TY - JOUR
T1 - Disruption of an Active Site Hydrogen Bond Converts Human Heme Oxygenase-1 into a Peroxidase
AU - Lightning, Luke Koenigs
AU - Huang, Hong Wei
AU - Moënne-Loccoz, Pierre
AU - Loehr, Thomas M.
AU - Schuller, David J.
AU - Poulos, Thomas L.
AU - Ortiz De Montellano, Paul R.
PY - 2001/4/6
Y1 - 2001/4/6
N2 - The crystal structure of heme oxygenase-1 suggests that Asp-140 may participate in a hydrogen bonding network involving ligands coordinated to the heme iron atom. To examine this possibility, Asp-140 was mutated to an alanine, phenylalanine, histidine, leucine, or asparagine, and the properties of the purified proteins were investigated. UV-visible and resonance Raman spectroscopy indicate that the distal water ligand is lost from the iron in all the mutants except, to some extent, the D140N mutant. In the D140H mutant, the distal water ligand is replaced by the new His-140 as the sixth iron ligand, giving a bis-histidine complex. The D140A, D140H, and D140N mutants retain a trace (<3%) of biliverdin forming activity, but the D140F and D140L mutants are inactive in this respect. However, the two latter mutants retain a low ability to form verdoheme, an intermediate in the reaction sequence. All the Asp-140 mutants exhibit a new peroxidase activity. The results indicate that disruption of the distal hydrogen bonding environment by mutation of Asp-140 destabilizes the ferrous dioxygen complex and promotes conversion of the ferrous hydroperoxy intermediate obtained by reduction of the ferrous dioxygen complex to a ferryl species at the expense of its normal reaction with the porphyrin ring.
AB - The crystal structure of heme oxygenase-1 suggests that Asp-140 may participate in a hydrogen bonding network involving ligands coordinated to the heme iron atom. To examine this possibility, Asp-140 was mutated to an alanine, phenylalanine, histidine, leucine, or asparagine, and the properties of the purified proteins were investigated. UV-visible and resonance Raman spectroscopy indicate that the distal water ligand is lost from the iron in all the mutants except, to some extent, the D140N mutant. In the D140H mutant, the distal water ligand is replaced by the new His-140 as the sixth iron ligand, giving a bis-histidine complex. The D140A, D140H, and D140N mutants retain a trace (<3%) of biliverdin forming activity, but the D140F and D140L mutants are inactive in this respect. However, the two latter mutants retain a low ability to form verdoheme, an intermediate in the reaction sequence. All the Asp-140 mutants exhibit a new peroxidase activity. The results indicate that disruption of the distal hydrogen bonding environment by mutation of Asp-140 destabilizes the ferrous dioxygen complex and promotes conversion of the ferrous hydroperoxy intermediate obtained by reduction of the ferrous dioxygen complex to a ferryl species at the expense of its normal reaction with the porphyrin ring.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.M010349200
DO - 10.1074/jbc.M010349200
M3 - Article
C2 - 11121422
AN - SCOPUS:0035815676
SN - 0021-9258
VL - 276
SP - 10612
EP - 10619
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
IS - 14
ER -