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Response to Letter from Cabanes et al. J Theor Biol 2002. [DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2001.2477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Chazarra S, García-Carmona F, Cabanes J. Hysteresis and positive cooperativity of iceberg lettuce polyphenol oxidase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001; 289:769-75. [PMID: 11726215 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.6014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A kinetic study of the diphenolase activity of latent polyphenol oxidase (PPO), purified from Iceberg lettuce (Lactuca sativa L), revealed a sigmoid relationship between the reaction rate and the substrate concentration with a high Hill coefficient (n(H) = 3.8). This positive cooperativity had not been previously described for any PPO. Furthermore, the enzyme showed a lag phase in the expression of this activity, suggesting a hysteretic nature of the enzyme. The kinetic behavior, the latency and the lag phase varied at different steps of the purification process. PPO showed hyperbolic or cooperative kinetics depending on the pH assay and the sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) concentration. Substrate-induced slow conformational change of the oligomeric enzyme is suggested. The conformational change would be toward a more active enzyme form with higher affinity for the substrate and favoured by acid pH and SDS.
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- S Chazarra
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular A, Universidad de Murcia, 30071 Murcia, Spain
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Pérez-Gilabert M, Morte A, Honrubia M, García-Carmona F. Monophenolase activity of latent Terfezia claveryi tyrosinase: Characterization and histochemical localization. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2001; 113:203-209. [PMID: 12060297 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2001.1130207.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The monophenolase activity of Terfezia claveryi tyrosinase (EC 1.14.18.1) is described for the first time. This enzyme is fully latent and can only be detected if SDS is present in the reaction medium. Monophenolase activity was localized within the ascocarp using histochemical techniques. A detailed kinetic study of the parameters affecting this activity has been carried out. Both the characteristic lag period and the steady-state rate are affected by pH and the enzyme and substrate concentrations. The presence of catalytic concentrations of o-diphenols affected the lag period but not the steady-state rate. By increasing the concentration of o-diphenols, it was possible to evaluate the enzyme activation constant, Kact, which showed a value of 7.2 &mgr;M. The experimental results are compatible with the mechanism previously described for tyrosinases from other sources.
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- Manuela Pérez-Gilabert
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular-A, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, E-30080, Murcia, Spain Departameno de Biología Vegetal (Laboratorio de Micología), Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, E-30080, Murcia, Spain
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Rodríguez-López JN, Fenoll LG, Peñalver MJ, García-Ruiz PA, Varón R, Martínez-Ortíz F, García-Cánovas F, Tudela J. Tyrosinase action on monophenols: evidence for direct enzymatic release of o-diphenol. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1548:238-56. [PMID: 11513969 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(01)00237-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, the direct enzymatic release of o-diphenol (4-tert-butylcatechol) during the action of tyrosinase on a monophenol (4-tert-butylphenol) has been demonstrated for the first time in the literature. The findings confirm the previously proposed mechanism to explain the action of tyrosinase on monophenols (J.N. Rodríguez-López, J. Tudela, R. Varón, F. García-Carmona, F. García-Cánovas, J. Biol. Chem. 267 (1992)). Oxytyrosinase, the oxidized form of the enzyme with a peroxide group, is the only form capable of catalysing the transformation of monophenols into diphenols, giving rise to an enzyme-substrate complex in the process. The o-diphenol formed is then released from the enzyme-substrate complex or oxidized to the corresponding o-quinone. In order to detect the enzymatic release of o-diphenol, the non-enzymatic evolution of the o-quinone to generate o-diphenol by weak nucleophilic attack reactions and subsequent oxidation-reduction was blocked by the nucleophilic attack of an excess of cysteine. Furthermore, the addition of catalytic quantities of an auxiliary o-diphenol (e.g. catechol) considerably increases the accumulation of 4-tert-butylcatechol. The enzyme acting on 4-tert-butylphenol generates the enzyme-4-tert-butylcatechol complex and 4-tert-butylcatechol is then released (with k(-2)) generating mettyrosinase. The auxiliary o-diphenol added (catechol) and the 4-tert-butylcatechol generated by the enzyme then enter into competition. When [catechol] >> [4-tert-butylcatechol], the enzyme preferentially binds with the catechol to close the catalytic cycle, while 4-tert-butylcatechol is accumulated in the medium. In conclusion, we demonstrate that the enzyme produces 4-tert-butylcatechol from 4-tert-butylphenol, the concentration of which increases considerably in the presence of an auxiliary o-diphenol such as catechol.
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- J N Rodríguez-López
- Grupo Investigación Enzimologia, Departmento de Bioquímica y Biologia Molecular-A, Facultad de Biologia, Univesidad de Murcia, Spain
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Coche-Guerente L, Labbé P, Mengeaud V. Amplification of amperometric biosensor responses by electrochemical substrate recycling. 3. Theoretical and experimental study of the phenol-polyphenol oxidase system immobilized in Laponite hydrogels and layer-by-layer self-assembled structures. Anal Chem 2001; 73:3206-18. [PMID: 11476217 DOI: 10.1021/ac001534l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The amperometric response toward phenol of PPO-based rotating disk bioelectrodes is analyzed on the basis of a kinetic model taking into account internal and external mass transport effects and a CEC' electroenzymatic mechanism. Monophenolase activity of PPO catalyses the oxidation of phenol to o-quinone (step C). o-Quinone can then enter an amplification recycling process involving electrochemical reduction (step E) and enzymatic reoxidation (step C': catecholase activity). The rate-limiting steps such as monophenolase activity, catecholase recycling, permeability of the membrane, and activity and accessibility of the catalytic enzyme sites are theoretically considered and experimentally demonstrated for different electrode configurations including PPO immobilized in Laponite hydrogels and layer-by-layer self-assembled multilayers of PPO and poly(diallyldimethylammonium).
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- L Coche-Guerente
- Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Organique et de Photochimie Redox, UMR 5630, Université Joseph Fourier-CNRS, Grenoble, France
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Pérez-Gilabert M, García-Carmona F. Dimethyl sulfide, a volatile flavor constituent, is a slow-binding inhibitor of tyrosinase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001; 285:257-61. [PMID: 11444834 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In this paper, the inhibition of tyrosinase by a volatile compound is kinetically analyzed for the first time. The results obtained show that the volatile flavor constituent dimethyl sulfide (DMS) inhibits the catecholase activity of tyrosinase in a nonclassical manner. A decrease in the initial velocity to a inhibited steady-state velocity can be observed within a few minutes. This time dependence, which is unaltered by prior incubation of the enzyme with the inhibitor, is consistent with a first-order transition. Both the initial and the constant rates decreased with increasing concentrations of inhibitor. The kinetic data obtained correspond to those for a postulated mechanism involving rapid formation of an enzyme-inhibitor complex that subsequently undergoes a relatively slow reversible reaction. These results, together with the high levels of DMS precursor in certain organisms, suggest a physiological role for this compound within plant tissues.
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- M Pérez-Gilabert
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular-A, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, E-30071 Murcia, Spain
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Fenoll LG, Rodríguez-López JN, García-Sevilla F, García-Ruiz PA, Varón R, García-Cánovas F, Tudela J. Analysis and interpretation of the action mechanism of mushroom tyrosinase on monophenols and diphenols generating highly unstable o-quinones. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1548:1-22. [PMID: 11451433 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(01)00207-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Tyrosinase can act on monophenols because of the mixture of met- (E(m)) and oxy-tyrosinase (E(ox)) which exists in the native form of the enzyme. The latter form is active on monophenols, while the former is not. However, the kinetics are complicated because monophenols can bind to both enzyme forms. This situation becomes even more complex since the products of the enzymatic reaction, the o-quinones, are unstable and continue evolving to generate o-diphenols in the medium. In the case of substrates such as L-tyrosine, tyrosinase generates very unstable o-quinones, in which a process of cyclation and subsequent oxidation-reduction generates o-diphenol through non-enzymatic reactions. However, the release of o-diphenol through the action of the enzyme on the monophenol contributes to the concentration of o-diphenol in the first pseudo-steady-state [D(0)](ss). Hence, the system reaches an initial pseudo-steady state when t-->0 and undergoes a transition phase (lag period) until a final steady state is reached when the concentration of o-diphenol in the medium reaches the concentration of the final steady state [D(f)](ss). These results can be explained by taking into account the kinetic and structural mechanism of the enzyme. In this, tyrosinase hydroxylates the monophenols to o-diphenols, generating an intermediate, E(m)D, which may oxidise the o-diphenol or release it directly to the medium. We surmise that the intermediate generated during the action of E(ox) on monophenols, E(m)D, has axial and equatorial bonds between the o-diphenol and copper atoms of the active site. Since the orbitals are not coplanar, the concerted oxidation-reduction reaction cannot occur. Instead, a bond, probably that of C-4, is broken to achieve coplanarity, producing a more labile intermediate that will then release the o-diphenol to the medium or reunite it diaxially, involving oxidation to o-quinone. The non-enzymatic evolution of the o-quinone would generate the o-diphenol ([D(f)](ss)) necessary for the final steady state to be reached after the lag period.
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- L G Fenoll
- GENZ: Grupo de Investigación Enzimologia, Departmento de Bioquímica y Biologia Molecular-A, Facultad de Biologia, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
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Fenoll LG, Rodríguez-López JN, García-Sevilla F, Tudela J, García-Ruiz PA, Varón R, García-Cánovas F. Oxidation by mushroom tyrosinase of monophenols generating slightly unstable o-quinones. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2000; 267:5865-78. [PMID: 10998046 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01572.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Tyrosinase can act on monophenols because of the mixture of mettyrosinase (Em) and oxytyrosinase (Eox) that exists in the native form of the enzyme. The latter form is active on monophenols although the former is not. However, the kinetics are complicated because monophenols can bind to both enzyme forms. This situation becomes even more complex as the products of the enzymatic reaction, the o-quinones, are unstable and continue evolving to generate o-diphenols in the medium. In the case of substrates such as 4-methoxyphenol, 4-ethoxyphenol and 4-tert-butylphenol, tyrosinase generates o-quinones which become unstable with small constants of approximately < 10-3 s-1. The system evolves from an initial steady state, reached when t-->0, through a transition state towards a final steady state, which is never reached because the substrate is largely consumed. The mechanisms proposed to explain the enzyme's action can be differentiated by the kinetics of the first steady state. The results suggest that tyrosinase hydroxylates monophenols to o-diphenols, generating an intermediate Em-diphenol in the process, which may oxidize the o-diphenol or release it directly into the medium. In the case of o-quinone formation, its slow instability generates o-diphenol which activates the enzymatic system yielding parabolic time recordings.
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- L G Fenoll
- GENZ:Grupo de Investigación Enzimología, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular-A, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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Robinson GM, Iwuoha EI, Smyth MR. Characterisation of electrosynthetic l-dopa-melanin films by electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical techniques. Electrochim Acta 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0013-4686(98)00096-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Rescigno A, Sanjust E, Soddu G, Rinaldi AC, Sollai F, Curreli N, Rinaldi A. Effect of 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid on mushroom tyrosinase activity. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1384:268-76. [PMID: 9659387 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(98)00018-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Tyrosinase is a copper containing protein which catalyzes the hydroxylation of monophenols and the oxidation of diphenols to o-quinones. The monophenolase activity of tyrosinase is characterized by a typical lag time. In this paper the influence of 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid on monophenolase activity of tyrosinase is reported. 3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid reduced the lag time of tyrosinase when the enzyme acted on N-acetyl-L-tyrosine and on 4-tert-butylphenol. In the presence of 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid, the reaction product 4-tert-butyl-o-benzoquinone, derived from 4-tert-butylphenol oxidation, was formed at a higher rate than in its absence. The results reported in this paper indicate that 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid could affect the enzymic activity of mushroom tyrosinase probably by acting as a diphenol substrate. A K(m) value of 0.78 mM was calculated for 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid as substrate. When tyrosinase acted on 4-tert-butylphenol, K(m) for 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid as a cofactor was estimated to be 37.5 microM. No effect was observed on the diphenolase activity of the enzyme acting on 4-tert-butylcatechol in the presence of 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid.
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- A Rescigno
- Istituto di Chimica Biologica, Università di Cagliari, Italy.
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Naish-Byfield S, Riley PA. Tyrosinase kinetics: failure of acceleration in oxidation of ring-blocked monohydric phenol substrate. PIGMENT CELL RESEARCH 1998; 11:94-7. [PMID: 9585246 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1998.tb00716.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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When 2,5,6-trimethyl-4-hydroxyanisole is used as substrate for mushroom tyrosinase the oxidation rate is slow and the kinetics do not exhibit an initial acceleration (lag period), in contrast to the kinetics of oxidation of the parent compound, 4-hydroxyanisole. This finding is interpreted as evidence that the acceleration of oxidation of 4-hydroxyanisole is indirectly contingent on a reductive nucleophile addition to the orthoquinone product of the monohydric phenol, which is prevented by ring methylation. Such a view is consistent with the proposal that the lag-phase characteristic of the kinetics of monohydric phenol oxidation by tyrosinase is due to the activation of previously inactive enzyme by electron donation from an orthodiphenol substrate formed from the orthoquinone oxidation product.
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- S Naish-Byfield
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
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Monophenolase Activity of Polyphenol Oxidase from Artichoke Heads (Cynara scolymusL.). Lebensm Wiss Technol 1997. [DOI: 10.1006/fstl.1997.0278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Sanchez-Amat A, Solano F. A pluripotent polyphenol oxidase from the melanogenic marine Alteromonas sp shares catalytic capabilities of tyrosinases and laccases. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 240:787-92. [PMID: 9398646 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.7748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The recently characterized marine melanogenic bacterium MMB-1 contains a pluripotent polyphenol oxidase (PPO) which catalyzes the oxidation of a very wide range of substrates considered specific for tyrosinase or laccase. This range includes monophenols such as L-tyrosine, o-diphenols such as L-dopa, p-diphenols such as hydroquinone, o-aminophenols such as 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid, activated monophenols such as 2,6-dimethoxyphenol and syringaldazine, and chromophores such as ABTS. This is the first report of an enzyme that is able to catalyze the oxidation of compounds so far considered specific for tyrosinases (L-tyrosine) or laccase (syringaldazine), showing cresolase, catechol oxidase and laccase activities. Such PPO could be a very useful model to study the structural requirements, catalytic mechanisms and involvement of the copper sites existing in non-blue and blue copper-oxidases.
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- A Sanchez-Amat
- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Murcia, Spain
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Cooksey CJ, Garratt PJ, Land EJ, Pavel S, Ramsden CA, Riley PA, Smit NP. Evidence of the indirect formation of the catecholic intermediate substrate responsible for the autoactivation kinetics of tyrosinase. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:26226-35. [PMID: 9334191 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.42.26226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 254] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Tyrosinase (EC 1.14.18.1) exhibits unusual kinetic properties in the oxidation of monohydric phenol substrates consisting of a lag period that increases with increasing substrate concentration. The cause of this is an autocatalytic process dependent on the generation of a dihydric phenol substrate, which acts as an activator of the enzyme. Experiments with N-substituted dihydric phenol substrates (N-methyldopamine, N-acetyldopamine) demonstrate that oxygen consumption is retarded in the N-acetyl substituted material due to a diminished rate of cyclization. The oxygen uptake exhibited a similar pattern when N-acetyltyramine was oxidized, and this was reflected by a prolongation of the lag period. N,N-Dipropyldopamine was oxidized with normal kinetics but with an oxygen stoichiometry of 0.5 mol of oxygen/mol of substrate. We show that this is the result of the formation of a stable indoliumolate product with oxidation-reduction properties that prevent the formation of dopaminochrome, thus blocking further stages in the tyrosinase-catalyzed oxidation. Evidence that the indoliumolate product is formed by cyclization of the ortho-quinone is presented by pulse radiolysis studies, which demonstrate the formation of the ortho-quinone (by disproportionation of the corresponding semiquinones), which cyclizes to give the indoliumolate. The rate constant for cyclization was shown to be 48 s-1 (at pH 6.0). Tyrosinase-catalyzed oxidation of the monohydric phenol analogue, N, N-dimethyltyramine, was shown to require the addition of a dihydric phenol. Oxygen utilization then exhibited a stoichiometry of 1.0, indicating that the reactions proceed only as far as the cyclization. The analogous stable cyclic indoliumolate product was shown to be formed, with UV absorption and NMR spectra closely similar to the indoliumolate derived from N,N-dipropyldopamine. This material was methylated by catechol O-methyltransferase but was unreactive to redox reagents. The formation of the cyclic product accounts for the indefinite lag when N,N-dimethyltyramine is used as the substrate for tyrosinase in the absence of a dihydric phenol cofactor.
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- C J Cooksey
- Department of Chemistry, Christopher Ingold Laboratories, UCL, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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Chazarra S, Cabanes J, Escribano J, García-Carmona F. Kinetic study of the suicide inactivation of latent polyphenoloxidase from iceberg lettuce (Lactuca sativa) induced by 4-tert-butylcatechol in the presence of SDS. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1997; 1339:297-303. [PMID: 9187250 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(97)00012-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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In plants, polyphenoloxidase undergoes an irreversible inactivation during the oxidation of o-diphenol to o-quinones. In the present paper, using latent polyphenoloxidase from iceberg lettuce (Lactuca sativa), in the presence of an activating agent, SDS, the kinetic parameters that characterize the enzyme during its action on the suicide substrate 4-tert-butylcatechol have been determined. The effect of pH has also been considered. It was seen that the presence of SDS in the reaction medium changed the kinetic parameters of the enzyme during suicide inactivation, this phenomenon depended on the SDS concentration up to saturating concentrations. Variations were also observed in the kinetic parameters at pH values below 5 where SDS provoked inactivation of the enzyme. This differing kinetic behaviour during suicide inactivation in the presence of SDS may be caused by the conformational changes provoked by SDS in the enzyme in latent state. Thus, polyphenoloxidases showing suicide inactivation would present an enzymatic activity resulting from the balance between the activation process and suicide inactivation.
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- S Chazarra
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular A, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
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- Edward I. Solomon
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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Ramón Ros J, Rodríguez-López JN, Carlos Espín J, Varón R, García-Cánovas F. Oxymetric and spectrophotometric study of the ascorbate oxidase activity shown by frog epidermis tyrosinase. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 1996; 28:917-23. [PMID: 8811840 DOI: 10.1016/1357-2725(96)00022-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Many studies concerning the effect of ascorbic acid on the action of tyrosinase on several substrates have been carried out with contradictory results. The results shown in this work comprise a hypothetical reaction mechanism, which explains the ascorbate oxidase activity of frog epidermis tyrosinase. The reaction between frog epidermis tyrosinase and L-ascorbic acid was studied by oxymetric and spectrophotometric assays. The activity was linearly related to enzyme concentration, with a Michaelis constant for L-ascorbic acid of 0.160 +/- 0.009 mM and Vmax of 90 +/- 4 nM/s. Maximum activity was obtained at pH 7.5. The stoichiometry of the reaction was calculated by measuring the substrate (O2 and L-ascorbic acid) consumption as well as the initial rates of the consumption of oxygen and the disappearance of L-ascorbic acid. The stoichiometry was found to be 1:2 (O2:L-ascorbic acid). The action of the tyrosinase inhibitor tropolone was also studied. All the results present evidence concerning the ascorbate oxidase activity of frog epidermis tyrosinase and a possible reaction mechanism based on the different enzymatic forms of tyrosinase to explain such activity.
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- J Ramón Ros
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular-A, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
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Burks CS, Fuchs MS. Partial purification of plasma phenoloxidase of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti L. (Diptera: Culicidae). Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1995; 110:641-7. [PMID: 7584838 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(94)00166-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A nitrocellulose-based assay was developed using a dot-blot apparatus to detect phenoloxidase activity in column fractions. Using this assay, plasma phenoloxidase was partially purified from Aedes aegypti larvae using hydrophobic interaction chromatography, gel filtration, and ion-exchange chromatography. The molecular weight (M(r)) native enzyme was 130,000, and it contained subunits of 76,000, 62,000, and 58,000. Two phenoloxidase peaks were observed by ion exchange chromatography, and these fractions had distinct polypeptide profiles as detected by SDS-PAGE.
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- C S Burks
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
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Sánchez-Ferrer A, Rodríguez-López JN, García-Cánovas F, García-Carmona F. Tyrosinase: a comprehensive review of its mechanism. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1995; 1247:1-11. [PMID: 7873577 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(94)00204-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 859] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/28/2023]
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- A Sánchez-Ferrer
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Spain
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Prota G. The chemistry of melanins and melanogenesis. FORTSCHRITTE DER CHEMIE ORGANISCHER NATURSTOFFE = PROGRESS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF ORGANIC NATURAL PRODUCTS. PROGRES DANS LA CHIMIE DES SUBSTANCES ORGANIQUES NATURELLES 1995; 64:93-148. [PMID: 7782013 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-9337-2_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- G Prota
- Department of Organic and Biological Chemistry, University of Naples, Italy
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Cabanes J, Chazarra S, Garcia-Carmona F. Kojic acid, a cosmetic skin whitening agent, is a slow-binding inhibitor of catecholase activity of tyrosinase. J Pharm Pharmacol 1994; 46:982-5. [PMID: 7714722 DOI: 10.1111/j.2042-7158.1994.tb03253.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 308] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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It was found that kojic acid, which is used in cosmetics for its excellent whitening effect, inhibits catecholase activity of tyrosinase in a non-classical manner. A decrease in the initial velocity to a steady-state inhibited velocity can be observed over a few minutes. This time-dependence, which is unaltered by prior incubation of the enzyme with the inhibitor, is consistent with a first-order transition. The kinetic data obtained correspond to those for a postulated mechanism that involves the rapid formation of an enzyme inhibitor complex that subsequently undergoes a relatively slow reversible reaction. Kinetic parameters characterizing this type of inhibition were evaluated by means of nonlinear regression of product accumulation curves.
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- J Cabanes
- Departamento de Bioquimíca y Biología Molecular A, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
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Ros JR, Rodríguez-López JN, Varón R, García-Cánovas F. Kinetics study of the oxidation of 4-tert-butylphenol by tyrosinase. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1994; 222:449-52. [PMID: 8020482 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1994.tb18884.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The reaction between 4-tert-butylphenol (BuPhOH) and mushroom tyrosinase was investigated by following 4-tert-butyl-ortho-benzoquinone, whose high stability permits the reaction to be used as a model for the study of the monophenolase activity of tyrosinase. The system evolves to a pseudo-steady state through an induction period (tau), the pseudo-steady-state rate (Vss) decreasing when the (BuPhOH) concentration increases. Increases in enzyme concentration result in a parabolic pattern with Vss, while tau is shortened. The addition of increasing catalytic amounts of 4-tert-butylcatechol at the start of the reaction reduces tau until it is totally abolished, an initial burst being observed at high 4-t-butylatechol concentrations. Initial bursts are also obtained at pH 4.5 or lower, indicating a lower affinity of the met-tyrosinase or oxidized form for the monophenol at low pH. These experimental results can be explained by the reaction mechanism of tyrosinase.
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- J R Ros
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular (A), Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
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Sánchez-Ferrer A, Pérez-Gilabert M, Núñez E, Bru R, García-Carmona F. Triton X-114 phase partitioning in plant protein purification. J Chromatogr A 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0021-9673(94)80094-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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García Moreno M, Varón R, Sánchez Gracia A, Tudela J, García Cánovas F. The effect of pH on the suicide inactivation of frog epidermis tyrosinase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1205:282-8. [PMID: 8155710 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(94)90246-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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This paper presents a new reaction mechanism for the effect of the pH on the suicide inactivation of the diphenolase activity of tyrosinase. The applicability of the mechanism is supported by the experimental characterization of the kinetic behaviour of the frog epidermis enzyme acting on catechol, L-dopa and alpha-methyldopa at several pH values. Two enzyme froms 'met-' and 'oxy-' tyrosinase, but no their corresponding enzyme-diphenol complexes, present one ionizable group with very similar value of Ka which has been determined. The highest values of catalytic and inactivation efficiencies correspond to alpha-methyldopa and catechol, respectively. These kinetic studies have been carried out by using the transient phase approach previously developed, with negligible substrate consumption during the assay time. That illustrate the usefulness of the method for multisubstrate enzyme reactions.
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- M García Moreno
- Departamento de Química-Física, E.U. Politécnica de Albacete, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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Ros JR, Rodríguez-López JN, García-Cánovas F. Tyrosinase: kinetic analysis of the transient phase and the steady state. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1204:33-42. [PMID: 8305473 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(94)90029-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The transient phase of tyrosinase activity acting on monophenols has been investigated. Although an analytical solution for the lag period (tau) cannot be obtained, its dependence on reagent concentration and pH is studied. It is established that decreases as the quantity of enzyme increases, although it increases when monophenol or pH are increased. The computer simulation shows those rate constants whose variations affect the transient phase most significantly. In addition, the steady state of the pathway is studied using tyrosinases from several sources such as mushroom, frog epidermis and grape. The kinetic analysis, which is based on not imposing restrictions on the values of the rate constants involved in the mechanism, allows us to obtain analytical expressions for both monophenolase and diphenolase activities and explains the experimental results obtained with the different enzymes. The values determined for the kinetic parameter, R, point to the monophenol hydroxylation step as being the limiting step of the turnover, while the values obtained for n suggest the absence of fast equilibrium in the oxidation of diphenol by Emet.
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- J R Ros
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
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Hervé M, Hirschinger J, Granger P, Gilard P, Deflandre A, Goetz N. A 13C solid-state NMR study of the structure and auto-oxidation process of natural and synthetic melanins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1204:19-27. [PMID: 8305471 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(94)90027-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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This paper presents a 13C CP/MAS NMR study of the melanin pigments obtained through natural and synthetic origins: sepia-melanin from squid ink and three synthetic 5,6-dihydroxyindole-melanins prepared using different non-enzymatic oxidation pathways. The synthetic pigments can be distinguished from natural melanin by the absence of aliphatic carbons, thereby confirming the unreacted 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine and the proteinaceous origins of the aliphatic resonances in natural eumelanin. The spectra of selected non-protonated carbon resonances and those with only protonated carbon signals led to a quantitative analysis. An auto-oxidative experiment using a synthetic melanin, over a period of 130 h, has shown an unusually slow disappearance of hydrogen peroxide formed in situ. The 13C-NMR spectrum of the insoluble oxidized synthetic melanin compared to that before auto-oxidation clearly demonstrates that the oxidation process is associated with chemical changes within the pigment; i.e., carbonyl functional group formation and an increase of the non-protonated carbons fraction.
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- M Hervé
- Laboratoire de RMN et de Modélisation Moléculaire, UMR 50 CNRS/Bruker/Université L. Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
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Ros JR, Rodríguez-López JN, García-Cánovas F. Effect of L-ascorbic acid on the monophenolase activity of tyrosinase. Biochem J 1993; 295 ( Pt 1):309-12. [PMID: 8216233 PMCID: PMC1134854 DOI: 10.1042/bj2950309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The effect of ascorbic acid on the monophenolase activity of tyrosinase, using tyrosine as substrate, has been studied. Over the ranges of ascorbic acid concentration used, no direct effect on the enzyme is found. However, a shortening of the characteristic induction period of the hydroxylation reaction is observed. The evolution of the reaction is dependent on the concentration of ascorbic acid. Low concentrations permit the system to reach the steady state when all ascorbic acid is consumed, whereas high concentrations do not. In the light of these results it is proposed that the influence of ascorbic acid on the reaction is due to its ability to reduce the enzymically generated o-quinones. A relationship between the ascorbic acid concentration, and the induction period generated by it, with the diphenolase activity of tyrosinase is established, which can be used as a basis for the determination of trace amounts of this reducing agent.
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- J R Ros
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
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Ros-Martínez JR, Rodríguez-López JN, Castellanos RV, García-Cánovas F. Discrimination between two kinetic mechanisms for the monophenolase activity of tyrosinase. Biochem J 1993; 294 ( Pt 2):621-2. [PMID: 8373378 PMCID: PMC1134500 DOI: 10.1042/bj2940621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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There is now much evidence suggesting that there are multiple control points in the process of melanin production. The most fundamental process of melanogenesis is centered on the oxidative activity of the enzyme tyrosinase. Tyrosinase is a highly unusual enzyme in that it apparently catalyses two processes, i.e., the oxidation of tyrosine and the dehydrogenation of dihydroxyphenylalanine (Dopa), at the same active site. The reactions involved account for the unusual kinetics of tyrosine oxidation and suggest biochemical mechanisms whereby the activity of the enzyme and the process of melanogenesis may be modified. It is proposed that the oxidative engine of melanogenesis resides in an oxidation/reduction cycle involving Dopa and dopaquinone and that this can be modified by processes that result in the removal of dopaquinone or Dopa from the reaction system.
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- P A Riley
- Division of Molecular Pathology, UCL Medical School, London, U.K
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Rodríguez-López JN, Ros JR, Varón R, García-Cánovas F. Oxygen Michaelis constants for tyrosinase. Biochem J 1993; 293 ( Pt 3):859-66. [PMID: 8352753 PMCID: PMC1134447 DOI: 10.1042/bj2930859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The Michaelis constant of tyrosinase for oxygen in the presence of monophenols and o-diphenols, which generate a cyclizable o-quinone, has been studied. This constant depends on the nature of the monophenol and o-diphenol and is always lower in the presence of the former than of the latter. From the mechanism proposed for tyrosinase and from its kinetic analysis [Rodríguez-López, J. N., Tudela, J., Varón, R., García-Carmona, F. and García-Cánovas, F. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 3801-3810] a quantitative ratio has been established between the Michaelis constants for oxygen in the presence of monophenols and their o-diphenols. This ratio is used for the determination of the Michaelis constant for oxygen with monophenols when its value cannot be calculated experimentally.
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- J N Rodríguez-López
- Departamento de Química-Física, E. U. Politécnia de Albacete, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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Ros JR, Rodríguez-López JN, García-Cánovas F. Effect of ferrous ions on the monophenolase activity of tyrosinase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1993; 1163:303-8. [PMID: 8507669 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(93)90166-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The effect of ferrous ions on the monophenolase activity of tyrosinase has been studied. Although a shortening of the lag period which characterizes this hydroxylation reaction was observed, no direct effect on the enzyme was found. The reaction between ferrous ions and molecular oxygen in the presence of chelating agents, such as phosphate or EDTA, produces hydroxyl radicals. These radicals can hydroxylate tyrosine to generate L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa). Catalase and scavengers of hydroxyl radicals inhibited both the shortening of the lag period and dopa formation. On the basis of these results, it is proposed that the influence of ferrous ions on tyrosinase is due to the formation of dopa in the chemical hydroxylation of tyrosine. Dopa transforms the Emet form of the enzyme (Cu2+Cu2+) into the Edeoxy form (Cu1+Cu1+) and, thus, shortens the lag period.
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- J R Ros
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Espinardo, Spain
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Li J, Christensen BM. Identification of Products and Intermediates During L-Dopa Oxidation to Dopachrome Using High Pressure Liquid Chromatography with Electrochemical Detection. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1993. [DOI: 10.1080/10826079308019575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Aroca P, Solano F, Salinas C, García-Borrón JC, Lozano JA. Regulation of the final phase of mammalian melanogenesis. The role of dopachrome tautomerase and the ratio between 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid and 5,6-dihydroxyindole. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 208:155-63. [PMID: 1511683 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb17169.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The regulation of the final steps of the melanogenesis pathway, after L-2-carboxy-2,3-dihydroindole-5,6-quinone (dopachrome) formation, is studied. It is shown that both tyrosinase and dopachrome tautomerase are involved in the process. In vivo, it seems that tyrosinase is involved in the regulation of the amount of melanin formed, whereas dopachrome tautomerase is mainly involved in the size, structure and composition of melanin, by regulating to the incorporation of 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA) into the polymer. Moreover, using L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa) and related compounds, it was shown that the presence of dopachrome tautomerase mediates an initial acceleration of melanogenesis since L-dopachrome is rapidly transformed to DHICA, but that melanin formation is inhibited because of the stability of this carboxylated indole compared to 5,6-dihydroxyindole (DHI), its decarboxylated counterpart obtained by spontaneous decarboxylation of L-dopachrome. Using L-dopa methyl ester as a precursor of melanogenesis, it is shown that this carboxylated indole does not polymerize in the absence of DHI, even in the presence of tyrosinase. However, it is incorporated into the polymer in the presence of both tyrosinase and DHI. Thus, this study suggests that DHI is essential for melanin formation, and the rate of polymerization depends on the ratio between DHICA and DHI in the medium. In the melanosome, this ratio should be regulated by the ratio between the activities of dopachrome tautomerase and tyrosinase.
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- P Aroca
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Murcia, Spain
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Aroca P, Martinez-Liarte JH, Solano F, García-Borrón JC, Lozano JA. The action of glycosylases on dopachrome (2-carboxy-2,3-dihydroindole-5,6-quinone) tautomerase. Biochem J 1992; 284 ( Pt 1):109-13. [PMID: 1599391 PMCID: PMC1132704 DOI: 10.1042/bj2840109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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It is shown that dopachrome (2-carboxy-2,3-dihydroindole-5,6-quinone) tautomerase (DCT) is a glycoprotein containing N-linked oligosaccharides. The enzymic activity can be stimulated by partial deglycosylation with a number of glycosylases such as neuraminidase, beta-mannosidase and beta-galactosidase. However, the stability of the enzyme after the hydrolytic treatment becomes lower. Thus total deglycosylation with peptide N-glycosidase F directly provokes an inactivation of DCT. The native enzyme also shows a strong affinity for concanavalin A-Sepharose. This affinity decreases after treatment with neuraminidase and/or beta-mannosidase. The DCT associated with coated vesicles seems to be mostly glycosylated, since the action of glycosylases on the enzyme obtained from these vesicles produced a similar stimulation to that with the melanosomal enzyme. Treatment of cultured melanocytes with tunicamycin elicited a decrease in the amount of active DCT inside the cells. All data suggest that the structure of the carbohydrate moiety of DCT should be very similar to, if not identical with, the structure proposed for tyrosinase by Ohkura, Yamashita, Mishima & Kobata (1984) Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 235, 63-77.
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- P Aroca
- Departamento Bioquímica y Biologia Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
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Nuclear extracts from the uteri of estradiol-implanted rats contain a tyrosinase-like enzyme that has three activities: monophenolase or cresolase, diphenolase or catecholase, and estrogen binding. When [3H]estradiol was used as a substrate, 3H2O was released from the A ring in the presence of copper and ascorbic acid. The optimal concentrations of these cofactors for the cresolase activity were established. The cresolase activity was lost on attempts at further purification. Estradiol binding was observed in conjunction with the enzymatic activity and was dependent on the presence of ascorbic acid and copper. The most potent inhibitors of 3H2O release from [3H]estradiol were those with a dihydroxyphenol moiety. The reaction was also sensitive to sulfhydryl reagents. These features of the enzyme are distinctive from other oxidases capable of attacking the aromatic ring of estrogens.
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- J Garai
- Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030
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Valero E, Varón R, García-Carmona F. A kinetic study of irreversible enzyme inhibition by an inhibitor that is rendered unstable by enzymic catalysis. The inhibition of polyphenol oxidase by L-cysteine. Biochem J 1991; 277 ( Pt 3):869-74. [PMID: 1908225 PMCID: PMC1151324 DOI: 10.1042/bj2770869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A kinetic study of the irreversible inhibition of an enzyme by an inhibitor that is depleted in the medium by its reaction with the product of enzymic analysis was made. The model is illustrated by the study of the inhibition of catecholase activity of polyphenol oxidase by L-cysteine. The inhibition is characterized by an initial lag period followed by a concomitant decrease in enzymic activity expressed when the steady state is reached, both kinetic parameters being modulated by enzyme, substrate and inhibitor concentrations. There is no analytical solution to the non-linear differential-equation system that describes the kinetics of the reaction, and so computer simulations of this dynamic behaviour are presented. The results obtained show that the system here studied presents kinetic co-operativity for a target enzyme that follows the simple Michaelis-Menten mechanism in its action on the substrate.
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- E Valero
- Departamento de Química, Escuela Universitaria Politécnica de Albacete, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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Aroca P, Solano F, Garcia-Borrón JC, Lozano JA. Specificity of dopachrome tautomerase and inhibition by carboxylated indoles. Considerations on the enzyme active site. Biochem J 1991; 277 ( Pt 2):393-7. [PMID: 1859367 PMCID: PMC1151246 DOI: 10.1042/bj2770393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Dopachrome tautomerase (EC 5.3.2.3) catalyses the tautomerization of dopachrome to 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA) within the melanin-formation pathway. We have analysed a series of substrate analogues and related compounds as possible substrates and inhibitors of tautomerization. The enzyme appears to be highly specific since D-dopachrome, alpha-methyldopachrome, dopaminochrome, adrenochrome methyl ether and deoxyadrenochrome are not substrates. Conversely, dopachrome tautomerase catalyses the tautomerization of dopachrome methyl ester, suggesting that a carboxy group, either free or as a methyl ester, is essential for enzyme recognition. No inhibition of dopachrome tautomerization was observed in the presence of either semiquinonic compounds, such as tropolone and L-mimosine, or pyrrole-2-carboxylic acid and unsubstituted indole. However, a number of indole derivatives, including DHICA, the product of dopachrome tautomerization, and the analogues 5-hydroxyindole-2-carboxylic and indole-2-carboxylic acid were able to inhibit the enzyme. Furthermore, indoles with a side chain at position 3 of the ring and containing a carboxylic group at the gamma-position of this chain, such as L-tryptophan or indole-3-propionic acid, are stronger inhibitors of the enzyme. Indole-3-carboxylic acid, indole-3-acetic acid and indole-3-butyric acid are very weak inhibitors, showing that the carboxylic group needs to be located at an optimal distance from the indole ring to mimic the carboxylic group at position 2 on the authentic substrate.
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- P Aroca
- Departmento Bioquimíca y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
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Winder AJ, Harris H. New assays for the tyrosine hydroxylase and dopa oxidase activities of tyrosinase. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 198:317-26. [PMID: 1674912 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb16018.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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New assays for the tyrosine hydroxylase and dopa oxidase activities of tyrosinase (EC 1.14.18.1) have been developed. The tyrosine hydroxylase assay uses L-[carboxy-14C]tyrosine as the substrate, 14CO2 is released from the products of the hydroxylation and further metabolism of L-[carboxy-14C]tyrosine by incubation with ferricyanide, and measured radiometrically. D-Dopa is a preferable cofactor to L-dopa for the assay. Dopa oxidase activity is measured spectrophotometrically. Dopaquinone, produced on the oxidation of L-dopa, reacts with Besthorn's hydrazone (3-methyl-2-benzothiazolinone hydrazone) to form a pink pigment with an absorbance maximum at 505 nm. Details of the optimisation of conditions for the assays and their specificities for the two enzyme activities are described.
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- A J Winder
- Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, England
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Kollias N, Sayre RM, Zeise L, Chedekel MR. Photoprotection by melanin. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 1991; 9:135-60. [PMID: 1907647 DOI: 10.1016/1011-1344(91)80147-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 267] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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This paper is an attempt to summarize the current state of information on melanin and epidermal melanin pigmentation (EMP) as photoprotective agents. The chemistry and biochemistry of melanin (the particle) and its interaction, in its various forms, with UV radiation are considered. Methods of attenuation of UV radiation are discussed in terms of structure and chemical constituents. Photoprotection by constitutive and facultative pigmentation is reviewed with minimum erythema dose (MED) as the end point. The issue of acclimatization to UV radiation is discussed in terms of UVB phototherapy for psoriasis. Finally, skin cancer is considered as an end point and the reduction of its incidence with pigment level is discussed. It is concluded that whilst EMP provides protection, its extent depends on the end point chosen for evaluation. MED is a convenient photobiological end point but is rather insensitive, whereas skin cancer is sensitive but impractical for laboratory studies. Our current state of knowledge of melanin lacks information on its absorption and scattering coefficients and its refractive index. Methods for the quantitative measurement of EMP are also urgently required.
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- N Kollias
- Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114
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Regulation of mammalian melanogenesis. II: The role of metal cations. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1990; 1035:276-85. [PMID: 1976385 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(90)90089-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Melanogenesis can be divided into two phases. The first one involves two tyrosinase-catalyzed oxidations from tyrosine to dopaquinone and a very fast chemical step leading to dopachrome. The second phase, from dopachrome to melanin, can proceed spontaneously through several incompletely known reactions. However, some metal transition ions and protein factors different from tyrosinase might regulate the reaction rate and determine the structure and relative concentrations of the intermediates. The study of the effects of some divalent metal ions (Zn, Cu, Ni and Co) on some steps of the melanogenesis pathway has been approached using different radiolabeled substrates. Zn(II) inhibited tyrosine hydroxylation whereas Ni(II) and Co(II) were activators. Ni(II), Cu(II) and Co(II) accelerated chemical reactions from dopachrome but inhibited its decarboxylation. Dopachrome tautomerase also decreased decarboxylation. When metal ions and this enzyme act together, the inhibition of decarboxylation was greater than that produced by each agent separately, but amount of carboxylated units incorporated to the melanin was not higher than the amount incorporated in the presence of only cations. The amount of total melanin formed from tyrosine was increased by the presence of both agents. The action of Zn(II) was different from other ions also in the second phase of melanogenesis, and its effect on decarboxylation was less pronounced. Since tyrosine hydroxylation is the rate-limiting step in melanogenesis, Zn(II) inhibited the pathway. This ion seems to be the most abundant cation in mammalian melanocytes. Therefore, under physiological conditions, the regulatory role of metal ions and dopachrome tautomerase does not seem to be mutually exclusive, but rather complementary.
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Aroca P, Garcia-Borron JC, Solano F, Lozano JA. Regulation of mammalian melanogenesis. I: Partial purification and characterization of a dopachrome converting factor: dopachrome tautomerase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1990; 1035:266-75. [PMID: 2169885 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(90)90088-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A protein that catalyzes the decoloration of dopachrome has been partially purified from B16 mouse melanoma tumors. The enzyme is preferentially associated to the melanosomes, but it is also found in the microsomal and cytosolic fractions of cellular homogenates. The protein is clearly different from tyrosinase, and should be related to the dopachrome oxidoreductase (Barber et al. (1984) J. Invest. Dermatol. 83, 145-149) and the dopachrome conversion factor (Korner and Pawelek (1980) J. Invest. Dermatol. 75, 192-195) since the reaction product of dopachrome conversion is 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid. The protein appears to have an oligomeric structure, with a molecular mass slightly higher than 300 kDa estimated by gel filtration, whereas the molecular mass of the monomer might be approx. 46 kDa estimated by SDS-PAGE electrophoresis. Its Km for dopachrome is around 100 microM. The enzyme is competitively inhibited by indoles and is unaffected by metal chelators. It also has the ability to increase the amount of melanin formed from L-tyrosine by melanoma tyrosinase, and therefore, cannot be considered an 'indole blocking factor' as was suggested for the related dopachrome oxidoreductase. Since the reaction catalyzed by the enzyme is a tautomeric shift on dopachrome, we would propose dopachrome tautomerase (EC 5.3.2.3) as the most precise and informative name.
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- P Aroca
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
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Bru R, Sánchez-Ferrer A, García-Carmona F. The effect of substrate partitioning on the kinetics of enzymes acting in reverse micelles. Biochem J 1990; 268:679-84. [PMID: 2114098 PMCID: PMC1131493 DOI: 10.1042/bj2680679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A theoretical model for the expression of enzymic activity in reverse micelles previously developed [Bru. Sánchez-Ferrer & García-Carmona (1989) Biochem. J. 259, 355-361] was extended in the present work. The substrate concentration in each reverse-micelle phase (free water, bound water and surfactant apolar tails) and the organic solvent was expressed as a function of the total substrate concentration, taking into account its partition coefficients, that is, partitioning of the substrate in a multiphasic system. In each phase the enzyme expresses a catalytic constant and a Km. Thus the whole reaction rate is the addition of the particular rates expressed in each domain. This model was compared with that developed for a biphasic system [Levashov, Klyachko, Pantin, Khmelnitski & Martinek (1980) Bioorg. Khim. 6, 929-943] by fitting the experimental results obtained with mushroom tyrosinase (working on both 4-t-butylcatechol and 4-methylcatechol) to the two models. The parameters which characterize reverse micelles, omega 0 (water/surfactant molar ratio) and theta (fraction of water) were investigated. The omega 0 profile was shown to be hyperbolic for both substrates. Activity towards 4-t-butylcatechol decreases as theta increases, this observation being attributable to a dilution of the substrate. A Km of 7.8 M for 4-t-butylcatechol could be calculated on the basis of the biphasic model, whereas it was 13.5 mM when calculating on the basis of our model. A new parameter, rho (= [substrate]/theta), was defined to characterize those substrates that mainly solubilize in the reverse micelle ('micellar substrates').
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- R Bru
- Departamento de Bioquimica, Facultad de Biologia, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
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Beckage NE, Metcalf JS, Nesbit DJ, Schleifer KW, Zetlan SR, de Buron I. Host hemolymph monophenoloxidase activity in parasitized Manduca sexta larvae and evidence for inhibition by wasp polydnavirus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(90)90046-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Morgan T, Thomas B, Yonekura M, Czapla T, Kramer K, Hopkins T. Soluble tyrosinases from pharate pupal integument of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (L.). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(90)90042-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Peter MG. Chemische Modifikation von Biopolymeren durch Chinone und Chinonmethide. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 1989. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.19891010505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Martínez Ortiz F, Tudela Serrano J, Rodríguez López JN, Varón Castellanos R, Lozano Teruel JA, García-Cánovas F. Oxidation of 3,4-dihydroxymandelic acid catalyzed by tyrosinase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 957:158-63. [PMID: 2846069 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(88)90169-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Tyrosinase usually catalyzes the conversion of monophenols to o-diphenols and the oxidation of o-diphenols to the corresponding quinones. However, when 3,4-dihydroxymandelic acid was provided as the substrate, 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde was produced. These results led to the proposal that tyrosinase catalyzes an unusual oxidative decarboxylation of this substrate (Sugumaran, M. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 4489-4492). However, 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde is also obtained through the oxidation of 3,4-dihydroxymandelic acid by sodium periodate and on a mercury electrode. These results led to the proposal that tyrosinase catalyzes the oxidation of the substrate into o-quinone, which reacts immediately with a molecule of substrate, oxidizing it and through decarboxylation generates an intermediate (quinone methide) which transforms into 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde; simultaneously, the original o-quinone is reduced to 3,4-dihydroxymandelic acid.
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- F Martínez Ortiz
- Departamento de Química-Física, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
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VALERO EDELMIRA, VARÓN RAMÓN, GARCÍA-CARMONA FRANCISCO. Characterization of Polyphenol Oxidase from Airen Grapes. J Food Sci 1988. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1988.tb09304.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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