Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)
JP23fk0108677
日本
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)
JP21am0101117 and JP22ama121003
日本
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)
JP24ama121023
日本
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)
JP17pc0101020
日本
Japan Science and Technology
JPMJOP1861
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The Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University
日本
JEOL YOKOGUSHI Research Alliance Laboratories of Osaka University
日本
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ジャーナル: J Mol Biol / 年: 2025 タイトル: Structural Analysis and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Urease From Ureaplasma parvum. 著者: Heng Ning Wu / Junso Fujita / Yukiko Nakura / Masao Inoue / Koichiro Suzuki / Toru Ekimoto / Bingjie Yin / Yohta Fukuda / Kazuo Harada / Tsuyoshi Inoue / Mitsunori Ikeguchi / Keiichi Namba / Itaru Yanagihara / 要旨: Ureaplasma is one of the smallest pathogenic bacteria, generating approximately 95% of its adenosine triphosphate (ATP) solely through urease. Studies on Ureaplasma parvum, a species of Ureaplasma, ...Ureaplasma is one of the smallest pathogenic bacteria, generating approximately 95% of its adenosine triphosphate (ATP) solely through urease. Studies on Ureaplasma parvum, a species of Ureaplasma, have confirmed that adding urease inhibitors inhibits bacterial growth. The K and V of the urease-mediated reaction were estimated to be 4.3 ± 0.2 mM and 3,333.3 ± 38.0 μmol NH/min/mg protein, respectively. The cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of Ureaplasma parvum urease (UPU) at a resolution of 2.03 Å reveals a trimer of heterotrimers comprising three proteins: UreA, UreB, and UreC. The active site is well conserved among the known ureases. However, the V of UPU was higher than that of most known ureases, including those ureases derived from Sporosarcina pasteurii (SPU) and Klebsiella aerogenes (KAU) with identical oligomeric state. All-atom molecular dynamics simulations showed that the flap and UreB are more open in UPU than SPU and KAU. His-tagged wild-type recombinant UPU (WT-rUPU) revealed estimated K and V values of 4.1 ± 0.3 mM and 769.2 ± 7.4 µmol NH/min/mg protein, respectively. Amino acid substitutions of recombinant UPUs within the flap region to SPU. Amongst the flap region variants, the V of K331N variant was 48-fold lower than that of WT-rUPU. ICP-MS analysis reveals that one molecule of UPU, WT-rUPU, and K331N-rUPU contains 3.7, 0.8, and 0.1 Ni atoms, respectively, suggesting that a wide-open flap of urease may contribute to delivering nickel into the enzyme, resulting in a high V. Ureaplasma evolved highly efficient UPU through a few amino acid substitutions in the disorganized loop of the mobile flap region.