Pyridoxal-phosphate dependent enzyme

Members of this family are all pyridoxal-phosphate dependent enzymes. This family includes: serine dehydratase EC:4.2.1.13 P20132, threonine dehydratase EC:4.2.1.16 P04968 tryptophan synthase beta chain EC:4.2.1.20 P00932 threonine synthase EC:4.2.99.2 P04990 cysteine synthase EC:4.2.99.8 P11096, cystathionine beta-synthase EC:4.2.1.22 P35520 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase EC:4.1.99.4 P76316.

InterPro entry IPR001926

Pyridoxal phosphate is the active form of vitamin B6 (pyridoxine or pyridoxal). PLP is a versatile catalyst, acting as a coenzyme in a multitude of reactions, including decarboxylation, deamination and transamination PUBMED:8690703, PUBMED:7748903, PUBMED:15189147. PLP-dependent enzymes are primarily involved in the biosynthesis of amino acids and amino acid-derived metabolites, but they are also found in the biosynthetic pathways of amino sugars and in the synthesis or catabolism of neurotransmitters; pyridoxal phosphate can also inhibit DNA polymerases and several steroid receptors PUBMED:17109392. Inadequate levels of pyridoxal phosphate in the brain can cause neurological dysfunction, particularly epilepsy PUBMED:16763894.

PLP enzymes exist in their resting state as a Schiff base, the aldehyde group of PLP forming a linkage with the epsilon-amino group of an active site lysine residue on the enzyme. The alpha-amino group of the substrate displaces the lysine epsilon-amino group, in the process forming a new aldimine with the substrate. This aldimine is the common central intermediate for all PLP-catalysed reactions, enzymatic and non-enzymatic PUBMED:15581583.

Pyridoxal-5'-phosphate-dependent enzymes (B6 enzymes) catalyze manifold reactions in the metabolism of amino acids. Most of these enzymes can be assigned to one of three different families of homologous proteins, the alpha, beta and gamma families. The alpha and gamma family might be distantly related with one another, but are clearly not homologous with the beta family. The beta family includes L- and D-serine dehydratase, threonine dehydratase, the beta subunit of tryptophan synthase, threonine synthase and cysteine synthase. These enzymes catalyze beta-replacement or beta-elimination reactions PUBMED:8112347.

Comparison of sequences from eukaryotic, archebacterial, and eubacterial species indicates that the functional specialization of most B6 enzymes has occurred already in the universal ancestor cell. The cofactor pyridoxal-5-phosphate must have emerged very early in biological evolution; conceivably, organic cofactors and metal ions were the first biological catalysts PUBMED:10800595.

The 3D structure of the beta-subunit of tryptophan synthase has been solved. The subunit has two domains that are approximately the same size and similar to each other in folding pattern. Each has a core containing a four-stranded parallel beta-sheet with three helices on its inner side and one on the outer side. The cofactor is bound at the interface between the domains PUBMED:7748903.

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There are 3 interactions for this family. More...

For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the MSD group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the PALP domain has been found.