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Fitzpatrick PF. The aromatic amino acid hydroxylases: Structures, catalysis, and regulation of phenylalanine hydroxylase, tyrosine hydroxylase, and tryptophan hydroxylase. Arch Biochem Biophys 2023; 735:109518. [PMID: 36639008 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2023.109518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Revised: 01/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The aromatic amino acid hydroxylases phenylalanine hydroxylase, tyrosine hydroxylase, and tryptophan hydroxylase are non-heme iron enzymes that catalyze key physiological reactions. This review discusses the present understanding of the common catalytic mechanism of these enzymes and recent advances in understanding the relationship between their structures and their regulation.
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- Paul F Fitzpatrick
- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA.
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Li M, Subedi BP, Fitzpatrick PF, Emerson JP. Thermodynamics of iron, tetrahydrobiopterin, and phenylalanine binding to phenylalanine hydroxylase from Chromobacterium violaceum. Arch Biochem Biophys 2022; 729:109378. [PMID: 35995215 PMCID: PMC10184773 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2022.109378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 08/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Phenylalanine hydroxylase (PheH) is a pterin-dependent, mononuclear nonheme iron(II) oxygenase that uses the oxidative power of O2 to hydroxylate phenylalanine to form tyrosine. PheH is a member of a superfamily of O2-activating enzymes that utilizes a common metal binding motif: the 2-His-1-carboxylate facial triad. Like most members of this superfamily, binding of substrates to PheH results in a reorganization of its active site to allow O2 activation. Exploring the energetics of each step before O2 activation can provide mechanistic insight into the initial steps that support the highly specific O2 activation pathway carried out by this metalloenzyme. Here the thermal stability of PheH and its substrate complexes were investigated under an anaerobic environment by using differential scanning calorimetry. In context with known binding constants for PheH, a thermodynamic cycle associated with iron(II), tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), and phenylalanine binding to the active site was generated, showing a distinctive cooperativity between the binding of BH4 and Phe. The addition of phenylalanine and BH4 to PheH·Fe increased the stability of this enzyme (ΔTm of 8.5 (±0.7) °C with an associated δΔH of 43.0 (±2.9) kcal/mol). The thermodynamic data presented here gives insight into the complicated interactions between metal center, cofactor, and substrate, and how this interplay sets the stage for highly specific, oxidative C-H activation in this enzyme.
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- Mingjie Li
- Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA.
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Sies H, Fitzpatrick PF, Newman A, Forman HJ. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics: 80th Anniversary. Arch Biochem Biophys 2022; 726:109295. [PMID: 35752468 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2022.109295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Revised: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- Helmut Sies
- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany; Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX,, USA.
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Wanninayake US, Subedi B, Fitzpatrick PF. pH and deuterium isotope effects on the reaction of trimethylamine dehydrogenase with dimethylamine. Arch Biochem Biophys 2019; 676:108136. [PMID: 31604072 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2019.108136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Revised: 09/30/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The flavoprotein trimethylamine dehydrogenase is a member of a small class of flavoproteins that catalyze amine oxidation and transfer the electrons through an Fe/S center to an external oxidant. The mechanism of amine oxidation by this family of enzymes has not been established. Here, we describe the use of pH and kinetic isotope effects with the slow substrate dimethylamine to study the mechanism. The data are consistent with the neutral amine being the form of the substrate that binds productively at the pH optimum, since the pKa seen in the kcat/Kamine pH profile for a group that must be unprotonated matches the pKa of dimethylamine. The D(kcat/Kamine) value decreases to unity as the pH decreases. This suggests the presence of an alternative pathway at low pH, in which the protonated substrate binds and is then deprotonated by an active-site residue prior to oxidation. The kcat and Dkcat values both decrease to limiting values at low pH with similar pKa values. This is consistent with a step other than amine oxidation becoming rate-limiting for turnover.
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- Udayanga S Wanninayake
- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA.
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Fitzpatrick PF, Dougherty V, Subedi B, Quilantan J, Hinck CS, Lujan AI, Tormos JR. Mechanism of the Flavoprotein d-6-Hydroxynicotine Oxidase: Substrate Specificity, pH and Solvent Isotope Effects, and Roles of Key Active-Site Residues. Biochemistry 2019; 58:2534-2541. [PMID: 31046245 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The flavoprotein d-6-hydroxynicotine oxidase catalyzes an early step in the oxidation of ( R)-nicotine, the oxidation of a carbon-nitrogen bond in the pyrrolidine ring of ( R)-6-hydroxynicotine. The enzyme is a member of the vanillyl alcohol oxidase/ p-cresol methylhydroxylase family of flavoproteins. The effects of substrate modifications on the steady-state and rapid-reaction kinetic parameters are not consistent with the quinone-methide mechanism of p-cresol methylhydroxylase. There is no solvent isotope effect on the kcat/ Kamine value with either ( R)-6-hydroxynicotine or the slower substrate ( R)-6-hydroxynornicotine. The effect of pH on the rapid-reaction kinetic parameters establishes that only the neutral form of the substrate and the correctly protonated form of the enzyme bind. The active-site residues Lys348, Glu350, and Glu352 are all properly positioned for substrate binding. The K348M substitution has only a small effect on the kinetic parameters; the E350A and E350Q substitutions decrease the kcat/ Kamine value by ∼20- and ∼220-fold, respectively, and the E352Q substitution decreases this parameter ∼3800-fold. The kcat/ Kamine-pH profile is bell-shaped. The p Ka values in that profile are altered by replacement of ( R)-6-hydroxynicotine with ( R)-6-hydroxynornicotine as the substrate and by the substitutions for Glu350 and Glu352, although the profiles remain bell-shaped. The results are consistent with a network of hydrogen-bonded residues in the active site being involved in binding the neutral form of the amine substrate, followed by the transfer of a hydride from the amine to the flavin.
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- Paul F Fitzpatrick
- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology , University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio , Texas 78229 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology , University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio , Texas 78229 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology , University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio , Texas 78229 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology , University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio , Texas 78229 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology , University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio , Texas 78229 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology , University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio , Texas 78229 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , St. Mary's University , San Antonio , Texas 78228 , United States
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Khan CA, Meisburger SP, Ando N, Fitzpatrick PF. The phenylketonuria-associated substitution R68S converts phenylalanine hydroxylase to a constitutively active enzyme but reduces its stability. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:4359-4367. [PMID: 30674554 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.006477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Revised: 01/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The naturally occurring R68S substitution of phenylalanine hydroxylase (PheH) causes phenylketonuria (PKU). However, the molecular basis for how the R68S variant leads to PKU remains unclear. Kinetic characterization of R68S PheH establishes that the enzyme is fully active in the absence of allosteric binding of phenylalanine, in contrast to the WT enzyme. Analytical ultracentrifugation establishes that the isolated regulatory domain of R68S PheH is predominantly monomeric in the absence of phenylalanine and dimerizes in its presence, similar to the regulatory domain of the WT enzyme. Fluorescence and small-angle X-ray scattering analyses establish that the overall conformation of the resting form of R68S PheH is different from that of the WT enzyme. The data are consistent with the substitution disrupting the interface between the catalytic and regulatory domains of the enzyme, shifting the equilibrium between the resting and activated forms ∼200-fold, so that the resting form of R68S PheH is ∼70% in the activated conformation. However, R68S PheH loses activity 2 orders of magnitude more rapidly than the WT enzyme at 37 °C and is significantly more sensitive to proteolysis. We propose that, even though this substitution converts the enzyme to a constitutively active enzyme, it results in PKU because of the decrease in protein stability.
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- Crystal A Khan
- From the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229 and
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- the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- From the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229 and
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Khan CA, Fitzpatrick PF. Phosphorylation of Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Increases the Rate Constant for Formation of the Activated Conformation of the Enzyme. Biochemistry 2018; 57:6274-6277. [PMID: 30346142 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Liver phenylalanine hydroxylase (PheH) is an allosteric enzyme that is activated by phenylalanine. The enzyme is also phosphorylated by protein kinase A, but the effects of phosphorylation are unclear. Recent structural studies ( Meisburger et al. ( 2016 ) J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 138 , 6506 - 6516 ) support a model in which activation of the enzyme involves dimerization of the regulatory domains, creating the allosteric site for phenylalanine at the dimer interface. This conformational change also results in a change in the fluorescence of the protein that can be used to monitor activation. The kinetics of activation of PheH are biphasic over a range of phenylalanine concentrations. These data are well-described by a model involving an initial equilibrium between the resting form and the activated conformation, with a value of the equilibrium constant for formation of the activated conformation, L, equal to 0.007, followed by binding of two molecules of phenylalanine. Phosphorylation increases L 10-fold by increasing the rate constant for conversion of the resting form to the activated form. The results provide functional support for the previous structural model, identify the specific effect of phosphorylation on the enzyme, and rationalize the lack of change in the protein structure upon phosphorylation.
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- Crystal A Khan
- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology , University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio , Texas 78229 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology , University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio , Texas 78229 , United States
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Because of nicotine's toxicity and the high levels found in tobacco and in the waste from tobacco processing, there is a great deal of interest in identifying bacteria capable of degrading it. A number of microbial pathways have been identified for nicotine degradation. The first and best-understood is the pyridine pathway, best characterized for Arthrobacter nicotinovorans, in which the first reaction is hydroxylation of the pyridine ring. The pyrrolidine pathway, which begins with oxidation of a carbon-nitrogen bond in the pyrrolidine ring, was subsequently characterized in a number of pseudomonads. Most recently, a hybrid pathway has been described, which incorporates the early steps in the pyridine pathway and ends with steps in the pyrrolidine pathway. This review summarizes the present status of our understanding of these pathways, focusing on what is known about the individual enzymes involved.
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- Paul F Fitzpatrick
- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA
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Subedi BP, Fitzpatrick PF. Mutagenesis of an Active-Site Loop in Tryptophan Hydroxylase Dramatically Slows the Formation of an Early Intermediate in Catalysis. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:5185-5192. [PMID: 29589922 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b00936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Solution studies of the aromatic amino acid hydroxylases are consistent with the FeIVO intermediate not forming until both the amino acid and tetrahydropterin substrates have bound. Structural studies have shown that the positions of active-site loops differs significantly between the free enzyme and the enzyme-amino acid-tetrahydropterin complex. In tryptophan hydroxylase (TrpH) these mobile loops contain residues 124-134 and 365-371, with a key interaction involving Ile366. The I366N mutation in TrpH results in decreases of 1-2 orders of magnitude in the kcat and kcat/ Km values. Single turnover analyses establish that the limiting rate constant for turnover is product release for the wild-type enzyme but is formation of the first detectable intermediate I in catalysis in the mutant enzyme. The mutation does not alter the kinetics of NO binding to the ternary complex nor does it uncouple FeIVO formation from amino acid hydroxylation. The effects on the kcat value of wild-type TrpH of changing viscosity are consistent with rate-limiting product release. While the effect of viscosity on the kcat/ KO2 value is small, consistent with reversible oxygen binding, the effects on the kcat/ Km values for tryptophan and the tetrahydropterin are large, with the latter value exceeding the expected limit and varying with the identity of the viscogen. In contrast, the kinetic parameters of I366N TrpH show small changes with viscosity. The results are consistent with binding of the amino acid and pterin substrate to form the ternary complex being directly coupled to closure of loops over the active site and formation of the reactive complex. The mutation destabilizes this initial event.
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- Bishnu P Subedi
- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology , University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio , Texas 78229 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology , University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio , Texas 78229 , United States
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Swainston N, Baici A, Bakker BM, Cornish-Bowden A, Fitzpatrick PF, Halling P, Leyh TS, O'Donovan C, Raushel FM, Reschel U, Rohwer JM, Schnell S, Schomburg D, Tipton KF, Tsai MD, Westerhoff HV, Wittig U, Wohlgemuth R, Kettner C. STRENDA DB: enabling the validation and sharing of enzyme kinetics data. FEBS J 2018; 285:2193-2204. [PMID: 29498804 DOI: 10.1111/febs.14427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2017] [Accepted: 02/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Abstract
Standards for reporting enzymology data (STRENDA) DB is a validation and storage system for enzyme function data that incorporates the STRENDA Guidelines. It provides authors who are preparing a manuscript with a user-friendly, web-based service that checks automatically enzymology data sets entered in the submission form that they are complete and valid before they are submitted as part of a publication to a journal.
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- Neil Swainston
- Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Zürich, Switzerland
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- University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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- WestCHEM, Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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- The Albert-Einstein-College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL Outstation, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Beilstein-Institut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
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- School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Institute of Biochemical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, School for Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, UK.,Synthetic Systems Biology and Nuclear Organization, Swammerdam Institute for Life Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS gGmbH), Germany
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Kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) provide powerful probes of the mechanisms of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. In this chapter, we describe the use of continuous-flow mass spectrometry to determine the deuterium KIE for the enzyme N-acetylpolyamine oxidase based on the ratio of labeled and unlabeled products in mass spectra of whole reaction mixtures.
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- University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, United States.
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Taylor AB, Roberts KM, Cao X, Clark NE, Holloway SP, Donati E, Polcaro CM, Pica-Mattoccia L, Tarpley RS, McHardy SF, Cioli D, LoVerde PT, Fitzpatrick PF, Hart PJ. Structural and enzymatic insights into species-specific resistance to schistosome parasite drug therapy. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:11154-11164. [PMID: 28536265 PMCID: PMC5500785 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m116.766527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2016] [Revised: 05/17/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The antischistosomal prodrug oxamniquine is activated by a sulfotransferase (SULT) in the parasitic flatworm Schistosoma mansoni. Of the three main human schistosome species, only S. mansoni is sensitive to oxamniquine therapy despite the presence of SULT orthologs in Schistosoma hematobium and Schistosoma japonicum The reason for this species-specific drug action has remained a mystery for decades. Here we present the crystal structures of S. hematobium and S. japonicum SULTs, including S. hematobium SULT in complex with oxamniquine. We also examined the activity of the three enzymes in vitro; surprisingly, all three are active toward oxamniquine, yet we observed differences in catalytic efficiency that implicate kinetics as the determinant for species-specific toxicity. These results provide guidance for designing oxamniquine derivatives to treat infection caused by all species of schistosome to combat emerging resistance to current therapy.
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- Alexander B Taylor
- From the Departments of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and
- the X-ray Crystallography Core Laboratory, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of South Carolina, Aiken, South Carolina 29801
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- From the Departments of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and
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- Institute of Chemical Methodologies, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Salaria Km 29.500, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Chemical Methodologies, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Salaria Km 29.500, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via E. Ramarini 32, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Innovative Drug Discovery, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas 78249, and
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- Center for Innovative Drug Discovery, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas 78249, and
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- Institute of Chemical Methodologies, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Salaria Km 29.500, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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- From the Departments of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and
- Pathology and
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- From the Departments of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and
- the X-ray Crystallography Core Laboratory, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229
- Department of Veterans Affairs, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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The flavoprotein nitroalkane oxidase catalyzes the oxidation of neutral nitroalkanes to the corresponding aldehydes or ketones, releasing nitrite and transferring electrons to O2 to form H2O2. A combination of solution and structural analyses have provided a detailed understanding of the mechanism of this enzyme.
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- Paul F Fitzpatrick
- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
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The flavoprotein d-amino acid oxidase has long served as a paradigm for understanding the mechanism of oxidation of amino acids by flavoproteins. Recently, a mutant d-amino acid oxidase (Y228L/R283G) that catalyzed the oxidation of amines rather than amino acids was described [Yasukawa, K., et al. (2014) Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 53, 4428-4431]. We describe here the use of pH and kinetic isotope effects with (R)-α-methylbenzylamine as a substrate to determine whether the mutant enzyme utilizes the same catalytic mechanism as the wild-type enzyme. The effects of pH on the steady-state and rapid-reaction kinetics establish that the neutral amine is the substrate, while an active-site residue, likely Tyr224, must be uncharged for productive binding. There is no solvent isotope effect on the kcat/Km value for the amine, consistent with the neutral amine being the substrate. The deuterium isotope effect on the kcat/Km value is pH-independent, with an average value of 5.3, similar to values found with amino acids as substrates for the wild-type enzyme and establishing that there is no commitment to catalysis with this substrate. The kcat/KO2 value is similar to that seen with amino acids as the substrate, consistent with the oxidative half-reaction being unperturbed by the mutation and with flavin oxidation preceding product release. All of the data are consistent with the mutant enzyme utilizing the same mechanism as the wild-type enzyme, transfer of hydride from the neutral amine to the flavin.
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- Elizabeth E Trimmer
- Department of Chemistry, Grinnell College , Grinnell, Iowa 50112, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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Fitzpatrick PF, Chadegani F, Zhang S, Dougherty V. Mechanism of Flavoprotein l-6-Hydroxynicotine Oxidase: pH and Solvent Isotope Effects and Identification of Key Active Site Residues. Biochemistry 2017; 56:869-875. [PMID: 28080034 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b01160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The flavoenzyme l-6-hydroxynicotine oxidase is a member of the monoamine oxidase family that catalyzes the oxidation of (S)-6-hydroxynicotine to 6-hydroxypseudooxynicotine during microbial catabolism of nicotine. While the enzyme has long been understood to catalyze oxidation of the carbon-carbon bond, it has recently been shown to catalyze oxidation of a carbon-nitrogen bond [Fitzpatrick, P. F., et al. (2016) Biochemistry 55, 697-703]. The effects of pH and mutagenesis of active site residues have now been utilized to study the mechanism and roles of active site residues. Asn166 and Tyr311 bind the substrate, while Lys287 forms a water-mediated hydrogen bond with flavin N5. The N166A and Y311F mutations result in ∼30- and ∼4-fold decreases in kcat/Km and kred for (S)-6-hydroxynicotine, respectively, with larger effects on the kcat/Km value for (S)-6-hydroxynornicotine. The K287M mutation results in ∼10-fold decreases in these parameters and a 6000-fold decrease in the kcat/Km value for oxygen. The shapes of the pH profiles are not altered by the N166A and Y311F mutations. There is no solvent isotope effect on the kcat/Km value for amines. The results are consistent with a model in which both the charged and neutral forms of the amine can bind, with the former rapidly losing a proton to a hydrogen bond network of water and amino acids in the active site prior to the transfer of hydride to the flavin.
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- Paul F Fitzpatrick
- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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Tormos JR, Suarez MB, Fitzpatrick PF. 13C kinetic isotope effects on the reaction of a flavin amine oxidase determined from whole molecule isotope effects. Arch Biochem Biophys 2016; 612:115-119. [PMID: 27815088 PMCID: PMC5257176 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2016.10.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2016] [Revised: 10/26/2016] [Accepted: 10/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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A large number of flavoproteins catalyze the oxidation of amines. Because of the importance of these enzymes in metabolism, their mechanisms have previously been studied using deuterium, nitrogen, and solvent isotope effects. While these results have been valuable for computational studies to distinguish among proposed mechanisms, a measure of the change at the reacting carbon has been lacking. We describe here the measurement of a 13C kinetic isotope effect for a representative amine oxidase, polyamine oxidase. The isotope effect was determined by analysis of the isotopic composition of the unlabeled substrate, N, N'-dibenzyl-1,4-diaminopropane, to obtain a pH-independent value of 1.025. The availability of a 13C isotope effect for flavoprotein-catalyzed amine oxidation provides the first measure of the change in bond order at the carbon involved in this carbon-hydrogen bond cleavage and will be of value to understanding the transition state structure for this class of enzymes.
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- José R Tormos
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX 78228, United States
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- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas-San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States.
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Subedi BP, Fitzpatrick PF. Kinetic Mechanism and Intrinsic Rate Constants for the Reaction of a Bacterial Phenylalanine Hydroxylase. Biochemistry 2016; 55:6848-6857. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b01012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Bishnu P. Subedi
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio Texas 78229, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio Texas 78229, United States
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Becher I, Werner T, Doce C, Zaal EA, Tögel I, Khan CA, Rueger A, Muelbaier M, Salzer E, Berkers CR, Fitzpatrick PF, Bantscheff M, Savitski MM. Thermal profiling reveals phenylalanine hydroxylase as an off-target of panobinostat. Nat Chem Biol 2016; 12:908-910. [DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Meisburger SP, Taylor AB, Khan CA, Zhang S, Fitzpatrick PF, Ando N. Domain Movements upon Activation of Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Characterized by Crystallography and Chromatography-Coupled Small-Angle X-ray Scattering. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:6506-16. [PMID: 27145334 PMCID: PMC4896396 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b01563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Mammalian phenylalanine hydroxylase (PheH) is an allosteric enzyme that catalyzes the first step in the catabolism of the amino acid phenylalanine. Following allosteric activation by high phenylalanine levels, the enzyme catalyzes the pterin-dependent conversion of phenylalanine to tyrosine. Inability to control elevated phenylalanine levels in the blood leads to increased risk of mental disabilities commonly associated with the inherited metabolic disorder, phenylketonuria. Although extensively studied, structural changes associated with allosteric activation in mammalian PheH have been elusive. Here, we examine the complex allosteric mechanisms of rat PheH using X-ray crystallography, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). We describe crystal structures of the preactivated state of the PheH tetramer depicting the regulatory domains docked against the catalytic domains and preventing substrate binding. Using SAXS, we further describe the domain movements involved in allosteric activation of PheH in solution and present the first demonstration of chromatography-coupled SAXS with Evolving Factor Analysis (EFA), a powerful method for separating scattering components in a model-independent way. Together, these results support a model for allostery in PheH in which phenylalanine stabilizes the dimerization of the regulatory domains and exposes the active site for substrate binding and other structural changes needed for activity.
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- Steve P. Meisburger
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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Zhang S, Fitzpatrick PF. Identification of the Allosteric Site for Phenylalanine in Rat Phenylalanine Hydroxylase. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:7418-25. [PMID: 26823465 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.709998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Liver phenylalanine hydroxylase (PheH) is an allosteric enzyme that requires activation by phenylalanine for full activity. The location of the allosteric site for phenylalanine has not been established. NMR spectroscopy of the isolated regulatory domain (RDPheH(25-117) is the regulatory domain of PheH lacking residues 1-24) of the rat enzyme in the presence of phenylalanine is consistent with formation of a side-by-side ACT dimer. Six residues in RDPheH(25-117) were identified as being in the phenylalanine-binding site on the basis of intermolecular NOEs between unlabeled phenylalanine and isotopically labeled protein. The location of these residues is consistent with two allosteric sites per dimer, with each site containing residues from both monomers. Site-specific variants of five of the residues (E44Q, A47G, L48V, L62V, and H64N) decreased the affinity of RDPheH(25-117) for phenylalanine based on the ability to stabilize the dimer. Incorporation of the A47G, L48V, and H64N mutations into the intact protein increased the concentration of phenylalanine required for activation. The results identify the location of the allosteric site as the interface of the regulatory domain dimer formed in activated PheH.
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- Shengnan Zhang
- From the Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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- From the Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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Fitzpatrick PF, Chadegani F, Zhang S, Roberts KM, Hinck CS. Mechanism of the Flavoprotein L-Hydroxynicotine Oxidase: Kinetic Mechanism, Substrate Specificity, Reaction Product, and Roles of Active-Site Residues. Biochemistry 2016; 55:697-703. [PMID: 26744768 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b01325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
The flavoprotein L-hydroxynicotine oxidase (LHNO) catalyzes an early step in the bacterial catabolism of nicotine. Although the structure of the enzyme establishes that it is a member of the monoamine oxidase family, LHNO is generally accepted to oxidize a carbon-carbon bond in the pyrrolidine ring of the substrate and has been proposed to catalyze the subsequent tautomerization and hydrolysis of the initial oxidation product to yield 6-hydroxypseudooxynicotine [Kachalova, G., et al. (2011) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108, 4800-4805]. Analysis of the product of the enzyme from Arthrobacter nicotinovorans by nuclear magnetic resonance and continuous-flow mass spectrometry establishes that the enzyme catalyzes the oxidation of the pyrrolidine carbon-nitrogen bond, the expected reaction for a monoamine oxidase, and that hydrolysis of the amine to form 6-hydroxypseudooxynicotine is nonenzymatic. On the basis of the kcat/Km and kred values for (S)-hydroxynicotine and several analogues, the methyl group contributes only marginally (∼ 0.5 kcal/mol) to transition-state stabilization, while the hydroxyl oxygen and pyridyl nitrogen each contribute ∼ 4 kcal/mol. The small effects on activity of mutagenesis of His187, Glu300, or Tyr407 rule out catalytic roles for all three of these active-site residues.
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- Paul F Fitzpatrick
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Physics, University of South Carolina Aiken , Aiken, South Carolina 29801, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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Zhang S, Hinck AP, Fitzpatrick PF. The Amino Acid Specificity for Activation of Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Matches the Specificity for Stabilization of Regulatory Domain Dimers. Biochemistry 2015; 54:5167-74. [PMID: 26252467 PMCID: PMC4551101 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Liver
phenylalanine hydroxylase is allosterically activated by
phenylalanine. The structural changes that accompany activation have
not been identified, but recent studies of the effects of phenylalanine
on the isolated regulatory domain of the enzyme support a model in
which phenylalanine binding promotes regulatory domain dimerization.
Such a model predicts that compounds that stabilize the regulatory
domain dimer will also activate the enzyme. Nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy and analytical ultracentrifugation were used to determine
the ability of different amino acids and phenylalanine analogues to
stabilize the regulatory domain dimer. The abilities of these compounds
to activate the enzyme were analyzed by measuring their effects on
the fluorescence change that accompanies activation and on the activity
directly. At concentrations of 10–50 mM, d-phenylalanine, l-methionine, l-norleucine, and (S)-2-amino-3-phenyl-1-propanol were able to activate the enzyme to
the same extent as 1 mM l-phenylalanine. Lower levels of
activation were seen with l-4-aminophenylalanine, l-leucine, l-isoleucine, and 3-phenylpropionate. The ability
of these compounds to stabilize the regulatory domain dimer agreed
with their ability to activate the enzyme. These results support a
model in which allosteric activation of phenylalanine hydroxylase
is linked to dimerization of regulatory domains.
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- Shengnan Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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Fitzpatrick PF. Structural insights into the regulation of aromatic amino acid hydroxylation. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2015; 35:1-6. [PMID: 26241318 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2015] [Revised: 06/30/2015] [Accepted: 07/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
The aromatic amino acid hydroxylases phenylalanine hydroxylase, tyrosine hydroxylase, and tryptophan hydroxylase are homotetramers, with each subunit containing a homologous catalytic domain and a divergent regulatory domain. The solution structure of the regulatory domain of tyrosine hydroxylase establishes that it contains a core ACT domain similar to that in phenylalanine hydroxylase. The isolated regulatory domain of tyrosine hydroxylase forms a stable dimer, while that of phenylalanine hydroxylase undergoes a monomer-dimer equilibrium, with phenylalanine stabilizing the dimer. These solution properties are consistent with the regulatory mechanisms of the two enzymes, in that phenylalanine hydroxylase is activated by phenylalanine binding to an allosteric site, while tyrosine hydroxylase is regulated by binding of catecholamines in the active site.
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- Paul F Fitzpatrick
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States.
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McCracken J, Eser BE, Mannikko D, Krzyaniak MD, Fitzpatrick PF. HYSCORE Analysis of the Effects of Substrates on Coordination of Water to the Active Site Iron in Tyrosine Hydroxylase. Biochemistry 2015; 54:3759-71. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- John McCracken
- Department
of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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Roberts KM, Khan CA, Hinck CS, Fitzpatrick PF. Activation of phenylalanine hydroxylase by phenylalanine does not require binding in the active site. Biochemistry 2014; 53:7846-53. [PMID: 25453233 PMCID: PMC4270383 DOI: 10.1021/bi501183x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Phenylalanine
hydroxylase (PheH), a liver enzyme that catalyzes
the hydroxylation of excess phenylalanine in the diet to tyrosine,
is activated by phenylalanine. The lack of activity at low levels
of phenylalanine has been attributed to the N-terminus of the protein’s
regulatory domain acting as an inhibitory peptide by blocking substrate
access to the active site. The location of the site at which phenylalanine
binds to activate the enzyme is unknown, and both the active site
in the catalytic domain and a separate site in the N-terminal regulatory
domain have been proposed. Binding of catecholamines to the active-site
iron was used to probe the accessibility of the active site. Removal
of the regulatory domain increases the rate constants for association
of several catecholamines with the wild-type enzyme by ∼2-fold.
Binding of phenylalanine in the active site is effectively abolished
by mutating the active-site residue Arg270 to lysine. The kcat/Kphe value is
down 104 for the mutant enzyme, and the Km value for phenylalanine for the mutant enzyme is >0.5
M. Incubation of the R270K enzyme with phenylalanine also results
in a 2-fold increase in the rate constants for catecholamine binding.
The change in the tryptophan fluorescence emission spectrum seen in
the wild-type enzyme upon activation by phenylalanine is also seen
with the R270K mutant enzyme in the presence of phenylalanine. Both
results establish that activation of PheH by phenylalanine does not
require binding of the amino acid in the active site. This is consistent
with a separate allosteric site, likely in the regulatory domain.
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- Kenneth M Roberts
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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Fitzpatrick PF. Combining solvent isotope effects with substrate isotope effects in mechanistic studies of alcohol and amine oxidation by enzymes. Biochim Biophys Acta 2014; 1854:1746-55. [PMID: 25448013 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2014.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2014] [Revised: 10/17/2014] [Accepted: 10/20/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
Abstract
Oxidation of alcohols and amines is catalyzed by multiple families of flavin- and pyridine nucleotide-dependent enzymes. Measurement of solvent isotope effects provides a unique mechanistic probe of the timing of the cleavage of the OH and NH bonds, necessary information for a complete description of the catalytic mechanism. The inherent ambiguities in interpretation of solvent isotope effects can be significantly decreased if isotope effects arising from isotopically labeled substrates are measured in combination with solvent isotope effects. The application of combined solvent and substrate (mainly deuterium) isotope effects to multiple enzymes is described here to illustrate the range of mechanistic insights that such an approach can provide. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Enzyme Transition States from Theory and Experiment.
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- Paul F Fitzpatrick
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78212, USA.
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Analytical ultracentrifugation has
been used to analyze the oligomeric
structure of the isolated regulatory domain of phenylalanine hydroxylase.
The protein exhibits a monomer–dimer equilibrium with a dissociation
constant of ∼46 μM; this value is unaffected by the removal
of the 24 N-terminal residues or by phosphorylation of Ser16. In contrast,
phenylalanine binding (Kd = 8 μM)
stabilizes the dimer. These results suggest that dimerization of the
regulatory domain of phenylalanine hydroxylase is linked to allosteric
activation of the enzyme.
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- Shengnan Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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Roberts KM, Tormos JR, Fitzpatrick PF. Characterization of unstable products of flavin- and pterin-dependent enzymes by continuous-flow mass spectrometry. Biochemistry 2014; 53:2672-9. [PMID: 24713088 PMCID: PMC4010283 DOI: 10.1021/bi500267c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Continuous-flow mass spectrometry
(CFMS) was used to monitor the
products formed during the initial 0.25–20 s of the reactions
catalyzed by the flavoprotein N-acetylpolyamine oxidase
(PAO) and the pterin-dependent enzymes phenylalanine hydroxylase (PheH)
and tyrosine hydroxylase (TyrH). N,N′-Dibenzyl-1,4-diaminobutane (DBDB) is a substrate for PAO
for which amine oxidation is rate-limiting. CFMS of the reaction showed
formation of an initial imine due to oxidation of an exo-carbon–nitrogen bond. Nonenzymatic hydrolysis of the imine
formed benzaldehyde and N-benzyl-1,4-diaminobutane;
the subsequent oxidation by PAO of the latter to an additional imine
could also be followed. Measurement of the deuterium kinetic isotope
effect on DBDB oxidation by CFMS yielded a value of 7.6 ± 0.3,
in good agreement with a value of 6.7 ± 0.6 from steady-state
kinetic analyses. In the PheH reaction, the transient formation of
the 4a-hydroxypterin product was readily detected; tandem mass spectrometry
confirmed attachment of the oxygen to C(4a). With wild-type TyrH,
the 4a-hydroxypterin was also the product. In contrast, no product
other than a dihydropterin could be detected in the reaction of the
mutant protein E332A TyrH.
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- Kenneth M Roberts
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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Zhang S, Huang T, Ilangovan U, Hinck AP, Fitzpatrick PF. The solution structure of the regulatory domain of tyrosine hydroxylase. J Mol Biol 2013; 426:1483-97. [PMID: 24361276 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2013] [Revised: 11/13/2013] [Accepted: 12/10/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Tyrosine hydroxylase (TyrH) catalyzes the hydroxylation of tyrosine to form 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine in the biosynthesis of the catecholamine neurotransmitters. The activity of the enzyme is regulated by phosphorylation of serine residues in a regulatory domain and by binding of catecholamines to the active site. Available structures of TyrH lack the regulatory domain, limiting the understanding of the effect of regulation on structure. We report the use of NMR spectroscopy to analyze the solution structure of the isolated regulatory domain of rat TyrH. The protein is composed of a largely unstructured N-terminal region (residues 1-71) and a well-folded C-terminal portion (residues 72-159). The structure of a truncated version of the regulatory domain containing residues 65-159 has been determined and establishes that it is an ACT domain. The isolated domain is a homodimer in solution, with the structure of each monomer very similar to that of the core of the regulatory domain of phenylalanine hydroxylase. Two TyrH regulatory domain monomers form an ACT domain dimer composed of a sheet of eight strands with four α-helices on one side of the sheet. Backbone dynamic analyses were carried out to characterize the conformational flexibility of TyrH65-159. The results provide molecular details critical for understanding the regulatory mechanism of TyrH.
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- Shengnan Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
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Krzyaniak MD, Eser BE, Ellis HR, Fitzpatrick PF, McCracken J. Pulsed EPR study of amino acid and tetrahydropterin binding in a tyrosine hydroxylase nitric oxide complex: evidence for substrate rearrangements in the formation of the oxygen-reactive complex. Biochemistry 2013; 52:8430-41. [PMID: 24168553 DOI: 10.1021/bi4010914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Tyrosine hydroxylase is a nonheme iron enzyme found in the nervous system that catalyzes the hydroxylation of tyrosine to form l-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, the rate-limiting step in the biosynthesis of the catecholamine neurotransmitters. Catalysis requires the binding of three substrates: tyrosine, tetrahydrobiopterin, and molecular oxygen. We have used nitric oxide as an O₂ surrogate to poise Fe(II) at the catalytic site in an S = 3/2, {FeNO}⁷ form amenable to EPR spectroscopy. ²H-electron spin echo envelope modulation was then used to measure the distance and orientation of specifically deuterated substrate tyrosine and cofactor 6-methyltetrahydropterin with respect to the magnetic axes of the {FeNO}⁷ paramagnetic center. Our results show that the addition of tyrosine triggers a conformational change in the enzyme that reduces the distance from the {FeNO}⁷ center to the closest deuteron on 6,7-²H-6-methyltetrahydropterin from >5.9 Å to 4.4 ± 0.2 Å. Conversely, the addition of 6-methyltetrahydropterin to enzyme samples treated with 3,5-²H-tyrosine resulted in reorientation of the magnetic axes of the S = 3/2, {FeNO}⁷ center with respect to the deuterated substrate. Taken together, these results show that the coordination of both substrate and cofactor direct the coordination of NO to Fe(II) at the active site. Parallel studies of a quaternary complex of an uncoupled tyrosine hydroxylase variant, E332A, show no change in the hyperfine coupling to substrate tyrosine and cofactor 6-methyltetrahydropterin. Our results are discussed in the context of previous spectroscopic and X-ray crystallographic studies done on tyrosine hydroxylase and phenylalanine hydroxylase.
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- Matthew D Krzyaniak
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University , East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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Gadda G, Fitzpatrick PF. Solvent isotope and viscosity effects on the steady-state kinetics of the flavoprotein nitroalkane oxidase. FEBS Lett 2013; 587:2785-9. [PMID: 23660407 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.04.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2013] [Revised: 04/22/2013] [Accepted: 04/23/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
The flavoprotein nitroalkane oxidase catalyzes the oxidative denitrification of a broad range of primary and secondary nitroalkanes to yield the respective aldehydes or ketones, hydrogen peroxide and nitrite. With nitroethane as substrate the D2O(k(cat)/K(M)) value is 0.6 and the D2Ok(cat) value is 2.4. The k(cat) proton inventory is consistent with a single exchangeable proton in flight, while the k(cat)/K(M) is consistent with either a single proton in flight in the transition state or a medium effect. Increasing the solvent viscosity did not affect the k(cat) or k(cat)/K(M) value significantly, establishing that nitroethane binding is at equilibrium and that product release does not limit k(cat).
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- Giovanni Gadda
- Department of Chemistry and the Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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Gaweska HM, Taylor AB, Hart PJ, Fitzpatrick PF. Structure of the flavoprotein tryptophan 2-monooxygenase, a key enzyme in the formation of galls in plants. Biochemistry 2013; 52:2620-6. [PMID: 23521653 DOI: 10.1021/bi4001563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The flavoprotein tryptophan 2-monooxygenase catalyzes the oxidative decarboxylation of tryptophan to yield indole-3-acetamide. This is the initial step in the biosynthesis of the plant growth hormone indole-acetic acid by bacterial pathogens that cause crown gall and related diseases. The structure of the enzyme from Pseudomonas savastanoi has been determined by X-ray diffraction methods to a resolution of 1.95 Å. The overall structure of the protein shows that it has the same fold as members of the monoamine oxidase family of flavoproteins, with the greatest similarities to the l-amino acid oxidases. The location of bound indole-3-acetamide in the active site allows identification of residues responsible for substrate binding and specificity. Two residues in the enzyme are conserved in all members of the monoamine oxidase family, Lys365 and Trp466. The K365M mutation decreases the kcat and kcat/KTrp values by 60000- and 2 million-fold, respectively. The deuterium kinetic isotope effect increases to 3.2, consistent with carbon-hydrogen bond cleavage becoming rate-limiting in the mutant enzyme. The W466F mutation decreases the kcat value <2-fold and the kcat/KTrp value only 5-fold, while the W466M mutation results in an enzyme lacking flavin and detectable activity. This is consistent with a role for Trp466 in maintaining the structure of the flavin-binding site in the more conserved FAD domain.
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- Helena M Gaweska
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA
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The aromatic amino acid hydroxylases tryptophan hydroxylase and tyrosine hydroxylase are responsible for the initial steps in the formation of serotonin and the catecholamine neurotransmitters, respectively. Both enzymes are nonheme iron-dependent monooxygenases that catalyze the insertion of one atom of molecular oxygen onto the aromatic ring of their amino acid substrates, using a tetrahydropterin as a two electron donor to reduce the second oxygen atom to water. This review discusses the current understanding of the catalytic mechanism of these two enzymes. The reaction occurs as two sequential half reactions: a reaction between the active site iron, oxygen, and the tetrahydropterin to form a reactive Fe(IV) O intermediate and hydroxylation of the amino acid by the Fe(IV) O. The mechanism of formation of the Fe(IV) O is unclear; however, considerable evidence suggests the formation of an Fe(II) -peroxypterin intermediate. The amino acid is hydroxylated by the Fe(IV) O intermediate in an electrophilic aromatic substitution mechanism.
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- Kenneth M Roberts
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78228, USA
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Daubner SC, Avila A, Bailey JO, Barrera D, Bermudez JY, Giles DH, Khan CA, Shaheen N, Thompson JW, Vasquez J, Oxley SP, Fitzpatrick PF. Mutagenesis of a specificity-determining residue in tyrosine hydroxylase establishes that the enzyme is a robust phenylalanine hydroxylase but a fragile tyrosine hydroxylase. Biochemistry 2013; 52:1446-55. [PMID: 23368961 DOI: 10.1021/bi400031n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The aromatic amino acid hydroxylases tyrosine hydroxylase (TyrH) and phenylalanine hydroxylase (PheH) have essentially identical active sites; however, PheH is nearly incapable of hydroxylating tyrosine, while TyrH can readily hydroxylate both tyrosine and phenylalanine. Previous studies have indicated that Asp425 of TyrH is important in determining the substrate specificity of that enzyme [Daubner, S. C., Melendez, J., and Fitzpatrick, P. F. (2000) Biochemistry 39, 9652-9661]. Alanine-scanning mutagenesis of amino acids 423-427, a mobile loop containing Asp425, shows that only mutagenesis of Asp425 alters the activity of the enzyme significantly. Saturation mutagenesis of Asp425 results in large (up to 10(4)) decreases in the V(max) and V(max)/K(tyr) values for tyrosine hydroxylation, but only small decreases or even increases in the V(max) and V(max)/K(phe) values for phenylalanine hydroxylation. The decrease in the tyrosine hydroxylation activity of the mutant proteins is due to an uncoupling of tetrahydropterin oxidation from amino acid hydroxylation with tyrosine as the amino acid substrate. In contrast, with the exception of the D425W mutant, the extent of coupling of tetrahydropterin oxidation and amino acid hydroxylation is unaffected or increases with phenylalanine as the amino acid substrate. The decrease in the V(max) value with tyrosine as the substrate shows a negative correlation with the hydrophobicity of the amino acid residue at position 425. The results are consistent with a critical role of Asp425 being to prevent a hydrophobic interaction that results in a restricted active site in which hydroxylation of tyrosine does not occur.
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- S Colette Daubner
- Department of Biological Sciences, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas 78228, United States.
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Roberts KM, Pavon JA, Fitzpatrick PF. Kinetic mechanism of phenylalanine hydroxylase: intrinsic binding and rate constants from single-turnover experiments. Biochemistry 2013; 52:1062-73. [PMID: 23327364 DOI: 10.1021/bi301675e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Phenylalanine hydroxylase (PheH) catalyzes the key step in the catabolism of dietary phenylalanine, its hydroxylation to tyrosine using tetrahydrobiopterin (BH(4)) and O(2). A complete kinetic mechanism for PheH was determined by global analysis of single-turnover data in the reaction of PheHΔ117, a truncated form of the enzyme lacking the N-terminal regulatory domain. Formation of the productive PheHΔ117-BH(4)-phenylalanine complex begins with the rapid binding of BH(4) (K(d) = 65 μM). Subsequent addition of phenylalanine to the binary complex to form the productive ternary complex (K(d) = 130 μM) is approximately 10-fold slower. Both substrates can also bind to the free enzyme to form inhibitory binary complexes. O(2) rapidly binds to the productive ternary complex; this is followed by formation of an unidentified intermediate, which can be detected as a decrease in absorbance at 340 nm, with a rate constant of 140 s(-1). Formation of the 4a-hydroxypterin and Fe(IV)O intermediates is 10-fold slower and is followed by the rapid hydroxylation of the amino acid. Product release is the rate-determining step and largely determines k(cat). Similar reactions using 6-methyltetrahydropterin indicate a preference for the physiological pterin during hydroxylation.
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- Kenneth M Roberts
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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Tormos JR, Pozzi MH, Fitzpatrick PF. Mechanistic studies of the role of a conserved histidine in a mammalian polyamine oxidase. Arch Biochem Biophys 2012; 528:45-9. [PMID: 22959971 PMCID: PMC3483376 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2012.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2012] [Revised: 08/13/2012] [Accepted: 08/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Polyamine oxidases are peroxisomal flavoproteins that catalyze the oxidation of an endo carbon nitrogen bond of N1-acetylspermine in the catabolism of polyamines. While no structure has been reported for a mammalian polyamine oxidase, sequence alignments of polyamine oxidizing flavoproteins identify a conserved histidine residue. Based on the structure of a yeast polyamine oxidase, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fms1, this residue has been proposed to hydrogen bond to the reactive nitrogen in the polyamine substrate. The corresponding histidine in mouse polyamine oxidase, His64, has been mutated to glutamine, asparagine, and alanine to determine if this residue plays a similar role in the mammalian enzymes. The kinetics of the mutant enzymes were examined with N1-acetylspermine and the slow substrates spermine and N,N'-dibenzyl-1,4-diaminobutane. On average the mutations result in a decrease of ~15-fold in the rate constant for amine oxidation. Rapid-reaction kinetic analyses established that amine oxidation is rate-limiting with spermine as substrate for the wild-type and mutant enzymes and for the H64N enzyme with N1-acetylspermine as substrate. The k(cat)/K(O(2)) value was unaffected by the mutations with N1-acetylspermine as substrate, but decreased ~55-fold with the two slower substrates. The results are consistent with this residue assisting in properly positioning the amine substrate for oxidation.
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- José R. Tormos
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio TX 78229
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio TX 78229
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Adachi MS, Taylor AB, Hart PJ, Fitzpatrick PF. Mechanistic and structural analyses of the roles of active site residues in yeast polyamine oxidase Fms1: characterization of the N195A and D94N enzymes. Biochemistry 2012; 51:8690-7. [PMID: 23034052 PMCID: PMC3548949 DOI: 10.1021/bi3011434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Flavoprotein Fms1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae catalyzes the oxidation of spermine in the biosynthetic pathway for pantothenic acid. The same reaction is catalyzed by the mammalian polyamine and spermine oxidases. The active site of Fms1 contains three amino acid residues positioned to interact with the polyamine substrate, His67, Asn195, and Asp94. These three residues form a hydrogen-bonding triad with Asn195 being the central residue. Previous studies of the effects of mutating His67 are consistent with that residue being important both for interacting with the substrate and for maintaining the hydrogen bonds in the triad [Adachi, M. S., Taylor, A. B., Hart, P. J., and Fitzpatrick, P. F. (2012) Biochemistry 51, 4888-4897]. The N195A and D94N enzymes have now been characterized to evaluate their roles in catalysis. Both mutations primarily affect the reductive half-reaction. With N(1)-acetylspermine as the substrate, the rate constant for flavin reduction decreases ~450-fold for both mutations; the effects with spermine as the substrate are smaller, 20-40-fold. The k(cat)/K(amine)- and k(cat)-pH profiles with N(1)-acetylspermine are only slightly changed from the profiles for the wild-type enzyme, consistent with the pK(a) values arising from the amine substrate or product and not from active site residues. The structure of the N195A enzyme was determined at a resolution of 2.0 Å. The structure shows a molecule of tetraethylene glycol in the active site and establishes that the mutation has no effect on the protein structure. Overall, the results are consistent with the role of Asn195 and Asp94 being to properly position the polyamine substrate for oxidation.
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- Mariya S. Adachi
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229
- Department of Veterans Affairs, Audie Murphy Division, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX 78229
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229
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The flavoprotein Berberine Bridge Enzyme (BBE) catalyzes the regioselective oxidative cyclization of (S)-reticuline to (S)-scoulerine in an alkaloid biosynthetic pathway. A series of solvent and substrate deuterium kinetic isotope effect studies were conducted to discriminate between a concerted mechanism, in which deprotonation of the substrate phenol occurs before or during the transfer of a hydride from the substrate to the flavin cofactor and substrate cyclization, and a stepwise mechanism, in which hydride transfer results in the formation of a methylene iminium ion intermediate that is subsequently cyclized. The substrate deuterium isotope effect of 3.5 on k(red), the rate constant for flavin reduction, is pH-independent, indicating that C-H bond cleavage is rate-limiting during flavin reduction. Solvent isotope effects on k(red) are equal to 1 for both wild-type BBE and the E417Q mutant, indicating that solvent exchangeable protons are not in flight during or before flavin reduction, thus eliminating a fully concerted mechanism as a possibility for catalysis by BBE. An intermediate was not detected by rapid chemical quench or continuous-flow mass spectrometry experiments, indicating that it must be short-lived.
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- Helena M Gaweska
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
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Adachi MS, Taylor AB, Hart PJ, Fitzpatrick PF. Mechanistic and structural analyses of the role of His67 in the yeast polyamine oxidase Fms1. Biochemistry 2012; 51:4888-97. [PMID: 22642831 DOI: 10.1021/bi300517s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The flavoprotein oxidase Fms1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae catalyzes the oxidation of spermine and N(1)-acetylspermine to spermidine and 3-aminopropanal or N-acetyl-3-aminopropanal. Within the active site of Fms1, His67 is positioned to form hydrogen bonds with the polyamine substrate. This residue is also conserved in other polyamine oxidases. The catalytic properties of H67Q, H67N, and H67A Fms1 have been characterized to evaluate the role of this residue in catalysis. With both spermine and N(1)-acetylspermine as the amine substrate, the value of the first-order rate constant for flavin reduction decreases 2-3 orders of magnitude, with the H67Q mutation having the smallest effect and H67N the largest. The k(cat)/K(O2) value changes very little upon mutation with N(1)-acetylspermine as the amine substrate and decreases only an order of magnitude with spermine. The k(cat)/K(M)-pH profiles with N(1)-acetylspermine are bell-shaped for all the mutants; the similarity to the profile of the wild-type enzyme rules out His67 as being responsible for either of the pK(a) values. The pH profiles for the rate constant for flavin reduction for all the mutant enzymes similarly show the same pK(a) as wild-type Fms1, about ∼7.4; this pK(a) is assigned to the substrate N4. The k(cat)/K(O2)-pH profiles for wild-type Fms1 and the H67A enzyme both show a pK(a) of about ∼6.9; this suggests His67 is not responsible for this pH behavior. With the H67Q, H67N, and H67A enzymes the k(cat) value decreases when a single residue is protonated, as is the case with the wild-type enzyme. The structure of H67Q Fms1 has been determined at a resolution of 2.4 Å. The structure shows that the mutation disrupts a hydrogen bond network in the active site, suggesting that His67 is important both for direct interactions with the substrate and to maintain the overall active site structure.
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- Mariya S Adachi
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA
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The liver enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase is responsible for conversion of excess phenylalanine in the diet to tyrosine. Phenylalanine hydroxylase is activated by phenylalanine; this activation is inhibited by the physiological reducing substrate tetrahydrobiopterin. Phosphorylation of Ser16 lowers the concentration of phenylalanine for activation. This review discusses the present understanding of the molecular details of the allosteric regulation of the enzyme.
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- Paul F Fitzpatrick
- Department of Biochemistry and Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA.
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Members of the monoamine oxidase family of flavoproteins catalyze the oxidation of primary and secondary amines, polyamines, amino acids, and methylated lysine side chains in proteins. The enzymes have similar overall structures, with conserved FAD-binding domains and varied substrate-binding sites. Multiple mechanisms have been proposed for the catalytic reactions of these enzymes. The present review compares the structures of different members of the family and the various mechanistic proposals.
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- Helena Gaweska
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229
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Panay AJ, Lee M, Krebs C, Bollinger JM, Fitzpatrick PF. Evidence for a high-spin Fe(IV) species in the catalytic cycle of a bacterial phenylalanine hydroxylase. Biochemistry 2011; 50:1928-33. [PMID: 21261288 PMCID: PMC3059337 DOI: 10.1021/bi1019868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Phenylalanine hydroxylase is a mononuclear non-heme iron protein that uses tetrahydropterin as the source of the two electrons needed to activate dioxygen for the hydroxylation of phenylalanine to tyrosine. Rapid-quench methods have been used to analyze the mechanism of a bacterial phenylalanine hydroxylase from Chromobacterium violaceum. Mössbauer spectra of samples prepared by freeze-quenching the reaction of the enzyme-(57)Fe(II)-phenylalanine-6-methyltetrahydropterin complex with O(2) reveal the accumulation of an intermediate at short reaction times (20-100 ms). The Mössbauer parameters of the intermediate (δ = 0.28 mm/s, and |ΔE(Q)| = 1.26 mm/s) suggest that it is a high-spin Fe(IV) complex similar to those that have previously been detected in the reactions of other mononuclear Fe(II) hydroxylases, including a tetrahydropterin-dependent tyrosine hydroxylase. Analysis of the tyrosine content of acid-quenched samples from similar reactions establishes that the Fe(IV) intermediate is kinetically competent to be the hydroxylating intermediate. Similar chemical-quench analysis of a reaction allowed to proceed for several turnovers shows a burst of tyrosine formation, consistent with rate-limiting product release. All three data sets can be modeled with a mechanism in which the enzyme-substrate complex reacts with oxygen to form an Fe(IV)═O intermediate with a rate constant of 19 mM(-1) s(-1), the Fe(IV)═O intermediate hydroxylates phenylalanine with a rate constant of 42 s(-1), and rate-limiting product release occurs with a rate constant of 6 s(-1) at 5 °C.
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- Aram Joel Panay
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229; and Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249
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Wang S, Lasagna M, Daubner SC, Reinhart GD, Fitzpatrick PF. Fluorescence spectroscopy as a probe of the effect of phosphorylation at serine 40 of tyrosine hydroxylase on the conformation of its regulatory domain. Biochemistry 2011; 50:2364-70. [PMID: 21302933 DOI: 10.1021/bi101844p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Phosphorylation of Ser40 in the regulatory domain of tyrosine hydroxylase activates the enzyme by increasing the rate constant for dissociation of inhibitory catecholamines from the active site by 3 orders of magnitude. To probe the changes in the structure of the N-terminal domain upon phosphorylation, individual phenylalanine residues at positions 14, 34, and 74 were replaced with tryptophan in a form of the protein in which the endogenous tryptophans had all been mutated to phenylalanine (W(3)F TyrH). The steady-state fluorescence anisotropy of F74W W(3)F TyrH was unaffected by phosphorylation, but the anisotropies of both F14W and F34W W(3)F TyrH increased significantly upon phosphorylation. The fluorescence of the single tryptophan residue at position 74 was less readily quenched by acrylamide than those at the other two positions; fluorescence increased the rate constant for quenching of the residues at positions 14 and 34 but did not affect that for the residue at position 74. Frequency domain analyses were consistent with phosphorylation having no effect on the amplitude of the rotational motion of the indole ring at position 74, resulting in a small increase in the rotational motion of the residue at position 14 and resulting in a larger increase in the rotational motion of the residue at position 34. These results are consistent with the local environment at position 74 being unaffected by phosphorylation, that at position 34 becoming much more flexible upon phosphorylation, and that at position 14 becoming slightly more flexible upon phosphorylation. The results support a model in which phosphorylation at Ser40 at the N-terminus of the regulatory domain causes a conformational change to a more open conformation in which the N-terminus of the protein no longer inhibits dissociation of a bound catecholamine from the active site.
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- Shanzhi Wang
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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Adachi MS, Torres JM, Fitzpatrick PF. Mechanistic studies of the yeast polyamine oxidase Fms1: kinetic mechanism, substrate specificity, and pH dependence. Biochemistry 2010; 49:10440-8. [PMID: 21067138 PMCID: PMC2999662 DOI: 10.1021/bi1016099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The flavoprotein oxidase Fms1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae catalyzes the oxidation of spermine and N(1)-acetylspermine to yield spermidine and 3-aminopropanal or N-acetyl-3-aminopropanal. The kinetic mechanism of the enzyme has been determined with both substrates. The initial velocity patterns are ping-pong, consistent with reduction being kinetically irreversible. Reduction of Fms1 by either substrate is biphasic. The rate constant for the rapid phase varies with the substrate concentration, with limiting rates for reduction of the enzyme of 126 and 1410 s(-1) and apparent K(d) values of 24.3 and 484 μM for spermine and N(1)-acetylspermine, respectively. The rapid phase is followed by a concentration-independent phase that is slower than turnover. The reaction of the reduced enzyme with oxygen is monophasic, with a rate constant of 402 mM(-1) s(-1) with spermine at 25 °C and 204 mM(-1) s(-1) with N(1)-acetylspermine at 4 °C and pH 9.0. This step is followed by rate-limiting product dissociation. The k(cat)/K(amine)-pH profiles are bell-shaped, with an average pK(a) value of 9.3 with spermine and pK(a) values of 8.3 and 9.6 with N(1)-acetylspermine. Both profiles are consistent with the active forms of substrates having two charged nitrogens. The pH profiles for the rate constant for flavin reduction show pK(a) values of 8.3 and 7.2 for spermine and N(1)-acetylspermine, respectively, for groups that must be unprotonated; these pK(a) values are assigned to the substrate N4. The k(cat)/K(O(2))-pH profiles show pK(a) values of 7.5 for spermine and 6.8 for N(1)-acetylspermine. With both substrates, the k(cat) value decreases when a single residue is protonated.
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- Mariya S. Adachi
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229
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Li J, Ilangovan U, Daubner SC, Hinck AP, Fitzpatrick PF. Direct evidence for a phenylalanine site in the regulatory domain of phenylalanine hydroxylase. Arch Biochem Biophys 2010; 505:250-5. [PMID: 20951114 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2010.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2010] [Revised: 10/05/2010] [Accepted: 10/11/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The hydroxylation of phenylalanine to tyrosine by the liver enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase is regulated by the level of phenylalanine. Whether there is a distinct allosteric binding site for phenylalanine outside of the active site has been unclear. The enzyme contains an N-terminal regulatory domain that extends through Thr117. The regulatory domain of rat phenylalanine hydroxylase was expressed in Escherichia coli. The purified protein behaves as a dimer on a gel filtration column. In the presence of phenylalanine, the protein elutes earlier from the column, consistent with a conformational change in the presence of the amino acid. No change in elution is seen in the presence of the non-activating amino acid proline. ¹H-¹⁵N HSQC NMR spectra were obtained of the ¹⁵N-labeled protein alone and in the presence of phenylalanine or proline. A subset of the peaks in the spectrum exhibits chemical shift perturbation in the presence of phenylalanine, consistent with binding of phenylalanine at a specific site. No change in the NMR spectrum is seen in the presence of proline. These results establish that the regulatory domain of phenylalanine hydroxylase can bind phenylalanine, consistent with the presence of an allosteric site for the amino acid.
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- Jun Li
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, 77843-2128, United States
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Pavon JA, Eser B, Huynh MT, Fitzpatrick PF. Single turnover kinetics of tryptophan hydroxylase: evidence for a new intermediate in the reaction of the aromatic amino acid hydroxylases. Biochemistry 2010; 49:7563-71. [PMID: 20687613 DOI: 10.1021/bi100744r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Tryptophan hydroxylase (TrpH) uses a non-heme mononuclear iron center to catalyze the tetrahydropterin-dependent hydroxylation of tryptophan to 5-hydroxytryptophan. The reactions of the TrpH.Fe(II), TrpH.Fe(II).tryptophan, TrpH.Fe(II).6MePH(4).tryptophan, and TrpH.Fe(II).6MePH(4).phenylalanine complexes with O(2) were monitored by stopped-flow absorbance spectroscopy and rapid quench methods. The second-order rate constant for the oxidation of TrpH.Fe(II) has a value of 104 M(-1) s(-1) irrespective of the presence of tryptophan. Stopped-flow absorbance analyses of the reaction of the TrpH.Fe(II).6MePH(4).tryptophan complex with oxygen are consistent with the initial step being reversible binding of oxygen, followed by the formation with a rate constant of 65 s(-1) of an intermediate I that has maximal absorbance at 420 nm. The rate constant for decay of I, 4.4 s(-1), matches that for formation of the 4a-hydroxypterin product monitored at 248 nm. Chemical-quench analyses show that 5-hydroxytryptophan forms with a rate constant of 1.3 s(-1) and that overall turnover is limited by a subsequent slow step, presumably product release, with a rate constant of 0.2 s(-1). All of the data with tryptophan as substrate can be described by a five-step mechanism. In contrast, with phenylalanine as substrate, the reaction can be described by three steps: a second-order reaction with oxygen to form I, decay of I as tyrosine forms, and slow product release.
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- Jorge Alex Pavon
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station,Texas 77843-2128, USA
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Panay AJ, Fitzpatrick PF. Measurement of the intramolecular isotope effect on aliphatic hydroxylation by Chromobacterium violaceum phenylalanine hydroxylase. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 132:5584-5. [PMID: 20355730 DOI: 10.1021/ja101563t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The non-heme iron enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase from Chromobacterium violaceum has previously been shown to catalyze the hydroxylation of benzylic and aliphatic carbons in addition to the normal aromatic hydroxylation reaction. The intrinsic isotope effect for hydroxylation of 3-cyclochexylalanine by the enzyme was determined in order to gain insight into the reactivity of the iron center. With 3-[(2)H(11)-cyclohexyl]alanine as the substrate, the isotope effect on the k(cat) value was 1, consistent with an additional step in the overall reaction being significantly slower than hydroxylation. Consequently, the isotope effect was determined as an intramolecular effect by measuring the amount of deuterium lost in the hydroxylation of 3-[1,2,3,4,5,6-(2)H(6)-cyclohexyl]alanine. The ratio of 4-HO-cyclohexylalanine that retained deuterium to that which lost one deuterium atom was 2.8. This gave a calculated value of 12.6 for the ratio of the primary deuterium kinetic isotope effect to the secondary isotope effect. This value is consistent with hydrogen atom abstraction by an electrophilic Fe(O) center and a contribution of quantum-mechanical tunneling to the reaction.
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- Aram J Panay
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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Tormos JR, Taylor AB, Daubner SC, Hart PJ, Fitzpatrick PF. Identification of a hypothetical protein from Podospora anserina as a nitroalkane oxidase. Biochemistry 2010; 49:5035-41. [PMID: 20481475 PMCID: PMC2889615 DOI: 10.1021/bi100610e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The flavoprotein nitroalkane oxidase (NAO) from Fusarium oxysporum catalyzes the oxidation of primary and secondary nitroalkanes to their respective aldehydes and ketones. Structurally, the enzyme is a member of the acyl-CoA dehydrogenase superfamily. To date no enzymes other than that from F. oxysporum have been annotated as NAOs. To identify additional potential NAOs, the available database was searched for enzymes in which the active site residues Asp402, Arg409, and Ser276 were conserved. Of the several fungal enzymes identified in this fashion, PODANSg2158 from Podospora anserina was selected for expression and characterization. The recombinant enzyme is a flavoprotein with activity on nitroalkanes comparable to the F. oxysporum NAO, although the substrate specificity is somewhat different. Asp399, Arg406, and Ser273 in PODANSg2158 correspond to the active site triad in F. oxysporum NAO. The k(cat)/K(M)-pH profile with nitroethane shows a pK(a) of 5.9 that is assigned to Asp399 as the active site base. Mutation of Asp399 to asparagine decreases the k(cat)/K(M) value for nitroethane over 2 orders of magnitude. The R406K and S373A mutations decrease this kinetic parameter by 64- and 3-fold, respectively. The structure of PODANSg2158 has been determined at a resolution of 2.0 A, confirming its identification as an NAO.
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- José R. Tormos
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio TX, 78229
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio TX, 78229
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio TX, 78229
- Department of Veterans Affairs, Audie Murphy Division, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio TX, 78229
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249
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Pozzi MH, Fitzpatrick PF. A lysine conserved in the monoamine oxidase family is involved in oxidation of the reduced flavin in mouse polyamine oxidase. Arch Biochem Biophys 2010; 498:83-8. [PMID: 20417173 PMCID: PMC2880204 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2010.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2010] [Revised: 04/19/2010] [Accepted: 04/20/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Lysine 315 of mouse polyamine amine oxidase corresponds to a lysine residue that is conserved in the flavoprotein amine oxidases of the monoamine oxidase structural family. In several structures, this lysine residue forms a hydrogen bond to a water molecule that is hydrogen-bonded to the flavin N(5). Mutation of Lys315 in polyamine oxidase to methionine was previously shown to have no effect on the kinetics of the reductive half-reaction of the enzyme (M. Henderson Pozzi, V. Gawandi, P.F. Fitzpatrick, Biochemistry 48 (2009) 1508-1516). In contrast, the mutation does affect steps in the oxidative half-reaction. The k(cat) value is unaffected by the mutation; this kinetic parameter likely reflects product release. At pH 10, the k(cat)/K(m) value for oxygen is 25-fold lower in the mutant enzyme. The k(cat)/K(O2) value is pH-dependent for the wild-type enzyme, decreasing below a pK(a) of 7.0, while this kinetic parameter for the mutant enzyme is pH-independent. This is consistent with the neutral form of Lys315 being required for more rapid flavin oxidation. The solvent isotope effect on the k(cat)/K(O2) value increases from 1.4 in the wild-type enzyme to 1.9 in the mutant protein, and the solvent inventory changes from linear to bowed. The effects of the mutation can be explained by the lysine orienting the bridging water so that it can accept the proton from the flavin N(5) during flavin oxidation. In the mutant enzyme the lysine amine would be replaced by a water chain.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio TX 78229-3900
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