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BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 51, 期 36, 页码 7173-7188出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi3010945
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [R00ES017177]
- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis startup funds
- National Science Foundation (NSF) MRI [CHE-0619254, DBI-0821661]
- NSF Grant [MCB-0316038]
5-Thyminyl-5,6-dihydrothymine (also called spore photoproduct or SP) is the exclusive DNA photodamage product in bacterial endospores. It is repaired by a radical SAM (S-adenosylmethionine) enzyme, the spore photoproduct lyase (SPL), at the bacterial early germination phase. Our previous studies proved that SPL utilizes the 5'-dA center dot generated by the SAM cleavage reaction to abstract the H-6proR atom to initiate the SP repair process. The resulting thymine allylic radical was suggested to take an H atom from an unknown protein source, most likely cysteine 141. Here we show that C141 can be readily alkylated in the native SPL by an iodoacetamide treatment, suggesting that it is accessible to the TpT radical. SP repair by the SPL C141A mutant yields TpTSO(2)(-) and TpT simultaneously from the very beginning of the reaction; no lag phase is observed for TpTSO(2)(-) formation. Should any other protein residue serve as the H donor, its presence would result in TpT being the major product at least for the first enzyme turnover. These observations provide strong evidence to support C141 as the direct H atom donor. Moreover, because of the lack of this intrinsic H donor, the C141A mutant produces TpT via an unprecedented thymine cation radical reduction (proton-coupled electron transfer) process, contrasting to the H atom transfer mechanism in the wild-type (WT) SPL reaction. The C141A mutant repairs SP at a rate that is similar to 3-fold slower than that of the WT enzyme. Formation of TpTSO(2)(-) and TpT exhibits a V-max deuterium kinetic isotope effect (KIE) of 1.7 +/- 0.2, which is smaller than the V-D(max) KIE of 2.8 +/- 0.3 determined for the WT SPL reaction. These findings suggest that removing the intrinsic H atom donor disturbs the rate-limiting process during enzyme catalysis. As expected, the prereduced C141A mutant supports only turnover, which is in sharp contrast to the >5 turnovers exhibited by the WT SPL reaction, suggesting that the enzyme catalytic cycle (SAM regeneration) is disrupted by this single mutation.
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