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Pigment-free NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase from Avena sativa L. Purification and substrate specificity.

The enzyme NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR) is the key enzyme for light-dependent chlorophyll biosynthesis. It accumulates in dark-grown plants as the ternary enzyme-substrate complex POR-protochlorophyllide a-NADPH. Here, we describe a simple procedure for purification of pigment-free POR from etioplasts of Avena sativa seedlings. The procedure implies differential solubilization with n-octyl-beta-D-glucoside and one chromatographic step with DEAE-cellulose. We show, using pigment and protein analysis, that etioplasts contain a one-to-one complex of POR and protochlorophyllide a. The preparation of 13 analogues of protochlorophyllide a is described. The analogues differ in the side chains of the macrocycle and in part contain zinc instead of the central magnesium. Six analogues with different side chains at rings A or B are active substrates, seven analogues with different side chains at rings D or E are not accepted as substrates by POR. The kinetics of the light-dependent reaction reveals three groups of substrate analogues with a fast, medium and slow reaction. To evaluate the kinetic data, the molar extinction coefficients in the reaction buffer had to be determined. At concentrations above 2 mole substrate/mole enzyme, inhibition was found for protochlorophyllide a and for the analogues.

Avena↗

In vivo labeling of mitochondrial complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) in rat brain using [(3)H]dihydrorotenone.

Defects in mitochondrial energy metabolism have been implicated in several neurodegenerative disorders. Defective complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) activity plays a key role in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy and, possibly, Parkinson's disease, but there is no way to assess this enzyme in the living brain. We previously described an in vitro quantitative autoradiographic assay using [(3)H]dihydrorotenone ([(3)H]DHR) binding to complex I. We have now developed an in vivo autoradiographic assay for complex I using [(3)H]DHR binding after intravenous administration. In vivo [(3)H]DHR binding was regionally heterogeneous, and brain uptake was rapid. Binding was enriched in neurons compared with glia, and white matter had the lowest levels of binding. In vivo [(3)H]DHR binding was markedly reduced by local and systemic infusion of rotenone and was enhanced by local NADH administration. There was an excellent correlation between regional levels of in vivo [(3)H]DHR binding and the in vitro activities of complex II (succinate dehydrogenase) and complex IV (cytochrome oxidase), suggesting that the stoichiometry of these components of the electron transport chain is relatively constant across brain regions. The ability to assay complex I in vivo should provide a valuable tool to investigate the status of this mitochondrial enzyme in the living brain and suggests potential imaging techniques for complex I in humans.

Animals↗

Isolation and characterization of a Chinese hamster ovary cell line deficient in fatty alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase activity.

We have isolated a mutant Chinese hamster ovary cell line that is defective in long-chain fatty alcohol oxidation. The ability of the mutant cells to convert labeled hexadecanol to the corresponding fatty acid in vivo was reduced to 5% of the parent strain. Whole-cell homogenates from the mutant strain, FAA.1, were deficient in long-chain fatty alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase (FAO; EC 1.1.1.192) activity, which catalyzes the oxidation of hexadecanol to hexadecanoic acid, although the intermediate fatty aldehyde was formed normally. A direct measurement of fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase showed that the FAA.1 strain was defective in this component of FAO activity. FAA.1 is a two-stage mutant that was selected from a previously described parent strain, ZR-82, which is defective in ether lipid biosynthesis and peroxisome assembly. Because of combined defects in ether lipid biosynthesis and fatty alcohol oxidation, the ability of the FAA.1 cells to incorporate hexadecanol into complex lipids was greatly impaired, resulting in a 60-fold increase in cellular fatty alcohol levels. As the FAO deficiency in FAA.1 cells appears to be identical to the defect associated with the human genetic disorder Sjögren-Larsson syndrome, the FAA.1 cell line may be useful in studying this disease.

Alcohol Oxidoreductases↗

A light-dependent complementation system for analysis of NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase: identification and mutagenesis of two conserved residues that are essential for enzyme activity.

Protochlorophyllide reductase (NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase; EC 1.6.99.1) catalyzes the light-dependent reduction of protochlorophyllide to chlorophyllide, a key regulatory step in the chlorophyll biosynthetic pathway. We have developed an expression system in which the protochlorophyllide reductase from pea (Pisum sativum L.) is used to complement protochlorophyllide reduction mutants in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus, allowing analysis of wild-type and mutant forms of the enzyme. By protein sequence comparisons, we have identified the plant protochlorophyllide reductases as belonging to the family of short-chain alcohol dehydrogenases. Based on our protein sequence alignments, we have identified and mutated two conserved residues (Tyr-275 and Lys-279) within the proposed active site of the enzyme and shown that they are critical for activity. A model of the enzyme reaction mechanism for light-dependent protochlorophyllide reduction is proposed.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase B-catalyzed protochlorophyllide photoreduction in vitro: insight into the mechanism of chlorophyll formation in light-adapted plants.

The mechanism of the protochlorophyllide (PChlide) photoreduction reaction operating in light-adapted plants and catalyzed by NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase B (PORb) has been analyzed by low-temperature fluorescence spectroscopy by using purified barley PORb overexpressed heterologously in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein with the maltose-binding protein. We show that the PORb-catalyzed PChlide reduction reaction consists of two steps, one photochemical and the other nonphotochemical. The initial photochemical reaction follows a single quantum mechanism and leads to the formation of an unstable intermediate with mixed pigment electronic structure and an EPR spectrum that suggests the presence of a free electron. The second step involves the spontaneous conversion of the unstable intermediate into chlorophyllide as defined by its spectroscopic characteristics and migration on an HPLC column. Both steps of the reaction can be performed at subzero temperatures in frozen samples, suggesting that they do not include major changes in enzyme conformation or pigment rearrangement within the active site. The rate of the reaction at room temperature depends linearly on enzyme and substrate (PChlide) concentration, and the kinetic parameters are consistent with one molecule of substrate bound per active monomer in solution. The PORb-catalyzed reaction in vitro is spectroscopically similar to that identified in leaves of light-adapted plants, suggesting that the same reaction sequence observed operates in planta.

ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters↗

Cloning of the cDNAs coding for two novel molybdo-flavoproteins showing high similarity with aldehyde oxidase and xanthine oxidoreductase.

The cDNAs coding for two novel mouse molybdo-flavoproteins, AOH1 and AOH2 (aldehyde oxidase homolog 1 and 2), were isolated. The AOH1 and AOH2 cDNAs code for polypeptides of 1336 amino acids. The two proteins have similar primary structure and show striking amino acid identity with aldehyde oxidase and xanthine oxidoreductase, two other molybdo-flavoenzymes. AOH1 and AOH2 contain consensus sequences for a molybdopterin-binding site and two distinct 2Fe-2S redox centers. In its native conformation, AOH1 has a molecular weight consistent with a homotetrameric structure. Transfection of the AOH1 and AOH2 cDNAs results in the production of proteins with phenanthridine but not hypoxanthine oxidizing activity. Furthermore, the AOH1 protein has benzaldehyde oxidizing activity with electrophoretic characteristics identical to those of a previously identified aldehyde oxidase isoenzyme (Holmes, R. S. (1979) Biochem. Genet. 17, 517-528). The AOH1 transcript is expressed in the hepatocytes of the adult and fetal liver and in spermatogonia. In liver, the AOH1 protein is synthesized in a gender-specific fashion. The expression of AOH2 is limited to keratinized epithelia and the basal layer of the epidermis and hair folliculi. The selective cell and tissue distribution of AOH1 and AOH2 mRNAs is consistent with the localization of the respective protein products.

Aldehyde Oxidase↗

Hyaluronidase induction of a WW domain-containing oxidoreductase that enhances tumor necrosis factor cytotoxicity.

To determine how hyaluronidase increases certain cancer cell sensitivity to tumor necrosis factor (TNF) cytotoxicity, we report here the isolation and characterization of a hyaluronidase-induced murine WW domain-containing oxidoreductase (WOX1). WOX1 is composed of two N-terminal WW domains, a nuclear localization sequence, and a C-terminal alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) domain. WOX1 is mainly located in the mitochondria, and the mitochondrial targeting sequence was mapped within the ADH domain. Induction of mitochondrial permeability transition by TNF, staurosporine, and atractyloside resulted in WOX1 release from mitochondria and subsequent nuclear translocation. TNF-mediated WOX1 nuclear translocation occurred shortly after that of nuclear factor-kappaB nuclear translocation, whereas both were independent events. WOX1 enhanced TNF cytotoxicity in L929 cells via its WW and ADH domains as determined using stable cell transfectants. In parallel with this observation, WOX1 also enhanced TRADD (TNF receptor-associated death domain protein)-mediated cell death in transient expression experiments. Antisense expression of WOX1 raised TNF resistance in L929 cells. Enhancement of TNF cytotoxicity by WOX1 is due, in part, to its significant down-regulation of the apoptosis inhibitors Bcl-2 and Bcl-x(L) (>85%), but up-regulation of pro-apoptotic p53 ( approximately 200%) by the ADH domain. When overexpressed, the ADH domain mediated apoptosis, probably due to modulation of expression of these proteins. The WW domains failed to modulate the expression of these proteins, but sensitized COS-7 cells to TNF killing and mediated apoptosis in various cancer cells independently of caspases. Transient cotransfection of cells with both p53 and WOX1 induced apoptosis in a synergistic manner. WOX1 colocalizes with p53 in the cytosol and binds to the proline-rich region of p53 via its WW domains. Blocking of WOX1 expression by antisense mRNA abolished p53 apoptosis. Thus, WOX1 is a mitochondrial apoptogenic protein and an essential partner of p53 in cell death.

3T3 Cells↗

JNK1 physically interacts with WW domain-containing oxidoreductase (WOX1) and inhibits WOX1-mediated apoptosis.

Transient activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) promotes cell survival, whereas persistent JNK activation induces apoptosis. Bovine testicular hyaluronidase PH-20 activates JNK1 and protects L929 fibroblasts from staurosporine-mediated cell death. PH-20 also induces the expression of a p53-interacting WW domain-containing oxidoreductase (WOX1, also known as WWOX or FOR) in these cells. WOX1 enhances the cytotoxic function of tumor necrosis factor and mediates apoptosis synergistically with p53. Thus, the activated JNK1 is likely to counteract WOX1 in mediating apoptosis. Here it is demonstrated that ectopic JNK1 inhibited WOX1-mediated apoptosis of L929 fibroblasts, monocytic U937 cells, and other cell types. Also, JNK1 blocked WOX1 prevention of cell cycle progression. By stimulating cells with anisomycin or UV light, JNK1 became activated, and WOX1 was phosphorylated at Tyr(33). The activated JNK1 physically interacted with the phosphorylated WOX1, as determined by co-immunoprecipitation. Alteration of Tyr(33) to Arg(33) in WOX1 abrogated its binding interaction with JNK1 and its activity in mediating cell death, indicating that Tyr(33) phosphorylation is needed to activate WOX1. A dominant negative WOX1 was developed and shown to block p53-mediated apoptosis and anisomycin-mediated WOX1 phosphorylation but could not inhibit JNK1 activation. This mutant protein bound p53 but could not interact with JNK1, as determined in yeast two-hybrid analysis. Taken together, phosphorylation of JNK1 and WOX1 is necessary for their physical interaction and functional antagonism.

Animals↗

The catalytic and kinetic mechanisms of NADPH-dependent alkenal/one oxidoreductase.

NADPH-dependent alkenal/one oxidoreductase (AOR) from the rat is a phase 2/antioxidative enzyme that is known to catalyze the reduction of the carbon-carbon double bond of alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones. It is also known for its leukotriene B(4) 12-hydroxydehydrogenase activity. In order to begin to understand these dual catalytic activities and validate its classification as a reductase of the medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductase family, an investigation of the mechanism of its NADPH-dependent activity was undertaken. Recombinant AOR and a 3-nonen-2-one substrate were used to perform steady-state initial velocity, product inhibition, and dead end inhibition experiments, which elucidated an ordered Theorell-Chance kinetic mechanism with NADPH binding first and NADP(+) leaving last. A nearly 20-fold preference for NADPH over NADH was also observed. The dependence of kinetic parameters V and V/K on pH suggests the involvement of a general acid with a pK of 9.2. NADPH isomers stereospecifically labeled with deuterium at the 4-position were used to determine that AOR catalyzes the transfer of the pro-R hydride to the beta-carbon of an alpha,beta-unsaturated ketone, illudin M. Two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effect NMR spectra demonstrate that this atom becomes the R-hydrogen at this position on the metabolite. Using [4R-(2)H]NADPH, small primary kinetic isotope effects of 1.16 and 1.73 for V and V/K, respectively, were observed and suggest that hydride transfer is not rate-limiting. Atomic absorption spectroscopy indicated an absence of Zn(2+) from active preparations of AOR. Thus, AOR fits predictions made for medium-chain reductases and bears similar characteristics to well known medium-chain alcohol dehydrogenases.

Alcohol Dehydrogenase↗

Down-regulation of WW domain-containing oxidoreductase induces Tau phosphorylation in vitro. A potential role in Alzheimer's disease.

Numerous enzymes hyperphosphorylate Tau in vivo, leading to the formation of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in the neurons of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Compared with age-matched normal controls, we demonstrated here that the protein levels of WW domain-containing oxidoreductase WOX1 (also known as WWOX or FOR), its Tyr33-phosphorylated form, and WOX2 were significantly down-regulated in the neurons of AD hippocampi. Remarkably knock-down of WOX1 expression by small interfering RNA in neuroblastoma SK-N-SH cells spontaneously induced Tau phosphorylation at Thr212/Thr231 and Ser515/Ser516, enhanced phosphorylation of glycogen synthase kinase 3beta (GSK-3beta) and ERK, and enhanced NFT formation. Also an increased binding of phospho-GSK-3beta with phospho-Tau was observed in these WOX1 knock-down cells. In comparison, increased phosphorylation of Tau, GSK-3beta, and ERK, as well as NFT formation, was observed in the AD hippocampi. Activation of JNK1 by anisomycin further increased Tau phosphorylation, and SP600125 (a JNK inhibitor) and PD-98059 (an MEK1/2 inhibitor) blocked Tau phosphorylation and NFT formation in these WOX1 knock-down cells. Ectopic or endogenous WOX1 colocalized with Tau, JNK1, and GSK-3beta in neurons and cultured cells. 17Beta-estradiol, a neuronal protective hormone, increased the binding of WOX1 and GSK-3beta with Tau. Mapping analysis showed that WOX1 bound Tau via its COOH-terminal short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase/reductase domain. Together WOX1 binds Tau via its short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase/reductase domain and is likely to play a critical role in regulating Tau hyperphosphorylation and NFT formation in vivo.

Alzheimer Disease↗

Reduction of carboxylic acids by Nocardia aldehyde oxidoreductase requires a phosphopantetheinylated enzyme.

Aldehyde oxidoreductase (carboxylic acid reductase (Car)) catalyzes the magnesium-, ATP-, and NADPH-dependent reduction of carboxylic acids to their corresponding aldehydes. Heterologous expression of the car gene in Escherichia coli afforded purified recombinant enzyme with a specific activity nearly 50-fold lower than that of purified native Nocardia sp. enzyme. The 5-fold increase in specific activity obtained by incubating purified recombinant Car with CoA and Nocardia cell-free extracts indicated that post-translational phosphopantetheinylation of Car is required for maximum enzyme activity. Nocardia phosphopantetheine transferase (PPTase) expressed in E. coli was isolated and characterized. When incubated with [(3)H]acetyl-CoA and Nocardia PPTase, the labeled acetylphosphopantetheine moiety was incorporated into recombinant Car. Coexpression of Nocardia Car and PPTase in E. coli gave a reductase with nearly 20-fold higher specific activity. Site-directed mutagenesis in which Ser(689) was replaced with Ala resulted in an inactive Car mutant. The results show that Car expressed in Escherichia coli is an apoenzyme that is converted to a holoenzyme by post-translational modification via phosphopantetheinylation. Doubly recombinant resting E. coli cells efficiently reduce vanillic acid to vanillin.

Aldehyde Oxidoreductases↗

Enzymatic product formation impairs both the chloroplast receptor-binding function as well as translocation competence of the NADPH: protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase, a nuclear-encoded plastid precursor protein.

The key enzyme of chlorophyll biosynthesis in higher plants, the light-dependent NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR, EC 1.6.99.1), is a nuclear-encoded plastid protein. Its posttranslational transport into plastids of barley depends on the intraplastidic availability of one of its substrates, protochlorophyllide (PChlide). The precursor of POR (pPOR), synthesized from a corresponding full-length barley cDNA clone by coupling in vitro transcription and translation, is enzymatically active and converts PChlide to chlorophyllide (Chlide) in a light- and NADPH-dependent manner. Chlorophyllide formed catalytically remains tightly but noncovalently bound to the precursor protein and stabilizes a transport-incompetent conformation of pPOR. As shown by in vitro processing experiments, the chloroplast transit peptide in the Chlide-pPOR complex appears to be masked and thus is unable to physically interact with the outer plastid envelope membrane. In contrast, the chloroplast transit peptide in the naked pPOR (without its substrates and its product attached to it) and in the pPOR-substrate complexes, such as pPOR-PChlide or pPOR-PChlide-NADPH, seems to react independently of the mature region of the polypeptide, and thus is able to bind to the plastid envelope. When envelope-bound pPOR-PChlide-NADPH complexes were exposed to light during a short preincubation, the enzymatically produced Chlide slowed down the actual translocation step, giving rise to the sequential appearance of two partially processed translocation intermediates. However, ongoing translocation induced by feeding the chloroplasts delta-aminolevulinic acid, a precursor of PChlide, was able to override these two early blocks in translocation, suggesting that the plastid import machinery has a substantial capacity to denature a tightly folded, envelope-bound precursor protein. Together, our results show that pPOR with Chlide attached to it is impaired both in the ATP-dependent step of binding to a receptor protein component of the outer chloroplast envelope membrane, as well as in the PChlide-dependent step of precursor translocation.

Biological Transport, Active↗

Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) contains multiple expressed genes encoding light-dependent NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR).

NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR) catalyzes the light-dependent reduction of protochlorophyllide (Pchlide) to chlorophyllide (Chlide), a key regulatory step in chlorophyll biosynthesis. In most angiosperms, POR is encoded by a small nuclear gene family, containing at least two differentially-expressed genes designated porA and porB. We have demonstrated that the PORs of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.), a gymnosperm, are encoded by a large multigene family, composed of two distinct subfamilies encoding porA and porB genes similar to those previously described in angiosperms. DNA gel blot analysis of genomic DNA showed that the two por subfamilies of loblolly pine have duplicated at different rates, with the porA subfamily containing two members, and the porB subfamily containing at least 11 potential members. DNA sequence analysis and gel blot hybridization studies also showed that a subset of the por genes present in the loblolly pine genome are pseudogenes. Based on the results of 5'- and 3'-RACE analysis, it appears that multiple porA and porB genes are expressed in loblolly pine cotyledons and stems during development. Using gene specific probes, no difference was observed in the steady-state levels of the different porA and porB transcripts in cotyledons of dark-grown seedlings before and following illumination. However, the steady state levels of the porA and porB transcripts were found to increase at different rates in the stems of dark-grown seedlings following illumination. The phylogenetic relationship between the por gene family members in P. taeda and other pine species and the potential significance of the two por subfamilies to the evolution of por gene function are discussed.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Expression of NADPH-Protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase gene in fully green leaves of cucumber.

Photoreduction of protochlorophyllide a to chlorophyllide a that is catalyzed by NADPH-protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (NPR) is only a light-dependent step in overall processes of biosynthesis of Chl in angiosperms. Unlike many other plants, in fully green leaves of cucumber the expression of only a single NPR gene of cucumber was positively regulated by light and developmental age of leaf, and also by diurnal and circadian rhythms. The single NPR gene was shown to be involved in Chl synthesis throughout of the vegetative growth of cucumber (in cotyledons and fully green leaves).

Circadian Rhythm↗

Characterization of cDNA of the liverwort phytochrome gene, and phytochrome involvement in the light-dependent and light-independent protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase gene expression in Marchantia paleacea var. diptera.

The cDNA of the phytochrome gene in the liverwort Marchantia paleacea var. diptera (MpdPHY1) was isolated. MpdPHY1 encoded a conventional phytochrome apoprotein. The MpdPHY1 transcript was accumulated in the dark and suppressed in the light. The degradation of the MpdPHY1 transcript by red light irradiation had red/far-red reversibility, suggesting that the liverwort phytochrome gene expression was regulated by a phytochrome. Northern blot analysis of the transcripts in cells irradiated by red/far-red light revealed that the liverwort phytochrome was involved in the expressions of chlB, chlL, chlN, or por, which encode subunits of light-independent and light-dependent protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase, respectively.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Photosynthetic electron transport regulates the stability of the transcript for the protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase gene in the liverwort, Marchantia paleacea var. diptera.

The transfer of Marchantia paleacea var. diptera cells to darkness caused a reversible repression in the accumulation of transcript for a gene, por, encoding the NADPH: protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (EC 1.3.1.33). The photosynthetic inhibitor DCMU and DBMIB repressed the accumulation in light. In the presence of transcription inhibitor cordycepin, not only incubation in the dark but also addition of DCMU or DBMIB in light stimulated the degradation of the por transcript. These findings suggest that photosynthetic electron transport is involved in regulating the stability of the por transcript.

Darkness↗

Role of xanthine oxidoreductase in experimental acute renal-allograft rejection.

BACKGROUND: Increased oxygen radical production may not only contribute to posttransplant ischemia-reperfusion injury but also to acute rejection of renal allografts. Xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) may constitute a relevant reactive oxygen species (ROS) source. The study was conducted (1). to determine ROS production as well as oxidant and antioxidant enzyme activities in renal grafts and (2). to modulate acute rejection by tungsten administration, a specific inhibitor of XOR. METHODS: Syngraft (Lewis to Lewis, Fisher344 to Fisher344) and allograft (Fisher344 to Lewis) kidney transplantations were performed with or without tungsten administration. Analysis was performed at day 1, 3, or 9 posttransplantation. RESULTS: Generation of ROS was enhanced, being 10-fold higher in renal allografts versus control kidneys at day 9 (P <0.01); this was associated with histologic signs of acute rejection. Oxygen radicals were generated to a significant degree by enhanced XOR activity, which increased more than 10-fold in renal allografts at day 9 posttransplantation; XOR protein in glomeruli and tubulointerstitium was also elevated in allo-grafts. In addition, NADPH oxidase activity increased significantly in allografts. The activity of antioxidant enzymes tended to decrease. Tungsten treatment resulted in a pronounced reduction of XOR activity and ROS production, without any effect on NADPH-oxidase activity; mononuclear cell infiltration and rejection signs were significantly ameliorated at day 9 post-transplantation by selective inhibition of XOR. CONCLUSIONS: A major part of ROS generation in acute rejection was contributed by XOR. ROS are not only associated with but also contribute to acute allograft rejection because inhibition of XOR alleviated rejection phenomena.

Acute Disease↗