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Mohamed H, Ghith A, Bell SG. The binding of nitrogen-donor ligands to the ferric and ferrous forms of cytochrome P450 enzymes. J Inorg Biochem 2023; 242:112168. [PMID: 36870164 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2023.112168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2022] [Revised: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/27/2023]
Abstract
The cytochrome P450 superfamily of heme-thiolate monooxygenase enzymes can catalyse various oxidation reactions. The addition of a substrate or an inhibitor ligand induces changes in the absorption spectrum of these enzymes and UV-visible (UV-vis) absorbance spectroscopy is the most common and readily available technique used to interrogate their heme and active site environment. Nitrogen-containing ligands can inhibit the catalytic cycle of heme enzymes by interacting with the heme. Here we evaluate the binding of imidazole and pyridine-based ligands to the ferric and ferrous forms of a selection of bacterial cytochrome P450 enzymes using UV-visible absorbance spectroscopy. The majority of these ligands interact with the heme as one would expect for type II nitrogen directly coordinated to a ferric heme-thiolate species. However, the spectroscopic changes observed in the ligand-bound ferrous forms indicated differences in the heme environment across these P450 enzyme/ligand combinations. Multiple species were observed in the UV-vis spectra of the ferrous ligand-bound P450s. None of the enzymes gave rise to the isolation of a single species with a Soret band at ∼442-447 nm, indicative of a 6-coordinate ferrous thiolate species with a nitrogen-donor ligand. A ferrous species with Soret band at ∼427 nm coupled with an α-band of increased intensity was observed with the imidazole ligands. With some enzyme-ligand combinations reduction resulted in breaking of the iron‑nitrogen bond yielding a 5-coordinate high-spin ferrous species. In other instances, the ferrous form was readily oxidised back to the ferric form on addition of the ligand.
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- Hebatalla Mohamed
- Department of Chemistry, University Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, University Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, University Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
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The Evolution of Nitric Oxide Function: From Reactivity in the Prebiotic Earth to Examples of Biological Roles and Therapeutic Applications. Antioxidants (Basel) 2022; 11:antiox11071222. [PMID: 35883712 PMCID: PMC9311577 DOI: 10.3390/antiox11071222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Revised: 06/14/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Nitric oxide was once considered to be of marginal interest to the biological sciences and medicine; however, there is now wide recognition, but not yet a comprehensive understanding, of its functions and effects. NO is a reactive, toxic free radical with numerous biological targets, especially metal ions. However, NO and its reaction products also play key roles as reductant and oxidant in biological redox processes, in signal transduction, immunity and infection, as well as other roles. Consequently, it can be sensed, metabolized and modified in biological systems. Here, we present a brief overview of the chemistry and biology of NO—in particular, its origins in geological time and in contemporary biology, its toxic consequences and its critical biological functions. Given that NO, with its intrinsic reactivity, appeared in the early Earth’s atmosphere before the evolution of complex lifeforms, we speculate that the potential for toxicity preceded biological function. To examine this hypothesis, we consider the nature of non-biological and biological targets of NO, the evolution of biological mechanisms for NO detoxification, and how living organisms generate this multifunctional gas.
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Guo K, Gao H. Physiological Roles of Nitrite and Nitric Oxide in Bacteria: Similar Consequences from Distinct Cell Targets, Protection, and Sensing Systems. Adv Biol (Weinh) 2021; 5:e2100773. [PMID: 34310085 DOI: 10.1002/adbi.202100773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Revised: 06/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Nitrite and nitric oxide (NO) are two active nitrogen oxides that display similar biochemical properties, especially when interacting with redox-sensitive proteins (i.e., hemoproteins), an observation serving as the foundation of the notion that the antibacterial effect of nitrite is largely attributed to NO formation. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that they are largely treated as distinct molecules by bacterial cells. Although both nitrite and NO are formed and decomposed by enzymes participating in the transformation of these nitrogen species, NO can also be generated via amino acid metabolism by bacterial NO synthetase and scavenged by flavohemoglobin. NO seemingly interacts with all hemoproteins indiscriminately, whereas nitrite shows high specificity to heme-copper oxidases. Consequently, the homeostasis of redox-sensitive proteins may be responsible for the substantial difference in NO-targets identified to date among different bacteria. In addition, most protective systems against NO damage have no significant role in alleviating inhibitory effects of nitrite. Furthermore, when functioning as signal molecules, nitrite and NO are perceived by completely different sensing systems, through which they are linked to different biological processes.
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- Kailun Guo
- Institute of Microbiology and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China
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- Institute of Microbiology and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China
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Shumayrikh NM, Warren JJ, Bennet AJ, Sen D. A heme•DNAzyme activated by hydrogen peroxide catalytically oxidizes thioethers by direct oxygen atom transfer rather than by a Compound I-like intermediate. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:1803-1815. [PMID: 33476369 PMCID: PMC7913675 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2020] [Revised: 12/31/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Hemin [Fe(III)-protoporphyrin IX] is known to bind tightly to single-stranded DNA and RNA molecules that fold into G-quadruplexes (GQ). Such complexes are strongly activated for oxidative catalysis. These heme•DNAzymes and ribozymes have found broad utility in bioanalytical and medicinal chemistry and have also been shown to occur within living cells. However, how a GQ is able to activate hemin is poorly understood. Herein, we report fast kinetic measurements (using stopped-flow UV-vis spectrophotometry) to identify the H2O2-generated activated heme species within a heme•DNAzyme that is active for the oxidation of a thioether substrate, dibenzothiophene (DBT). Singular value decomposition and global fitting analysis was used to analyze the kinetic data, with the results being consistent with the heme•DNAzyme's DBT oxidation being catalyzed by the initial Fe(III)heme-H2O2 complex. Such a complex has been predicted computationally to be a powerful oxidant for thioether substrates. In the heme•DNAzyme, the DNA GQ enhances both the kinetics of formation of the active intermediate as well as the oxidation step of DBT by the active intermediate. We show, using both stopped flow spectrophotometry and EPR measurements, that a classic Compound I is not observable during the catalytic cycle for thioether sulfoxidation.
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- Nisreen M Shumayrikh
- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
- Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
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Dong X, Liu Y, Zhang G, Wang D, Zhou X, Shao J, Shen Q, Zhang R. Synthesis and detoxification of nitric oxide in the plant beneficial rhizobacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SQR9 and its effect on biofilm formation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2018; 503:784-790. [PMID: 29913149 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.06.076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 06/14/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
Abstract
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important gas signal that regulates many biological processes, and due to the high nitrogen recycling activity in the rhizosphere, NO is an important signaling molecule in this region. Thus, an understanding of the effect of NO on the rhizomicrobiome, especially on plant beneficial rhizobacteria, is important for the use of these bacteria in agriculture. In this study, the effect of exogenous NO on the beneficial rhizobacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SQR9 was investigated. The results showed that low concentrations of NO increased the ability of the strain SQR9 to form biofilms, while high concentrations of NO inhibited the growth of this bacterium. The SQR9 gene yflM encodes nitric oxide synthase (NOS), which is used to synthesize NO, while the gene ykvO encodes a sepiapterin reductase that is used to synthesize tetrahydrobiopterin, the coenzyme of NOS. Isothermal titration calorimetry and high-performance liquid chromatography analyses demonstrated an interaction between YkvO and NADPH. SQR9 has two hmp genes, although only one was observed to be responsible for NO detoxification through oxidization. This study revealed the effect of NO on plant beneficial rhizobacterium and assessed the ability of this strain to adapt to exogenous NO, which will help to improve the application of this strain in agricultural production.
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- Xiaoyan Dong
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Organic Solid Waste Utilization, National Engineering Research Center for Organic-based Fertilizers, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, PR China; Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources Collection and Preservation, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources Collection and Preservation, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources Collection and Preservation, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Organic Solid Waste Utilization, National Engineering Research Center for Organic-based Fertilizers, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, PR China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Organic Solid Waste Utilization, National Engineering Research Center for Organic-based Fertilizers, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, PR China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Organic Solid Waste Utilization, National Engineering Research Center for Organic-based Fertilizers, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, PR China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Organic Solid Waste Utilization, National Engineering Research Center for Organic-based Fertilizers, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, PR China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Organic Solid Waste Utilization, National Engineering Research Center for Organic-based Fertilizers, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, PR China; Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources Collection and Preservation, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, PR China.
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Shamovsky I, Belfield G, Lewis R, Narjes F, Ripa L, Tyrchan C, Öberg L, Sjö P. Theoretical studies of the second step of the nitric oxide synthase reaction: Electron tunneling prevents uncoupling. J Inorg Biochem 2018; 181:28-40. [PMID: 29407906 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2018.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2017] [Revised: 12/18/2017] [Accepted: 01/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
Nitric oxide (NO·) is a messenger molecule with diverse physiological roles including host defense, neurotransmission and vascular function. The synthesis of NO· from l-arginine is catalyzed by NO-synthases and occurs in two steps through the intermediary Nω-hydroxy-l-arginine (NHA). In both steps the P450-like reaction cycle is coupled with the redox cycle of the cofactor tetrahydrobiopterin (H4B). The mechanism of the second step is studied by Density Functional Theory calculations to ascertain the canonical sequence of proton and electron transfer (PT and ET) events. The proposed mechanism is controlled by the interplay of two electron donors, H4B and NHA. Consistent with experimental data, the catalytic cycle proceeds through the ferric-hydroperoxide complex (Cpd 0) and the following aqua-ferriheme resting state, and involves interim partial oxidation of H4B. The mechanism starts with formation of Cpd 0 from the ferrous-dioxy reactant complex by PT from the C-ring heme propionate coupled with hole transfer to H4B through the highest occupied π-orbital of NHA as a bridge. This enables PT from NHA+· to the proximal oxygen leading to the shallow ferriheme-H2O2 oxidant. Subsequent Fenton-like peroxide bond cleavage triggered by ET from the NHA-derived iminoxy-radical leads to the protonated Cpd II diradicaloid singlet stabilized by spin delocalization in H4B, and the closed-shell coordination complex of HO- with iminoxy-cation. The complex is converted to the transient C-adduct, which releases intended products upon PT to the ferriheme-HO- complex coupled with ET to the H4B+·. Deferred ET from the substrate or undue ET from/to the cofactor leads to side products.
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- Igor Shamovsky
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, IMED RIA, AstraZeneca R&D Gothenburg, Pepparedsleden 1, 431 83 Mölndal, Sweden.
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, IMED RIA, AstraZeneca R&D Gothenburg, Pepparedsleden 1, 431 83 Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, IMED RIA, AstraZeneca R&D Gothenburg, Pepparedsleden 1, 431 83 Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, IMED RIA, AstraZeneca R&D Gothenburg, Pepparedsleden 1, 431 83 Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, IMED RIA, AstraZeneca R&D Gothenburg, Pepparedsleden 1, 431 83 Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, IMED RIA, AstraZeneca R&D Gothenburg, Pepparedsleden 1, 431 83 Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, IMED RIA, AstraZeneca R&D Gothenburg, Pepparedsleden 1, 431 83 Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, IMED RIA, AstraZeneca R&D Gothenburg, Pepparedsleden 1, 431 83 Mölndal, Sweden
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Tsutsui Y, Kobayashi K, Takeuchi F, Tsubaki M, Kozawa T. Reaction Intermediates of Nitric Oxide Synthase from Deinococcus radiodurans as Revealed by Pulse Radiolysis: Evidence for Intramolecular Electron Transfer from Biopterin to Fe II-O 2 Complex. Biochemistry 2018; 57:1611-1619. [PMID: 29320163 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is a cytochrome P450-type mono-oxygenase that catalyzes the oxidation of l-arginine (Arg) to nitric oxide (NO) through a reaction intermediate N-hydroxy-l-arginine (NHA). The mechanism underlying the reaction catalyzed by NOS from Deinococcus radiodurans was investigated using pulse radiolysis. Radiolytically generated hydrated electrons reduced the heme iron of NOS within 2 μs. Subsequently, ferrous heme reacted with O2 to form a ferrous-dioxygen intermediate with a second-order rate constant of 2.8 × 108 M-1 s-1. In the tetrahydrofolate (H4F)-bound enzyme, the ferrous-dioxygen intermediate was found to decay an another intermediate with a first-order rate constant of 2.2 × 103 s-1. The spectrum of the intermediate featured an absorption maximum at 440 nm and an absorption minimum at 390 nm. In the absence of H4F, this step did not proceed, suggesting that H4F was reduced with the ferrous-dioxygen intermediate to form a second intermediate. The intermediate further converted to the original ferric form with a first-order rate constant of 4 s-1. A similar intermediate could be detected after pulse radiolysis in the presence of NHA, although the intermediate decayed more slowly (0.5 s-1). These data suggested that a common catalytically active intermediate involved in the substrate oxidation of both Arg and NHA may be formed during catalysis. In addition, we investigated the solvent isotope effects on the kinetics of the intermediate after pulse radiolysis. Our experiments revealed dramatic kinetic solvent isotope effects on the conversion of the intermediate to the ferric form, of 10.5 and 2.5 for Arg and NHA, respectively, whereas the faster phases were not affected. These data suggest that the proton transfer in DrNOS is the rate-limiting reaction of the intermediate with the substrates.
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- Yuko Tsutsui
- The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research , Osaka University , Mihogaoka 8-1 , Ibaraki , Osaka 567-0047 , Japan
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- The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research , Osaka University , Mihogaoka 8-1 , Ibaraki , Osaka 567-0047 , Japan
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- Institute for Promotion of Higher Education , Kobe University , 1-2-1 Tsurukabuto , Nada-ku, Kobe , Hyogo 657-8501 , Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Department of Chemistry , Kobe University , 1-1 Rokkodai-cho , Nada-ku, Kobe , Hyogo 657-8501 , Japan
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- The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research , Osaka University , Mihogaoka 8-1 , Ibaraki , Osaka 567-0047 , Japan
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Hutfless EH, Chaudhari SS, Thomas VC. Emerging Roles of Nitric Oxide Synthase in Bacterial Physiology. Adv Microb Physiol 2018; 72:147-191. [PMID: 29778214 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2018.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is a potent inhibitor of diverse cellular processes in bacteria. Therefore, it was surprising to discover that several bacterial species, primarily Gram-positive organisms, harboured a gene encoding nitric oxide synthase (NOS). Recent attempts to characterize bacterial NOS (bNOS) have resulted in the discovery of structural features that may allow it to function as a NO dioxygenase and produce nitrate in addition to NO. Consistent with this characterization, investigations into the biological function of bNOS have also emphasized a role for NOS-dependent nitrate and nitrite production in aerobic and microaerobic respiration. In this review, we aim to compare, contrast, and summarize the structure, biochemistry, and biological role of bNOS with mammalian NOS and discuss how recent advances in our understanding of bNOS have enabled efforts at designing inhibitors against it.
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- University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States.
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Ilinskaya ON, Ulyanova VV, Yarullina DR, Gataullin IG. Secretome of Intestinal Bacilli: A Natural Guard against Pathologies. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1666. [PMID: 28919884 PMCID: PMC5586196 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2017] [Accepted: 08/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Current studies of human gut microbiome usually do not consider the special functional role of transient microbiota, although some of its members remain in the host for a long time and produce broad spectrum of biologically active substances. Getting into the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) with food, water and probiotic preparations, two representatives of Bacilli class, genera Bacillus and Lactobacillus, colonize epithelium blurring the boundaries between resident and transient microbiota. Despite their minor proportion in the microbiome composition, these bacteria can significantly affect both the intestinal microbiota and the entire body thanks to a wide range of secreted compounds. Recently, insufficiency and limitations of pure genome-based analysis of gut microbiota became known. Thus, the need for intense functional studies is evident. This review aims to characterize the Bacillus and Lactobacillus in GIT, as well as the functional roles of the components released by these members of microbial intestinal community. Complex of their secreted compounds is referred by us as the "bacillary secretome." The composition of the bacillary secretome, its biological effects in GIT and role in counteraction to infectious diseases and oncological pathologies in human organism is the subject of the review.
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- Department of Microbiology, Kazan Federal UniversityKazan, Russia
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- Department of Surgery and Oncology, Regional Clinical Cancer CenterKazan, Russia
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Nitrite reduction by molybdoenzymes: a new class of nitric oxide-forming nitrite reductases. J Biol Inorg Chem 2015; 20:403-33. [DOI: 10.1007/s00775-014-1234-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2014] [Accepted: 12/14/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Davydov R, Labby KJ, Chobot SE, Lukoyanov DA, Crane BR, Silverman RB, Hoffman BM. Enzymatic and cryoreduction EPR studies of the hydroxylation of methylated N(ω)-hydroxy-L-arginine analogues by nitric oxide synthase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus. Biochemistry 2014; 53:6511-9. [PMID: 25251261 PMCID: PMC4204881 DOI: 10.1021/bi500485z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
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Nitric
oxide synthase (NOS) catalyzes the conversion of l-arginine
to l-citrulline and NO in a two-step process involving the
intermediate Nω-hydroxy-l-arginine (NHA). It was shown that Cpd I is the oxygenating species
for l-arginine; the hydroperoxo ferric intermediate is the
reactive intermediate with NHA. Methylation of the Nω-OH and Nω-H of NHA significantly inhibits the conversion
of NHA into NO and l-citrulline by mammalian NOS. Kinetic
studies now show that Nω-methylation of NHA has a
qualitatively similar effect on H2O2-dependent
catalysis by bacterial gsNOS. To elucidate the effect of methylating
Nω-hydroxy l-arginine on the properties
and reactivity of the one-electron-reduced oxy-heme center of NOS,
we have applied cryoreduction/annealing/EPR/ENDOR techniques. Measurements
of solvent kinetic isotope effects during 160 K cryoannealing cryoreduced
oxy-gsNOS/NHA confirm the hydroperoxo ferric intermediate as the catalytically
active species of step two. Product analysis for cryoreduced samples
with methylated NHA’s, NHMA, NMOA, and NMMA, annealed to 273
K, show a correlation of yields of l-citrulline with the
intensity of the g 2.26 EPR signal of the peroxo ferric
species trapped at 77 K, which converts to the reactive hydroperoxo
ferric state. There is also a correlation between the yield of l-citrulline in these experiments and kobs for the H2O2-dependent conversion
of the substrates by gsNOS. Correspondingly, no detectable amount
of cyanoornithine, formed when Cpd I is the reactive species, was
found in the samples. Methylation of the NHA guanidinium Nω-OH and Nω-H inhibits the second NO-producing reaction
by favoring protonation of the ferric-peroxo to form unreactive conformers
of the ferric-hydroperoxo state. It is suggested that this is caused
by modification of the distal-pocket hydrogen-bonding network of oxy
gsNOS and introduction of an ordered water molecule that facilitates
delivery of the proton(s) to the one-electron-reduced oxy-heme moiety.
These results illustrate how variations in the properties of the substrate
can modulate the reactivity of a monooxygenase.
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- Roman Davydov
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Luisa B. Maia
- REQUIMTE/CQFB, Departamento
de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- REQUIMTE/CQFB, Departamento
de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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Kinetics of CO recombination to the heme in Geobacillus stearothermophilus nitric oxide synthase. Polyhedron 2013; 58:134-138. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2012.08.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Tejero J, Stuehr D. Tetrahydrobiopterin in nitric oxide synthase. IUBMB Life 2013; 65:358-65. [PMID: 23441062 DOI: 10.1002/iub.1136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2012] [Accepted: 12/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
SUMMARY Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is a critical enzyme for the production of the messenger molecule nitric oxide (NO) from L-arginine. NOS enzymes require tetrahydrobiopterin as a cofactor for NO synthesis. Besides being one of the few enzymes to use this cofactor, the role of tetrahydrobiopterin in NOS catalytic mechanism is different from other enzymes: during the catalytic cycle of NOS, tetrahydrobiopterin forms a radical species that is again reduced, thus effectively regenerating after each NO synthesis cycle. In this review, we summarize our current knowledge about the role of tetrahydrobiopterin in the structure, function, and catalytic mechanism of NOS enzymes.
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- Jesús Tejero
- Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Smith AT, Su Y, Stevens DJ, Majtan T, Kraus JP, Burstyn JN. Effect of the disease-causing R266K mutation on the heme and PLP environments of human cystathionine β-synthase. Biochemistry 2012; 51:6360-70. [PMID: 22738154 DOI: 10.1021/bi300421z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) is an essential pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzyme of the transsulfuration pathway that condenses serine with homocysteine to form cystathionine; intriguingly, human CBS also contains a heme b cofactor of unknown function. Herein we describe the enzymatic and spectroscopic properties of a disease-associated R266K hCBS variant, which has an altered hydrogen-bonding environment. The R266K hCBS contains a low-spin, six-coordinate Fe(III) heme bearing a His/Cys ligation motif, like that of WT hCBS; however, there is a geometric distortion that exists at the R266K heme. Using rR spectroscopy, we show that the Fe(III)-Cys(thiolate) bond is longer and weaker in R266K, as evidenced by an 8 cm(-1) downshift in the ν(Fe-S) resonance. Presence of this longer and weaker Fe(III)-Cys(thiolate) bond is correlated with alteration of the fluorescence spectrum of the active PLP ketoenamine tautomer. Activity data demonstrate that, relative to WT, the R266K variant is more impaired in the alternative cysteine-synthesis reaction than in the canonical cystathionine-synthesis reaction. This diminished cysteine synthesis activity and a greater sensitivity to exogenous PLP correlate with the change in PLP environment. Fe-S(Cys) bond weakening causes a nearly 300-fold increase in the rate of ligand switching upon reduction of the R266K heme. Combined, these data demonstrate cross talk between the heme and PLP active sites, consistent with previous proposals, revealing that alteration of the Arg(266)-Cys(52) interaction affects PLP-dependent activity and dramatically destabilizes the ferrous thiolate-ligated heme complex, underscoring the importance of this hydrogen-bonding residue pair.
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- Aaron T Smith
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Feng C. Mechanism of Nitric Oxide Synthase Regulation: Electron Transfer and Interdomain Interactions. Coord Chem Rev 2012; 256:393-411. [PMID: 22523434 PMCID: PMC3328867 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2011.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Nitric oxide synthase (NOS), a flavo-hemoprotein, tightly regulates nitric oxide (NO) synthesis and thereby its dual biological activities as a key signaling molecule for vasodilatation and neurotransmission at low concentrations, and also as a defensive cytotoxin at higher concentrations. Three NOS isoforms, iNOS, eNOS and nNOS (inducible, endothelial, and neuronal NOS), achieve their key biological functions by tight regulation of interdomain electron transfer (IET) process via interdomain interactions. In particular, the FMN-heme IET is essential in coupling electron transfer in the reductase domain with NO synthesis in the heme domain by delivery of electrons required for O(2) activation at the catalytic heme site. Compelling evidence indicates that calmodulin (CaM) activates NO synthesis in eNOS and nNOS through a conformational change of the FMN domain from its shielded electron-accepting (input) state to a new electron-donating (output) state, and that CaM is also required for proper alignment of the domains. Another exciting recent development in NOS enzymology is the discovery of importance of the the FMN domain motions in modulating reactivity and structure of the catalytic heme active site (in addition to the primary role of controlling the IET processes). In the absence of a structure of full-length NOS, an integrated approach of spectroscopic (e.g. pulsed EPR, MCD, resonance Raman), rapid kinetics (laser flash photolysis and stopped flow) and mutagenesis methods is critical to unravel the molecular details of the interdomain FMN/heme interactions. This is to investigate the roles of dynamic conformational changes of the FMN domain and the docking between the primary functional FMN and heme domains in regulating NOS activity. The recent developments in understanding of mechanisms of the NOS regulation that are driven by the combined approach are the focuses of this review. An improved understanding of the role of interdomain FMN/heme interaction and CaM binding may serve as the basis for the design of new selective inhibitors of NOS isoforms.
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- Changjian Feng
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 (USA) , Tel: 505-925-4326
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Salard-Arnaud I, Stuehr D, Boucher JL, Mansuy D. Spectroscopic, catalytic and binding properties of Bacillus subtilis NO synthase-like protein: comparison with other bacterial and mammalian NO synthases. J Inorg Biochem 2012; 106:164-71. [PMID: 22119809 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2011.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2011] [Revised: 09/08/2011] [Accepted: 10/03/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Genome sequencing has shown the presence of genes coding for NO-synthase (NOS)-like proteins in bacteria. The roles and properties of these proteins remain unclear. UV-visible spectroscopy was used to characterize the recombinant NOS-like protein from Bacillus subtilis (bsNOS) in its ferric and ferrous states in the presence of various Fe(III)- and Fe(II)-heme-ligands and of a series of L-arginine (L-arg) analogs. BsNOS exhibited several spectroscopic and binding properties in common with Bacillus anthracis NOS (baNOS) that were clearly different from those of tetrahydrobiopterin (H4B)-free mammalian NOS oxygenase domains (mNOS(oxys)) and of Staphylococcus aureus NOS (saNOS). Interestingly, bsNOS and baNOS that do not contain H4B exhibited properties much closer to those of H4B-containing mNOS(oxys). Moreover, bsNOS was found to efficiently catalyze the oxidation of L-arginine into L-citrulline by H(2)O(2), whereas H4B-free mNOS(oxys) exhibited low activities for this reaction.
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- Isabelle Salard-Arnaud
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie Pharmacologiques et Toxicologiques, Université Paris Descartes, UMR 8601 CNRS, Paris, France
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Whited CA, Warren JJ, Lavoie KD, Weinert EE, Agapie T, Winkler JR, Gray HB. Gating NO release from nitric oxide synthase. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 134:27-30. [PMID: 22148177 DOI: 10.1021/ja2069533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We have investigated the kinetics of NO escape from Geobacillus stearothermophilus nitric oxide synthase (gsNOS). Previous work indicated that NO release was gated at position 223 in mammalian enzymes; our kinetics experiments include mutants at that position along with measurements on the wild type enzyme. Employing stopped-flow UV-vis methods, reactions were triggered by mixing a reduced enzyme/N-hydroxy-l-arginine complex with an aerated buffer solution. NO release kinetics were obtained for wt NOS and three mutants (H134S, I223V, H134S/I223V). We have confirmed that wt gsNOS has the lowest NO release rate of known NOS enzymes, whether bacterial or mammalian. We also have found that steric clashes at positions 223 and 134 hinder NO escape, as judged by enhanced rates in the single mutants. The empirical rate of NO release from the gsNOS double mutant (H134/I223V) is nearly as rapid as that of the fastest mammalian enzymes, demonstrating that both positions 223 and 134 function as gates for escape of the product diatomic molecule.
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- Charlotte A Whited
- Beckman Institute and Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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Hannibal L, Somasundaram R, Tejero J, Wilson A, Stuehr DJ. Influence of heme-thiolate in shaping the catalytic properties of a bacterial nitric-oxide synthase. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:39224-35. [PMID: 21921039 PMCID: PMC3234747 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.286351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2011] [Revised: 08/26/2011] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Nitric-oxide synthases (NOS) are heme-thiolate enzymes that generate nitric oxide (NO) from L-arginine. Mammalian and bacterial NOSs contain a conserved tryptophan (Trp) that hydrogen bonds with the heme-thiolate ligand. We mutated Trp(66) to His and Phe (W66H, W66F) in B. subtilis NOS to investigate how heme-thiolate electronic properties control enzyme catalysis. The mutations had opposite effects on heme midpoint potential (-302, -361, and -427 mV for W66H, wild-type (WT), and W66F, respectively). These changes were associated with rank order (W66H < WT < W66F) changes in the rates of oxygen activation and product formation in Arg hydroxylation and N-hydroxyarginine (NOHA) oxidation single turnover reactions, and in the O(2) reactivity of the ferrous heme-NO product complex. However, enzyme ferrous heme-O(2) autoxidation showed an opposite rank order. Tetrahydrofolate supported NO synthesis by WT and the mutant NOS. All three proteins showed similar extents of product formation (L-Arg → NOHA or NOHA → citrulline) in single turnover studies, but the W66F mutant showed a 2.5 times lower activity when the reactions were supported by flavoproteins and NADPH. We conclude that Trp(66) controls several catalytic parameters by tuning the electron density of the heme-thiolate bond. A greater electron density (as in W66F) improves oxygen activation and reactivity toward substrate, but decreases heme-dioxy stability and lowers the driving force for heme reduction. In the WT enzyme the Trp(66) residue balances these opposing effects for optimal catalysis.
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- Luciana Hannibal
- From the Department of Pathobiology, Lerner
Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195 and
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- From the Department of Pathobiology, Lerner
Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195 and
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- From the Department of Pathobiology, Lerner
Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195 and
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- the Laboratoire Stress Oxidant et Detoxication
(LSOD), CEA-IBITEC-S, Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- From the Department of Pathobiology, Lerner
Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195 and
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Lang J, Santolini J, Couture M. The conserved Trp-Cys hydrogen bond dampens the "push effect" of the heme cysteinate proximal ligand during the first catalytic cycle of nitric oxide synthase. Biochemistry 2011; 50:10069-81. [PMID: 22023145 DOI: 10.1021/bi200965e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Residues surrounding and interacting with the heme proximal ligand are important for efficient catalysis by heme proteins. The nitric oxide synthases (NOSs) are thiolate-coordinated enzymes that catalyze the hydroxylation of l-Arg in the first of the two catalytic cycles needed to synthesize nitric oxide. In NOSs, the indole NH group of a conserved tryptophan [W56 of the bacterial NOS-like protein from Staphylococcus aureus (saNOS)] forms a hydrogen bond with the heme proximal cysteinate ligand. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of increasing (W56F and W56Y variants) or decreasing (W56H variant) the electron density of the proximal cysteinate ligand on molecular oxygen (O(2)) activation using saNOS as a model. We show that the removal of the indole NH···S(-) bond for W56F and W56Y caused an increase in the electron density of the cysteinate. This was probed by the decrease of the midpoint reduction potential (E(1/2)) along with weakened σ-bonding and strengthened π-backbonding with distal ligands (CO and O(2)). On the other hand, the W56H variant showed stronger Fe-OO and Fe-CO bonds (strengthened σ-bonding) along with an elevated E(1/2), which is consistent with the formation of a strong NH···S(-) hydrogen bond from H56. We also show here that changing the electron density of the proximal thiolate controls its "push effect"; whereas the rates of both O(2) activation and autoxidation of the Fe(II)O(2) complex increase with the stronger push effect created by removing the indole NH···S(-) hydrogen bond (W56F and W56Y variants), the W56H variant showed an increased stability of the complex against autoxidation and a slower rate of O(2) activation. These results are discussed with regard to the roles played by the conserved tryptophan-cysteinate interaction in the first catalytic cycle of NOS.
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- Jérôme Lang
- Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bioinformatique, PROTEO and IBIS, pavillon Charles-Eugène Marchand, room 3163, Université Laval, Québec, Canada G1V 0A6
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Brunel A, Wilson A, Henry L, Dorlet P, Santolini J. The proximal hydrogen bond network modulates Bacillus subtilis nitric-oxide synthase electronic and structural properties. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:11997-2005. [PMID: 21310962 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.195446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Bacterial nitric-oxide synthase (NOS)-like proteins are believed to be genuine NOSs. As for cytochromes P450 (CYPs), NOS-proximal ligand is a thiolate that exerts a push effect crucial for the process of dioxygen activation. Unlike CYPs, this catalytic electron donation seems controlled by a hydrogen bond (H-bond) interaction between the thiolate ligand and a vicinal tryptophan. Variations of the strength of this H-bond could provide a direct way to tune the stability along with the electronic and structural properties of NOS. We generated five different mutations of bsNOS Trp66, which can modulate this proximal H-bond. We investigated the effects of these mutations on different NOS complexes (FeIII, FeIICO, and FeIINO), using a combination of UV-visible absorption, EPR, FTIR, and resonance Raman spectroscopies. Our results indicate that (i) the proximal H-bond modulation can selectively decrease or increase the electron donating properties of the proximal thiolate, (ii) this modulation controls the σ-competition between distal and proximal ligands, (iii) this H-bond controls the stability of various NOS intermediates, and (iv) a fine tuning of the electron donation by the proximal ligand is required to allow at the same time oxygen activation and to prevent uncoupling reactions.
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- Albane Brunel
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, iBiTec-S, SBSM, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Santolini J. The molecular mechanism of mammalian NO-synthases: a story of electrons and protons. J Inorg Biochem 2010; 105:127-41. [PMID: 21194610 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2010.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2010] [Revised: 10/19/2010] [Accepted: 10/22/2010] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Since its discovery, nitric oxide synthase (NOS), the enzyme responsible for NO biosynthesis in mammals, has been the subject of extensive investigations regarding its catalytic and molecular mechanisms. These studies reveal the high degree of sophistication of NOS functioning and regulation. However, the precise description of the NOS molecular mechanism and in particular of the oxygen activation chemistry is still lacking. The reaction intermediates implicated in NOS catalysis continue to elude identification and the current working paradigm is increasingly contested. Consequently, the last three years has seen the emergence of several competing models. All these models propose the same global reaction scheme consisting of two successive oxidation reactions but they diverge in the details of their reaction sequence. The major discrepancies concern the number, source and characteristics of proton and electron transfer processes. As a result each model proposes distinct reaction pathways with different implied oxidative species. This review aims to examine the different experimental evidence concerning NOS proton and electron transfer events and the role played by the substrates and cofactors in these processes. The resulting discussion should provide a comparative picture of all potential models for the NOS molecular mechanism.
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- Jérôme Santolini
- iBiTec-S; LSOD, C. E. A. Saclay; 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.
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Unlike mammalian NO synthases, bacterial NO synthases do not contain a reductase domain. The only exception from this rule is the NO synthase from myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum, but its reductase domain has unusual structure and location in the enzyme molecule. Recent achievements in bacterial genome sequencing have revealed the gene coding NO synthase (represented as an oxygenase domain) in some bacteria and have advanced the study of structure and functions of bacterial NO synthases. Important features of structure, sources of reducing equivalents, evolutionary connections, and functions of bacterial NO synthases (i.e. participation in nitration of the indole ring of Trp, in reparation of UV-radiation damage, role in adaptation of bacteria to oxidative stress, participation in the synthesis of cGMP, and resistance of bacteria against antibiotics) are described.
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- S Iu Filippovich
- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853;
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Sudhamsu J, Kabir M, Airola MV, Patel BA, Yeh SR, Rousseau DL, Crane BR. Co-expression of ferrochelatase allows for complete heme incorporation into recombinant proteins produced in E. coli. Protein Expr Purif 2010; 73:78-82. [PMID: 20303407 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2010.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2010] [Accepted: 03/13/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Over-expression of heme binding proteins in Escherichia coli often results in sub-optimal heme incorporation and the amount of heme-bound protein produced usually varies with the protein of interest. Complete heme incorporation is important for biochemical characterization, spectroscopy, structural studies, and for the production of homogeneous commercial proteins with high activity. We have determined that recombinant proteins expressed in E. coli often contain less than a full complement of heme because they rather are partially incorporated with free-base porphyrin. Porphyrin-incorporated proteins have similar spectral characteristics as the desired heme-loaded targets, and thus are difficult to detect, even in purified samples. We present a straightforward and inexpensive solution to this problem that involves the co-expression of native ferrochelatase with the protein of interest. The method is shown to be effective for proteins that contain either Cys- or His-ligated hemes.
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- Jawahar Sudhamsu
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Davydov R, Sudhamsu J, Lees NS, Crane BR, Hoffman BM. EPR and ENDOR characterization of the reactive intermediates in the generation of NO by cryoreduced oxy-nitric oxide synthase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:14493-507. [PMID: 19754116 DOI: 10.1021/ja906133h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cryoreduction EPR/ENDOR/step-annealing measurements with substrate complexes of oxy-gsNOS (3; gsNOS is nitric oxide synthase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus) confirm that Compound I (6) is the reactive heme species that carries out the gsNOS-catalyzed (Stage I) oxidation of L-arginine to N-hydroxy-L-arginine (NOHA), whereas the active species in the (Stage II) oxidation of NOHA to citrulline and HNO/NO(-) is the hydroperoxy-ferric form (5). When 3 is reduced by tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), instead of an externally supplied electron, the resulting BH4(+) radical oxidizes HNO/NO(-) to NO. In this report, radiolytic one-electron reduction of 3 and its complexes with Arg, Me-Arg, and NO(2)Arg was shown by EPR and (1)H and (14,15)N ENDOR spectroscopies to generate 5; in contrast, during cryoreduction of 3/NOHA, the peroxo-ferric-gsNOS intermediate (4/NOHA) was trapped. During annealing at 145 K, ENDOR shows that 5/Arg and 5/Me-Arg (but not 5/NO(2)Arg) generate a Stage I primary product species in which the OH group of the hydroxylated substrate is coordinated to Fe(III), characteristic of 6 as the active heme center. Analysis shows that hydroxylation of Arg and Me-Arg is quantitative. Annealing of 4/NOHA at 160 K converts it first to 5/NOHA and then to the Stage II primary enzymatic product. The latter contains Fe(III) coordinated by water, characteristic of 5 as the active heme center. It further contains quantitative amounts of citrulline and HNO/NO(-); the latter reacts with the ferriheme to form the NO-ferroheme upon further annealing. Stage I delivery of the first proton of catalysis to the (unobserved) 4 formed by cryoreduction of 3 involves a bound water that may convey a proton from L-Arg, while the second proton likely derives from the carboxyl side chain of Glu 248 or the heme carboxylates; the process also involves proton delivery by water(s). In the Stage II oxidation of NOHA, the proton that converts 4/NOHA to 5/NOHA likely is derived from NOHA itself, a conclusion supported by the pH invariance of the process. The present results illustrate how the substrate itself modulates the nature and reactivity of intermediates along the monooxygenase reaction pathway.
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- Roman Davydov
- Chemistry Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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Patel BA, Moreau M, Widom J, Chen H, Yin L, Hua Y, Crane BR. Endogenous nitric oxide regulates the recovery of the radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans from exposure to UV light. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:18183-8. [PMID: 19841256 PMCID: PMC2775278 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907262106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Deinococcus radiodurans (Dr) withstands desiccation, reactive oxygen species, and doses of radiation that would be lethal to most organisms. Deletion of a gene encoding a homolog of mammalian nitric oxide synthase (NOS) severely compromises the recovery of Dr from ultraviolet (UV) radiation damage. The Deltanos defect can be complemented with recombinant NOS, rescued by exogenous nitric oxide (NO) and mimicked in the wild-type strain with an NO scavenging compound. UV radiation induces both upregulation of the nos gene and cellular NO production on similar time scales. Growth recovery does not depend on NO being present during UV irradiation, but rather can be manifested by NO addition hours after exposure. Surprisingly, nos deletion does not increase sensitivity to oxidative damage, and hydrogen peroxide does not induce nos expression. However, NOS-derived NO upregulates transcription of obgE, a gene involved in bacterial growth proliferation and stress response. Overexpression of the ObgE GTPase in the Deltanos background substantially alleviates the growth defect after radiation damage. Thus, NO acts as a signal for the transcriptional regulation of growth in D. radiodurans.
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- Bhumit A. Patel
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; and
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; and
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; and
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- Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310008, China
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- Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310008, China
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- Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310008, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; and
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Sudhamsu J, Crane BR. Bacterial nitric oxide synthases: what are they good for? Trends Microbiol 2009; 17:212-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2009.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2008] [Revised: 02/09/2009] [Accepted: 02/11/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mammalian NOSs (nitric oxide synthases) are haem-based monoxygenases that oxidize the amino acid arginine to the intracellular signal and protective cytotoxin nitric oxide (NO). Certain strains of mostly Gram-positive bacteria contain homologues of the mammalian NOS catalytic domain that can act as NOSs when suitable reductants are supplied. Crystallographic analyses of bacterial NOSs, with substrates and haem-ligands, have disclosed important features of assembly and active-centre chemistry, both general to the NOS family and specific to the bacterial proteins. The slow reaction profiles and especially stable haem-oxygen species of NOSs derived from bacterial thermophiles have facilitated the study of NOS reaction intermediates. Functionally, bacterial NOSs are distinct from their mammalian counterparts. In certain strains of Streptomyces, they participate in the biosynthetic nitration of plant toxins. In the radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans, NOSs are also likely to be involved in biosynthetic nitration reactions, but, furthermore, appear to play an important role in the recovery from damage induced by UV radiation.
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Kabir M, Sudhamsu J, Crane BR, Yeh SR, Rousseau DL. Substrate-ligand interactions in Geobacillus stearothermophilus nitric oxide synthase. Biochemistry 2008; 47:12389-97. [PMID: 18956884 PMCID: PMC3403685 DOI: 10.1021/bi801491e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) generates NO via a sequential two-step reaction [l-arginine (l-Arg) --> N-hydroxy-l-arginine (NOHA) --> l-citrulline + NO]. Each step of the reaction follows a distinct mechanism defined by the chemical environment introduced by each substrate bound to the heme active site. The dioxygen complex of the NOS enzyme from a thermophilic bacterium, Geobacillus stearothermophilus (gsNOS), is unusually stable; hence, it provides a unique model for the studies of the mechanistic differences between the two steps of the NOS reaction. By using CO as a structural probe, we found that gsNOS exhibits two conformations in the absence of substrate, as indicated by the presence of two sets of nu(Fe-CO)/nu(C-O) modes in the resonance Raman spectra. In the nu(Fe-CO) versus nu(C-O) inverse correlation plot, one set of data falls on the correlation line characterized by mammalian NOSs (mNOS), whereas the other set of data lies on a new correlation line defined by a bacterial NOS from Bacillus subtilis (bsNOS), reflecting a difference in the proximal Fe-Cys bond strength in the two conformers of gsNOS. The addition of l-Arg stabilizes the conformer associated with the mNOS correlation line, whereas NOHA stabilizes the conformer associated with the bsNOS correlation line, although both substrates introduce a positive electrostatic potential into the distal heme pocket. To assess how substrate binding affects Fe-Cys bond strength, the frequency of the Fe-Cys stretching mode of gsNOS was monitored by resonance Raman spectroscopy with 363.8 nm excitation. In the substrate-free form, the Fe-Cys stretching mode was detected at 342.5 cm(-1), similar to that of bsNOS. The binding of l-Arg and NOHA brings about a small decrease and increase in the Fe-Cys stretching frequency, respectively. The implication of these unique structural features with respect to the oxygen chemistry of NOS is discussed.
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- Mariam Kabir
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
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Gorren ACF, Mayer B. Nitric-oxide synthase: A cytochrome P450 family foster child. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2007; 1770:432-45. [PMID: 17014963 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2006.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2006] [Accepted: 08/25/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Nitric-oxide synthase (NOS), the enzyme responsible for mammalian NO generation, is no cytochrome P450, but there are striking similarities between both enzymes. First and foremost, both are heme-thiolate proteins, employing the same prosthetic group to perform similar chemistry. Moreover, they share the same redox partner, a diflavoprotein reductase, which in the case of NOS is incorporated with the oxygenase in one polypeptide chain. There are, however, also conspicuous differences, such as the presence in NOS of the additional cofactor tetrahydrobiopterin, which is applied as an auxiliary electron donor to prevent decay of the oxyferrous complex to ferric heme and superoxide. In this review similarities and differences between NOS and cytochrome P450 are analyzed in an attempt to explain why NOS requires BH4 and why NO synthesis is not catalyzed by a member of the cytochrome P450 family.
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- Antonius C F Gorren
- Department of Pharmacology und Toxicology, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
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Chartier F, Couture M. Interactions between substrates and the haem-bound nitric oxide of ferric and ferrous bacterial nitric oxide synthases. Biochem J 2007; 401:235-45. [PMID: 16970546 PMCID: PMC1698664 DOI: 10.1042/bj20060913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2006] [Revised: 09/11/2006] [Accepted: 09/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We report here the resonance Raman spectra of the FeIII-NO and FeII-NO complexes of the bacterial NOSs (nitric oxide synthases) from Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis. The haem-NO complexes of these bacterial NOSs displayed Fe-N-O frequencies similar to those of the mammalian NOSs, in presence and absence of L-arginine, indicating that haem-bound NO and L-arginine had similar haem environments in bacterial and mammalian NOSs. The only notable difference between the two types of NOS was the lack of change in Fe-N-O frequencies of the FeIII-NO complexes upon (6R) 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-L-biopterin binding to bacterial NOSs. We report, for the first time, the characterization of NO complexes with NOHA (N(omega)-hydroxy-L-arginine), the substrate used in the second half of the catalytic cycle of NOSs. In the FeIII-NO complexes, both L-arginine and NOHA induced the Fe-N-O bending mode at nearly the same frequency as a result of a steric interaction between the substrates and the haem-bound NO. However, in the FeII-NO complexes, the Fe-N-O bending mode was not observed and the nu(Fe-NO) mode displayed a 5 cm(-1) higher frequency in the complex with NOHA than in the complex with L-arginine as a result of direct interactions that probably involve hydrogen bonds. The different behaviour of the substrates in the FeII-NO complexes thus reveal that the interactions between haem-bound NO and the substrates are finely tuned by the geometry of the Fe-ligand structure and are relevant to the use of the FeII-NO complex as a model of the oxygenated complex of NOSs.
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Key Words
- l-arginine
- haem
- nω-hydroxy-l-arginine (noha)
- nitric oxide synthase (nos)
- resonance raman spectroscopy
- 5c, 5-co-ordinated
- 6c, 6-co-ordinated
- bsnos, bacillus subtilis nitric oxide synthase
- drnos, deinococcus radiodurans nos
- dtt, dithiothreitol
- enos, endothelial nos
- feiii, ferric form
- feii, ferrous form
- gsnos, geobacillus stearothermophilus nos
- h4b, (6r) 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-l-biopterin
- inos, inducible nos
- nnos, neuronal nos
- noha, nω-hydroxy-l-arginine
- nosox, oxygenase domain of nos
- sanos, staphylococcus aureus nos
- thf, tetrahydrofolate
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- François J. M. Chartier
- Département de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, and Centre de Recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l'ingénierie des protéines (CREFSIP), Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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- Département de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, and Centre de Recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l'ingénierie des protéines (CREFSIP), Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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Wang ZQ, Lawson RJ, Buddha MR, Wei CC, Crane BR, Munro AW, Stuehr DJ. Bacterial flavodoxins support nitric oxide production by Bacillus subtilis nitric-oxide synthase. J Biol Chem 2006; 282:2196-202. [PMID: 17127770 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m608206200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Unlike animal nitric-oxide synthases (NOSs), the bacterial NOS enzymes have no attached flavoprotein domain to reduce their heme and so must rely on unknown bacterial proteins for electrons. We tested the ability of two Bacillus subtilis flavodoxins (YkuN and YkuP) to support catalysis by purified B. subtilis NOS (bsNOS). When an NADPH-utilizing bacterial flavodoxin reductase (FLDR) was added to reduce YkuP or YkuN, both supported NO synthesis from either L-arginine or N-hydroxyarginine and supported a linear nitrite accumulation over a 30-min reaction period. Rates of nitrite production were directly dependent on the ratio of YkuN or YkuP to bsNOS. However, the V/Km value for YkuN (5.2 x 10(5)) was about 20 times greater than that of YkuP (2.6 x 10(4)), indicating YkuN is more efficient in supporting bsNOS catalysis. YkuN that was either photo-reduced or prereduced by FLDR transferred an electron to the bsNOS ferric heme at rates similar to those measured for heme reduction in the animal NOSs. YkuN supported a similar NO synthesis activity by a different bacterial NOS (Deinococcus radiodurans) but not by any of the three mammalian NOS oxygenase domains nor by an insect NOS oxygenase domain. Our results establish YkuN as a kinetically competent redox partner for bsNOS and suggest that FLDR/flavodoxin proteins could function physiologically to support catalysis by bacterial NOSs.
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- Zhi-Qiang Wang
- Department of Pathobiology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.
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Denisov IG, Grinkova YV, Baas BJ, Sligar SG. The ferrous-dioxygen intermediate in human cytochrome P450 3A4. Substrate dependence of formation and decay kinetics. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:23313-8. [PMID: 16762915 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m605511200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The oxy-ferrous complex is the first of three branching intermediates in the catalytic cycle of cytochrome P450, in which the total efficiency of substrate turnover is curtailed by the side reaction of autoxidation. For human membrane-bound cytochromes P450, the oxy complex is believed to be the primary source of cytotoxic superoxide and peroxide, although information on the properties and stability of this intermediate is lacking. Here we document stopped-flow spectroscopic studies of the formation and decay of the oxy-ferrous complex in the most abundant human cytochrome P450 (CYP3A4) as a function of temperature in the substrate-free and substrate-bound form. CYP3A4 solubilized in purified monomeric form in nanoscale POPC bilayers is functionally and kinetically homogeneous. In substrate-free CYP3A4, the oxy complex is extremely unstable with a half-life of approximately 30 ms at 5 degrees C. Saturation with testosterone or bromocriptine stabilizes the oxy-ferrous intermediate. Comparison of the autoxidation rates with the available data on CYP3A4 turnover kinetics suggests that the oxy complex may be an important route for uncoupling.
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- Ilia G Denisov
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
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