Journal
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 45, Issue 12, Pages 1682-1694Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2008.09.009
Keywords
Animal heme-containing peroxidase; Gene expression; Enzyme activity; Protein structure; K(m); NADPH oxidase
Funding
- American Heart Association [0635122N]
- NIH [RO1 HL086836, CA 105116, HL55425, HL079207, HL28982]
- Fund for Henry Ford Hospital
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Animal heme-containing peroxidases play roles in innate immunity, hormone biosynthesis, and the pathogenesis of inflammatory, diseases. Using the peroxidase-like domain of Duox1 as a query, we carried out homology searching of the National Center for Biotechnology Information database. Two novel heme-containing peroxidases were identified in humans and mice. One, termed VPO1 for vascular peroxidase 1, exhibits its highest tissue expression in heart and vascular wall. A second, VPO2, present in humans but not in mice, is 63% identical to VPOI and is highly expressed in heart. The peroxidase homology region of VPOI shows 42% identity to myeloperoxidase and 57% identity to the insect peroxidase peroxidasin. A molecular model of the VPO1 peroxidase region reveals a structure very similar to that of known peroxidases, including a conserved heme binding cavity, critical catalytic residues, and a calcium binding site. The absorbance spectra of VPO1 are similar to those of lactoperoxidase, and covalent attachment of the heme to VPO1 protein was demonstrated by chemiluminescent heme staining. VPOI purified from heart or expressed in HEK cells is catalytically active, with a K for H(2)O(2) of 1.5 mM. When co-expressed in cells, VPOI can use H(2)O(2) produced by NADPH oxidase enzymes. VPOI is likely to carry out peroxidative reactions previously attributed exclusively to myeloperoxidase in the vascular system. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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