Hydroquinone dioxygenase from pseudomonas fluorescens ACB: a novel member of the family of nonheme-iron(II)-dependent dioxygenases |
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Authors: | Moonen Mariëlle J H Synowsky Silvia A van den Berg Willy A M Westphal Adrie H Heck Albert J R van den Heuvel Robert H H Fraaije Marco W van Berkel Willem J H |
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Institution: | Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Dreijenlaan 3, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands. willem.vanberkel@wur.nl. |
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Abstract: | Hydroquinone 1,2-dioxygenase (HQDO), an enzyme involved in the catabolism of 4-hydroxyacetophenone in Pseudomonas fluorescens ACB, was purified to apparent homogeneity. Ligandation with 4-hydroxybenzoate prevented the enzyme from irreversible inactivation. HQDO was activated by iron(II) ions and catalyzed the ring fission of a wide range of hydroquinones to the corresponding 4-hydroxymuconic semialdehydes. HQDO was inactivated by 2,2'-dipyridyl, o-phenanthroline, and hydrogen peroxide and inhibited by phenolic compounds. The inhibition with 4-hydroxybenzoate (K(i) = 14 microM) was competitive with hydroquinone. Online size-exclusion chromatography-mass spectrometry revealed that HQDO is an alpha2beta2 heterotetramer of 112.4 kDa, which is composed of an alpha-subunit of 17.8 kDa and a beta-subunit of 38.3 kDa. Each beta-subunit binds one molecule of 4-hydroxybenzoate and one iron(II) ion. N-terminal sequencing and peptide mapping and sequencing based on matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization--two-stage time of flight analysis established that the HQDO subunits are encoded by neighboring open reading frames (hapC and hapD) of a gene cluster, implicated to be involved in 4-hydroxyacetophenone degradation. HQDO is a novel member of the family of nonheme-iron(II)-dependent dioxygenases. The enzyme shows insignificant sequence identity with known dioxygenases. |
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