J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 262, Issue 35, 16892-16899, 12, 1987

Controlled tryptic digestion of prostaglandin H synthase. Characterization of protein fragments and enhanced rate of proteolysis of oxidatively inactivated enzyme

YN Chen, MJ Bienkowski and LJ Marnett
Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202.

Treatment of prostaglandin H (PGH) synthase (70 kDa) with trypsin generates fragments of 33 and 38 kDa. Each of the fragments was purified by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) using acetonitrile/water/trifluoroacetic acid gradients. Amino acid sequence analysis indicates that the 33-kDa protein contains the NH2 terminus of PGH synthase. Neither the 33- nor 38-kDa fragment isolated by HPLC exhibits any PGH synthase activity; however, cleavage of intact enzyme to 33- and 38-kDa fragments to the extent of 90% only reduces cyclooxygenase activity by 40%. This implies that the cleaved proteins or a complex formed between them retains the conformation necessary for enzyme activity. Extensive attempts to resolve active fragments from each other or from intact enzyme were unsuccessful; intact enzyme and digestion fragments cochromatograph under all conditions employed. Treatment of PGH synthase with [3H]acetylsalicylic acid followed by trypsin digestion introduces [3H]acetyl moieties into the intact protein and the 38-kDa fragment (0.8-0.9 acetyl group/subunit). Nearly complete conversion of PGH synthase to 33- and 38-kDa fragments by exposure to high concentrations of trypsin prior to [3H]acetylsalicylic acid treatment results in labeling of the 38-kDa fragment, but not the 33-kDa fragment. The present findings are consistent with the presence of a membrane-binding domain (33 kDa) and an active site domain (38 kDa) in the 70-kDa subunit of PGH synthase. They also suggest that, following cleavage, the 38-kDa fragment retains the structural features responsible for the cyclooxygenase activity and selective aspirin labeling of PGH synthase. PGH synthase undergoes self-catalyzed inactivation by oxidants generated during its catalytic turnover. When PGH synthase, inactivated by treatment with arachidonic acid or hydrogen peroxide, was treated with trypsin it was cleaved two to three times faster than unoxidized enzyme. Addition of heme to oxidized PGH synthase did not reconstitute cyclooxygenase activity or resistance to trypsin cleavage. Spectrophotometric studies demonstrated that oxidatively inactivated enzyme did not bind heme. This implies that oxidation of protein residues as well as the heme prosthetic group is an important determinant of proteolytic sensitivity. Oxidative modification may mark PGH synthase for proteolytic cleavage and turnover.
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