title: Analysis of the kinetics of CO binding to neuronal nitric oxide synthase by flash photolysis: dual effects of substrates, inhibitors, and tetrahydrobiopterin.
abstract: The effects of substrates, inhibitors and tetrahydrobiopterin (H4B) on CO rebinding to the isolated heme-bound oxygenase domain (nNOSox) of neuronal nitric oxide synthase were examined by laser flash photolysis. The rate constant of CO recombination with substrate and inhibitor-free nNOSox in the absence of H4B was 1.0 x 10(6) M(-1) s(-1). The addition of H4B led to a marked decrease in the rate to 0.59 x 10(6) M(-1) s(-1). Interestingly, the substrates, L-Arg and N-hydroxy-L-Arg (NHA), altered CO binding behavior in that the binding rate was modified to CO concentration-independent, both with and without H4B. In the absence of H4B, agmatine, NG-monomethyl-L-Arg (NMMA) and NG-nitro-L-Arg methyl ester (NAME) decreased the CO concentration-dependent rate constants of rebinding by half (0.43 x 10(6) M(-1) s(-1) for the NMMA-bound complex), whereas N6-(l-iminoethyl)-L-Lys (NIL) and 7-nitro-1H-indazole (7-NI) increased the rate constants by more than 70% (up to 2.1 x 10(6) M(-1) s(-1) for the NIL-bound complex). In the presence of H4B, the binding rate was independent of CO concentration for the agmatine-bound complex. The differential effects of the inhibitors on the CO concentration-dependent rate constants were significantly diminished for the H4B-bound system. Interestingly, these variable effects of inhibitors on the CO binding rate were more pronounced in the absence of H4B. Accordingly, we suggest that H4B significantly influences CO binding by altering the CO access channel, and further reduces the divergent effects of different inhibitors.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan.
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bengea
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Araki
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Jotaro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Igarashi
authors.forename: Ikuko
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sagami
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shimizu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001708:Biopterins / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry*; D002248:Carbon Monoxide / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry*; D006418:Heme / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D052248:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I; D010782:Photolysis; D011485:Protein Binding; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D001708:Biopterins; D006418:Heme; D002248:Carbon Monoxide; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D052248:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I; C496322:Nos1 protein, rat; C003402:sapropterin