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From the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell
Biology, University of California,
Berkeley, California 94720-1460
The field of quinoproteins began in the 1980s
with the discovery and characterization of a low molecular weight,
dissociable cofactor from Gram-negative bacteria, designated
pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ,1 Fig.
1A). PQQ was found to be biologically active
both in vitro, via the reconstitution of activity to
periplasmic alcohol dehydrogenases, and in vivo, as a
stimulant to cell growth. The latter behavior is a consequence of the
elevated production of apo-alcohol dehydrogenases relative to PQQ,
which could thus be described as a bacterial ``vitamin''
(cf. Ref. 1 and references within).
By the mid-1980s, interest in PQQ had increased considerably, due to
the publication of reports ascribing the active site cofactor in a
eukaryotic protein (a copper amine oxidase from bovine serum) to
covalently bound PQQ. This was followed by claims for covalently bound
PQQ in a range of eukaryotic proteins such as dopamine
With the wisdom of hindsight, it is now clear that eukaryotic proteins
do not contain covalently bound PQQ (cf. Ref. 4
for a full review of the evidence against PQQ in eukaryotic proteins).
In a remarkable turn of events, however, the original attribution of a
quinone to the active site cofactor in the copper amine oxidases is
correct! As illustrated in Fig. 1B, the covalently bound
cofactor in the copper amine oxidases resides within the polypeptide
chain as a 2,4,5-trihydroxyphenylalanine, designated topa quinone (or
TPQ) in its oxidized form. The demonstration of the structure in Fig.
1B followed from the isolation of a cofactor-containing,
active site pentapeptide in high yield (from bovine serum amine
oxidase) and the determination of the empirical formula for the unknown
amino acid via a combination of Edman sequencing and mass spectrometry.
Chemical synthesis of a model compound and comparison of its properties
to the peptide by UV-visible, resonance Raman, and NMR spectroscopy
provided the final proof of structure (5).
At the time of the discovery of TPQ in bovine serum amine oxidase,
no DNA sequences were available for mammalian copper amine oxidases. In
light of the availability of a DNA sequence encoding a yeast
(Hansenula polymorpha) copper amine oxidase, Mu et
al. (6) isolated the copper amine oxidase from H. polymorpha and sequenced its active site, cofactor-containing
peptide. The subsequent alignment of protein and DNA-derived sequences,
although not perfect, indicated tyrosine as the precursor to TPQ. In
retrospect, the lack of exact alignment between protein and DNA-derived
sequences arose because Mu et al. (6) had isolated a
benzylamine oxidase, whereas the cloned gene corresponded to a
methylamine oxidase. When Cai and Klinman (7) expressed the H. polymorpha gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and
characterized the recombinant protein, they were able to demonstrate an
exact alignment between protein and DNA-derived active site
sequences.
The availability of a full-length sequence for the protein in which TPQ
was originally characterized (bovine serum amine oxidase) had been
stalled by the large size of the protein (82 kDa per subunit, making
protein sequencing tedious) and a lack of knowledge regarding the
tissue origin for this enzyme (making screening for a cDNA
problematic). An important breakthrough occurred in the course of a
homology search between the limited peptide sequences available for
bovine serum amine oxidase and the Protein Identification Resource data
base. Quite unexpectedly, an almost exact match was found between
bovine serum amine oxidase peptides and an amiloride binding protein
(ABP), earlier reported to correspond to an amiloride-sensitive sodium
channel (8). An unusual feature of ABP was the lack of hydrophobic
stretches anticipated for a membrane-spanning channel. On the
assumption that ABP had been misidentified and was, in fact, a copper
amine oxidase, Mu et al. (9) demonstrated that mammalian
copper amine oxidases bind amiloride tightly. Subsequent screening of a
bovine liver cDNA library, using probes designed from the ABP
sequence, led to the isolation of the full-length gene for bovine serum
amine oxidase. In confirmation of a precursor-product relationship
between tyrosine and TPQ, the following alignment was found between the
bovine serum amine oxidase active site peptide and its cDNA-derived
sequence (9).
As seen from the above peptide, TPQ is flanked by the amino acid
Asn and a hydrophobic amino acid toward its N terminus and Asp and Tyr
toward the C terminus. This consensus sequence (10), which is conserved
among the sequenced pro- and eukaryotic copper amine oxidases (with the
exceptions of the conservative replacement of Asp by Glu in the
H. polymorpha and Arthrobacter P1 enzymes and the
replacement of Tyr by Asn in the pea seedling and lentil seedling
enzymes (11)), can be considered a ``signature'' for TPQ-containing
enzymes. Initially, it appeared reasonable that the recognition signal
for the post-translational modification of Tyr to TPQ would lie within
this consensus sequence. However, computer searches of the existing
protein and DNA data banks revealed numerous, non-quinoproteins that
contained this consensus sequence, as well as the appearance of the
consensus sequence more than once within the polypeptide chain of the
copper amine oxidase from H. polymorpha (12). Clearly, the
information contained within the linear consensus sequence is
insufficient to encode a highly specific post-translational
modification of a single Tyr per 75-85-kDa subunit.
It is well known that copper is an efficient catalyst for the side
chain and ring hydroxylation reactions of phenethylamine derivatives
(13). Thus, Mu et al. (6) had postulated that the placement
of a copper ion proximal to the TPQ precursor would be sufficient for
efficient post-translational modification of Tyr. As illustrated in
Scheme 1, copper is proposed to catalyze a
dioxygen-dependent insertion of an oxygen atom into the
tyrosine ring to generate dopa, which upon oxidation gives dopa
quinone. The latter compound is a reactive electrophile such that
nucleophilic addition of either water or hydroxide ion complexed to the
active site copper would be expected to complete the process of TPQ
formation.
What evidence has been brought to bear on the mechanism of Scheme 1?
Working in a prokaryotic system (expression of a gene for
Arthrobacter globiformis amine oxidases in Escherichia
coli), Tanizawa and co-workers (14, 15) were able to isolate a
precursor, copper-free form of enzyme. Subsequent addition of copper
led to full production of enzyme activity and TPQ. Cai and Klinman (7)
chose to work with a eukaryotic system (expressing the gene for the
yeast H. polymorpha amine oxidase in S. cerevisiae). Although this system did not yield TPQ production
upon addition of exogenous copper to copper-depleted enzyme, several
lines of evidence were found to support the self-processing mechanism
of Scheme 1. First, growth of the transformed S. cerevisiae
in the presence of copper-containing growth medium produced fully
active H. polymorpha enzyme, despite the fact that there is
no evidence for production of endogenous quinoproteins in S. cerevisiae (7). Second, site-specific mutagenesis experiments
indicated that disruption of the consensus sequence surrounding the Tyr
precursor still produced active amine oxidase, whereas disruption of
the copper-binding site eliminated TPQ production (16). The weight of
the available data for both prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins
supports a post-translational mechanism involving the active site
copper as a catalyst for TPQ formation. Recent experiments indicate
that the failure to induce TPQ formation in the copper-depleted
recombinant H. polymorpha gene product resulted from
insertion of zinc into the metal binding site under conditions of
expression in S. cerevisiae. Expression of the H. polymorpha yeast amine oxidase gene in E. coli has now
been found to lead to precursor protein lacking both copper
and zinc; addition of copper in an amount stoichiometric with enzyme
subunits leads to fully active
protein.2
From a mechanistic perspective, the oxidative portion of the reaction
shown in Scheme 1 is particularly puzzling. A reasonable mechanism
would involve binding of dioxygen to Cu(II), followed by the generation
of Cu(II)-OOH as the reactive oxygen intermediate. However, there is no
apparent requirement for exogenous electron donors in the in
vitro biogenetic process, raising the question of the source of
the two electrons that would be required for a reductive activation of
dioxygen to hydrogen peroxide. Although it is conceivable that the
electron source lies within the protein itself (i.e. in a
conversion of two cysteine residues to cystine), two copper amine
oxidases have been characterized that are devoid of cysteine residues
(the E. coli and Klebsiella enzymes (11)). As an
alternative to dioxygen activation, it is conceivable that the
initiation of cofactor biogenesis involves tyrosine oxidation by the
active site copper. However, the redox partners are not well matched
for this purpose with anticipated reduction potentials of about
0.3-0.4 V for the cupric ion and 0.8-1.0 V for the tyrosyl radical
(cf. Ref. 13). In principle, an unstable, transient
cuprous-tyrosyl radical intermediate could be trapped by molecular
oxygen to form a tyrosyl-hydroperoxy species. From the EPR experiments
of Tanizawa and co-workers (15), it appears that anaerobic incubation
of the precursor Arthrobacter protein with cupric ion leads
to a loss of signal due to the paramagnetic cupric center. However, no
accompanying signal for an organic radical was seen until oxygen was
added to the system. Further, the properties of the EPR spectrum for
the organic radical formed in the presence of O2 implicate
a structure that resembles the semiquinone of the aminoquinol formed
along the catalytic path (see below). None of these observations add up
to a workable mechanism for the oxidation of tyrosine to dopa, and it
is clear that more experiments are needed before the oxidative process
will be adequately described. By contrast, O-18 labeling studies
recently completed by Sanders-Loehr and co-workers (17) show that the
oxygen at position 2 of the mature cofactor derives from solvent water,
fully supporting the attack of water or hydroxide ion on dopa quinone
to generate TPQ.
Mechanism and Structure of TPQ Enzymes Copper amine oxidases had been the subject of fairly intense
mechanistic investigations, both prior to and concomitant with the
finding of the TPQ cofactor. An important early breakthrough occurred
when kinetic studies of Rius et al. on a porcine plasma
amine oxidase implicated the transfer of the substrate amine nitrogen
to enzyme during the catalytic cycle (18). In a subsequent study,
Hartmann and Klinman (19) were able to trap chemically an adduct
between substrate and enzyme and to show that this adduct had the
properties expected for a Schiff base complex between the substrate
amine and a quino-structure (originally thought to be PQQ). In this
way, a transamination mechanism was established, involving a covalent
adduct between substrate and a reactive functional group on the enzyme.
Utilizing the now known structure for TPQ, it is possible to write a
complete reaction mechanism for substrate oxidation (Scheme
2) (20).
As illustrated in Scheme 2, a Schiff base complex between substrate and
TPQ occurs at the C-5 position of cofactor. Evidence for the enhanced
electrophilicity of this C-5 position comes from solution studies,
which show first, preferential attack of TPQ model compounds by
nucleophiles at C-5 (21) and second, identical resonance Raman spectra
for an active site, cofactor-containing peptide derived from enzyme
inhibited by phenylhydrazine and a model TPQ compound labeled with
phenylhydrazine at the C-5 carbonyl (5). The charge distribution of the
substrate Schiff base complex has been the subject of discussion and
speculation. From the blue shift in the The oxidation of amines within the Schiff base complex occurs via
proton activation at C-1 of substrate. Structure reactivity
correlations using a series of ring-substituted benzylamines indicate
an increase in rate with electron-withdrawing substituents ( Once the negative charge formed initially on substrate becomes
delocalized into the TPQ ring, the cofactor has been converted from its
oxidized to reduced form. Given the large increase in
pKa (about 5 pH units) of the TPQ ring upon
reduction (21), it is anticipated that the reduced cofactor will be
protonated at C-4. This may explain the high reactivity of the product
Schiff base toward hydrolysis. Using the reductive trap method of
Hartmann and Klinman (19), it has never been possible to trap any
product Schiff base under conditions leading to stoichiometric trapping
of the substrate Schiff base. While this differential behavior of
substrate and product Schiff bases could be due to an altered
accessibility of reductant (BH3CN An aminoquinol of the cofactor is formed once product aldehyde has been
hydrolyzed from the product Schiff base. Janes and Klinman (24) were
able to demonstrate that the substrate-derived ammonia remains bound to
protein under strict anaerobic conditions. Oxidation of this
aminoquinol is believed to occur via two one-electron steps with the
intermediacy of a semiquinone species (Scheme 3) (25).
McCracken and co-workers (26), using N-15-labeled amine to label the
cofactor, obtained an EPR spectrum for semiquinone, which is indicative
of a covalent attachment of the substrate-derived amino group to the
TPQ ring. Thus, the transamination mechanism shown in Scheme 2 appears
fully confirmed.
The recent availability of a crystal structure for a copper amine
oxidase from E. coli provides a beautiful structural context
for the mechanism in Scheme 2 (23). First, the single copper ion per
subunit is found to be close to the mature TPQ, separated by an axial
water molecule. The proximity of copper to TPQ is relevant to both the
proposed biogenetic pathway (Scheme 1) and the catalytic pathway
(Scheme 2). The copper-complexed water has been proposed to serve as
the nucleophile in the conversion of dopa quinone to topa quinone
(Scheme 1) and may serve as a proton source in the stabilization of
reduced cofactor (Scheme 2). Second, the likely active site base is
seen to be an Asp that sits opposite the copper in relation to the
cofactor. This Asp is found in a highly hydrophobic environment, which
may explain the elevated pKa ascribed to the active
site base in the resting form of bovine serum amine oxidase
(pKa = 7.8, reduced to pKa = 5.3 once substrate has bound (27)). There is sufficient room within the
protein active site for the TPQ ring to rotate, an essential feature of
the biogenetic mechanism shown in Scheme 1. This mobility may also play
an important role in the geometric placement of the cofactor ring at
different stages in the catalytic cycle.
A Second Quinocofactor in Eukaryotes Among the copper amine oxidases, the physiologically important
lysyl oxidase (28) has been a puzzle. Although formally a member of the
copper amine oxidase family, lysyl oxidase shows a number of essential
differences. These include the smaller size of lysyl oxidase (monomer
of 32 kDa) in relation to other copper amine oxidases (dimers of
75-85-kDa subunits) and the absence of the conserved consensus
sequence seen in all known TPQ-containing enzymes (29). Based on the
capacity of lysyl oxidase to stain positive in a redox cycling assay
developed for the detection of quinone-containing proteins (30) and
features of a resonance Raman spectrum for a cofactor-containing
peptide (31), lysyl oxidase has alternatively been proposed to contain
either PQQ or TPQ.
In contrast to bovine serum amine oxidase (the protein used for the
initial characterization of TPQ), lysyl oxidase is available in only
limited quantities (typical yield of a lysyl oxidase preparation from
bovine calf aorta is optimally 5 mg from 500 g of bovine aorta).
Additionally, a high level expression system for lysyl oxidase has not
yet been developed. It seems unlikely that the lysyl oxidase cofactor
would have yielded its structure in a timely fashion without the
experience gained in the course of the discovery and characterization
of TPQ.
Using a peptide resulting from a thermolytic digestion of lysyl oxidase
derivatized with [14C]phenylhydrazine, Wang et
al. (32) made the unexpected observation of two amino acids (in
comparable yield) at each round of Edman sequencing. Segregation of
these amino acids into peptides 1 and 2 was possible by alignment of
the detected amino acids with the cDNA-derived protein sequence of
a lysyl oxidase from rat aorta. A blank was found in peptide 1 at the
position of tyrosine and in peptide 2 at the position of lysine.
Subdigestion with Asp-N, a protease that cleaves toward the N terminus
of aspartate, yielded two hexapeptides, from which the following
structure was inferred.
Volume 271, Number 44,
Issue of November 1, 1996
pp. 27189-27192
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
MINIREVIEW:
INTRODUCTION
Origin of TPQ
Biogenesis of TPQ
Mechanism and Structure of TPQ Enzymes
A Second Quinocofactor in Eukaryotes
FOOTNOTES
REFERENCES
Fig. 1.
Structures for quinocofactors and a model
compound. A, PQQ; B, quinone (TPQ); C,
LTQ; D, a model compound for LTQ.
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-monooxygenase, galactose oxidase, and lipoxygenase (2). During this
period, nutritional studies provided support for an essential role for
PQQ in germ-free animals fed chemically defined diets, and the idea
began to emerge of PQQ as a ``missing vitamin'' in mammals (3).
Scheme 1.
A possible ``self-processing'' mechanism
for the generation of TPQ from tyrosine, as originally postulated by Mu
et al. (6) and modified by Cai and Klinman (7).
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Scheme 2.
Mechanism for the oxidation of amine
substrates by TPQ. Evidence for each of the four intermediates is
described in the text.
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max for this
complex (about 340 nm) relative to the uncomplexed TPQ (about 480 nm)
(20), it appears that the resonance-stabilized negative charge on the
ionized TPQ (pKa ~3 for bovine serum amine oxidase
(21)) has become more localized upon complexation with substrate. This
may occur via an electrostatic interaction between a positively
charged, protonated Schiff base and a localized anionic charge on the
TPQ derivative at C-4. This view is supported by solution studies
showing a shift in the
max for complexes of model TPQ
compounds with amines to shorter wavelengths as the solvent is changed
from polar to non-polar (ascribed to enhanced ion pairing and resulting
localization of charge on the cofactor in the non-polar solvent)
(22).
= 1.5)
(20). In light of the electron-withdrawing nature of the oxidized TPQ
ring, together with its predilection to form Schiff bases, a proton
activation mechanism is expected. The similarity of this portion of the
reaction to that of another carbonyl cofactor, pyridoxal phosphate, is
striking.
) to the
active site, a more likely explanation is the disruption of the
electrostatic stabilization occurring in the substrate Schiff base once
the cofactor has become reduced. Using a mutant form of the methylamine
oxidase from H. polymorpha, Cai and
Klinman3 have recently shown that substrate
methylamine gives rise to mechanism-based inhibition in which an
intermediate accumulates that has all of the characteristics of a
product Schiff base complex. Since the mutation is at the
position of the Asp adjacent to TPQ, this implicates a role for the
consensus sequence in the maintenance of a catalytically productive
geometry for the cofactor-product Schiff base complex. The crystal
structure of the dimeric E. coli amine oxidase indicates an
interaction between the consensus sequence Asp on subunit 1 and a
conserved His on subunit 2 (23).
Scheme 3.
Mechanism for the oxidation of
substrate-reduced TPQ by molecular oxygen. Evidence for the
formation of a semiquinone intermediate is from Dooley et
al. (25). The proposed structure for this semiquinone comes from
McCracken et al. (26).
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Mass spectrometry was used to confirm that the peptide
was, indeed, cross-linked and to obtain an accurate mass for the
cofactor to four decimal points. The latter yielded a mass of 288.1377 for the
from which an empirical formula of
C15H18N3O3 was computed
(32).
Given a role for a water or hydroxide ion attack on a dopa quinone
intermediate in TPQ formation (Scheme 1), it appeared likely that the
lysyl oxidase structure would be formed by a similar chemical reaction.
This led to the proposal of an attack by the
-amino group of a
lysine side chain on the reactive (C-2) position of dopa quinone to
yield the structure
(C15H18N3O3) shown in
Fig. 1C. Synthesis of an appropriate model compound, Fig.
1D, followed. UV-visible characterization of this model
compound indicated a
max at 504 nm (red shifted about 24 nm relative to TPQ), identical to that observed for native lysyl
oxidase. Derivatization of the compound in Fig. 1D with
phenylhydrazine and collection of resonance Raman spectra demonstrated
a structure quite different from the phenylhydrazone of TPQ (39).
Importantly, the phenylhydrazone of the compound in Fig. 1D
showed a resonance Raman spectrum identical to that of a
phenylhydrazine-labeled, active site-derived peptide from lysyl oxidase
(32).
In this manner, a new cross-linked structure, designated lysine
tyrosylquinone (or LTQ), was described (32). Site-specific mutagenesis
provides further confirmation of the LTQ structure, since conversion of
the cross-linking amino acid side chains, Lys-314 and Tyr-349, to Ala
and Phe, respectively, yields inactive enzyme. As a control, Wang
et al. (32) addressed the possibility that the mature
cofactor in lysyl oxidase was the postulated biogenetic intermediate,
dopa quinone, which had undergone fortuitous cross-linking to lysine in
the course of isolation of the active site peptide. A model for dopa
quinone, 4-ethyl-1,2-benzoquinone, reacted with phenylhydrazine to give
a derivative with
max = 330 nm, in contrast to the
phenylhydrazone of lysyl oxidase (
max = 454 nm).
Further, the derivatized o-quinone was found to be
completely unreactive to incubation overnight with a large excess of an
N-alkylamine, thereby ruling out a spurious side reaction as
the source of the LTQ structure (32).
The finding of LTQ in lysyl oxidase raises the question of whether this
cofactor will be found in other eukaryotic proteins. Recently, Dove
et al.4 examined the cofactor
structure for a copper amine oxidase from Pichia pastoris
that had been reported to oxidize the
-amino group of protein or
peptide-bound lysyl side chains (38). Despite the similarity in
substrate specificity to lysyl oxidase, this yeast copper amine oxidase
contains TPQ.4 This result tells us that the evolution of
cofactor structure and substrate specificity are likely to have
occurred separately.
As described by Palcic and co-workers (35, 36), the family of copper amine oxidases is unique in that stereochemistry has not been conserved. Enzymes have been classified based on the relationship of the stereochemistry for amine oxidation at C-1 to that for exchange at the C-2 position of phenethylamine substrates. The only protein found to be similar to lysyl oxidase is the membrane-associated, semicarbazide-sensitive amine oxidases (37). This latter class of proteins has not yet been cloned and sequenced, and the structure of the active site cofactor remains unknown. It will be of great interest to determine whether the semicarbazide-sensitive amine oxidase contains LTQ, TPQ, or possibly a new variant of quinocofactor.
Given the proposed commonality of dopa quinone as an intermediate in
both TPQ and LTQ biogenesis, it is reasonable to question whether
additional quinocofactors will be found that differ with regard to the
substituent at the C-2 position of the mature cofactor. In principle,
any amino acid side chain with nucleophilic properties (e.g.
Ser, His, Asp, or Glu) could couple to a dopa quinone intermediate.
However, the specific properties of the final quinone are likely to
determine its biological viability. When the redox half-potential for
LTQ was determined, it was found to be very similar to TPQ, as well as
to the dissociable quinocofactor PQQ (Table I) (32).
This suggests that the interaction of reduced cofactor with molecular
oxygen, a feature common to the reactions of all known quinocofactors
(illustrated for TPQ in Scheme 3), may occur optimally for cofactors
with half-potentials in the observed range of
150 to
180 mV
(versus standard calomel electrode). At the present time, we
have no information concerning the catalytic ability of LTQ model
compounds in the oxidation of amine substrates. Comparison of these
properties with those for TPQ model compounds (21, 22, 33, 34) may
provide critical insight into the selective advantage of one eukaryotic
quinocofactor over another.
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