- Fleischman, Nicholas M;
- Das, Debanu;
- Kumar, Abhinav;
- Xu, Qingping;
- Chiu, Hsiu‐Ju;
- Jaroszewski, Lukasz;
- Knuth, Mark W;
- Klock, Heath E;
- Miller, Mitchell D;
- Elsliger, Marc‐André;
- Godzik, Adam;
- Lesley, Scott A;
- Deacon, Ashley M;
- Wilson, Ian A;
- Toney, Michael D
Pyridoxal-5'-phosphate or PLP, the active form of vitamin B6, is a highly versatile cofactor that participates in a large number of mechanistically diverse enzymatic reactions in basic metabolism. PLP-dependent enzymes account for ∼1.5% of most prokaryotic genomes and are estimated to be involved in ∼4% of all catalytic reactions, making this an important class of enzymes. Here, we structurally and functionally characterize three novel PLP-dependent enzymes from bacteria in the human microbiome: two are from Eubacterium rectale, a dominant, nonpathogenic, fecal, Gram-positive bacteria, and the third is from Porphyromonas gingivalis, which plays a major role in human periodontal disease. All adopt the Type I PLP-dependent enzyme fold and structure-guided biochemical analysis enabled functional assignments as tryptophan, aromatic, and probable phosphoserine aminotransferases.