Identification of peptides in the adenine ring binding domain of glutamate and lactate dehydrogenase using 2-azido-NAD+.

Previously, the synthesis and validation of 32P]2N3NAD+ as an active site directed photoaffinity probe for glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) was reported (8). This report shows that 2N3NAD+ is also an effective probe for the NAD+ binding site of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH). With the appropriate photolabeling procedures and immobilized boronate column chromatography the active site peptides of GDH and LDH involved in the adenine base binding domain have been isolated and sequenced. With both GDH and LDH a single photolabeled peptide, which contained the majority of the photoinserted radiolabel, was isolated. Additionally, these peptides had UV spectra that were markedly different from the nonphotolabeled peptides. The modified peptide from GDH corresponded to Cys270 through Lys289. Both sequencing and compositional analysis identified Glu275 as the site of photoinsertion. Sequencing of this peptide aborted at Glu275 after five rounds of analysis, indicating that insertion was blocking further progress. Compositional analysis showed that the entire sequence from residues 270 to 289 was present except that the single Glu residue was missing. This is interpreted as indicating that the photoinsertion is into the polypeptide backbone at the Glu site. The peptide isolated from LDH corresponded to Asp82 through Arg90. Sequencing of this peptide could be completed throughout with only the round at Tyr83 giving no identifiable residue. Compositional analysis of this peptide was in agreement with the peptide from Asp82 to Arg90 with the exception that the single Tyr residue was missing. This indicates that the photoinsertion is into the tyrosine side chain. This data was found to be in agreement with X-ray crystallographic results identifying the NAD(+)-binding domains.