title: Histidinol dehydrogenase loses its catalytic function through the mutation of His261-->Asn due to its inability to ligate the essential Zn.
abstract: Histidinol dehydrogenase (HDH), a Zn-metalloenzyme, produces His from histidinol through two successive oxidation reactions with NAD+ as a coenzyme. A mutation, His261-->Asn, caused the complete loss of the Zn, thereby inactivating the enzyme, without significant structural perturbation. The ability to oxidize an intermediate, histidinaldehyde, was restored to about 4% of that of the wild-type enzyme by adding 0.5 mM MnCl2, whereas the histidinol oxidation activity could not be recovered with the mental addition. We concluded that the His residue at position 261 is essential for the ligation of the Zn of cabbage HDH.
authors.affiliation: International Research Laboratories, Ciba-Geigy Japan Ltd., Hyogo.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nagai
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ohta
mesh_terms: D000429:Alcohol Oxidoreductases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001216:Asparagine / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D001937:Brassica / Q000201:enzymology; D002384:Catalysis; D006639:Histidine / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D009154:Mutation; D009243:NAD / Q000378:metabolism; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D015032:Zinc / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D009243:NAD; D006639:Histidine; D001216:Asparagine; D000429:Alcohol Oxidoreductases; C021358:histidinol dehydrogenase; D015032:Zinc