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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 115, Issue 19, Pages 4915-4920Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1801153115
Keywords
oxygen; hydrogen peroxide; monooxygenase
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- NSF [1565770]
- National Institutes of Health [1S10OD020062-01]
- OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH [S10OD020062] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Enzymatic conversion of polysaccharides into lower-molecular-weight, soluble oligosaccharides is dependent on the action of hydrolytic and oxidative enzymes. Polysaccharide monooxygenases (PMOs) use an oxidative mechanism to break the glycosidic bond of polymeric carbohydrates, thereby disrupting the crystalline packing and creating new chain ends for hydrolases to depolymerize and degrade recalcitrant polysaccharides. PMOs contain a mononuclear Cu(II) center that is directly involved in C-H bond hydroxylation. Molecular oxygen was the accepted cosubstrate utilized by this family of enzymes until a recent report indicated reactivity was dependent on H2O2. Reported here is a detailed analysis of PMO reactivity with H2O2 and O-2, in conjunction with high-resolution MS measurements. The cosubstrate utilized by the enzyme is dependent on the assay conditions. PMOs will directly reduce O-2 in the coupled hydroxylation of substrate (monooxygenase activity) and will also utilize H2O2 (peroxygenase activity) produced from the uncoupled reduction of O-2. Both cosubstrates require Cu reduction to Cu(I), but the reaction with H2O2 leads to nonspecific oxidation of the polysaccharide that is consistent with the generation of a hydroxyl radical-based mechanism in Fenton-like chemistry, while the O-2 reaction leads to regioselective substrate oxidation using an enzyme-bound Cu/O-2 reactive intermediate. Moreover, H2O2 does not influence the ability of secretome from Neurospora crassa to degrade Avicel, providing evidence thatmolecular oxygen is a physiologically relevant cosubstrate for PMOs.
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