Pig kidney medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (EC 1.3.99.3) is irreversibly and stoichiometrically inactivated by [1-14C]-2-octynoyl coenzyme A. The linkage is stable at pH 2-6, but labile under basic conditions. The inhibitor labels a unique tryptic peptide, Ile-Tyr-Gln-Ile-Tyr-Glu-Gly-Thr-Ala-Gln-Ile-Gln-Arg, close to the C-terminus of the protein. The peptide is labeled at Glu-401 with the acyl moiety of the inhibitor but does not contain detectable coenzyme A. Both the inactivation of the dehydrogenase and the appearance of an absorption band at 800 nm show large primary deuterium isotope effects using 4,4'-dideuterio-2-octynoyl-CoA (7.3 and 6.3, respectively). Thus, 2-octynoyl-CoA is a mechanism-based inactivator of the dehydrogenase and is activated by rate-limiting gamma-proton abstraction. Glutamate-401 may be the base that abstracts the pro-R alpha-proton during the dehydrogenation of normal substrates.
Several alkylthio coenzyme A (CoA) derivatives (from ethyl- to hexadecyl-SCoA) have been synthesized to probe the substrate binding site in the flavoprotein medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase from pig kidney. All bind to apparently equivalent sites with a stoichiometry of four per tetramer. A plot of log Kd vs: hydrocarbon chain length is linear from 2 to 16 carbons with a free energy of binding of 390 cal/methylene group. These data suggest an acyl-binding site of moderate hydrophobicity and imply that the observed substrate specificity of the medium-chain dehydrogenase is not achieved simply by the length of the hydrocarbon binding pocket. Extrapolation of the graph to zero chain length predicts a Kd of 1 mM for the CoA moiety. The difference between this value and the experimentally determined value of 206 microM may be attributed to a contribution from the ionization of the sulfhydryl group in CoASH. The interaction of several eight-carbon intermediates of beta-oxidation (trans-2- and trans-3-octenoyl-CoA and L-3-hydroxy- and 3-ketooctanoyl-CoA) with the dehydrogenase has also been studied. All but the L-3-OH derivative bind tightly to the enzyme (with Kd values in the 50-90 nM range) and are very effective inhibitors of the dehydrogenation of octanoyl-CoA. The trans-3-enoyl analogue produces an immediate, intense, long-wavelength band (lambda max = 820 nm), which probably represents a charge-transfer interaction between the delocalized alpha-carbanion donor and oxidized flavin as the acceptor. The L-3-OH analogue is a reductant of the flavin, yielding 3-ketooctanoyl-CoA.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Pig kidney medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase is specifically alkylated at a methionine residue by treatment with iodoacetate at pH 6.6. This residue corresponds to Met249 in the human medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase sequence [Kelly, D. P., Kim, J. J., Billadello, J. J., Hainline, B. E., Chu, T. W., & Strauss, A. W. (1987) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 84, 4068-4072]. The S-carboxymethylated dehydrogenase shows a drastically lowered affinity for octanoyl-CoA (from submicromolar to 65 microM), but retains about 23% of the maximal activity of the native enzyme. In addition, alkylation perturbs the internal redox equilibrium: E.FADox.octanoyl-CoA K2 in equilibrium with E.FAD2e.octenoyl-CoA K2 ranges from about 9 for the native enzyme to about 0.2 for the homogeneously modified protein. This effect is not due to a significant change in the redox potential of the free enzyme upon alkylation. Rather, carboxymethylation weakens the preferential binding of enoyl-CoA product to the reduced enzyme (K3) compared to octanoyl-CoA binding to the oxidized dehydrogenase (K1) that is required to pull the substrate thermodynamically uphill. Thus, the ratio of dissociation constants, K1/K3, decreases from about 15,000 for the native enzyme to only 330 upon carboxymethylation of Met249. Binding studies with a variety of acyl-CoA analogues and manipulation of enzyme redox potentials by substitution of the natural prosthetic group by 8-Cl-FAD confirm the thermodynamic effects of alkylation.
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