Thiamin diphosphate biosynthesis

Thiamine diphosphate, biosynthesis, from thiazole and pyrimidine precursors, 269-271... 

Biosynthesis of Thiamine Diphosphate from Thiazole and Pyrimidine... 

Thiamine is present in cells as the free form 1, as the diphosphate 2, and as the diphosphate of the hydroxyethyl derivative 3 (Scheme 1) in variable ratio. The component heterocyclic moieties, 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine (4) and 4-methyl-5-(2-hydroxyethyl)thiazole (5) are also presented in Scheme 1, with the atom numbering. This numbering follows the rules of nomenclature of heterocyclic compounds for the ring atoms, and is arbitrary for the substituents. To avoid the use of acronyms, compound 5 is termed as the thiazole of thiamine or more simply the thiazole. This does not raise any ambiguity because unsubstituted thiazole is encountered in this chapter. Other thiazoles are named after the rules of heterocyclic nomenclature. Pyrimidine 4 is called pyramine, a well established name in the field. A detailed account of the present status of knowledge on the biosynthesis of thiamine diphosphate from its heterocyclic moieties can be found in a review by the authors.1 This report provides only the minimal information necessary for understanding the main part of this chapter (Scheme 2). 

The hypE proteins are 302-376 residues long and appear to consist of three domains. Domain 1 shows sequence identity to a domain from phosphoribosyl-aminoimida-zole synthetase which is involved in the fifth step in de novo purine biosynthesis and to a domain in thiamine phosphate kinase which is involved in the synthesis of the cofactor thiamine diphosphate (TDP). TDP is required by enzymes which cleave the bond adjacent to carbonyl groups, e.g. phosphoketolase, transketolase or pyruvate decarboxylase. Domain 2 also shows identity to a domain found in thiamine phosphate kinase. Domain 3 appears to be unique to the HypF proteins. 

Most known thiamin diphosphate-dependent reactions (Table 14-2) can be derived from the five halfreactions, a through e, shown in Fig. 14-3. Each halfreaction is an a cleavage which leads to a thiamin- bound enamine (center, Fig. 14-3) The decarboxylation of an a-oxo acid to an aldehyde is represented by step b followed by a in reverse. The most studied enzyme catalyzing a reaction of this type is yeast pyruvate decarboxylase, an enzyme essential to alcoholic fermentation (Fig. 10-3). There are two 250-kDa isoenzyme forms, one an a4 tetramer and one with an ( P)2 quaternary structure. The isolation of ohydroxyethylthiamin diphosphate from reaction mixtures of this enzyme with pyruvate52 provided important verification of the mechanisms of Eqs. 14-14,14-15. Other decarboxylases produce aldehydes in specialized metabolic pathways indolepyruvate decarboxylase126 in the biosynthesis of the plant hormone indoIe-3-acetate and ben-zoylformate decarboxylase in the mandelate pathway of bacterial metabolism (Chapter 25).1243/127... 

Except for some vitamin B12-dependent reactions, the cleavage or formation of carbon-carbon bonds usually depends upon the participation of carbonyl groups. For this reason, carbonyl groups have a central mechanistic role in biosynthesis. The activation of hydrogen atoms (3 to carbonyl groups permits (3 condensations to occur during biosynthesis. Aldol or Claisen condensations require the participation of two carbonyl compounds. Carbonyl compounds are also essential to thiamin diphosphate-dependent condensations and the aldehyde pyridoxal phosphate is needed for most C-C bond cleavage or formation within amino acids. 

The terpenes, carotenoids, steroids, and many other compounds arise in a direct way from the prenyl group of isopentenyl diphosphate (Fig. 22-1).16a Biosynthesis of this five-carbon branched unit from mevalonate has been discussed previously (Chapter 17, Fig. 17-19) and is briefly recapitulated in Fig. 22-1. Distinct isoenzymes of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA synthase (HMG-CoA synthase) in the liver produce HMG-CoA destined for formation of ketone bodies (Eq. 17-5) or mevalonate.7 8 A similar cytosolic enzyme is active in plants which, collectively, make more than 30,000 different isoprenoid compounds.910 However, many of these are formed by an alternative pathway that does not utilize mevalonate but starts with a thiamin diphosphate-dependent condensation of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate with pyruvate (Figs. 22-1,22-2). 

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Vitamin Bi, also called thiamine, is required for all tissues and high concentrations are found in skeletal muscle, heart, liver, kidneys and brain. Thiamine diphosphate (TDP) is the active form and it serves as a cofactor for several enzymes involved in carbohydrate catabolism. These enzymes are also important in the biosynthesis of many cellular constituents, including neurotransmitters, and for the production of reducing equivalents used in oxidant stress defenses (Ba 2008). Thiamine is considered an anti-stress vitamin because it strengthens the immune system and improves the body s ability to withstand stress conditions (Haas 1988). 

With threonine (Tlir, T) in hand, the path to the biosynthesis of isoleucine (He, I) is clear. The first part of the biosynthesis is shown in Scheme 12.15 where, in the presence of the pyridoxal (cofactor) protein (enzyme) threonine ammonia lyase (EC 4.3.1.19), threonine (Thr, T) is converted to 2-oxobutanoate. Then, with thiamine diphosphate (cf. Chapter 11, Scheme 11.7) as a cofactor for the enzyme aceto-lactate synthase (EC 2.2.1.6), an acetyl group is added at C2 of the 2-oxobutanoate... 

Figure 22-2 The glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate pyruvate alternative pathway of isoprenoid biosynthesis. The intermediate 1-deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate may enter terpenes, vitamin B6, and thiamin. Isopentenyl diphosphate is shown as the final product, but the intermediate steps are uncertain. See Lange et al 2 ...

Figure 11 Biosynthesis of isoprenoid type cofactors. 18, Heme a 39, pyridoxal 5 -phosphate 43, 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate 46, thiamine pyrophosphate 83, acetyl-CoA 84, (S)-3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA 85, mevalonate 86, isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) 87, dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) 88, pyruvate 89, D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate 90, 2C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate 91, 2C-methyl-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate 92, 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-( )-butenyl 4-diphosphate 93, polyprenyl diphosphate 94, cholecalciferol 95, fS-carotene 96, retinol 97, ubiquinone 98, menaquinone 99, a-tocopherol.

Vitamin Bi is an essential co-factor for several enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism such as transketolase, pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH), pyruvate decarboxylase and a-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase. To become the active co-factor thiamin pyrophosphate (TPP), thiamin has to be salvaged by thiamin pyrophosphokinase or synthesized de novo. In Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae thiamin biosynthesis proceeds via two branches that have to be combined. In the pyrimidine branch, 4-amino-5-hydroxymethy-2-methylpyrimidine (PIMP) is phosphorylated to 4-amino-2-methyl-5-hydroxymethyl pyrimidine diphosphate (PIMP-PP) by the enzyme HMP/HMP-P kinase (ThiD) however, the step can also be catalyzed by pyridoxine kinase (PdxK), an enzyme also responsible for the activation of vitamin B6 (see below). The second precursor of thiamin biosynthesis, 5-(2-hydroxyethyl)-4-methylthiazole (THZ), is activated by THZ kinase (ThiM) to 4-methyl-5-(2-phosphoethyl)-thiazole (THZ-P), and then the thia-zole and pyrimidine moieties, HMP-PP and THZ-P, are combined to form thiamin phosphate (ThiP) by thiamin phosphate synthase (ThiE). The final step, pyrophosphorylation, yields TPP and is carried out by thiamin pyrophosphorylase (TPK). 

Biosynthesis In microorganisms and plants from pyruvic acid 2 pyruvate- 2-acetolactic acid (acetolactate synthase, EC 4.1.3.18 coenzyme thiamin(e) diphosphate)- 2,3-dihydroxyisovaleric acid (2-acetolactate mutase, EC 5.4.99.3)- 2-oxoisovaleric acid (dihydroxy acid dehydratase, EC 4.2.1.9). This is finally am-inated by branched chain amino acid aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.42). 2-Oxoisovaleric acid is also a precursor of Leu. 

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