title: High-affinity binding of fatty acyl-CoAs and peroxisome proliferator-CoA esters to glutathione S-transferases effect on enzymatic activity.
abstract: Acyl-CoAs are present at high concentrations within the cell, yet are strongly buffered by specific binding proteins in order to maintain a low intracellular unbound acyl-CoA concentration, compatible with their metabolic role, their importance in cell signaling, and as protection from their detergent properties. This intracellular regulation may be disrupted by nonmetabolizables acyl-CoA esters of xenobiotics, such as peroxisome proliferators, which are formed at relatively high concentration within the liver cell. The low molecular mass acyl-CoA binding protein (ACBP) and fatty acyl-CoA binding protein (FABP) have been proposed as the buffering system for fatty acyl-CoAs. Whether these proteins also bind xenobiotic-CoA is not known. Here we have identified new liver cytosolic fatty acyl-CoA and xenobiotic-CoA binding sites as glutathione S-transferase (GST), using fluorescent polarization and a acyl-etheno-CoA derivative of the peroxisome proliferator nafenopin as ligand. Rat liver GST and human liver recombinant GSTA1-1, GSTP1-1 and GSTM1-1 were used. Only class alpha rat liver GST and human GSTA1-1 bind xenobiotic-CoAs and fatty acyl-CoAs, with Kd values ranging from 200 nM to 5 microM. One mol of acyl-CoA is bound per mol of dimeric enzyme, and no metabolization or hydrolysis was observed. Binding results in strong inhibition of rat liver GST and human recombinant GSTA1-1 (IC50 at the nanomolar level for palmitoyl-CoA) but not GSTP1-1 and GSTM1-1. Acyl-CoAs do not interact with the GSTA1-1 substrate binding site, but probably with a different domain. Results suggest that under increased acyl-CoA concentration, as occurs after exposure to peroxisome proliferators, acyl-CoA binding to the abundant class alpha GSTs may result in strong inhibition of xenobiotic detoxification. Analysis of the binding properties of GSTs and other acyl-CoA binding proteins suggest that under increased acyl-CoA concentration GSTs would be responsible for xenobiotic-CoA binding whereas ACBP would preferentially bind fatty acyl-CoAs.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, P.Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Loyola
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Valenzuela
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: García-Huidobro
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Monasterio
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bronfman
mesh_terms: D000214:Acyl Coenzyme A / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D020025:Peroxisome Proliferators / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000214:Acyl Coenzyme A; D020025:Peroxisome Proliferators; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D005982:Glutathione Transferase