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• W2078133320 abstract "Quinoprotein alcohol dehydrogenases are redox enzymes that participate in distinctive catabolic pathways that enable bacteria to grow on various alcohols as the sole source of carbon and energy. The x-ray structure of the quinohemoprotein alcohol dehydrogenase from Comamonas testosteroni has been determined at 1.44 Å resolution. It comprises two domains. The N-terminal domain has a β-propeller fold and binds one pyrroloquinoline quinone cofactor and one calcium ion in the active site. A tetrahydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid molecule is present in the substrate-binding cleft. The position of this oxidation product provides valuable information on the amino acid residues involved in the reaction mechanism and their function. The C-terminal domain is an α-helical type I cytochrome c with His608 and Met647 as heme-iron ligands. This is the first reported structure of an electron transfer system between a quinoprotein alcohol dehydrogenase and cytochrome c. The shortest distance between pyrroloquinoline quinone and heme c is 12.9 Å, one of the longest physiological edge-to-edge distances yet determined between two redox centers. A highly unusual disulfide bond between two adjacent cysteines bridges the redox centers. It appears essential for electron transfer. A water channel delineates a possible pathway for proton transfer from the active site to the solvent. Quinoprotein alcohol dehydrogenases are redox enzymes that participate in distinctive catabolic pathways that enable bacteria to grow on various alcohols as the sole source of carbon and energy. The x-ray structure of the quinohemoprotein alcohol dehydrogenase from Comamonas testosteroni has been determined at 1.44 Å resolution. It comprises two domains. The N-terminal domain has a β-propeller fold and binds one pyrroloquinoline quinone cofactor and one calcium ion in the active site. A tetrahydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid molecule is present in the substrate-binding cleft. The position of this oxidation product provides valuable information on the amino acid residues involved in the reaction mechanism and their function. The C-terminal domain is an α-helical type I cytochrome c with His608 and Met647 as heme-iron ligands. This is the first reported structure of an electron transfer system between a quinoprotein alcohol dehydrogenase and cytochrome c. The shortest distance between pyrroloquinoline quinone and heme c is 12.9 Å, one of the longest physiological edge-to-edge distances yet determined between two redox centers. A highly unusual disulfide bond between two adjacent cysteines bridges the redox centers. It appears essential for electron transfer. A water channel delineates a possible pathway for proton transfer from the active site to the solvent. pyrroloquinoline quinone alcohol dehydrogenase ethanol dehydrogenase methanol dehydrogenase pyrroloquinoline quinol quinohemoprotein alcohol dehydrogenase soluble glucose dehydrogenase tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol multiple-wavelength anomalous diffraction electron paramagnetic resonance Bacteria have versatile metabolic pathways that enable them to adapt to different environmental conditions. Many Gram-negative bacteria, for example, can grow on compounds as different as methylamine, ethanol, and glucose as their sole source of carbon and energy (1Matsumoto T. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1978; 522: 291-302Crossref PubMed Scopus (49) Google Scholar, 2Groen B.W. van Kleef M.A. Duine J.A. Biochem. J. 1986; 234: 611-615Crossref PubMed Scopus (99) Google Scholar, 3van Schie B.J. Rouwenhorst R.J. van Dijken J.P. Kuenen J.G. Antonie Leeuwenhoek. 1989; 55: 39-52Crossref PubMed Scopus (8) Google Scholar). The crucial, first step in the catabolism of such compounds is often an oxidation reaction catalyzed by a class of periplasmic enzymes called quinoproteins. Quinoproteins are oxidoreductases that possess one of four different quinone compounds instead of nicotinamide or flavin cofactors (4Salisbury S.A. Forrest H.S. Cruse W.B.T. Kennard O. Nature. 1979; 280: 843-844Crossref PubMed Scopus (372) Google Scholar, 5Janes S.M. Mu D. Wemmer D. Smith A.J. Kaur S. Maltby D. Burlingame A.L. Klinman J.P. Science. 1990; 248: 981-987Crossref PubMed Scopus (630) Google Scholar, 6McIntire W.S. Wemmer D.E. Chistoserdov A. Lidstrom M.E. Science. 1991; 252: 817-824Crossref PubMed Scopus (313) Google Scholar, 7Wang S.X. Mure M. Medzihradsky K.F. Burlingame A.L. Brown D.E. Dooley D.M. Smith A.J. Kagan H.M. Klinman J.P. Science. 1996; 273: 1078-1084Crossref PubMed Scopus (302) Google Scholar). They oxidize a wide variety of alcohol- and amine-containing substrates to the corresponding aldehydes or ketones. Proteins containing the pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ)1 cofactor form the best characterized and largest quinoprotein subclass (8Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1991; 200: 271-284Crossref PubMed Scopus (186) Google Scholar). Two different types of PQQ-containing alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) have been characterized. The first type includes quinoprotein ethanol dehydrogenases (EDHs) from several Pseudomonas species (9Groen B. Frank Jr., J. Duine J.A. Biochem. J. 1984; 223: 921-924Crossref PubMed Scopus (46) Google Scholar, 10Görisch H. Rupp M. Antonie Leeuwenhoek. 1989; 56: 35-45Crossref PubMed Scopus (23) Google Scholar, 11Toyama H. Fujii A. Matsushita K. Shinagawa E. Ameyama M. Adachi O. J. Bacteriol. 1995; 177: 2442-2450Crossref PubMed Google Scholar) and quinoprotein methanol dehydrogenases (MDHs) from methylotrophic bacteria (12Anthony C. Subcell. Biochem. 2000; 35: 73-117Crossref PubMed Google Scholar). The second type of PQQ-dependent ADHs is the quinohemoprotein alcohol dehydrogenases (QH-ADHs). In addition to PQQ, these latter enzymes contain a covalently bound heme c. Both soluble monomeric QH-ADHs (2Groen B.W. van Kleef M.A. Duine J.A. Biochem. J. 1986; 234: 611-615Crossref PubMed Scopus (99) Google Scholar, 11Toyama H. Fujii A. Matsushita K. Shinagawa E. Ameyama M. Adachi O. J. Bacteriol. 1995; 177: 2442-2450Crossref PubMed Google Scholar, 13Yasuda M. Cherepanov A. Duine J.A. FEMS Microb. Lett. 1996; 138: 23-28Crossref Google Scholar, 14Shimao M. Tamogami T. Nishi K. Harayama S. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 1996; 60: 1056-1062Crossref PubMed Scopus (37) Google Scholar, 15Vangnai A.S. Arp D.J. Microbiology. 2001; 147: 745-756Crossref PubMed Scopus (34) Google Scholar, 16Zarnt G. Schrader T. Andreesen J.R. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1997; 63: 4891-4898Crossref PubMed Google Scholar) and membrane-associated enzymes that consist of several subunits (17Adachi O. Tayama K. Shinagawa E. Matsushita K. Ameyama M. Agric. Biol. Chem. 1978; 42: 2045-2056Crossref Scopus (14) Google Scholar, 18Tayama K. Fukaya M. Okumura H. Kawamura Y. Beppu T. Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 1989; 32: 181-185Google Scholar, 19Matsushita K. Adachi O. Davidson V.L. Principles and Applications of Quinoproteins. Marcel Dekker, New York1993: 47-63Google Scholar) have been described. No three-dimensional structures of QH-ADHs are known. In contrast, several x-ray structures have been reported of type I quinoprotein ADHs (20Xia Z.X. Dai W.W. Xiong J.P. Hao Z.P. Davidson V.L. White S. Mathews F.S. J. Biol. Chem. 1992; 267: 22289-22297Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar, 21Blake C.C. Ghosh M. Harlos K. Avezoux A. Anthony C. Nat. Struct. Biol. 1994; 1: 102-105Crossref PubMed Scopus (89) Google Scholar, 22Ghosh M. Anthony C. Harlos K. Goodwin M.G. Blake C. Structure. 1995; 3: 177-187Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (191) Google Scholar, 23Xia Z. Dai W. Zhang Y. White S.A. Boyd G.D. Mathews F.S. J. Mol. Biol. 1996; 259: 480-501Crossref PubMed Scopus (135) Google Scholar, 24Keitel T. Diehl A. Knaute T. Stezowski J.J. Hohne W. Gorisch H. J. Mol. Biol. 2000; 297: 961-974Crossref PubMed Scopus (66) Google Scholar) and a soluble quinoprotein glucose dehydrogenase (sGDH) (25Oubrie A. Rozeboom H.J. Kalk K.H. Duine J.A. Dijkstra B.W. J. Mol. Biol. 1999; 289: 319-333Crossref PubMed Scopus (77) Google Scholar). sGDH-inhibitor (26Oubrie A. Rozeboom H.J. Dijkstra B.W. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1999; 96: 11787-11791Crossref PubMed Scopus (57) Google Scholar) and sGDH-substrate (27Oubrie A. Rozeboom H.J. Kalk K.H. Olsthoorn A.J.J. Duine J.A. Dijkstra B.W. EMBO J. 1999; 18: 5187-5194Crossref PubMed Scopus (135) Google Scholar) complexes have provided detailed insights into the dehydrogenation reaction. A recent MDH structure revealed the presence of a PQQ intermediate in the catalytic mechanism (28Zheng Y.J. Xia Z. Chen Z. Mathews F.S. Bruice T.C. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2001; 98: 432-434Crossref PubMed Scopus (72) Google Scholar). These data have clearly shown how sGDH and MDH react with their substrates and, although no information has so far been available to substantiate this hypothesis, it has been argued that the same mechanism operates in the other quinoprotein ADHs (29Oubrie A. Dijkstra B.W. Protein Sci. 2000; 9: 1265-1273Crossref PubMed Scopus (44) Google Scholar). In contrast, much less is known about how these enzymes catalyze the electron transfer reactions from reduced PQQ (PQQH2) to the natural electron acceptors. To obtain more information about these reactions, the QH-ADH fromComamonas testosteroni has been studied extensively (30Geerlof A. Rakels J.J. Straathof A.J. Heijnen J.J. Jongejan J.A. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1994; 226: 537-546Crossref PubMed Scopus (30) Google Scholar, 31de Jong G.A.H. Geerlof A. Stoorvogel J. Jongejan J.A. de Vries S. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1995; 230: 899-905Crossref PubMed Scopus (42) Google Scholar, 32de Jong G.A.H. Caldeira J. Sun J. Jongejan J.A. de Vries S. Loehr T.M. Moura I. Moura J.J. Duine J.A. Biochemistry. 1995; 34: 9451-9458Crossref PubMed Scopus (17) Google Scholar, 33Stoorvogel J. Kraayveld D.E. Van Sluis C.A. De Jongejan J.A. Vries S. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1996; 235: 690-698Crossref PubMed Scopus (25) Google Scholar). This enzyme consists of two distinct functional domains. The N-terminal domain binds PQQ and calcium in the active site and is homologous to the PQQ-binding domains of all quinoprotein ADHs. The C-terminal domain has a covalently attached heme c and is similar to some cytochrome c proteins (33Stoorvogel J. Kraayveld D.E. Van Sluis C.A. De Jongejan J.A. Vries S. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1996; 235: 690-698Crossref PubMed Scopus (25) Google Scholar). QH-ADH oxidizes primary alcohols and aldehydes in the PQQ-binding domain (31de Jong G.A.H. Geerlof A. Stoorvogel J. Jongejan J.A. de Vries S. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1995; 230: 899-905Crossref PubMed Scopus (42) Google Scholar). Subsequently, protons and electrons are removed from PQQH2. The protons are released into the periplasm, thus contributing to the proton-motive force. The electrons are transferred one by one to the heme c in the C-terminal domain (30Geerlof A. Rakels J.J. Straathof A.J. Heijnen J.J. Jongejan J.A. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1994; 226: 537-546Crossref PubMed Scopus (30) Google Scholar, 32de Jong G.A.H. Caldeira J. Sun J. Jongejan J.A. de Vries S. Loehr T.M. Moura I. Moura J.J. Duine J.A. Biochemistry. 1995; 34: 9451-9458Crossref PubMed Scopus (17) Google Scholar); from there they are carried by the blue copper protein azurin to a terminal cytochrome oxidase (34Matsushita K. Yamashita T. Aoki N. Toyama H. Adachi O. Biochemistry. 1999; 38: 6111-6118Crossref PubMed Scopus (30) Google Scholar). Alcohol oxidation is thus efficiently coupled to the generation of an electrochemical gradient, which in turn drives ATP synthesis. Further advances in understanding the mechanisms of proton and electron transfer in QH-ADH, and in PQQ-dependent proteins in general, have awaited the determination of the three-dimensional structure of QH-ADH. QH-ADH was purified fromC. testosteroni cells grown on ethanol (31de Jong G.A.H. Geerlof A. Stoorvogel J. Jongejan J.A. de Vries S. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1995; 230: 899-905Crossref PubMed Scopus (42) Google Scholar). The enzyme was crystallized using polyethylene glycol 6000 as the precipitant (35Oubrie A. Huizinga E.G. Rozeboom H.J. De Kalk K.H. Jong G.A.H. Duine J.A. Dijkstra B.W. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. D Biol. Crystallogr. 2001; 57: 1732-1734Crossref PubMed Scopus (3) Google Scholar). A complete data set was collected to 1.44 Å resolution at beam line X11 at the EMBL outstation in Hamburg, Germany and then processed and reduced with the DENZO/SCALEPACK package (36Otwinowski Z. Minor W. Methods Enzymol. 1997; 276: 307-326Crossref Scopus (38253) Google Scholar) (TableI).Table IData collection and refinement statisticsData collection Data setNativeFe-Pb λ1Fe-Pb λ2Fe-Pb λ3 Wavelength (Å)0.90761.740260.950000.94500 Resolution (Å)1.443.02.42.4 Completeness (%)1-aHighest resolution shell in parentheses.96.2 (87.7)99.7 (98.8)95.8 (47.8)98.2 (67.7) Redundancy2.21.91.81.9 Rsym (I) (%)1-aHighest resolution shell in parentheses.1-bRsym (I) = 100 × ΣhklΣi‖Ii(hkl) − 〈I(hkl)〉‖/ΣhklΣiIi(hkl).5.7 (34.0)4.6 (11.1)3.5 (13.0)5.1 (26.9) Data with I > 3ς(I) (%)1-aHighest resolution shell in parentheses.71.2 (33.6)92.0 (73.9)82.8 (77.6)81.3 (51.2)RefinementModel Resolution limits (Å)50–1.44 Number of Atoms6297 Rcryst(%)1-cR-factor = 100 × Σhkl‖Fobs − Fcalc‖/ΣhklFobs where Rfree is calculated for a randomly chosen 5% of the reflections omitted from refinement, andRcryst is calculated for the remaining 95% of the reflections included in the refinement.16.0 Protein + cofactors5242 Rfree(%)1-cR-factor = 100 × Σhkl‖Fobs − Fcalc‖/ΣhklFobs where Rfree is calculated for a randomly chosen 5% of the reflections omitted from refinement, andRcryst is calculated for the remaining 95% of the reflections included in the refinement.18.8 Solvent1055 Number of reflections111,086RMS deviations Working set105,415from ideal geometry Test set5671 Lengths (Å)0.005 Angles (°)2.01-a Highest resolution shell in parentheses.1-b Rsym (I) = 100 × ΣhklΣi‖Ii(hkl) − 〈I(hkl)〉‖/ΣhklΣiIi(hkl).1-c R-factor = 100 × Σhkl‖Fobs − Fcalc‖/ΣhklFobs where Rfree is calculated for a randomly chosen 5% of the reflections omitted from refinement, andRcryst is calculated for the remaining 95% of the reflections included in the refinement. Open table in a new tab The orientation and position of the PQQ domain were determined by molecular replacement using the program EPMR (37Kissinger C.R. Gehlhaar D.K. Fogel D.B. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. D Biol. Crystallogr. 1999; 55: 484-491Crossref PubMed Scopus (688) Google Scholar) with the PQQ-dependent EDH from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (38% sequence identity to QH-ADH in 567 amino acids, Rutgers Protein Data Bank accession code 1FLG, Ref. 24Keitel T. Diehl A. Knaute T. Stezowski J.J. Hohne W. Gorisch H. J. Mol. Biol. 2000; 297: 961-974Crossref PubMed Scopus (66) Google Scholar) as the search model. The six best solutions were very similar, having a correlation coefficient of 26.7% and an R-factor of 54.7%. The model was improved by rigid body refinement and several cycles of manual rebuilding using the program O (39Jones T.A. Zou J.-Y. Cowan S.W. Kjeldgaard M. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. A. 1991; 47: 110-119Crossref PubMed Scopus (12999) Google Scholar) and refinement using the simulated annealing protocol from CNS (40Brunger A.T. Adams P.D. Clore G.M. DeLano W.L. Gros P. Grosse-Kunstleve R.W. Jiang J.S. Kuszewski J. Niles M. Pannu N.S. Read R.J. Rice L.M. Simonson T. Warren G.L. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. D Biol. Crystallogr. 1998; 54: 905-921Crossref PubMed Scopus (16919) Google Scholar). For refinement, 5% of all reflections were set aside for the calculation ofRfree (41Brünger A.T. Nature. 1992; 355: 472-475Crossref PubMed Scopus (3839) Google Scholar). At this point it was impossible to recognize features in the electron density that could account for the presence of the heme cdomain. Moreover, exhaustive rotational searches using numerous cytochrome c models were unsuccessful. Therefore, alternative methods were used to determine the structure of the cytochrome domain. First, a multiple-wavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) data set was collected at beam line BM14 at the ESRF in Grenoble, France (Table I). These data were processed and reduced with DENZO/SCALEPACK (36Otwinowski Z. Minor W. Methods Enzymol. 1997; 276: 307-326Crossref Scopus (38253) Google Scholar). Although the MAD data did not yield good phases, anomalous and dispersive Patterson maps calculated with programs from the CCP4 suite (42Collaborative Computational Project Number 4Acta Crystallogr. Sect. D Biol. Crystallogr. 1994; 50: 760-763Crossref PubMed Scopus (19668) Google Scholar) showed intense peaks and clearly identified the position of iron, and thereby that of heme c, in the unit cell. Secondly, QH-ADH crystals have special optical properties. When viewed under plane-polarized light, their intense orange color caused by the presence of the heme group disappears completely. This property was used to show that the heme rings in the crystals are oriented within 10° of the c axis and parallel to the crystallographic b axis (35Oubrie A. Huizinga E.G. Rozeboom H.J. De Kalk K.H. Jong G.A.H. Duine J.A. Dijkstra B.W. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. D Biol. Crystallogr. 2001; 57: 1732-1734Crossref PubMed Scopus (3) Google Scholar). With this information, a heme group could be positioned correctly in the electron density. After many rounds of alternated model building and refinement using various protocols from CNS (40Brunger A.T. Adams P.D. Clore G.M. DeLano W.L. Gros P. Grosse-Kunstleve R.W. Jiang J.S. Kuszewski J. Niles M. Pannu N.S. Read R.J. Rice L.M. Simonson T. Warren G.L. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. D Biol. Crystallogr. 1998; 54: 905-921Crossref PubMed Scopus (16919) Google Scholar), the electron density maps improved considerably and the auto-building routine of the ARP-WARP package (43Perrakis A. Morris R. Lamzin V.S. Nat. Struct. Biol. 1999; 6: 458-463Crossref PubMed Scopus (2561) Google Scholar) was used to trace the model. Further refinement resulted in a final model consisting of one QH-ADH monomer (residues 1–675), one calcium ion, one PQQ and one heme c cofactor, 1029 water molecules, and three glycerol molecules. Three residues (Asn181, Gly182, and Gly566) are different from the published amino acid sequence (33Stoorvogel J. Kraayveld D.E. Van Sluis C.A. De Jongejan J.A. Vries S. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1996; 235: 690-698Crossref PubMed Scopus (25) Google Scholar), and Trp512 has been modified to contain a hydroxyl group attached to its CD1 atom. A large fragment of electron density, present in the active site, has been modeled as tetrahydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid. Coordinates and structure factors have been deposited with the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (38Berman H.M. Westbrook J. Feng Z. Gilliland G. Bhat T.N. Weissig H. Shindyalov I.N. Bourne P.E. Nucleic Acids Res. 2000; 28: 235-242Crossref PubMed Scopus (26227) Google Scholar) (PDB accession code 1KB0). The three-dimensional structure of QH-ADH (677 residues) consists of two distinct domains connected by a long linker (residues 567–590), which spans the whole length of the protein (Fig. 1). The respective orientation of the two domains is completely different from that published in a rudimentary homology model (44Jongejan A. Jongejan J.A. Duine J.A. Protein Eng. 1998; 11: 185-198Crossref PubMed Scopus (17) Google Scholar). The cytochrome domain is located on top of the dehydrogenase. The edge-to-edge distance and the angle between PQQ and heme c are 12.9 Å and 74°, respectively. The surface area buried between the two domains, as calculated with the program Surface (42Collaborative Computational Project Number 4Acta Crystallogr. Sect. D Biol. Crystallogr. 1994; 50: 760-763Crossref PubMed Scopus (19668) Google Scholar), is 1028 Å2 on each domain. Direct interdomain contacts (ignoring the connecting loop) involve residues 66–67, 109–110, 113, 118, 430–437, 440, 446, 541, and 546–550 from the dehydrogenase and residues 598, 601–607, 609, 614–619, 643–646, 648, and 653 from cytochrome c. Most of these interactions are hydrophobic. In addition, 16 direct and several solvent-mediated hydrogen bonds stabilize the respective orientation of the domains. Two different channels can be identified in the structure: one leads from the solvent to the PQQ-binding site, whereas the other contains a chain of hydrogen-bonded water molecules that connects the bulk solvent to a cavity between the two domains. The N-terminal domain (residues 1–566) has a β-propeller fold (Fig. 1) and is very similar to the PQQ-binding domains of MDH (21Blake C.C. Ghosh M. Harlos K. Avezoux A. Anthony C. Nat. Struct. Biol. 1994; 1: 102-105Crossref PubMed Scopus (89) Google Scholar, 22Ghosh M. Anthony C. Harlos K. Goodwin M.G. Blake C. Structure. 1995; 3: 177-187Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (191) Google Scholar, 23Xia Z. Dai W. Zhang Y. White S.A. Boyd G.D. Mathews F.S. J. Mol. Biol. 1996; 259: 480-501Crossref PubMed Scopus (135) Google Scholar) and EDH (24Keitel T. Diehl A. Knaute T. Stezowski J.J. Hohne W. Gorisch H. J. Mol. Biol. 2000; 297: 961-974Crossref PubMed Scopus (66) Google Scholar). The core of the structure is formed by eight four-stranded β-sheets arranged in a radial manner. Six of the eight β-sheets contain one copy of a conserved sequence called the tryptophan-docking motif. The conserved residues cause a tryptophan residue to be buried in a hydrophobic pocket and to stack onto the peptide bond of a glycine residue located on a neighboring β-sheet. The tryptophan-docking motif probably stabilizes the β-propeller fold. It has been described in more detail for MDH (22Ghosh M. Anthony C. Harlos K. Goodwin M.G. Blake C. Structure. 1995; 3: 177-187Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (191) Google Scholar, 23Xia Z. Dai W. Zhang Y. White S.A. Boyd G.D. Mathews F.S. J. Mol. Biol. 1996; 259: 480-501Crossref PubMed Scopus (135) Google Scholar) and EDH (24Keitel T. Diehl A. Knaute T. Stezowski J.J. Hohne W. Gorisch H. J. Mol. Biol. 2000; 297: 961-974Crossref PubMed Scopus (66) Google Scholar). PQQ is located near the top of the β-propeller in a hydrophobic cavity that is accessible through a deep and narrow channel. Because PQQ and its orthoquinone moiety in particular are essentially planar, the cofactor is presumably in the aromatic PQQH2 form. PQQH2 was also shown to be planar in a sGDH-PQQH2-glucose complex (27Oubrie A. Rozeboom H.J. Kalk K.H. Olsthoorn A.J.J. Duine J.A. Dijkstra B.W. EMBO J. 1999; 18: 5187-5194Crossref PubMed Scopus (135) Google Scholar), whereas oxidized PQQ had a tilted geometry in a high-resolution structure of sGDH (26Oubrie A. Rozeboom H.J. Dijkstra B.W. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1999; 96: 11787-11791Crossref PubMed Scopus (57) Google Scholar). PQQH2 has in-plane hydrogen-bonding interactions with the side chains of Glu70, Arg122, Thr167, Asn263, Asp308, Lys335, Asn394, and Trp395, and the carbonyl oxygen atoms of Ala183, Ala184, and Val544 (Fig. 2A). In addition, it ligates the active site calcium with its O5, N6, and O7A atoms in an identical fashion to all other PQQ-dependent proteins of known structure. One side of the tricyclic ring system of PQQ stacks on the side chain of Trp245, and the other side interacts with a disulfide bond. This bond is made between the strictly conserved, adjacent cysteines 116 and 117 (Fig. 2A). The formation of this vicinal disulfide bond creates an eight-membered ring structure and forces the peptide bond in a nonplanar trans configuration. A disulfide bridge between adjacent residues is extremely rare, which suggests that it has an important biological function. The C-terminal domain (residues 591–677) classifies as a type I cytochrome c. The structure is comprised of five α-helical segments that enclose thec-type heme (Fig. 1), which is covalently attached to Cys604 and Cys607 (Fig. 2B). The heme-iron is coordinated by His608 and Met647, and it is in a low-spin hexa-coordinated state, as was shown previously by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and resonance Raman spectroscopy (31de Jong G.A.H. Geerlof A. Stoorvogel J. Jongejan J.A. de Vries S. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1995; 230: 899-905Crossref PubMed Scopus (42) Google Scholar, 32de Jong G.A.H. Caldeira J. Sun J. Jongejan J.A. de Vries S. Loehr T.M. Moura I. Moura J.J. Duine J.A. Biochemistry. 1995; 34: 9451-9458Crossref PubMed Scopus (17) Google Scholar). Two of the methyl groups (CMA and CMB) of the heme are surrounded by hydrophobic residues (Cys604, Leu622, Met625, Ile630, Leu633, Tyr629, Phe636, Val637, Leu662, and Ile666; Fig.2B), as was suggested by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (32de Jong G.A.H. Caldeira J. Sun J. Jongejan J.A. de Vries S. Loehr T.M. Moura I. Moura J.J. Duine J.A. Biochemistry. 1995; 34: 9451-9458Crossref PubMed Scopus (17) Google Scholar). The other two methyl groups (CMC and CMD) are in a more hydrophilic environment (not shown). The pyrrole ring to which either CMC or CMD is attached experiences an increase in spin density upon addition of PQQ to PQQ-deficient protein. This could be caused by a rotation of the axial heme-iron ligand Met647 around its Cγ-Sδ bond (32de Jong G.A.H. Caldeira J. Sun J. Jongejan J.A. de Vries S. Loehr T.M. Moura I. Moura J.J. Duine J.A. Biochemistry. 1995; 34: 9451-9458Crossref PubMed Scopus (17) Google Scholar), but unfortunately the three-dimensional structure does not provide clues about this. The substrate-binding site is located near PQQ in a hydrophobic cavity. This cavity is much larger than that of MDH and EDH and accounts for the relatively broad substrate specificity of QH-ADH. It contains a ring-shaped electron density, which has been interpreted as tetrahydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid (Fig. 3). The presence of this compound in the active site may result from the oxidation of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA) by QH-ADH. The conversions of THFA to tetrahydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid by the 61% identical, THFA-oxidizing QH-ADH from Ralstonia eutropha (16Zarnt G. Schrader T. Andreesen J.R. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1997; 63: 4891-4898Crossref PubMed Google Scholar, 45Zarnt G. Schrader T. Andreesen J.R. J. Bacteriol. 2001; 183: 1954-1960Crossref PubMed Scopus (15) Google Scholar) and of bulky primary alcohols to the corresponding acids by the Comamonas enzyme (31de Jong G.A.H. Geerlof A. Stoorvogel J. Jongejan J.A. de Vries S. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1995; 230: 899-905Crossref PubMed Scopus (42) Google Scholar) have been described. Except for Tyr390, which is replaced by a Phe, all residues that interact with tetrahydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid are identical between the R. eutropha and C. testosteroni QH-ADHs, making it likely that the C. testosteroni enzyme can also degrade THFA. THFA is frequently used as an organic solvent in industry, and therefore it may have contaminated solutions for protein production, purification, and/or crystallization. Tetrahydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid is tightly bound: the tetrahydrofuran ring makes van der Waals contacts with the hydrophobic wall of the cavity formed by residues Trp267, Pro389, Tyr390, Trp440, Phe446, Val544, and Phe606 (Fig.3). The carboxylic acid O2A atom is hydrogen-bonded to Asp308 (OD2 atom at 2.3 Å) and Glu185 (OE1 at 3.0 Å), whereas the O2B atom is bound to Glu185 (OE1 at 2.5 Å), Cys116 (SG at 3.0 Å), and Cys117 (SG at 2.9 Å). Because these interactions include direct contacts between several carboxylate groups, at least one of them should be in the carboxylic acid form. Unfortunately, this is not resolved in the present x-ray structure. As the product of two subsequent oxidation reactions catalyzed by QH-ADH, tetrahydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid is the first catalytically relevant molecule to be bound in the active site of a Q-ADH. It therefore provides valuable information about the amino acid residues involved in the oxidation reactions of this class of enzymes and their catalytic function, as will be discussed in the next section. The mechanism of alcohol oxidation has been extensively studied for MDH and sGDH (glucose is a secondary alcohol). These enzymes oxidize their substrates according to a mechanism involving base-catalyzed proton abstraction in concert with direct hydride transfer from the substrate to the C5 atom of PQQ and subsequent tautomerization of the PQQ intermediate to PQQH2 (Fig.4A). The C5 atom is susceptible to nucleophilic addition because of polarization of the C5–O5 bond by calcium (27Oubrie A. Rozeboom H.J. Kalk K.H. Olsthoorn A.J.J. Duine J.A. Dijkstra B.W. EMBO J. 1999; 18: 5187-5194Crossref PubMed Scopus (135) Google Scholar, 28Zheng Y.J. Xia Z. Chen Z. Mathews F.S. Bruice T.C. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2001; 98: 432-434Crossref PubMed Scopus (72) Google Scholar, 29Oubrie A. Dijkstra B.W. Protein Sci. 2000; 9: 1265-1273Crossref PubMed Scopus (44) Google Scholar, 46Dewanti A.R. Duine J.A. Biochemistry. 2000; 39: 9384-9392Crossref PubMed Scopus (37) Google Scholar). Because the catalytic machinery of MDH is strictly conserved in QH-ADH, the mechanisms of alcohol oxidation are most likely identical for both enzymes. In QH-ADH, the side chains of Glu185 and Asp308 ligate the oxygen atoms of tetrahydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid (Fig. 3). Because both amino acid residues are conserved, either one of them could, in principle, act as the general base to catalyze proton abstraction. However, the hydrogen bond between tetrahydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid and Asp308 is shorter (2.3 Å) than that between the acid and Glu185 (3.0 Å), and in MDH the equivalent of Asp308, not of Glu185, is hydrogen-bonded to the only active site water molecule (28Zheng Y.J. Xia Z. Chen Z. Mathews F.S. Bruice T.C. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2001; 98: 432-434Crossref PubMed Scopus (72) Google Scholar). Moreover, Asp308 is in a similar position to His144, the catalytic base in the sGDH (27Oubrie A. Rozeboom H.J. Kalk K.H. Olsthoorn A.J.J. Duine J.A. Dijkstra B.W. EMBO J. 1999; 18: 5187-5194Crossref PubMed Scopus (135) Google Scholar). These observations suggest the conserved Asp308functions as the catalytic base in the oxidation reactions. The mechanism of aldehyde oxidation is different from alcohol oxidation because the conversion of an aldehyde into an acid requires the addition of a hydroxyl group. Under the assumption that the same catalytic machinery is used for such a reaction, the following mechanism for the oxidation of aldehydes by QH-ADH may be proposed on the basis of the binding of tetrahydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid in the active site (Fig. 4B): Asp308 is hydrogen-bonded to a water molecule and the aldehyde substrate is bound with its oxygen atom to the OE1 atom of Glu185 and the SG atoms of Cys116 and Cys117. Asp308 abstracts a proton from the hydrogen-bonded water, and the resultant hydroxyl ion performs a nucleophilic attack on the aldehyde C1 atom to yield the corresponding acid. This occurs in concert with hydride transfer from the aldehyde C1 to the PQQ C5 atom. This mechanism involves a shift in binding position for aldehydes (oxygen atom is bound to Glu185), compared with alcohols (oxygen atom close to Asp308). Kinetic evidence is available to substantiate the existence of such an alternative binding site (30Geerlof A. Rakels J.J. Straathof A.J. Heijnen J.J. Jongejan J.A. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1994; 226: 537-546Crossref PubMed Scopus (30) Google Scholar). Because heme c is a one-electron acceptor, the two electrons from PQQH2 must be transferred in two separate steps. The PQQ intermediate between these steps is the free-radical PQQH, which was identified by EPR spectroscopy (31de Jong G.A.H. Geerlof A. Stoorvogel J. Jongejan J.A. de Vries S. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1995; 230: 899-905Crossref PubMed Scopus (42) Google Scholar). The redox centers and the intervening protein medium in QH-ADH are shown in Fig.5. The shortest distance between PQQ and heme c is 12.9 Å. The conserved disulfide bond between Cys116 and Cys117 is positioned right between PQQ and heme c. Asp118 and Arg67 are also located between the cofactors. Asp118 is conserved in all PQQ-dependent ADHs, including MDHs, whereas Arg67 is present in all ADHs with the exception of some MDHs (not shown). Other residues located in the vicinity of the redox sites but not involved in cofactor binding are much less conserved. In addition, several water molecules are located in the interface between the redox centers. The electron transfer rate in biological systems is strongly related to the edge-to-edge distance between the redox centers involved (47Moser C.C. Keske J.M. Warncke K. Farid R.S. Dutton P.L. Nature. 1992; 355: 796-802Crossref PubMed Scopus (1605) Google Scholar). Electrons can travel up to about 14 Å between two redox centers through the protein medium, but transfer over longer distances always involves additional redox sites (48Page C.C. Moser C.C. Chen X. Dutton P.L. Nature. 1999; 402: 47-52Crossref PubMed Scopus (1473) Google Scholar). The 12.9 Å distance between PQQ and heme c is thus one of the longest between functional redox centers determined so far and close to the maximum travel distance of electrons. Using this distance and a calculated value of 0.63 for the atomic density between the two cofactors, a maximum electron transfer rate of 1.0 × 105 s−1could be predicted (48Page C.C. Moser C.C. Chen X. Dutton P.L. Nature. 1999; 402: 47-52Crossref PubMed Scopus (1473) Google Scholar) with the program Harlem (49Kurnikov I.V. Harlem Computer Program. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh2000Google Scholar). This value is much higher than that of substrate oxidation (kcat = 17 s−1), consistent with kinetic data showing that the influence of electron transfer on the kinetic mechanism of QH-ADH is negligible (30Geerlof A. Rakels J.J. Straathof A.J. Heijnen J.J. Jongejan J.A. Duine J.A. Eur. J. Biochem. 1994; 226: 537-546Crossref PubMed Scopus (30) Google Scholar). The intervening protein medium is another important parameter for electron transfer. For PQQ-dependent ADHs, this is stressed by the fact that reduction of the disulfide bond between the active site cysteines in MDH completely abolished electron transfer from MDH to cytochrome cL (21Blake C.C. Ghosh M. Harlos K. Avezoux A. Anthony C. Nat. Struct. Biol. 1994; 1: 102-105Crossref PubMed Scopus (89) Google Scholar). The intervening medium may have several different functions in QH-ADH. Given the large separation between PQQ and heme c, close to the maximum distance electrons may travel, one function of the medium may be to reduce that distance by providing an additional redox center. In principle, the disulfide bond between cysteines 116 and 117 could act as such by accepting two electrons and two protons. A disulfide bond involved in redox reactions is indeed located close to an iron-sulfur cofactor in the ferredoxin:thioredoxin reductase system (50Dai S. Schwendtmayer C. Schurmann P. Ramaswamy S. Eklund H. Science. 2000; 287: 655-658Crossref PubMed Scopus (167) Google Scholar). However, biochemical experiments indicate that the disulfide bond of quinoprotein MDH is not reduced during the redox cycle (51Avezoux A. Goodwin M.G. Anthony C. Biochem. J. 1995; 307: 735-741Crossref PubMed Scopus (41) Google Scholar), indicating that it does not function as a redox center in PQQ-dependent enzymes. Alternatively, the active site disulfide bridge may ensure conformational rigidity of the loop between PQQ and heme c. This rigidity may be required to maintain the level of nuclear density, which is 0.63 and below the average value of 0.76 (48Page C.C. Moser C.C. Chen X. Dutton P.L. Nature. 1999; 402: 47-52Crossref PubMed Scopus (1473) Google Scholar). Substitution of (one of) the cysteines by other amino acids would thus lead to increased flexibility and possibly to a significantly lower nuclear density, which in turn would have a negative effect on the electron transfer rates. As a third function, the protein medium could be directly involved in the conduction of electrons. In this case, electron transfer would proceed through specific pathway tubes that may or may not be dynamically controlled (52Balabin I.A. Onuchic J.N. Science. 2000; 290: 114-117Crossref PubMed Scopus (245) Google Scholar). The pathways involve covalent bonds, hydrogen bonds, and through-space jumps (53Beratan D.N. Onuchic J.N. Winkler J.R. Gray H.B. Science. 1992; 258: 1740-1741Crossref PubMed Scopus (487) Google Scholar). Optimal electron transfer pathways calculated with Harlem (49Kurnikov I.V. Harlem Computer Program. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh2000Google Scholar) involve atoms of PQQH2, Cys116, Cys117, a water molecule, Cys607, and heme c (Fig.5A). A second, longer and therefore possibly less efficient, pathway could include PQQH2, Cys117, Asp118, Arg67, and heme c. In conclusion, it appears that the disulfide bond between Cys116 and Cys117, and possibly the side chains of Asp118 and Arg67, are essential for efficient electron transfer from PQQH2 to hemec, whatever their precise function may be. Proton pathways usually consist of hydrogen-bonded networks of proton donor and acceptor groups, either water molecules or amino acid side chains (54Iwata S. Ostermeier C. Ludwig B. Michel H. Nature. 1995; 376: 660-669Crossref PubMed Scopus (1964) Google Scholar, 55Stowell M.H. McPhillips T.M. Rees D.C. Soltis S.M. Abresch E. Feher G. Science. 1997; 276: 812-816Crossref PubMed Scopus (715) Google Scholar). Such a network extends from the hydroxyl groups of PQQH2 to the solvent via Lys335, Asp308, Glu185, a water-filled chamber between the two domains, and Arg67(Fig. 5B). It is disrupted only once by a distance of 4.7 Å between two water molecules. We propose this network as a channel for proton transfer to the solvent, i.e. the periplasm. The physiological electron acceptors of PQQ-dependent ADHs are cytochrome cproteins. The redox centers involved in the electron transfer reactions are thus the same. All quinoprotein ADHs including MDH are homologous to QH-ADH, and especially the bridging protein material between the two redox centers is highly conserved. Moreover, the distance between the two cofactors in the complex of MDH and cytochrome cL was estimated to be 15 Å (56Harris T.K. Davidson V.L. Biochemistry. 1993; 32: 14145-14150Crossref PubMed Scopus (40) Google Scholar), close to the value observed in QH-ADH. Also, the residues proposed to be involved in proton transfer are conserved. Therefore, the mechanisms of electron and proton transfer may well be identical in all PQQ-dependent ADHs. In conclusion, the structure of QH-ADH is the first of the type II quinoprotein ADHs. It reveals the presence of tetrahydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid in the active site, and the position of this oxidation product provides valuable information on the amino acid residues involved in the reaction mechanism. Furthermore, the structure shows that electron transfer from PQQH2 to hemec is a long-range reaction, for which the presence of a disulfide bond between two adjacent cysteines appears essential. A water channel delineates a possible pathway for proton transfer from PQQH2 to the solvent. We thank the staff of the EMBL outstation at DESY, Hamburg, and of beam line BM 14 at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, for assistance, the ESRF for support of the work there, and the European Union for support of the work at the EMBL outstation through the HCMP Access to Large Installations Project, Contract Number CHGE-CT-93-0049. We thank Dieter Jendrossek for the strain of C. testosteroni and Arjan Snijder and Simon de Vries for stimulating discussions." @default.
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