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Pravastatin (CS-514) is a tissue selective inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (EC 1.1.1.34), a key enzyme in cholesterol biosynthesis. This compound is obtained by hydroxylation of ML-236B (mevastatin) in Streptomyces carbophilus catalyzed by a cytochrome P-450sca monooxygenase system. NADH-cytochrome P-450 reductase was purified to homogeneity from S. carbophilus as a single polypeptide chain with a molecular weight of 51 kDa, and reconstituted the hydroxylation in vitro with cytochrome P-450sca, NADH and O2. This protein contained FAD and FMN molecule. The FMN molecule was easily dissociated from the reductase, and had a Kd value of 5 x 10(-5) M. The cytochrome P-450sca monooxygenase system was present in the soluble fraction and consisted of only two components, cytochrome P-450sca and flavoprotein. Our results constitute the demonstration of a two component-type cytochrome P-450 system in a prokaryote.
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PMID:A two component-type cytochrome P-450 monooxygenase system in a prokaryote that catalyzes hydroxylation of ML-236B to pravastatin, a tissue-selective inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase. 190 57

The role of protein residues in activating the substrate in the reaction catalyzed by the flavoprotein p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase was studied. X-ray crystallography (Schreuder, H. A., Prick, P.A.J., Wieringa, R.K., Vriend, G., Wilson, K.S., Hol, W.G. J., and Drenth, J. (1989) J. Mol. Biol. 208, 679-696) indicates that Tyr-201 and Tyr-385 form a hydrogen bond network with the 4-OH of p-hydroxybenzoate. Therefore, site directed mutants were constructed, converting each of these tyrosines into phenylalanines. Spectral (visible and fluorescence) properties, reduction potentials, and binding constants are very similar to those of wild type, indicating that there are no major structural changes in the mutants. In the absence of substrate, the mutants and wild type exhibit similar pH-dependent changes in the FAD spectrum. However, the enzyme-substrate complex of Tyr-201----Phe lacks an ionization observed in both wild type and Tyr-385----Phe, which preferentially bind the phenolate form of substrates. Tyr-201----Phe shows no preference, indicating that Tyr-201 is required to ionize the substrate. The mutants have less than 6% the activity of the wild type enzyme. The effects on catalysis were studied by stopped flow techniques. Reduction of FAD by NADPH is slower by 10-fold in Tyr-201----Phe and 100-fold in Tyr-385----Phe. When the reduced Tyr-201----Phe-p-hydroxybenzoate complex reacts with oxygen, a long-lived flavin-C(4a)-hydroperoxide is observed, which slowly eliminates H2O2 with very little hydroxylation. Thus, the role of Tyr-201 is to activate the substrate by stabilizing the phenolate. Tyr-385----Phe reacts with oxygen to form 25% oxidized enzyme, and 75% flavin hydroperoxide, which successfully hydroxylates the substrate. This mutant also hydroxylates the product (3, 4-dihydroxybenzoate) to form gallic acid.
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PMID:Catalytic function of tyrosine residues in para-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase as determined by the study of site-directed mutants. 191 43

The association process of FAD and apo-electron-transferring flavoprotein (apoETF) from hog kidney was investigated. The reaction schemes which involve the association-dissociation of the protein species could be excluded by the light scattering data, which indicated that the molecular weights of apoETF and holoETF are identical. The binding reaction between FAD and a large excess of apoETF was monophasic and obeyed pseudo-first order kinetics. On the other hand, the reaction between apoETF and a large excess of FAD was biphasic: the fast phase obeyed a pseudo-first order reaction, and the rate of the slow phase was almost independent of FAD concentration. These results suggest the existence of two different forms of apoETF, as represented in the following reaction scheme: [formula: see text] where "F" is FAD, "H" is holoETF, and "A" and "A" are the different forms of apoETF. The kinetic parameters were determined as k-1 = 3.9 x 10(4) M-1.s-1, k-1 approximately 10(-5) s-1, k+2 = 1.0 x 10(-3) s-1, and k-2 = 3.1 x 10(-3) s-1, in 50 mM potassium phosphate buffer, pH 7.6, containing 0.3 mM EDTA, and 5% v/v glycerol, at 7 degrees C. The elution patterns of apoETF on molecular sieve chromatography were very different from that of holoETF although the true molecular weights were identical. This result suggests that the structure of apoETF differs greatly from that of holoETF.
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PMID:The existence of two different forms of apo-electron-transferring flavoprotein. 191 98

Superoxide production by phagocytic blood cells involves assembly of an active NADPH oxidase complex from components found both in membrane and cytosolic locations in resting cells. We recently cloned cDNAs encoding two cytosolic components (p47-phox and p67-phox) of the oxidase that are deficient in distinct forms of autosomal recessive chronic granulomatous disease. The precise roles of p47-phox and p67-phox were explored further using purified factors produced in large quantities using recombinant baculoviruses to infect cultured Sf9 insect cells. Neither p47-phox nor p67-phox are thought to represent the flavoprotein components of the oxidase, since neither of the purified recombinant factors contained or bound FAD. Recombinant p47-phox and p67-phox are capable of restoring the deficient cytosol from chronic granulomatous disease patient neutrophils to nearly normal levels in a cell-free reconstitution system. Both p47-phox and p67-phox, used together in the absence of neutrophil cytosol, are incapable of supporting cell free production of superoxide, confirming the involvement of other soluble factor(s) in the assembly of an active oxidase in vitro.
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PMID:Characterization of neutrophil NADPH oxidase factors p47-phox and p67-phox from recombinant baculoviruses. 191 85

Comparison of the amino acid sequences of several microsomal cytochrome P-450 reductases to the flavoprotein domain (BMR) of cytochrome P-450BM-3 has revealed that this class of flavoproteins contains evolutionarily conserved regions that are important for their interaction with nucleotide substrates and cofactors. In order to understand the properties of BMR, the region encoding this protein, beginning at residue Lys-472 of cytochrome P-450BM-3, was subcloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant protein (more than 50% of host-soluble proteins) was purified to homogeneity using conventional purification procedures. BMR (Mr 66,000) showed typical flavoenzyme absorbance spectra, contained FAD and FMN in a stoichiometry of 1:1, and catalyzed reduction of several artificial electron acceptors with rates comparable to those of the microsomal NADPH-cytochrome P-450 oxidoreductase. Limited trypsinolysis of BMR, under non-denaturing conditions, revealed that the protease removed the NH2-terminal 122 residues. This region was postulated to contain amino acids that are important for FMN binding (Porter, T. D. (1991) Trends Biochem. Sci. 16, 154-158). Consistent with this hypothesis, the major tryptic product of BMR (BMR-52, Mr 52,000) contained only FAD, in an equimolar ratio to the protein. Also, like the FMN-depleted microsomal NADPH-cytochrome P-450 oxidoreductase (Kurzban, G. P., Howarth, J., Palmer, G., and Strobel, H. W. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 12272-12279), BMR-52 was active for only catalyzing ferricyanide reduction. These data provide strong experimental evidence for a discrete multidomain structure of BMR, as proposed for the membrane-bound reductases, with an amino-terminal FMN binding region and carboxyl-terminal FAD- and NADPH binding regions. Thus, BMR strongly resembles the microsomal cytochrome P-450 reductase and offers an opportunity to better understand the structure-function relationships of this class of flavoproteins.
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PMID:Expression, purification, and properties of the flavoprotein domain of cytochrome P-450BM-3. Evidence for the importance of the amino-terminal region for FMN binding. 193 79

Directed mutagenesis of the gor gene from Escherichia coli encoding the flavoprotein glutathione reductase was used to convert the two cysteine residues that comprise its redox-active disulphide bridge to alanine (C42A) and serine (C47S) residues. A double mutant (C42AH439A) was also created in which His-439, the proton donor/acceptor in the glutathione-binding site, was additionally converted into an alanine residue. The C42A and C47S mutants were both unable to catalyse the reduction of glutathione by NADPH. The C42A mutant retained the transhydrogenase activity of the wild-type enzyme, whereas the C47S mutant was also inhibited in this reaction. These results support the view that in the catalytic mechanism of E. coli glutathione reductase, the thiolate form of Cys-42 acts as a nucleophile to initiate disulphide exchange with enzyme-bound glutathione and that the thiolate form of Cys-47 generates an essential charge-transfer complex with enzyme-bound FAD. Titration of the C42A and C42AH439A mutants indicated that the imidazole side-chain of His-439 lowered the pKa of the charge-transfer thiol (Cys-47) from 7.7 to 5.7, enhancing its ability to act as an anion at neutral pH. Several important differences between these mutants of E. coli glutathione reductase and similar mutants (or chemically modified forms) of other members of the flavoprotein disulphide oxidoreductase family were noted, but these could be explained in terms of the different redox chemistries of the enzymes concerned.
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PMID:Directed mutagenesis of the redox-active disulphide bridge in glutathione reductase from Escherichia coli. 197 42

By directed mutagenesis of the cloned Escherichia coli gor gene encoding the dimeric flavoprotein glutathione reductase, Cys-47 (a cysteine residue forming an essential charge-transfer complex with enzyme-bound FAD) was converted to serine (C47S) and His-439 (required to facilitate protonation of the reduced glutathione) was converted to glutamine (H439Q). Both mutant genes were placed in the same plasmid, pHD, where each of them came under the control of a strong tac promoter. This was designed to achieve equal over-expression of both genes in the same E. coli cell. The parental homo-dimers show no (C47S) or very little (H439Q) activity as glutathione reductases. The formation in vivo of heterodimers, carrying one crippled and one fully functional active site, was detected by absorbance spectroscopy and fluorescence emission spectrometry of enzyme-bound FAD and by active site complementation. The fractional distribution of homo- and hetero-dimers was in accord with that expected for a random association of enzyme subunits. In a homo-dimer, the H439Q mutation leads to a big fall in the value of Km for NADPH which binds some 1.8 nm from the point of mutation (Berry, A., Scrutton, N.S. & Perham, R. N. Biochemistry 28, 1264-1269 (1989)). However, the one active site in the H439Q/C47S hetero-dimer exhibited kinetic parameters similar to those of the wild-type enzyme. Thus, the effect of the H439Q mutation must be retained within the active site that accommodates it and is not transmitted through the protein to the second active site across the subunit interface.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Active site complementation in engineered heterodimers of Escherichia coli glutathione reductase created in vivo. 198 37

Mercuric reductase, a flavoprotein disulfide oxidoreductase, catalyzes the two-electron reduction of Hg(II) to Hg(0) by NADPH. As with all the members of this class of proteins, the enzyme is a dimer of identical subunits with two active sites per dimer, each composed of one FAD and catalytically essential residues from both subunits. In the enzyme from Tn501, these residues include, at a minimum, FAD and cysteines 135 and 140 from one subunit and cysteines 558' and 559' from the other. With this sort of active site arrangement, the enzyme seems perfectly set up for some type of subunit communication. In this report, we present results from several titrations, as well as kinetics studies, that, taken together, are consistent with the occurrence of subunit communication. In particular, the results indicate that pyridine nucleotide complexed dimers of the enzyme are asymmetric. Since the EH2-NADPH complex of the enzyme is the relevant reductant of Hg(II), these observations suggest that the enzyme may function asymmetrically during catalysis. An alternating sites model is proposed for the catalytic reduction of Hg(II), where both subunits of the dimer function in catalysis, but the steps are staggered and the subunits reverse roles after part of the reaction. An attractive feature of this proposal is that it provides a reasonable solution to the thermodynamic dilemma the enzyme faces in needing to both bind Hg(II) very tightly and reduce it.
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PMID:Communication between the active sites in dimeric mercuric ion reductase: an alternating sites hypothesis for catalysis. 200 50

A green enzyme from Clostridium aminovalericum with valeryl-CoA dehydrogenase activity was purified to homogeneity (169 +/- 3 kDa) and crystallized. By SDS/PAGE, one type of subunit (42 kDa) was detected indicating a homotetrameric structure. The unusual ultraviolet/visible spectrum of the green enzyme (maxima at 394 nm, 438 nm and 715 nm) was converted to a normal flavoprotein spectrum either by reduction with dithionite and reoxidation under air, or by removal of the prosthetic group at pH 2 and reconstitution with FAD (not FMN). Besides FAD (4 mol/169 kDa), the enzyme contained 4 mol of a CoA ester which was similar but not identical to 5-hydroxy-2-pentenoyl-CoA. The reconstituted holoenzyme as well as the native green enzyme, but not the apoenzyme, catalysed the reversible dehydration of 5-hydroxyvaleryl-CoA to 4-pentenoyl-CoA in the absence of an external electron acceptor. In its presence (preferentially ferricenium ion), the green or yellow enzyme catalysed the formation of (E)-5-hydroxy-2-pentenoyl-CoA and 2,4-pentadienoyl-CoA either from 4-pentenoyl-CoA or from 5-hydroxyvaleryl-CoA. The reversible hydration of 2,4-pentadienoyl-CoA to (E)-5-hydroxy-2-pentenoyl-CoA was mediated by both enzymes as well as by the apoenzyme in the absence of FAD. Hydration of 4-pentenoate in 2H2O yielded optically active 5-hydroxy[2,4-2H2]valerate by the combined action of 5-hydroxyvalerate CoA-transferase, the green dehydratase and catalytical amounts of acetyl-CoA. The data show that the reversible hydration of the isolated double bond of 4-pentenoyl-CoA to 5-hydroxyvaleryl-CoA. which apparently violates the Markovnikov rule, is preceded by oxidation to 2,4-pentadienoyl-CoA. The latter compound, a vinyl analogue of 2-enoyl-CoA, is then easily hydrated to (E)-5-hydroxy-2-pentenoyl-CoA and finally reduced to 5-hydroxyvaleryl-CoA.
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PMID:Crystalline green 5-hydroxyvaleryl-CoA dehydratase from Clostridium aminovalericum. 202 96

2,4-Pentadienoyl-CoA reductase from Clostridium aminovalericum was purified to homogeneity (170-182 kDa). PAGE in the presence of SDS revealed a single band (44 kDa) indicating a homotetrameric structure. The native enzyme had a green colour and contained 0.4 mol FAD/subunit. Its unusual ultraviolet/visible-spectrum showed absorption maxima at 270, 402 and 715 nm as well as shoulders at 278, 360, 450 and 500 nm. Removal of the prosthetic group at pH 2 in the presence of salt and charcoal yielded a colourless and completely inactive apoenzyme, which could be reconstituted with FAD (not with FMN) to an active holoenzyme showing a normal flavoprotein spectrum (peaks at 369 nm and 436 nm). Thereby the FAD content increased to 0.9 mol/subunit with a concomitant rise in activity to 200% of the original value. Anaerobic reduction of the green enzyme by dithionite and reoxidation by air afforded a green preparation with a spectrum similar to that of the native enzyme. Addition of excess FAD to the green reductase also increased the activity by a factor of two. The green enzyme catalysed the oxidation of (E)-3-pentenoyl-CoA or (E)-3-hexenoyl-CoA to 2,4-pentadienoyl-CoA or 2,4-hexenoyl-CoA, respectively. 2-Pentenoyl-CoA or 4-pentenoyl-CoA were not oxidised. Meldola blue (8-dimethylamino-2,3-benzophenoxazine) and 2-(4-iodophenyl)-3-(4-nitrophenyl)-5-phenyltetrazolium chloride (V = 26 nkat/mg protein) or ferricenium hexafluorophosphate (V = 1900 nkat/mg), but not NAD(P), served as electron acceptors. Reduction of 2,4-pentadienoyl-CoA (V = 370 nkat/mg) was observed with reduced benzyl viologen, but not with NAD(P)H as an electron donor. Although the enzyme had some pentenoyl-CoA delta-isomerase activity (1.2 nkat/mg), the only product of the reduction was 3-pentenoyl-CoA rather than 2-pentenoyl-CoA.
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PMID:A green 2,4-pentadienoyl-CoA reductase from Clostridium aminovalericum. 204 Feb 89


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