TY - JOUR
T1 - Replacement of the distal glycine 139 transforms human heme oxygenase-1 into a peroxidase
AU - Liu, Yi
AU - Lightning, Luke Koenigs
AU - Huang, Hong Wei
AU - Moënne-Loccoz, Pierre
AU - Schuller, David J.
AU - Poulos, Thomas L.
AU - Loehr, Thomas M.
AU - Ortiz De Montellano, Paul R.
PY - 2000/11/3
Y1 - 2000/11/3
N2 - The human heine oxygenase-1 crystal structure suggests that Gly-139 and Gly-143 interact directly with iron-bound ligands. We have mutated Gly-139 to an alanine, leucine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, histidine, or aspartate, and Gly-143 to a leucine, lysine, histidine, or aspartate. All of these mutants bind heine, but absorption and resonance Raman spectroscopy indicate that the water coordinated to the iron atom is lost in several of the Gly-139 mutants, giving rise to mixtures of hexacoordinate and pentacoordinate ligation states. The active site perturbation is greatest when large amino acid side chains are introduced. Of the Gly-139 mutants investigated, only G139A catalyzes the NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase-dependent oxidation of heme to biliverdin, but most of them exhibit a new H2O2-dependent guaiacol peroxidation activity. The Gly-143 mutants, all of which have lost the water ligand, have no heme oxygenase or peroxidase activity. The results establish the importance of Gly-139 and Gly-143 in maintaining the appropriate environment for the heme oxygenase reaction and show that Gly-139 mutations disrupt this environment, probably by displacing the distal helix, converting heme oxygenase into a peroxidase. The principal role of the heme oxygenase active site may be to suppress the ferryl species formation responsible for peroxidase activity.
AB - The human heine oxygenase-1 crystal structure suggests that Gly-139 and Gly-143 interact directly with iron-bound ligands. We have mutated Gly-139 to an alanine, leucine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, histidine, or aspartate, and Gly-143 to a leucine, lysine, histidine, or aspartate. All of these mutants bind heine, but absorption and resonance Raman spectroscopy indicate that the water coordinated to the iron atom is lost in several of the Gly-139 mutants, giving rise to mixtures of hexacoordinate and pentacoordinate ligation states. The active site perturbation is greatest when large amino acid side chains are introduced. Of the Gly-139 mutants investigated, only G139A catalyzes the NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase-dependent oxidation of heme to biliverdin, but most of them exhibit a new H2O2-dependent guaiacol peroxidation activity. The Gly-143 mutants, all of which have lost the water ligand, have no heme oxygenase or peroxidase activity. The results establish the importance of Gly-139 and Gly-143 in maintaining the appropriate environment for the heme oxygenase reaction and show that Gly-139 mutations disrupt this environment, probably by displacing the distal helix, converting heme oxygenase into a peroxidase. The principal role of the heme oxygenase active site may be to suppress the ferryl species formation responsible for peroxidase activity.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.M004245200
DO - 10.1074/jbc.M004245200
M3 - Article
C2 - 10942763
AN - SCOPUS:0034602153
VL - 275
SP - 34501
EP - 34507
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
SN - 0021-9258
IS - 44
ER -