Significance
Evolution functionally diversifies conserved protein architectures, precluding assignment of function from structure alone. The HD structural domain was first recognized in a group of phosphohydrolases and came to be associated with that activity, but characterization of the archetypal mixed-valent diiron oxygenase (MVDO),
myo
-inositol oxygenase, attributed a very different activity, O
2
-mediated C-C bond cleavage, to an HD protein. We demonstrate that the recently discovered C-P bond-cleaving enzyme, PhnZ, is another example of an HD-domain MVDO. Sequence and functional data for the dimetal HD proteins reveal that they segregate into well-defined clades, of which several are more likely to comprise MVDOs than phosphohydrolases. This study provides a basis to assign hydrolase or oxygenase activity to proteins in this largely uncharacterized enzyme superfamily.
重要性进化通过功能多样化保守的蛋白质结构,防止仅从结构上赋予功能。HD结构域最初在一组磷酸水解酶中被认识,并与该活性相关,但是对原型混合价双铁氧化酶(MVDO)——myo-肌醇氧化酶的表征赋予了非常不同的活性,即O2介导的C-C键断裂,属于HD蛋白质。我们证明,最近发现的C-P键断裂酶PhnZ是HD域MVDO的另一个例子。二金属HD蛋白质的序列和功能数据表明,它们分为明确定义的类群,其中几个类群更可能包含MVDO而不是磷酸水解酶。该研究为在这个大部分未被表征的酶超家族中赋予水解酶或氧化酶活性提供了基础。