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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 275, Issue 27, Pages 20527-20532Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M002132200
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The FAD binding site of human liver monoamine oxidase A (MAO A) has been investigated by mutagenesis of the amino acid site of covalent FAD attachment (Cys-406) to an alanyl residue. Expression of the C406A mutant in Saccharomyces ces cerevisiae results in the formation of an active enzyme, as found previously with the rat liver enzyme. The activity of this mutant enzyme is labile to solubilization, thus requiring all experiments to be done with membrane preparations. C406A MAO A was expressed in a rib 5(-) strain of S. cerevisiae in the presence of 16 different riboflavin analogues. Inactive apoC406A MAO A is formed by induction of the enzyme in the absence of riboflavin. FAD but not FMN or riboflavin restores catalytic activity with an apparent K-d of 62 +/- 5 nM. The results from both in vivo and in vitro reconstitution experiments show increased activity levels (up to similar to 7-fold higher) with those analogues exhibiting higher oxidation-reduction potentials than normal flavin and decreased activity levels with analogues exhibiting lower potentials. Analogues with substituents on the pyrimidine ring bind to C406A MAO A more weakly than normal FAD, suggesting specific interactions with the N(3) and N(1) positions. Analogues with substituents in the 7 and 8 positions bind to C406A MAO A with affinities comparable with that of normal FAD. These results are discussed in regard to functional significance of 8 alpha-covalent binding of flavins to proteins.
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