Étude structurale de la fructoselysine 6-kinase d’Escherichia coli : reconnaissance de substrats et mécanisme enzymatique
Some enzymes have been found to deglycate the products of the Maillard reaction between sugars and primary amines: ketoamines. An operon is found in Escherichia coli that allows the growth on fructoselysine media. The deglycation process is done by a kinase and a “deglycase”. The fructoselysine 6-kinase, a member of the PfkB family, phosphorylates its substrate on the sixth carbon to initiate the metabolism of fructoselysine. Here are presented x-ray crystallography structures obtained for the fructoselysine 6-kinase in its native form and bound with ATP, ADP and AMP-PNP. The active site of the kinase has been determined, and modelisation of fructoselysine allowed identification of some residues that might be important for the specific binding of the substrate and the enzymatic mechanism. Kinetic results tend to suggest a SN2 mechanism for the phosphorylation catalyzed by the enzyme. Structural modifications of the FL6K could help to increase the size of the substrates recognized by the enzyme until it binds glycated proteins.
Fructoselysine 6-kinase Fructoselysine PfkB Deglycation Metabolism Enzymatic mechanism