Thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid, an adduct of cysteamine and glyoxylate, as a substrate for D-amino acid oxidase

A mixture of cysteamine and glyoxylate, proposed by Hamilton et al. to form the physiological substrate of hog kidney D-amino acid oxidase (Hamilton, G. A., Buckthal, D. J., Mortensen, R. M., and Zerby, K. W. (1979) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 76, 2625-2629), was confirmed to act as a good substrate for the pure enzyme. As proposed by those workers, it was shown that the actual substrate is thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid, formed from cysteamine and glyoxylate with a second order rate constant of 84 min-1 M-1 at 37 degrees C, pH 7.5. Steady state kinetic analyses reveal that thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid is a better substrate at pH 8.5 than at pH 7.5. At both pH values, the catalytic turnover number is similar to that obtained with D-proline. D-Amino acid oxidase is rapidly reduced by thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid to form a reduced enzyme-imino acid complex, as is typical with D-amino acid oxidase substrates. The product of oxidation was shown by NMR to be delta 2-thiazoline-2-carboxylic acid. Racemic thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid is completely oxidized by the enzyme. The directly measured rate of isomerization of L-thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid to the D-isomer was compared to the rate of oxidation of the L-isomer by D-amino acid oxidase. Their identity over the range of temperature from 2-30 degrees C established that the apparent activity with the L-amino acid can be explained quantitatively by the rapid, prior isomerization to D-thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid.     

Action of thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid, a proline analog, on protein synthesizing systems.

Thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid, or beta-thiaproline, is a proline analog in which the beta methylene group of proline is substituted by a sulfur atom. It has been deomonstrated that beta-thiaproline is activated and transferred to tRNAPro by Escherichia coli and rat liver aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and inhibits proline incorporation into polypeptides in protein synthesizing systems from E. coli, rat liver or rabbit reticulocytes. In mammalian systems beta-thiaproline inhibits also leucine incorporation; in rabbit reticulocyte lysate it inhibits ribosome run-off. Both these effects may be explained by the fact that beta-thiaproline once incorporated into the growing polypeptide chain impairs its further elongation, as shown by experiments made with puromycin. All tests were performed in comparison with thiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid, or gamma-thiaproline, another proline analog having the gamma methylene group substituted by a sulfur atom; it was shown that in all the reactions studied both compounds act as competitive inhibitors of proline. Some differences in the effects of the two analogs have been evidenced: in almost all the reactions and mainly in the whole protein synthesizing systems, beta-thiaproline shows an higher inhibitory activity.     

L-pipecolate oxidase: a distinct peroxisomal enzyme in man

We investigated the oxidation of L-pipecolate in human liver. The results obtained with L-pipecolate from which traces of D-pipecolate had been removed by a preincubation with D-aminoacid oxidase indicate that a distinct L-pipecolate oxidase rather than D-aminoacid oxidase is responsible for the L-pipecolate dependent H2O2-production in human liver. Importantly, L-pipecolate oxidase was found to be localized in peroxisomes which adds to the growing number of enzymes and metabolic functions which can be ascribed to peroxisomes.     

Interaction between 1,4-thiazine derivatives and D-amino-acid oxidase

Aminoethylcysteine-ketimine (2H-1,4-thiazine-5,6-dihydro-3-carboxylic acid) strongly inhibits D-amino-acid oxidase (D-amino-acid:oxygen oxidoreductase (deaminating), EC 1.4.3.3). The inhibition is purely competitive (Ki = 3.3 X 10(-7) M). Aminoethylcysteine-ketimine modifies the visible spectrum of the enzyme: the absorption maxima of bound FAD shift from 375-455 nm to 385-445 nm with a definite shoulder at 465 nm; the appearance of a large absorption band centered at 750 nm may be due to a charge-transfer complex formation. The dissociation constant for the aminoethylcysteine-ketimine-enzyme complex, calculated by a photometric procedure (4 X 10(-7) M), is in good agreement with kinetic data. The dicarboxylic analogue of this inhibitor (lanthionine-ketimine) is ineffective in D-amino-acid oxidase inhibition and does not produce any spectral modification of the enzyme. These results confirm structural requirements for D-amino-acid oxidase inhibitor reported by other researchers. Ketimine reduced forms (thiomorpholine-2-carboxylic acid and thiomorpholine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid) are chemically synthesized and checked as D-amino-acid oxidase substrates: only thiomorpholine-2-carboxylic acid is oxidized to aminoethylcysteine-ketimine (Km = 2 X 10(-4) M).     

Enzymatic conversion of cephalosporin C into glutaryl 7-aminocephalosporanic acid. A study in different reactor configurations

Conversion of cephalosporin C into glutaryl 7-aminocephalosporanic acid was catalysed by D-aminoacid oxidase from Trigonopsis variabilis, covalently immobilized on the polystyrenic resin Duolite A365. Spontaneous degradation of substrates was limited without depressing enzymatic activity at the optimum reaction pH 8.0. The highest product yield was 1.77 mmol per g of biocatalyst, attained at 15¡C in both batch stirred and fluidized-bed reactors.     

Partial purification and characterization of a D-amino acid oxidase from the hepatopancreas of Octopus vulgaris

Partial purification and characterization of a D-aminoacid oxidase from Octopus vulgaris hepatopancreas are described. An about 25-fold purification was achieved. The pH optimum was near to 9; molecular weight, determined by gel-filtration through G 200 Sephadex was approximately 55000; apparent Km was 10(-3)M. The enzyme showed great affinity for D-Ala and D-Val. Recovery of activity, due to pre-incubation with FAD was observed. The enzyme is strongly inhibited by benzoic acid and moderately inhibited by p-aminobenzoic acid.     

Peroxisomal oxidases and catalase in liver and kidney homogenates of normal and di(ethylhexyl)phthalate-fed rats.

1. Activities of peroxisomal oxidases and catalase were assayed at neutral and alkaline pH in liver and kidney homogenates from male rats fed a diet with or without 2% di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) for 12 days. 2. All enzyme activities were higher at alkaline than at neutral pH in both groups. 3. The effect of the DEHP-diet on the peroxisomal enzymes was different in kidney and liver. Acyl-CoA oxidase activity was raised three- and sixfold in kidney and liver homogenates, respectively. The activity of D-amino acid oxidase decrease in liver, but increased in kidney homogenates. In liver homogenates, urate oxidase activity was not affected by the DEHP diet. The catalase activity was twofold induced in liver, but not in kidney. 4. The differences suggest that the changes of peroxisomal enzyme activities by DEHP treatment are not directly related to peroxisome proliferation. 5. DEHP treatment caused a marked increase of total and peroxisomal fatty acid oxidation in rat liver homogenates. 6. In the control group the rate of peroxisomal fatty acid oxidation was higher at alkaline pH than at neutral pH. 7. This rate was equal at both pH values in the DEHP-fed group, in contrast to the acyl-CoA oxidase activity. These results indicate that after DEHP treatment other parameters than acyl-CoA oxidase activity become limiting for peroxisomal beta-oxidation.     

The kinetics of electron transfer between pseudomonas aeruginosa cytochrome c-551 and its oxidase.

The redox reaction between cytochrome c-551 and its oxidase from the respiratory chain of pseudomonas aeruginosa was studied by rapid-mixing techniques at both pH7 and 9.1. The electron transfer in the direction of cytochrome c-551 reduction, starting with the oxidase in the reduced and CO-bound form, is monophasic, and the governing bimolecular rate constants are 1.3(+/- 0.2) x 10(7) M-1 . s-1 at pH 9.1 and 4 (+/- 1) x 10(6) M-1 . s-1 at pH 7.0. In the opposite direction, i.e. mixing the oxidized oxidase with the reduced cytochrome c-551 in the absence of O2, both a lower absorbance change and a more complex kinetic pattern were observed. With oxidized azurin instead of oxidized cytochrome c-551 the oxidation of the c haem in the CO-bound oxidase is also monophasic, and the second-order rate constant is 2 (+/- 0.7) x 10(6) M-1 . s-1 at pH 9.1. The redox potential of the c haem in the oxidase, as obtained from kinetic titrations of the completely oxidized enzyme with reduced azurin as the variable substrate, is 288 mV at pH 7.0 and 255 mV at pH 9.1. This is in contrast with the very high affinity observed in similar titrations performed with both oxidized azurin and oxidized cytochrome c-551 starting from the CO derivative of the reduced oxidase. It is concluded that: (i) azurin and cytochrome c-551 are not equally efficient in vitro as reducing substrates of the oxidase in the respiratory chain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa; (ii) CO ligation to the d1 haem in the oxidase induces a large decrease (at least 80 mV) in the redox potential of the c-haem moiety.     

Studies on Analogues of Succinic Semialdehyde as Substrates for Succinate Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase from Rat Brain

The methyl ester of succinic semialdehyde (SSA) was examined as a substrate for succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) from rat brain. It was found that the ester can be oxidized by the enzyme. Values of Km for SSA-Me were higher than for those for SSA, and for this substrate the enzyme showed a substrate-dependent inhibition. This finding suggests that the carboxylate group of SSA is not essential in the process of inhibition of SSADH by the substrate. Cyclopropyl analogues of SSA, cis- and trans-1-formyl-cyclopropan-2-carboxylic acids, were also individually tested as substrates of SSADH. Only the trans isomer was found to be oxidized to the corresponding dicarboxylic acid; it inhibited the enzyme in the same range of concentrations as SSA. The above data suggest that, as for gamma-aminobutyric acid, SSA is present in an unfolded, transoid conformation at the active site of SSADH.     

The oxidation product of molybdenum cofactor from milk xanthine oxidase

In extracts of acid treated molybdenum cofactor containing xanthine oxidase, fluorescence is maximally developed upon a three hours incubation. Analysis by means of reversed phase HPLC revealed the presence of several fluorescent compounds, the main one being a blue fluorescent compound with an emission maximum of 465 nm when maximal excited at 395 nm at a neutral pH. Definite proof is presented that this compound is the oxidation product of the molybdenum cofactor. The remaining fluorescent products are shown to be pterin-derivatives, yielding predominantly pterin-6-carboxylic acid upon permanganate oxidation. Purified oxidation product of molybdenum cofactor however, didn's yield a fluorescent derivative at all upon treatment with permanganate.     

Proton magnetic resonance studies of alpha-keto acids.

Pulsed Fourier transform proton magnetic resonance was used to study alpha-ketoglutaramic, and several other alpha-keto acids in aqueous solutions as a function of pH. Most alpha-keto acids were found to exist in equilibrium with the hydrate (gem-doil). The equilibrium position favors the nonhydrated alphs-keto acid at neutral pH, but at low pH values (below the pKa of the alpha-carboxylic acid group) the hydrate predominates. We found evidence that alpha-ketoglutaric acid exists in a third equilibrium form which is assigned to the lactol. alpha-Ketoglutaramic acid (the alpha-keto acid analog of glutamine) which is known to exist predominantly in a cyclic form at pH 7.0 was shown to exist as a cyclic structure over a wide pH range. However, the cyclic form is an equilibrium mixture of 2-pyrrolidone-5-hydroxy-5-carboxylic and 1-pyrrolin-2-one-5-carboxylic acids.     

Enzymic oxidation of 3-hydroxyxanthine to 3-hydroxyuric acid.

1. Bovine milk xanthine oxidase (xanthine:oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.2.3.2) oxidises 3-hydroxyxanthine slowly to 3-hydroxyuric acid; the 1-methyl derivative of 3-hydroxyxanthine is attacked about twice as fast. 2. The pH optimum for the reaction of 2-hydroxyxanthine is near 5, i.e. the neutral form of this substrate is attacked much faster than the anion. Probably in the "active" form of the latter, the negative charge is located mainly in the imidazole ring, thus inhibiting nucleophilic attack at C-8.     

In situ kinetic measurements of d -amino acid oxidase in rat liver with respect to its substrate specificity

Summary d-Amino acid oxidase activity was demonstrated in peroxisomes of rat liver using unfixed cryostat sections and a histochemical technique using cerium ions as capture reagent for hydrogen peroxide and diaminobenzidine, cobalt ions and exogenous hydrogen peroxide to visualize the final reaction product for light microscopical analysis. Cytophotometric analysis of liver sections revealed similar zero-order reaction velocities of d-amino acid oxidase with activity twice as high in periportal areas as in pericentral areas of liver lobuli when using either d-proline or d,l-thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid as substrates. On the other hand, a 4–5 times higher K _M value was found for d-proline than for d,l-thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid. The K _M values in periportal and pericentral areas were similar for each substrate. These findings support the suggestion that the physiological substrate for d-amino acid oxidase may be d,l-thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid, the adduct of cysteamine and glyoxylic acid. d-Amino acid oxidase may play a role in vivo in the production of oxalate which may participate in metabolic control processes as an intracellular messenger molecule.     

Large scale preparation and purification of apo-D-aminoacid oxidase for use in novel amplification assays

Summary Dissociation of FAD from D-aminoacid oxidase occurred most rapidly at pH 6.0 in the presence of 1 M KBr. Diafiltration of 0.6 g of enzyme under these conditions yielded apoenzyme containing 1.3% of residual holoenzyme activity, which was subsequently reduced to less than 0.01% by chromatography on Blue Sepharose and ion exchange, giving material containing <1 ppb of contaminating phosphatase and nucleotidase.     

Oxidation of sarcosine and N-alkyl derivatives of glycine by D-amino-acid oxidase.

1. Sarcosine was oxidized by D-amino-acid oxidase (D-amino-acid: O2 oxidoreductase (deaminating), EC 1.4.3.3) to yield methylamine and glyoxylic acid. A seriies of N-alkyl glycines were also oxidized by this enzyme. 2. N-Acetyl- and N-Phenylglycine inhibited the oxidase by competing with the substrate, while N-methyl-N-acetylglycine did not bind to the enzyme. This suggests the requirement of at least one unsubstituted hydrogen atom at the amino group ofglycine for binding. 3. The primary step in the reaction was the release of a proton from the substrate, indicating the formation of a substituted imino acid, which was spontaneously hydrolyzed to glyoxylic acid acid and an amine.     

Regioselective oxidation of indole- and quinolinecarboxylic acids by cytochrome P450 CYP199A2

CYP199A2, a bacterial P450 monooxygenase from Rhodopseudomonas palustris, was previously reported to oxidize 2-naphthoic acid and 4-ethylbenzoic acid. In this study, we examined the substrate specificity and regioselectivity of CYP199A2 towards indole- and quinolinecarboxylic acids. The CYP199A2 gene was coexpressed with palustrisredoxin gene from R. palustris and putidaredoxin reductase gene from Pseudomonas putida to provide the redox partners of CYP199A2 in Escherichia coli. Following whole-cell assays, reaction products were identified by mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy. CYP199A2 did not exhibit any activity towards indole and indole-3-carboxylic acid, whereas this enzyme oxidized indole-2-carboxylic acid, indole-5-carboxylic acid, and indole-6-carboxylic acid. Indole-2-carboxylic acid was converted to 5- and 6-hydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acids at a ratio of 59:41. In contrast, the indole-6-carboxylic acid oxidation generated only one product, 2-indolinone-6-carboxylic acid, at a rate of 130 mol (mol P450)⁻¹ min⁻¹. Furthermore, CYP199A2 also oxidized quinoline-6-carboxylic acid, although this enzyme did not exhibit any activity towards quinoline and its derivatives with a carboxyl group at the C-2, C-3, or C-4 positions. The oxidation product of quinoline-6-carboxylic acid was identified to be 3-hydroxyquinoline-6-carboxylic acid, which was a novel compound. These results suggest that CYP199A2 may be a valuable biocatalyst for the regioselective oxidation of various aromatic carboxylic acids.     

Isomerization of delta 1-piperideine-2-carboxylate to delta 2-piperideine-2-carboxylate on complexation with flavoprotein D-amino acid oxidase.

The 1,646 cm-1 band in a resonance Raman spectrum obtained with excitation in the charge-transfer band of the complex of oxidized D-amino acid oxidase (DAO) with the oxidation product of D-lysine catalyzed by DAO shifted to 1,617 cm-1 upon 2-13C substitution of lysine. Thus, the band is assigned to a C(2) = C(3) stretching mode of the enamine, delta 2-piperideine-2-carboxylate (En). In the enzyme-free solution, the product is preferentially in the cyclic imine form, delta 1-piperideine-2-carboxylate (Im). Thus, DAO has a higher affinity for the enamine form than for the imine form. The pH effects on the affinity of DAO for the product and on the molar absorption coefficient at 630 nm in the charge-transfer band, suggest that the enzyme-bound product is En in the neutral form at the N atom. As the value of observed rate constant between DAO and the product was constant at high product concentrations, the binding mechanism can be explained as follows; E + Im in equilibrium with EIm in equilibrium with EEN: rapid bimolecular and slow unimolecular processes. The isomerization of the imine form to the enamine form proceeds in the slow process. The low affinity of Im for DAO may be due to a steric repulsion of the hydrogen atoms of Im at C(3) in the active site. The hydrogen atoms of a substrate D-amino acid at C(3), which correspond to the C(3) hydrogens of Im, may act repulsively in the active site and the repulsive energy may induce strain or distortion of the substrate and the enzyme, accelerating the catalytic reaction.     

The pH dependence of kinetic isotope effects in monoamine oxidase A indicates stabilization of the neutral amine in the enzyme-substrate complex

A common feature of all the proposed mechanisms for monoamine oxidase is the initiation of catalysis with the deprotonated form of the amine substrate in the enzyme-substrate complex. However, recent steady-state kinetic studies on the pH dependence of monoamine oxidase led to the suggestion that it is the protonated form of the amine substrate that binds to the enzyme. To investigate this further, the pH dependence of monoamine oxidase A was characterized by both steady-state and stopped-flow techniques with protiated and deuterated substrates. For all substrates used, there is a macroscopic ionization in the enzyme-substrate complex attributed to a deprotonation event required for optimal catalysis with a pK(a) of 7.4-8.4. In stopped-flow assays, the pH dependence of the kinetic isotope effect decreases from approximately 13 to 8 with increasing pH, leading to assignment of this catalytically important deprotonation to that of the bound amine substrate. The acid limb of the bell-shaped pH profile for the rate of flavin reduction over the substrate binding constant (k(red)/K(s), reporting on ionizations in the free enzyme and/or free substrate) is due to deprotonation of the free substrate, and the alkaline limb is due to unfavourable deprotonation of an unknown group on the enzyme at high pH. The pK(a) of the free amine is above 9.3 for all substrates, and is greatly perturbed (DeltapK(a) approximately 2) on binding to the enzyme active site. This perturbation of the substrate amine pK(a) on binding to the enzyme has been observed with other amine oxidases, and likely identifies a common mechanism for increasing the effective concentration of the neutral form of the substrate in the enzyme-substrate complex, thus enabling efficient functioning of these enzymes at physiologically relevant pH.     

亚热带砂岩发育森林土壤酚氧化酶活性测定方法优化

酚氧化酶在土壤有机质降解过程中起重要作用,然而,目前用于测定土壤酚氧化酶活性的方法尚未统一。本研究以亚热带地区砂岩发育的3种不同林分的森林土壤为对象,探讨底物类型、pH值、土壤储存条件、储存时间、底物浓度、水土比、培养时间和温度对土壤酚氧化酶活性的影响,以期建立统一、可比较的测定亚热带森林土壤酚氧化酶活性的方法。结果表明: 浸提液pH值显著影响土壤酚氧化酶活性,且与目前普遍使用的左旋多巴胺(L-DOPA)相比,2,2′-联氨-双(3-乙基苯并噻唑啉-6-磺酸)-二胺盐(ABTS)所测得的氧化酶活性更高、适用pH值范围更广,说明ABTS可能更适合作为测定亚热带森林酸性土壤酚氧化酶活性的底物。储存方式显著影响酚氧化酶活性,3种供试土壤样品酚氧化酶活性均随时间呈降低的趋势,降幅表现为风干> 4 ℃冷藏> -20 ℃冷冻> -80 ℃冷冻,表明在无法保证快速测定土壤酚氧化酶活性的情况下,冷冻保存方式更有利于维持土壤酚氧化酶活性。底物浓度、水土比以及培养时间和温度均影响土壤酚氧化酶活性。当土壤样品与浸提液比例为1∶100时,选择2 mmol·L^-1浓度的ABTS为底物,在25~30 ℃下培养4 h,测定酚氧化酶活性结果重复性好、灵敏度高,是测定亚热带森林酸性土壤酚氧化酶活性的最优条件。     

Egg white sulfhydryl oxidase: kinetic mechanism of the catalysis of disulfide bond formation

The flavin-dependent sulfhydryl oxidase from chicken egg white catalyzes the oxidation of sulfhydryl groups to disulfides with reduction of oxygen to hydrogen peroxide. The oxidase contains FAD and a redox-active cystine bridge and accepts a total of 4 electrons per active site. Dithiothreitol (DTT; the best low molecular weight substrate known) reduces the enzyme disulfide bridge with a limiting rate of 502/s at 4 degrees C, pH 7.5, yielding a thiolate-to-flavin charge-transfer complex. Further reduction to EH4 is limited by the slow internal transfer of reducing equivalents from enzyme dithiol to oxidized flavin (3.3/s). In the oxidative half of catalysis, oxygen rapidly converts EH4 to EH2, but Eox appearance is limited by the slow internal redox equilibration. During overall turnover with DTT, the thiolate-to-flavin charge-transfer complex accumulates with an apparent extinction coefficient of 4.9 mM-1 cm-1 at 560 nm. In contrast, glutathione (GSH) is a much slower reductant of the oxidase to the EH2 level and shows a kcat/Km 100-fold smaller than DTT. Full reduction of EH2 by GSH shows a limiting rate of 3.6/s at 4 degrees C comparable to that seen with DTT. Reduced RNase is an excellent substrate of the enzyme, with kcat/Km per thiol some 1000- and 10-fold better than GSH and DTT, respectively. Enzyme-monitored steady-state turnover shows that RNase is a facile reductant of the oxidase to the EH2 state. This work demonstrates the basic similarity in the mechanism of turnover between all of these three substrates. A physiological role for sulfhydryl oxidase in the formation of disulfide bonds in secreted proteins is discussed.