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Structure and heme-binding properties of HemQ (chlorite dismutase-like protein) from Listeria monocytogenes.

ABSTRACT: Chlorite dismutase-like proteins are structurally closely related to functional chlorite dismutases which are heme b-dependent oxidoreductases capable of reducing chlorite to chloride with simultaneous production of dioxygen. Chlorite dismutase-like proteins are incapable of performing this reaction and their biological role is still under discussion. Recently, members of this large protein family were shown to be involved in heme biosynthesis in Gram-positive bacteria, and thus the protein was renamed HemQ in these organisms. In the present work the structural and heme binding properties of the chlorite dismutase-like protein from the Gram-positive pathogen Listeria monocytogenes (LmCld) were analyzed in order to evaluate its potential role as a regulatory heme sensing protein. The homopentameric crystal structure (2.0Å) shows high similarity to chlorite-degrading chlorite dismutases with an important difference in the structure of the putative substrate and heme entrance channel. In solution LmCld is a stable hexamer able to bind the low-spin ligand cyanide. Heme binding is reversible with KD-values determined to be 7.2?M (circular dichroism spectroscopy) and 16.8?M (isothermal titration calorimetry) at pH 7.0. Both acidic and alkaline conditions promote heme release. Presented biochemical and structural data reveal that the chlorite dismutase-like protein from L. monocytogenes could act as a potential regulatory heme sensing and storage protein within heme biosynthesis.

SUBMITTER: Hofbauer S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4420033 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Structure and heme-binding properties of HemQ (chlorite dismutase-like protein) from Listeria monocytogenes.

Hofbauer Stefan S Hagmüller Andreas A Schaffner Irene I Mlynek Georg G Krutzler Michael M Stadlmayr Gerhard G Pirker Katharina F KF Obinger Christian C Daims Holger H Djinović-Carugo Kristina K Furtmüller Paul G PG

Archives of biochemistry and biophysics 20150117

Chlorite dismutase-like proteins are structurally closely related to functional chlorite dismutases which are heme b-dependent oxidoreductases capable of reducing chlorite to chloride with simultaneous production of dioxygen. Chlorite dismutase-like proteins are incapable of performing this reaction and their biological role is still under discussion. Recently, members of this large protein family were shown to be involved in heme biosynthesis in Gram-positive bacteria, and thus the protein was ...[more]

PMID: 25602700

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Project description:Chlorite dismutase carries out the heme-catalyzed decomposition of ClO2- to Cl- and O2, an unusual transformation with biotechnological and bioremediative applications. The enzyme has been successfully overexpressed for the first time in highly functional form in Escherichia coli and its steady state kinetics studied. The purified enzyme is abundant (55 mg/L cell culture), highly active (approximately 4.7 x 10(3) micromol of ClO2- min(-1) mg(-1) subunit) and nearly stoichiometric in heme; further, it shares spectroscopic and physicochemical features with chlorite dismutases previously isolated from three organisms. A careful study of the enzyme's steady state kinetics has been carried out. ClO2- consumption and O2 release rates were measured, yielding comparable values of kcat (4.5 x 10(5) min(-1)), K(m) (approximately 215 microM), and kcat/Km (3.5 x 10(7) M(-1) s(-1) via either method (4 degrees C, pH 6.8; all values referenced per heme-containing subunit). ClO2-:O2 stoichiometry exhibited a 1:1 relationship under all conditions measured. Though the value of kcat/Km indicates near diffusion control of the reaction, viscosogens had no effect on k(cat)/K(m) or V(max). The product O2 did not inhibit the reaction at saturating [O2], but Cl- is a mixed inhibitor with relatively high values of KI (225 mM for enzyme and 95.6 mM for the enzyme-substrate complex), indicating a relatively low affinity of the heme iron for halogen ions. Chlorite irreversibly inactivates the enzyme after approximately 1.7 x 10(4) turnovers (per heme) and with a half-life of 0.39 min, resulting in bleaching of the heme chromophore. The inactivation K(I) (K(inact)) of 166 microM is similar in magnitude to Km, consistent with a common Michaelis complex on the pathway to both reaction and inactivation. The one-electron peroxidase substrate guaiacol offers incomplete protection of the enzyme from inactivation. Mechanisms in keeping with the available data and the properties of other well-described heme enzymes are proposed.

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Structure and heme-binding properties of HemQ (chlorite dismutase-like protein) from Listeria monocytogenes.

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Structure and heme-binding properties of HemQ (chlorite dismutase-like protein) from Listeria monocytogenes.

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