title: Regiospecificity and catalytic triad of lysophospholipase I.
abstract: A 25-kDa murine lysophospholipase (LysoPLA I) has been cloned and expressed, and Ser-119 has been shown to be essential for the enzyme activity (Wang, A., Deems, R. A., and Dennis, E. A. (1997) J. Biol. Chem. 272, 12723-12729). In the present study, we show that LysoPLA I represents a new member of the serine hydrolase family with Ser-119, Asp-174, and His-208 composing the catalytic triad. The Asp-174 and His-208 are conserved among several esterases and are demonstrated herein to be essential for LysoPLA I activity as the mutation of either residue to Ala abolished LysoPLA I activity, whereas the global conformation of the mutants remained unchanged. Furthermore, the predicted secondary structure of LysoPLA I resembles that of the alpha/beta-hydrolase fold, with Ser-119, Asp-174, and His-208 occupying the conserved topological location of the catalytic triad in the alpha/beta-hydrolases. Structural modeling of LysoPLA I also indicates that the above three residues orient in such a manner that they would comprise a charge-relay network necessary for catalysis. In addition, the regiospecificity of LysoPLA I was studied using 31P NMR, and the result shows that LysoPLA I has similar LysoPLA1 and LysoPLA2 activity. This finding suggests that LysoPLA I may play an important role in removing lysophospholipids produced by both phospholipase A1 and A2 in vivo.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0601, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Loo
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Dennis
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001224:Aspartic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D002384:Catalysis; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D006639:Histidine; D008245:Lysophospholipase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D051379:Mice; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D011487:Protein Conformation; D051381:Rats; D012694:Serine / Q000378:metabolism; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D001224:Aspartic Acid; D012694:Serine; D006639:Histidine; D008245:Lysophospholipase