12007602 Mgi Jnum  J:80572
Mgi Id  MGI:2446366 Doi  10.1016/s0167-4838(02)00232-7
Citation  Pabarcus MK, et al. (2002) Kynurenine formamidase: determination of primary structure and modeling-based prediction of tertiary structure and catalytic triad. Biochim Biophys Acta 1596(2):201-11
abstractText  Kynurenine formamidase (KFase) (EC 3.5.1.9) hydrolyzes N-formyl-L-kynurenine, an obligatory step in the conversion of tryptophan to nicotinic acid. Low KFase activity in chicken embryos, from inhibition by organophosphorus insecticides and their metabolites such as diazoxon, leads to marked developmental abnormalities. While KFase was purportedly isolated previously, the structure and residues important for catalysis and inhibition were not established. KFase was isolated here from mouse liver cytosol by (NH4)2SO4 precipitation and three FPLC steps (resulting in 221-fold increase in specific activity for N-formyl-L-kynurenine hydrolysis) followed by conversion to [3H]diethylphosphoryl-KFase and finally isolation by C4 reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. Determination of tryptic fragment amino acid sequences and cDNA cloning produced a new 305-amino-acid protein sequence. Although an amidase by function, the primary structure of KFase lacks the amidase signature sequence and is more similar to esterases and lipases. Sequence profile analysis indicates KFase is related to the esterase/lipase/thioesterase family containing the conserved active-site serine sequence GXSXG. The alpha/beta-hydrolase fold is suggested for KFase by its primary sequence and predicted secondary conformation. A three-dimensional model based on the structures of homologous carboxylesterase EST2 and brefeldin A esterase implicates Ser162, Asp247 and His279 as the active site triad.
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