title: Specificity of an HPETE peroxidase from rat PMN.
abstract: The 15,000xg supernatant of sonicated rat PMN contains 5-lipoxygenase that converts arachidonic acid to 5-hydroperoxyeicosatetraenoic acid (5-HPETE) and leukotriene A4 and an HPETE peroxidase that catalyzes reduction of the 5-HPETE. The specificity of this HPETE peroxidase for peroxides, reducing agents, and inhibitors has been characterized to distinguish this enzyme from other peroxidase activities. In addition to 5-HPETE, the HPETE peroxidase will catalyze reduction of 15-hydroperoxyeicosatetraenoic acid, 13-hydroperoxyoctadecadienoic acid, and 15-hydroperoxy-8,11,13-eicosatrienoic acid, but not cumene or t-butylhydroperoxides. The HPETE peroxidase accepted 5 of 11 thiols tested as reducing agents. However, glutathione is greater than 15 times more effective than any other thiol tested. Other reducing agents, ascorbate, NADH, NADPH, phenol, p-cresol, and homovanillic acid, were not accepted by HPETE peroxidase. This enzyme is not inhibited by 10 mM KCN, 2 mM aspirin, 2 mM salicylic acid, or 0.5 mM indomethacin. When 5-[14C]HPETE is generated from [14C]arachidonic acid in the presence of unlabeled 5-HPETE and the HPETE peroxidase, the 5-[14C]HETE produced is of much lower specific activity than the [14C]arachidonic acid. This indicates that the 5-[14C]HPETE leaves the active site of 5-lipoxygenase and mixes with the unlabeled 5-HPETE in solution prior to reduction and is a kinetic demonstration that 5-lipoxygenase has no peroxidase activity. Specificity for peroxides, reducing agents, and inhibitors differentiates HPETE peroxidase from glutathione peroxidase, phospholipid-hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase, a 12-HPETE peroxidase, and heme peroxidases. The HPETE peroxidase could be a glutathione S-transferase selective for fatty acid hydroperoxides.
authors.affiliation: Merrell Dow Research Institute, Cincinnati, OH 45215.
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Skoog
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Nichols
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Wiseman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D015289:Leukotrienes / Q000378:metabolism; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000201:enzymology*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010537:Peritoneum; D009195:Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism; D010544:Peroxidases / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D015289:Leukotrienes; C025348:arachidonic acid 5-hydroperoxide; D010544:Peroxidases; C032991:arachidonic acid peroxide peroxidase; D009195:Peroxidase