Tagatose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase

The four enzymes of the family of dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP)-dependent aldolases fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FruA, EC 4.1.2.13), fuculose-1-phosphate aldolase (FucA, EC 4.1.2.17), rhamnulose-1-phosphate aldolase (RhuA, EC 4.1.2.19) and tagatose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (TagA, EC 4.1.2.40), catalyze in vivo the reversible asymmetric addition of DHAP to d-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G3P) or L-lactaldehyde, leading to four complementary diastereomers. DHAP-dependent aldolases create two new stereogenic centers, with excellent enantio and diastereoselectivity in many cases. These enzymes are quite specific for the donor substrate DHAP, but accept a wide range of aldehydes as acceptor substrates. There are only two fructose-6-phosphate aldolase isoenzymes reported to be able to use dihydroxyacetone (DHA) as donor substrate (Schiirmann and Sprenger 2001). 

In continuation of earlier work with over-expressed enzymes from E. coli (see Vol.25, Chapter 7, ref.44), D-tagatose 1,6-diphosphate has been synthesized from dihydroxyacetone by use of a combination of several enzymes including a newly isolated tagatose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase. An efficient synthesis of D-fructose 1,6-diphosphate by use of four enzymes in a one pot operation has been described. D-[1- C] Fructose 6-phosphate has been prepared from C-enriched formaldehyde and D-ribose 5-phosphate by a formaldehyde fixing enzyme system from Methylomonas aminofaciens, and various C-substituted D-fructose phosphates have been obtained by enzymic methods from C-substituted pyruvate or L-alanine. ... 

The D-tagatose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (TagA EC 4.1.2.n) is known as a class I subtype involved in catabolism of lactose and D-galactose of different microorganisms but... 

An advantage of these enzymes is that they are stereocomplementary, in that they can synthesize the four possible diastereoisomers of vicinal diols from achiral aldehyde acceptors and DHAP (Scheme 4.2). Although this statement is generally used and accepted, it is not completely true since tagatose-l,6-bisphosphate aldolase (TBPA) from Escherichia coli-the only TBPA that has been investigated in terms of its use in synthesis-does not seems to control the stereochemistry of the aldol reaction when aldehydes different from the natural substrate were used as acceptors [7]. However, this situation could be modified soon since it has been demonstrated that the stereochemical course of TBPA-catalyzed C—C bond formation may be modified by enzyme-directed evolution [8]. 

Stereocomplemenlary set of DHAP-dependent aldolases. D-Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FruA), L-rhamnulose-1-phosphate aldolase (RhuA), L-fuculose-1-phosphate aldolase (FucA), D-tagatose-1,6-hisphosphate aldolase (TagA)... 

Hall, D. R., Bond, C. S., Leonard, G. A., Watt, I., Berry, A., and Himter, W. N., Structure of tagatose-l,6-bisphosphate aldolase— Insight into chiral discrimination, mechanism, and specificity of class II aldolases. /. Biol. Chem. 2002, 277 (24), 22018-22024. 

D-fructose 1,6-bisphosphate 2 (FruA E.C. 4.1.2.13), D-tagatose 1,6-bisphosphate 4 (TagA E.C. 4.1.2.40), L-fuculose 1-phosphate 5 (FucA, E.C. 4.1.2.17), and L-rhamnulose 1-phosphate 4 (RhuA, E.C. 4.1.2.19). From previous studies, we have DHAP aldolases with all four possible specificities readily available, we have demonstrated their broad substrate tolerance for variously substituted aldehydes, and we have investigated their stereoselectivity profile with non-natural substrates [3-6]. 

While the lyases that transfer a pyruvate unit form only a single stereogenic center, the group of dihydroxyacetone-phosphate-(DHAP, 41)-dependent aldolases create two new asymmetric centers, one each at the termini of the new C-C bond. A particular advantage for synthetic endeavors is the fact that Nature has evolved a full set of four stereochemically-complementary aldolases [189] (Scheme 6) for the retro-aldol cleavage of diastereoisomeric ketose 1-phosphates— D-fructose 1,6-bisphosphate (42 FruA), D-tagatose 1,6-bisphosphate (43 TagA), L-fuculose 1-phosphate (44 FucA), and L-rhamnulose 1-phosphate (45) aldolase (RhuA). In the direction of synthesis this formally allows the... 

Structural details are also available for the class II (/ia)8-barrel enzyme FruA from E. coli at excellent resolution (1.6A) [51, 52]. The homodimeric protein requires movement of the divalent zinc cofactor from a buried position to the catalytically effective surface position. Recent attempts to explore the origin of substrate discrimination of the structurally related E. coli aldolase vith specificity for tagatose 1,6-bisphosphate by site-directed mutagenesis and structure determinations highlight the complexity of enzyme catalysis in this class of enzymes and the subtleties in substrate control [53-55]. 

Apparently, all DHAP aldolases are highly specific for the donor component 22 for mechanistic reasons [29]. For synthetic applications, two equivalents of 22 are conveniently generated in situ from commercial fructose 1,6-bisphosphate 23 by the combined action of FruA and triose phosphate isomerase (EC 5.3.1.1) [93,101]. The reverse, synthetic reaction can be utilized to prepare ketose bisphosphates, as has been demonstrated by an expeditious multienzymatic synthesis of the (3S,4S) all-cis-configurated D-tagatose 1,6-bisphosphate 24 (Fig. 13) from dihydroxyacetone 27, including a cofactor-dependent phosphorylation, by employing the purified TagA from E. coli (Fig. 13) [95,96]. 

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