Kinetic Analysis of Cysteine Desulfurase CD0387 from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: Formation of the Persulfide Intermediate

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• 作者：Elham Behshad ; J. Martin Bollinger ; Jr.
• 刊名：Biochemistry
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：December 22, 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：48
• 期：50
• 页码：12014-12023
• 全文大小：996K
• 年卷期：v.48,no.50(December 22, 2009)
• ISSN：1520-4995

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Stopped-flow absorption and isotope effect experiments have been used to dissect the mechanism of formation of the enzyme cysteinyl persulfide intermediate in the reaction of a cysteine desulfurase (CD), CD0387 from Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. Seven accumulating intermediates have been identified and tentatively mapped onto the CD chemical mechanism originally proposed by Dean, White, and co-workers [Zheng, L., White, R. H., Cash, V. L., and Dean, D. R. (1994) Biochemistry 33, 4714−4720]. The first intermediate with λ_max 350 nm is assigned as either a gem-diamine complex or a thiol adduct formed by nucleophilic attack of either the amine group or the sulfhydryl group of the substrate on the internal aldimine form of the pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP) cofactor. The second intermediate, with absorption features at 417 and 340 nm, is assigned as Cys aldimine and Cys ketimine forms in rapid equilibrium. In agreement with this assignment, a significant substrate α-deuterium equilibrium isotope effect (²H-EIE) favoring the aldimine form (417 nm) is observed in the second state produced in either wild-type CD0387 or the inactive C326A variant protein, which lacks the nucleophilic cysteine residue and is thus unable to proceed beyond this state unless “rescued” by a high concentration of an exogenous thiol. The third intermediate has an additional 506 nm feature, characteristic of a quinonoid form, along with the features of the previous state. Its assignment as Ala aldimine, quinonoid, and ketimine forms in rapid equilibrium, which associates its formation with C−S bond cleavage and persulfide formation, is supported by its failure to develop in the C326A variant and the normal kinetic isotope effect (²H-KIE) on its formation, which is similar in magnitude to the ²H-EIE disfavoring Cys-ketimine (from which the third state forms) in the second state. Decay of the Ala quinonoid absorption is tentatively attributed to a conformational change by the enzyme that disfavors this form in its equilibrium with Ala aldimine and Ala ketimine. Subsequent decay of the ketimine absorption (340 nm) is attributed to release of Ala from the cofactor with an observed rate constant of 10 s⁻¹, the slowest step in the persulfide-forming half-reaction. The enzyme−persulfide·Ala complex dissociates rapidly with a K_d of 98 mM. The final state with λ_max 350 nm is assigned as a dead-end complex between the enzyme−persulfide and a second l-cysteine, which adds to the cofactor via its sulfhydryl group, possibly forming a cyclic thiazolidine species.