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Detergent-solubilized NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase was purified from porcine hepatic microsomes and compared to the rabbit enzyme isolated under identical conditions. The porcine enzyme had an equivalent specific activity toward cytochrome c compared to the rabbit enzyme. When analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the porcine enzyme exhibited a major band at Mr = 80,000 and two additional bands at Mr = 20,000 and 60,000. The 20-kDa fragment was shown to be the COOH-terminal portion of the protein which contains a hydrophobic sequence of 28 residues homologous to the pyrophosphate-binding portion of the FAD-binding protein p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase. The 60-kDa fragment corresponded to the NH2-terminal portion of the protein since this peptide and the intact protein have blocked NH2 terminal. The trypsin-solubilized porcine enzyme has an NH2-terminal sequence which is homologous to the equivalent trypsin-solubilized enzymes from rat and rabbit (80% sequence homology). Eight cysteine-containing peptides were isolated from a tryptic digest of the S-carboxymethylated pig enzyme. Significant sequence homology was not found between these peptides and other flavoproteins, except for one peptide (Glu-Val-Gly-Glu-Thr-Leu-Leu-Tyr-Tyr-Gly-Cys-Arg) which exhibited partial homology with the known NADPH-binding site of glutathione reductase. When the NADPH-protected enzyme was first S-alkylated with unlabeled iodoacetate, NADPH depleted, and further alkylated with 14C-labeled iodoacetate, the above radiolabeled peptide was isolated from a tryptic digest. The equivalent peptide was also isolated by a similar procedure from rabbit liver cytochrome P-450 reductase.
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PMID:Structural analysis of NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase from porcine hepatic microsomes. Sequences of proteolytic fragments, cysteine-containing peptides, and a NADPH-protected cysteine peptide. 643 80

A water-soluble carbodiimide has been used to promote the formation of amide bonds between carboxyl residues on cytochrome b5 and lysyl residues on cytochrome b5 reductase. The visible and UV absorption spectrum of the purified cross-linked complex was identical with the sum of the spectra of the individual enzymes, and the average apparent molecular weight of the complex, determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis, was within 12% of the sum of the apparent molecular weights of the two monomeric enzymes, indicating that the cross-linked derivative was a dimer containing one molecule each of cytochrome b5 and cytochrome b5 reductase. When reconstituted into phospholipid vesicles, the amphipathic derivative showed substantially reduced Vmax values with the soluble electron acceptors potassium ferricyanide, cytochrome b5 heme peptide and cytochrome c, and with the membrane-bound acceptors amphipathic cytochrome b5 and stearyl-CoA desaturase. The soluble catalytic fragment of the derivative, produced by limited digestion with subtilisin Carlsberg, showed similar decreases in Vmax values with the above soluble acceptors. In contrast, intradimer electron transfer in the soluble fragment, measured by stopped flow spectrophotometry at 2 degrees C was very efficient. Ninety per cent of the cytochrome b5 in the derivative was reduced with a first order rate constant of 51 s-1 upon the addition of NADH; the transfer of electrons from NADH to the reductase FAD prosthetic group, which is known to be the rate-limiting step in the reductase reaction mechanism, proceeded with an apparent rate constant of 57 s-1 under these conditions. These kinetic data show that the enzymes in the complex are cross-linked together at the surfaces involved in protein-protein contacts during electron transfer in an orientation similar to that assumed during electron transfer between the free proteins.
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PMID:Covalent cross-linking of the active sites of vesicle-bound cytochrome b5 and NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase. 669 18

Nitrate reductase (NADPH:nitrate oxidoreductase; EC 1.6.6.1-3) was purified to apparent homogeneity from mycelium of Penicillium chrysogenum. The final preparation catalyzed the NADPH-dependent, FAD-mediated reduction of nitrate with a specific activity of 170-225 units X mg of protein-1. Gel filtration and glycerol density centrifugation yielded, respectively, a Stokes radius of 6.3 nm and an s20,w of 7.4. The molecular weight was calculated to be 199,000. On sodium dodecyl sulfate gels, the enzyme displayed two almost contiguous dye-staining bands corresponding to molecular weights of about 97,000 and 98,000. The enzyme prefers NADPH to NADH (kspec ratio = 2813), FAD to FMN (kspec ratio = 141), FAD (+ NADPH) to FADH2 (kspec ratio = 12,000), and nitrate to chlorate (kspec ratio = 4.33), where the kspec (the specificity constant for a given substrate) represents Vmax/Km. The Penicillium enzyme will also catalyze te NADPH-dependent, FAD-mediated reduction of cytochrome c with a specific activity of 647 units X mg of protein-1 (Kmcyt = 1.25 X 10(-5) M), and the reduced methyl viologen (MVH2, i.e. methyl viologen + dithionite)-dependent, NADPH and FAD-independent reduction of nitrate with a specific activity of 250 units X mg of protein-1 kmMVH2 = 3.5 X 10(-6) M). Initial velocity studies showed intersecting NADPH-FAD and nitrate-FAD reciprocal plot patterns. The NADPH-nitrate pattern was a series of parallel lines at saturating and unsaturating FAD levels. NADP+ was competitive with NADPH, uncompetitive with nitrate (at saturating and unsaturating FAD levels), and a mixed-type inhibitor with respect to FAD. Nitrite was competitive with nitrate, uncompetitive with NADPH (at saturating and unsaturating FAD levels), and a mixed-type inhibitor with respect to FAD. At unsaturating nitrate and FAD, NADPH exhibited substrate inhibition, perhaps as a result of binding to the FAD site(s). At very low FAD concentrations, low concentrations of NADP+ activated the reaction slightly. The initial velocity and product inhibition patterns are consistent with either of the two kinetic mechanisms. One (rather unlikely) mechanism involves the rapid equilibrium random binding of all ligands with (a) NADP+ and NADPH mutually exclusive, (b) nitrate and nitrite mutually exclusive, (c) the binding of NADPH strongly inhibiting the binding of nitrate and vice versa, (d) the binding of NADPH strongly promoting the binding of nitrite and vice versa, and (e) the binding of nitrate strongly promoting the binding of NADP+ and vice versa...
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PMID:Nitrate reductase from Penicillium chrysogenum. Purification and kinetic mechanism. 679 May 45

The total -SH content of purified NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase (NADPH: ferricytochrome oxidoreductase, EC 1.6.2.4) from rabbit liver microsomes accessible to an excess equivalent of PCMB was 7.0 +/- 0.3 mol thiol groups/mol protein. The modification of four -SH groups at low concentration of PCMB stimulated the activity of the enzyme. On the other hand, further blocking of -SH groups (6-7 mol -SH groups/Mol protein) with an excess amount of PCMB completely inhibited cytochrome c (or DCPI) reductase activity. The fluorescence quenching of the flavin was rapidly removed by binding of PCMB to a fifth and sixth -SH group during a gradual titration. Kinetic and fluorimetric analyses confirmed the suggestion that these two -SH groups essential for catalytic function were partly protected by NADP+ or 2'-AMP against the reaction with PCMB. Excess PCMB begins to compete with the ligand preincubated with the enzyme. The spectral perturbation on the addition of approx. 6-7 equiv. PCMB/mol enzyme is accompanied by a slight blue shift of the absorbance maximum at 380 nm, with the appearance of a pronounced shoulder at 475 nm. In contrast to the native enzyme, 3-electron-reduced semiquinone form of PCMB-treated enzyme showed the same absorption spectrum as 1-electron-reduced semiquinone which has an absorption maximum at 585 nm with a broad shoulder around 635 nm. An inhibitory effect may be attributable to the fact that NADPH is less accessible to the FAD binding site as well as the pyridine nucleotide binding site, since the rate of FAD reduction becomes extremely slow after complete modification.
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PMID:Location of functional -SH groups in NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase from rabbit liver microsomes. 679 74

NADH-cytochrome b5 reductases purified from human red cell membranes and cytosol were compared with those prepared from human liver microsomes. Minimal molecular weights of the membrane and the cytosol enzymes as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) were 36,000 and 32,000 daltons, respectively, which are comparable to those of the detergent-solubilized reductase (dfp) and the protease-solubilized one (tfp) of liver microsomes, respectively. All the enzymes contained FAD and had essentially the same turnover numbers and apparent Km values for NADH and protease-solubilized cytochrome b5. The membrane enzyme and liver dfp reduced cytochrome c in the presence of detergent-solubilized cytochrome b5 70-80 times faster than in the presence of trypsin-solubilized cytochrome b5, whereas the cytosol enzyme and liver tfp showed essentially the same low activities with both preparations of cytochrome b5. SDS-PAGE mapping of the limited proteolytic products of the reductases obtained by digestion with staphylococcal protease or a-chymotrypsin showed essentially the same patterns of peptides between the red cell membrane enzyme and liver dfp and between the red cell cytosol enzyme and liver tfp. These results suggest that the NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase of human red cell membranes is identical with that of liver microsomes and that the enzyme of red cell cytosol is a proteolytic product of the membrane enzyme.
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PMID:Human NADH-cytochrome b5 reductases: comparison among those of erythrocyte membrane, erythrocyte cytosol, and liver microsomes. 684 58

Vitamin B2-aldehyde-forming enzyme from riboflavin was purified about 1,400-fold from a cell-free extract of Schizophyllum commune by ammonium sulfate saturation fractionation, ethanol fractionation, and column chromatographies on DEAE-Sephacel and Sephadex G-100. The purified enzyme was shown to be homogeneous on polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis, and most active at about pH 5.5. The molecular weight was determined to be approximately 60,000-62,000 by gel filtration. The enzyme was specific for riboflavin; other compounds such as alcohol, sugar, phenol or nucleoside were not oxidized by this enzyme, as far as tested. alpha-NAD+, beta-NAD+, alpha-NADP+, beta-NADP+, FMN, FAD, and cytochrome c were not active as an electron acceptor. 2,6-Dichlorophenolindophenol served as a good electron acceptor, and phenazine methosulfate and methylene blue were found to be somewhat effective. The enzyme stoichiometrically oxidized 1 mol of riboflavin with 1 mol of 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol as electron acceptor. The enzyme reaction was completely inhibited by 10 microM Hg2+, but was not inhibited by sulfhydryl reagent, carbonyl reagent, and metal chelator. Kinetics analysis gave a Km value of 17 microM for riboflavin.
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PMID:Occurrence of a vitamin B2-aldehyde-forming enzyme in Schizophyllum commune. 701 74

A substantially improved purification of Escherichia coli NADH-dependent nitrite reductase was obtained by purifying it in presence of 1 mM-NO2- and 10 microM-FAD. The enzyme was obtained in 20% yield with a maximum specific activity of 1.04 kat . kg-1: more than 95% of this sample subjected to sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis migrated as a single band of protein. This highly active enzyme contained one non-covalently bound FAD molecule, and, probably, 5 Fe atoms and 4 acid-labile S atoms per subunit. No FMN, covalently bound flavin or Mo was detected. The spectrum of the enzyme shows absorption maxima at 386, 455, 530 and about 575 nm with a shoulder at 480--490 nm. The Soret-band/alpha-band absorbance ratio is about 4:1. These spectral features are characteristic of sirohaem, apart from the maximum at 455nm, which is attributed to flavin. The enzyme also catalyses the NADH-dependent reduction of horse heart cytochrome c, 2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol and K3Fe(CN)6. The presence of sirohaem in E. coli nitrite reductase explains the apparent identity of the cysG and nirB gene of E. coli and inability of hemA mutants to reduce nitrite.
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PMID:Prosthetic groups of the NADH-dependent nitrite reductase from Escherichia coli K12. 703 Mar 14

NADPH-nitrate reductase [NADPH : nitrate oxidoreductase, EC 1.6.6.3] was purified 500-fold from Aspergillus nidulans with an overall yield of about 20%. The purified enzyme catalyzed NADPH-nitrate, NADPH-cytochrome c, FADH2-nitrate and reduced methyl viologen-nitrate reductase activities. Its molecular weight was estimated to be 180,000 from the Stokes radius and sedimentation coefficient. The oxidized enzyme exhibited an absorption spectrum having a peak at 412 nm and a broad shoulder at about 450 nm. When reduced with NADPH, absorption peaks appeared at 423 (Soret), 527 (beta) and 557 (alpha) nm, and absorption in the 450 nm region decreased. Upon treatment of the reduced enzyme with KNO3, the spectrum returned to that of the oxidized enzyme. The presence of protoheme in the enzyme was confirmed by the absorption spectrum of reduced pyridine hemochromogen. It was concluded that a b-type cytochrome ("cytochrome b-557") is present in the enzyme and is involved in the intramolecular electron transport from NADPH to nitrate. The NADPH-nitrate and NADPH-cytochrome c reductase activities, but not the other two activities, were significantly decreased by incubation of the enzyme at 37 degrees C in the absence of FAD. Analysis by SDS slab gel electrophoresis suggested that the nitrate reductase consists of two each of two subunits of 59,000 and 38,000 daltons and that a dissociation of 38,000 subunits from the native enzyme occurs during heat treatment, resulting in alteration of the catalytic activity.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of the assimilatory NADPH-nitrate reductase of Aspergillus nidulans. 704 1

Chlorella vulgaris was cultured on an ammonia-mineral salts medium until the nitrate reductase content reached a minimal level. These ammonia-grown cells were then induced by nitrate in the absence of molybdenum and of tungsten. A demolybdo nitrate reductase developed and reached high levels. This protein contained very little nitrate-reducing capacity, but had the full cytochrome c-reducing capacity of normal nitrate reductase. It was purified to homogeneity by the same procedures previously developed for the purification of nitrate reductase. The purified enzyme contained 1 molecule of heme and 1 molecule of FAD/subunit, but no detectable molybdenum or tungsten. This cytochrome c reductase was completely inhibited by antibodies raised against purified nitrate reductase of Chlorella. Mixtures prepared from normal nitrate reductase and the demolybdoenzyme could not be resolved by disc gel electrophoresis or by centrifugation in a density gradient. By a two-step enzyme induction (1, incubation with nitrate in absence of Mo; 2, incubation with Mo in absence of nitrate) the process of nitrate reductase synthesis could be cleanly separated from growth into two steps: Step 1, induction of cytochrome c reductase, was completely inhibited by cycloheximide. Step 2 was unaffected by cycloheximide, and most of the nitrate reductase synthesized accumulated in the form of the reversibly inactivated HCN complex of the enzyme.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of demolybdo nitrate reductase (NADH-cytochrome c oxidoreductase) of Chlorella vulgaris. 719 74

Cells of Pseudomonas putida, after growth with toluene, contain a multicomponent enzyme system that oxidizes toluene to (+)-1(S),2(R)-dihydroxy-3-methyl-cyclohexa-3,5-diene. One of these components has been purified to homogeneity and shown to be a flavoprotein that contains FAD as the only detectable prosthetic group. Fad was removed from the enzyme during purification. However, equilibrium dialysis experiments showed that the enzyme can bind one mol of FAD/mol of enzyme protein. The apparent molecular weight of the enzyme is 46,000, as judged by gel filtration and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate and mercaptoethanol. The latter result suggests the presence of a single polypeptide chain. The amino acid composition of the enzyme reveals a relatively high content of the hydrophobic amino acids leucine, isoleucine, and valine and is remarkably similar in composition to the flavoproteins that function in certain monooxygenase enzyme systems. The purified enzyme catalyzes the reduction of dichloroindophenol, nitrobluetetrazolium, ferricyanide, and ferredoxinTOL. Its ability to reduce cytochrome c and to function in the toluene dioxygenase enzyme system is absolutely dependent on the presence of ferredoxinTOL.
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PMID:Purification and properties of NADH-ferredoxinTOL reductase. A component of toluene dioxygenase from Pseudomonas putida. 720 73


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