title: Oxygen-18 kinetic isotope effects in the dopamine beta-monooxygenase reaction: evidence for a new chemical mechanism in non-heme metallomonooxygenases.
abstract: Previous studies of dopamine beta-monooxygenase (D beta M) have implicated the formation of a substrate-derived benzylic radical via a hydrogen atom abstraction mechanism [Miller & Klinman (1985) Biochemistry 24, 2114]. We now address the nature of the oxygen species catalyzing C-H bond cleavage through the measurement of oxygen-18 isotope effects as a function of substrate structure. Using deuterium isotope effects, together with experimental O-18 isotope effects with protonated and deuterated substrates, it has been possible to calculate intrinsic O-18 isotope effects. Since the D beta M mechanism includes many steps which may involve changes in bond order at dioxygen, e.g., the reversible binding of O2 to the active-site copper and its reductive activation to a copper-hydroperoxide species, the intrinsic O-18 isotope effect is expected to be the product of two terms: (1) an overall equilibrium O-18 isotope effect on steps leading from O2 binding to the formation of the intermediate which catalyzes C-H bond cleavage and (2) a kinetic O-18 isotope effect on the C-H bond cleavage step. Thus, the magnitude of a single O-18 isotope effect measurement cannot reveal the nature of the bonding at oxygen during substrate activation. In the present study we have measured the change in O-18 isotope effect as a function of substrate structure and reactivity, finding values of 18(V/K) which decrease from 1.0281 +/- 0.001 to 1.0216 +/- 0.0003 as the rate of the C-H bond cleavage step decreases from 680 to 2 s-1.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Berry
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Klinman
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D003903:Deuterium; D004299:Dopamine beta-Hydroxylase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D007553:Isotope Labeling / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D007700:Kinetics; D008433:Mathematics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010103:Oxygen Isotopes; D010627:Phenethylamines / Q000138:chemical synthesis
chemical_list: D010103:Oxygen Isotopes; D010627:Phenethylamines; D003903:Deuterium; D004299:Dopamine beta-Hydroxylase