H.D.Correia
et al.
(2015).
Aromatic aldehydes at the active site of aldehyde oxidoreductase from Desulfovibrio gigas: reactivity and molecular details of the enzyme-substrate and enzyme-product interaction.
J Biol Inorg Chem,
20,
219-229.
PubMed id: 25261288
DOI: 10.1007/s00775-014-1196-4
Aromatic aldehydes at the active site of aldehyde oxidoreductase from Desulfovibrio gigas: reactivity and molecular details of the enzyme-substrate and enzyme-product interaction.
Desulfovibrio gigas aldehyde oxidoreductase (DgAOR) is a mononuclear
molybdenum-containing enzyme from the xanthine oxidase (XO) family, a group of
enzymes capable of catalyzing the oxidative hydroxylation of aldehydes and
heterocyclic compounds. The kinetic studies reported in this work showed that
DgAOR catalyzes the oxidative hydroxylation of aromatic aldehydes, but not
heterocyclic compounds. NMR spectroscopy studies using (13)C-labeled
benzaldehyde confirmed that DgAOR catalyzes the conversion of aldehydes to the
respective carboxylic acids. Steady-state kinetics in solution showed that high
concentrations of the aromatic aldehydes produce substrate inhibition and in the
case of 3-phenyl propionaldehyde a suicide substrate behavior.
Hydroxyl-substituted aromatic aldehydes present none of these behaviors but the
kinetic parameters are largely affected by the position of the OH group.
High-resolution crystallographic structures obtained from single crystals of
active-DgAOR soaked with benzaldehyde showed that the side chains of Phe425 and
Tyr535 are important for the stabilization of the substrate in the active site.
On the other hand, the X-ray data of DgAOR soaked with trans-cinnamaldehyde
showed a cinnamic acid molecule in the substrate channel. The X-ray data of
DgAOR soaked with 3-phenyl propionaldehyde showed clearly how high substrate
concentrations inactivate the enzyme by binding covalently at the surface of the
enzyme and blocking the substrate channel. The different reactivity of DgAOR
versus aldehyde oxidase and XO towards aromatic aldehydes and N-heterocyclic
compounds is explained on the basis of the present kinetic and structural data.