The flavoenzyme L-6-hydroxynicotine oxidase (LHNO) is a member of the monoamine oxidase family that catalyzes the oxidation of (S)-6-hydroxynicotine to 6-hydroxypseudooxynicotine during microbial catabolism of nicotine. While the enzyme has long been understood to catalyze oxidation of carbon-carbon bond, it has recently been shown to catalyze oxidation of a carbon-nitrogen bond (Fitzpatrick et al., Biochemistry 55, 697–703). The effects of pH and mutagenesis of active site residues have now been utilized to study the mechanism and the roles of active site residues. Asn166 and Tyr311 bind the substrate, while Lys287 forms a water-mediated hydrogen bond with the flavin N(5). The N166A and Y311F mutations result in decreases of ~30 and ~4-fold in the kcat/Km and kred values for (S)-6-hydroxynicotine, respectively, with larger effects on the kcat/Km value for (S)-6-hydroxynornicotine. The K287M mutation results in a decrease of ~10-fold in these parameters and a 6,000-fold in the kcat/Km value for oxygen. The shapes of the pH profiles are not altered by the N166A and Y311F mutations. There is no solvent isotope effect on the kcat/Km value for amines. The results are consistent with a model in which both the charged and neutral forms of the amine can bind, with the former rapidly losing a proton to a hydrogen bond network of water and amino acids in the active site prior to hydride transfer to the flavin.
The flavoprotein D-6-hydroxynicotine oxidase catalyzes an early step in the oxidation of (R)nicotine, the oxidation of a carbon-nitrogen bond in the pyrrolidine ring of (R)-6-hydroxynicotine. The enzyme is a member of the vanillyl alcohol oxidase/p-cresol methylhydroxylase family of flavoproteins. The effects of substrate modifications on the steady-state and rapid-reaction kinetic parameters are not consistent with the quinone-methide mechanism of p-cresol methylhydroxylase. There is no solvent isotope effect on the k cat /K amine value with either (R)-6hydroxynicotine or the slower substrate (R)-6-hydroxynornicotine. The effect of pH on the rapidreaction kinetic parameters establishes that only the neutral form of the substrate and the correctly protonated form of the enzyme bind. The active-site residues Lys348, Glu350, and Glu352 are all properly positioned for substrate binding. The K348M substitution has only a small effect on the kinetic parameters; the E350A and E350Q substitutions decrease the k cat /K amine value by ~20-and ~220-fold, respectively, and the E352Q substitution decreases this parameter ~3800-fold. The k cat /K amine-pH profile is bell-shaped. The pK a values in that profile are altered by replacement of (R)-6-hydroxynicotine with (R)-6-hydroxynornicotine as the substrate and by the substitutions for Glu350 and Glu352, although the profiles remain bell-shaped. The results are consistent with a network of hydrogen-bonded residues in the active site being involved in binding the neutral form of the amine substrate, followed by the transfer of a hydride from the amine to the flavin.
TRIM5α is an E3 ubiquitin ligase of the TRIM family that binds to the capsids of primate immunodeficiency viruses and blocks viral replication after cell entry. Here we investigate how synthesis of K63-linked polyubiquitin is upregulated by transient proximity of three RING domains in honeycomb-like assemblies formed by TRIM5α on the surface of the retroviral capsid. Proximity of three RINGs creates an asymmetric arrangement, in which two RINGs form a catalytic dimer that activates E2-ubiquitin conjugates and the disordered N-terminus of the third RING acts as the substrate for N-terminal autoubiquitylation. RING dimerization is required for activation of the E2s that contribute to the antiviral function of TRIM5α, UBE2W and heterodimeric UBE2N/V2, whereas the proximity of the third RING enhances the rate of each of the two distinct steps in the autoubiquitylation process: the initial N-terminal monoubiquitylation (priming) of TRIM5α by UBE2W and the subsequent extension of the K63-linked polyubiquitin chain by UBE2N/V2. The mechanism we describe explains how recognition of infection-associated epitope patterns by TRIM proteins initiates polyubiquitin-mediated downstream events in innate immunity.
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