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Reversible heme-dependent regulation of human cystathionine ?-synthase by a flavoprotein oxidoreductase.

ABSTRACT: Human CBS is a PLP-dependent enzyme that clears homocysteine, gates the flow of sulfur into glutathione, and contributes to the biogenesis of H(2)S. The presence of a heme cofactor in CBS is enigmatic, and its conversion from the ferric- to ferrous-CO state inhibits enzyme activity. The low heme redox potential (-350 mV) has raised questions about the feasibility of the ferrous-CO state forming under physiological conditions. Herein, we provide the first evidence of reversible inhibition of CBS by CO in the presence of a human flavoprotein and NADPH. These data provide a mechanism for cross talk between two gas-signaling systems, CO and H(2)S, via heme-mediated allosteric regulation of CBS.

SUBMITTER: Kabil O

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3183264 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Reversible heme-dependent regulation of human cystathionine β-synthase by a flavoprotein oxidoreductase.

Kabil Omer O Weeks Colin L CL Carballal Sebastián S Gherasim Carmen C Alvarez Beatriz B Spiro Thomas G TG Banerjee Ruma R

Biochemistry 20110906 39

Human CBS is a PLP-dependent enzyme that clears homocysteine, gates the flow of sulfur into glutathione, and contributes to the biogenesis of H(2)S. The presence of a heme cofactor in CBS is enigmatic, and its conversion from the ferric- to ferrous-CO state inhibits enzyme activity. The low heme redox potential (-350 mV) has raised questions about the feasibility of the ferrous-CO state forming under physiological conditions. Herein, we provide the first evidence of reversible inhibition of CBS ...[more]

PMID: 21875066

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Project description:Cystathionine beta-synthase (CBS) plays a central role in homocysteine metabolism, and malfunction of the enzyme leads to homocystinuria, a devastating metabolic disease. CBS contains a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) cofactor which catalyzes the synthesis of cystathionine from homocysteine and serine. Mammalian forms of the enzyme also contain a heme group, which is not involved in catalysis. It may, however, play a regulatory role, since the enzyme is inhibited when CO or NO are bound to the heme. We have investigated the mechanism of this inhibition using fluorescence and resonance Raman spectroscopies. CO binding is found to induce a tautomeric shift of the PLP from the ketoenamine to the enolimine form. The ketoenamine is key to PLP reactivity because its imine C horizontal lineN bond is protonated, facilitating attack by the nucleophilic substrate, serine. The same tautomer shift is also induced by heat inactivation of Fe(II)CBS, or by an Arg266Met replacement in Fe(II)CBS, which likewise inactivates the enzyme; in both cases the endogenous Cys52 ligand to the heme is replaced by another, unidentified ligand. CO binding also displaces Cys52 from the heme. We propose that the tautomer shift results from loss of a stabilizing H-bond from Asn149 to the PLP ring O3' atom, which is negatively charged in the ketoenamine tautomer. This loss would be induced by displacement of the PLP as a result of breaking the salt bridge between Cys52 and Arg266, which resides on a short helix that is also anchored to the PLP via H-bonds to its phosphate group. The salt bridge would be broken when Cys52 is displaced from the heme. Cys52 protonation is inferred to be the rate-limiting step in breaking the salt bridge, since the rate of the tautomer shift, following CO binding, increases with decreasing pH. In addition, elevation of the concentration of phosphate buffer was found to diminish the rate and extent of the tautomer shift, suggesting a ketoenamine-stabilizing phosphate binding site, possibly at the protonated imine bond of the PLP. Implications of these findings for CBS regulation are discussed.

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Reversible heme-dependent regulation of human cystathionine ?-synthase by a flavoprotein oxidoreductase.

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Reversible heme-dependent regulation of human cystathionine β-synthase by a flavoprotein oxidoreductase.

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