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Probing of active site residues of the zinc enzyme 5-aminolevulinate dehydratase by spin and fluorescence labels
- Source :
- Biological chemistry Hoppe-Seyler. 371(12)
- Publication Year :
- 1990
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Abstract
- 5-Aminolevulinate dehydratase from bovine liver requires Zn(II) for its activity and is inhibited by micromolecular concentrations of Pb(II). To elucidate the structure of the active site and its interactions between the active site and the metal binding site we labeled the active site for fluorescence studies and ESR spectroscopy. o-Phthalaldehyde reacted with active site lysyl and cysteinyl residues to form a fluorescent isoindole derivative. The fluorescence energy was independent of the deprivation of Zn(II) and of its substitution by the inhibitory Pb(II). For ESR-studies five iodoacetamide and four isothiocyanate pyrrolidine-N-oxyl derivatives with various spacer lengths were used to label the active site cysteinyl and lysyl residues, respectively. The ESR spectra of the modified enzyme preparations exhibited a significant immobilization of all labels, even with the longest spacers employed. Obviously the reactive cysteine is buried more than 12 A, and the active site lysine more than 11 A in a cleft of the enzyme structure. Zn(II) deprivation from the iodoacetamide spin-labeled enzyme caused a marked reversible increase in label mobility, whereas the Pb(II) substituted enzyme exhibited a smaller mobilization of the label. These results are interpreted by a model of the active site where the reactive cysteinyl and the lysyl side groups are close enough to be crosslinked by o-phthalaldehyde within a distance of 3 A. A structural role is assigned to Zn(II) in the enzyme, since Zn(II) deprivation does not alter the fluorescence of the isoindole derivative and increases the mobility of the cysteine-bound spin labels in the active site cleft.
- Subjects :
- Binding Sites
biology
Stereochemistry
Lysine
Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy
Active site
Metal Binding Site
Porphobilinogen Synthase
Biochemistry
Enzyme structure
chemistry.chemical_compound
Zinc
Apoenzymes
Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemistry
Lead
Dehydratase
biology.protein
Iodoacetamide
Spin Labels
Binding site
Cysteine
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01773593
- Volume :
- 371
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Biological chemistry Hoppe-Seyler
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4f69a42e1a53f9339e27d12f11c74231