title: Structure of the phenylhydrazine adduct of the quinohemoprotein amine dehydrogenase from Paracoccus denitrificans at 1.7 A resolution.
abstract: The 109 kDa quinohemoprotein amine dehydrogenase (QHNDH) from Paracoccus denitrificans contains a novel redox cofactor, cysteine tryptophylquinone (CTQ). This cofactor is derived from a pair of gene-encoded amino acids by post-translational modification and was previously identified and characterized within an 82-residue subunit by chemical methods and crystallographic analysis at 2.05 A resolution. It contains an orthoquinone moiety bound to the indole ring and catalyzes the oxidation of aliphatic and aromatic amines through formation of a Schiff-base intermediate involving one of the quinone O atoms. This paper reports the structural analysis of the complex of QHNDH with the enzyme inhibitor phenylhydrazine determined at 1.70 A resolution. The phenylhydrazone product is attached to the C6 position, identifying the O6 atom of CTQ as the site of Schiff-base formation as postulated by analogy to another amine-oxidizing enzyme, methylamine dehydrogenase. Furthermore, the inner N atom closest to the phenyl ring of phenylhydrazine forms a hydrogen bond to gammaAsp33 in the complex, lending support to the hypothesis that this residue serves as the active-site base for proton abstraction during catalysis.
authors.affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
authors.forename: Saumen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Datta
authors.forename: Tokuji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kano
authors.forename: F Scott
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Mathews
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D003460:Crystallization; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008958:Models, Molecular; D000587:Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-NH Group Donors / Q000737:chemistry*; D010231:Paracoccus denitrificans / Q000201:enzymology*; D010659:Phenylhydrazines / Q000737:chemistry*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D021122:Protein Subunits / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D010659:Phenylhydrazines; D021122:Protein Subunits; C030299:phenylhydrazine; D000587:Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-NH Group Donors; C119497:quinohemoprotein amine dehydrogenase