Crystal structure of the first eukaryotic bilin reductase Gt PEBB reveals a flipped binding mode of dihydrobiliverdin

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Johannes A SommerkampEckhard Hofmann

Abstract

Phycobilins are light-harvesting pigments of cyanobacteria, red algae, and cryptophytes. The biosynthesis of phycoerythrobilin (PEB) is catalyzed by the subsequent action of two ferredoxin-dependent bilin reductases (FDBRs). Although 15,16-dihydrobiliverdin (DHBV):ferredoxin oxidoreductase (PebA) catalyzes the two-electron reduction of biliverdin IXα to 15,16-DHBV, PEB:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (PebB) reduces this intermediate further to PEB. Interestingly, marine viruses encode the FDBR PebS combining both activities within one enzyme. Although PebA and PebS share a canonical fold with similar substrate-binding pockets, the structural determinants for the stereo- and regiospecific modification of their tetrapyrrole substrates are incompletely understood, also because of the lack of a PebB structure. Here, we solved the X-ray crystal structures of both substrate-free and -bound PEBB from the cryptophyte Guillardia theta at 1.90 and 1.65 Å, respectively. The structures of PEBB exhibit the typical α/β/α-sandwich fold. Interestingly, the open-chain tetrapyrrole substrate DHBV is bound in an unexpected flipped orientation within the canonical FDBR active site. Biochemical analyses of the WT enzyme and active site variants identifie...Continue Reading

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