Systematic identification of functional residues of Artemisia annua amorpha-4,11-diene synthase

The Biochemical Journal
Xin FangXiao-Ya Chen

Abstract

Terpene synthases (TPSs) are responsible for the extremely diversified and complex structure of terpenoids. Amorpha-4,11-diene synthase (ADS) has a high (90%) fidelity in generating the sesquiterpene precursor for the biosynthesis of artemisinin, an antimalarial drug, however, little is known about how active site residues of ADS are involved in carbocation rearrangement and cyclization reactions. Here, we identify seven residues that are key to most of the catalytic steps in ADS. By structural modeling and amino acid sequence alignments of ADS with two functionally relevant sesquiterpene synthases from Artemisia annua, we performed site-directed mutagenesis and found that a single substitution, T296V, impaired the ring closure activity almost completely, and tetra-substitutions (L374Y/L404V/L405I/G439S) led to an enzyme generating 80% monocyclic bisabolyl-type sesquiterpenes, whereas a double mutant (T399L/T447G) showed compromised activity in regioselective deprotonation to yield 34.7 and 37.7% normal and aberrant deprotonation products, respectively. Notably, Thr296, Leu374, Gly439, Thr399, and Thr447, which play a major role in directing catalytic cascades, are located around conserved metal-binding motifs and function thro...Continue Reading

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