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Kinetic and structural analysis of human ALDH9A1.

ABSTRACT: Aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs) constitute a superfamily of NAD(P)+-dependent enzymes, which detoxify aldehydes produced in various metabolic pathways to the corresponding carboxylic acids. Among the 19 human ALDHs, the cytosolic ALDH9A1 has so far never been fully enzymatically characterized and its structure is still unknown. Here, we report complete molecular and kinetic properties of human ALDH9A1 as well as three crystal forms at 2.3, 2.9, and 2.5 Å resolution. We show that ALDH9A1 exhibits wide substrate specificity to aminoaldehydes, aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes with a clear preference for ?-trimethylaminobutyraldehyde (TMABAL). The structure of ALDH9A1 reveals that the enzyme assembles as a tetramer. Each ALDH monomer displays a typical ALDHs fold composed of an oligomerization domain, a coenzyme domain, a catalytic domain, and an inter-domain linker highly conserved in amino-acid sequence and folding. Nonetheless, structural comparison reveals a position and a fold of the inter-domain linker of ALDH9A1 never observed in any other ALDH so far. This unique difference is not compatible with the presence of a bound substrate and a large conformational rearrangement of the linker up to 30 Å has to occur to allow the access of the substrate channel. Moreover, the ??E region consisting of an ?-helix and a ?-strand of the coenzyme domain at the dimer interface are disordered, likely due to the loss of interactions with the inter-domain linker, which leads to incomplete ?-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) binding pocket.

SUBMITTER: Koncitikova R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6487263 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Kinetic and structural analysis of human ALDH9A1.

Končitíková Radka R Vigouroux Armelle A Kopečná Martina M Šebela Marek M Moréra Solange S Kopečný David D

Bioscience reports 20190426 4

Aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs) constitute a superfamily of NAD(P)<sup>+</sup>-dependent enzymes, which detoxify aldehydes produced in various metabolic pathways to the corresponding carboxylic acids. Among the 19 human ALDHs, the cytosolic ALDH9A1 has so far never been fully enzymatically characterized and its structure is still unknown. Here, we report complete molecular and kinetic properties of human ALDH9A1 as well as three crystal forms at 2.3, 2.9, and 2.5 Å resolution. We show that ALDH9 ...[more]

PMID: 30914451

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Kinetic and structural analysis of human ALDH9A1.

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Kinetic and structural analysis of human ALDH9A1.

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