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A QM/MM Free Energy Study of the Oxidation Mechanism of Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenase (Class 1A) from Lactococcus lactis

2015; American Chemical Society; Volume: 119; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/jp512860r

ISSN

1520-6106

Autores

José Rogério A. Silva, Adrián E. Roitberg, Cláudio Nahum Alves,

Tópico(s)

Neonatal Health and Biochemistry

Resumo

The dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHOD) class 1A enzyme catalyzes is the only redox enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway (de novo) of pyrimidines where dihydroorotate (DHO) is oxidized to orotate (OA) coupled to reduction of a flavin mononucleotide (FMN) cofactor. The rupture of two DHO C–H bonds can proceed in a concerted or stepwise way. Herein, the catalytic mechanism of DHOD from Lactococcus lactis involving DHO oxidation (first half-reaction) was described using a hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) approach and molecular dynamics simulations. The free energy profile obtained from self-consistent charge–density functional tight binding/molecular mechanics calculations (corrected by DFT/MM) reveals that this occurs with the proton abstraction from DHO C5 to Cys130 deprotonated and DHO H6 is transferred to FMN N5 in a concerted mechanism with a very low barrier of 5.64 kcal/mol. Finally, through a residual decomposition analysis, the residues that have the main influence on the redox reaction were identified.

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