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L-ascorbic acid: A true substrate for HIF prolyl hydroxylase?

ABSTRACT: L-Ascorbate (L-Asc), but not D-isoascorbate (D-Asc) and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) suppress HIF1 ODD-luc reporter activation induced by various inhibitors of HIF prolyl hydroxylase (PHD). The efficiency of suppression by L-Asc was sensitive to the nature of HIF PHD inhibitor chosen for reporter activation. In particular, the inhibitors developed to compete with alpha-ketoglutarate (?KG), were less sensitive to suppression by the physiological range of L-Asc (40-100??M) than those having a strong iron chelation motif. Challenging those HIF activators in the reporter system with D-Asc demonstrated that the D-isomer, despite exhibiting the same reducing potency with respect to ferric iron, had almost no effect compared to L-Asc. Similarly, no effect on reporter activation was observed with cell-permeable reducing agent NAC up to 1?mM. Docking of L-Asc and D-Asc acid into the HIF PHD2 crystal structure showed interference of Tyr310 with respect to D-Asc. This suggests that L-Asc is not merely a reducing agent preventing enzyme inactivation. Rather, the overall results identify L-Asc as a co-substrate of HIF PHD that may compete for the binding site of ?KG in the enzyme active center. This conclusion is in agreement with the results obtained recently in cell-based systems for TET enzymes and jumonji histone demethylases, where L-Asc has been proposed to act as a co-substrate and not as a reducing agent preventing enzyme inactivation.

SUBMITTER: Osipyants AI

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6460286 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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L-ascorbic acid: A true substrate for HIF prolyl hydroxylase?

Osipyants Andrey I AI Poloznikov Andrey A AA Smirnova Natalya A NA Hushpulian Dmitry M DM Khristichenko Anna Yu AY Chubar Tatiana A TA Zakhariants Arpenik A AA Ahuja Manuj M Gaisina Irina N IN Thomas Bobby B Brown Abe M AM Gazaryan Irina G IG Tishkov Vladimir I VI

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L-Ascorbate (L-Asc), but not D-isoascorbate (D-Asc) and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) suppress HIF1 ODD-luc reporter activation induced by various inhibitors of HIF prolyl hydroxylase (PHD). The efficiency of suppression by L-Asc was sensitive to the nature of HIF PHD inhibitor chosen for reporter activation. In particular, the inhibitors developed to compete with alpha-ketoglutarate (αKG), were less sensitive to suppression by the physiological range of L-Asc (40-100 μM) than those having a strong iro ...[more]

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