title: Higher oxidation states of prostaglandin H synthase. EPR study of a transient tyrosyl radical in the enzyme during the peroxidase reaction.
abstract: Purified prostaglandin H synthase (EC 1.14.99.1), reconstituted with hemin, was reacted with substrates of the cyclooxygenase and peroxidase reaction. The resulting EPR spectra were measured below 90 K. Arachidonic acid, added under anaerobic conditions, did not change the EPR spectrum of the native enzyme due to high-spin ferric heme. Arachidonic acid with O2, as well as prostaglandin G2 or H2O2, decreased the spectrum of the native enzyme and concomitantly a doublet signal at g = 2.005 was formed with maximal intensity of 0.35 spins/enzyme and a half-life of less than 20 s at -12 degrees C. From the conditions for the formation and the effect of inhibitors, this doublet signal was assigned to an enzyme intermediate of the peroxidase reaction, namely a higher oxidation state. The doublet signal with characteristic hyperfine structure was nearly identical to the signal of the tyrosyl radical in ribonucleotide reductase (EC 1.17.4.1). Hence the signal of prostaglandin H synthase was assigned to a tyrosyl radical. Electronic spectra as well as decreased power saturation of the tyrosyl radical signal indicated heme in its ferryl state which coupled to the tyrosyl radical weakly. [FeIVO(protoporphyrin IX)]...Tyr+. was suggested as the structure of this two-electron oxidized state of the enzyme. A hypothetical role for the tyrosyl radical could be the abstraction of a hydrogen at C-13 of arachidonic acid which is assumed to be the initial step of the cyclooxygenase reaction.
authors.affiliation: Physiologische Chemie, Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg/Saar, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Karthein
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dietz
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Nastainczyk
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Ruf
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D001095:Arachidonic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D004578:Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy; D005609:Free Radicals; D008872:Microwaves; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D011451:Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthases / Q000378:metabolism*; D011462:Prostaglandins G / Q000378:metabolism; D011487:Protein Conformation; D012756:Sheep; D014443:Tyrosine
chemical_list: D001095:Arachidonic Acids; D005609:Free Radicals; D011462:Prostaglandins G; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D014443:Tyrosine; C038291:prostaglandin G2; D011451:Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthases