title: Characterization of vanadium bromoperoxidase from Macrocystis and Fucus: reactivity of vanadium bromoperoxidase toward acyl and alkyl peroxides and bromination of amines.
abstract: Vanadium bromoperoxidase (V-BrPO) has been isolated and purified from the marine brown algae Fucus distichus and Macrocystis pyrifera. V-BrPO catalyzes the oxidation of bromide by hydrogen peroxide, resulting in the bromination of certain organic acceptors or the formation of dioxygen. V-BrPO from F. distichus and M. pyrifera have subunit molecular weights of 65,000 and 74,000, respectively, and specific activities of 1580 units/mg (pH 6.5) and 1730 units/mg (pH 6) for the bromination of monochlorodimedone, respectively. As isolated, the enzymes contain a substoichiometric vanadium/subunit ratio; the vanadium content and specific activity are increased by addition of vanadate. V-BrPO (F. distichus, M. pyrifera, and Ascophyllum nodosum) also catalyzes the oxidation of bromide using peracetic acid. In the absence of an organic acceptor, a mixture of oxidized bromine species (e.g., hypobromous acid, bromine, and tribromide) is formed. Bromamine derivatives are formed from the corresponding amines, while 5-bromocytosine is formed from cytosine. In all cases, the rate of the V-BrPO-catalyzed reaction is much faster than that of the uncatalyzed oxidation of bromide by peracetic acid, at pH 8.5, 1 mM bromide, and 2 mM peracetic acid. In contrast to hydrogen peroxide, V-BrPO does not catalyze formation of dioxygen from peracetic acid in either the presence or absence of bromide. V-BrPO also uses phenylperacetic acid, m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid, and p-nitroperoxybenzoic acid to catalyze the oxidation of bromide; dioxygen is not formed with these peracids. V-BrPO does not catalyze bromide oxidation or dioxygen formation with the alkyl peroxides ethyl hydroperoxide, tert-butyl hydroperoxide, and cuminyl hydroperoxide.
authors: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106.
authors: H S
authors: HS
authors: Soedjak
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Butler
mesh_terms: D000588:Amines / Q000378:metabolism*; D001593:Benzyl Compounds; D001966:Bromine / Q000378:metabolism*; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D010544:Peroxidases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D010545:Peroxides / Q000378:metabolism*; D000459:Phaeophyceae / Q000201:enzymology*; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D014639:Vanadium / Q000378:metabolism; D020122:tert-Butylhydroperoxide
chemical_list: D000588:Amines; D001593:Benzyl Compounds; D010545:Peroxides; D014639:Vanadium; C025577:ethyl hydroperoxide; C066702:cuminyl hydroperoxide; D020122:tert-Butylhydroperoxide; D010544:Peroxidases; C026195:bromide peroxidase; D010100:Oxygen; D001966:Bromine