Mustafa Asif K, Kumar Manish, Selvakumar Balakrishnan, Ho Gary P H, Ehmsen Jeffrey T, Barrow Roxanne K, Amzel L Mario, Snyder Solomon H
Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Feb 20;104(8):2950-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611620104. Epub 2007 Feb 9.
Serine racemase (SR) generates D-serine, a coagonist with glutamate at NMDA receptors. We show that SR is physiologically S-nitrosylated leading to marked inhibition of enzyme activity. Inhibition involves interactions with the cofactor ATP reflecting juxtaposition of the ATP-binding site and cysteine-113 (C113), the site for physiological S-nitrosylation. NMDA receptor physiologically enhances SR S-nitrosylation by activating neuronal nitric-oxide synthase (nNOS). These findings support a model whereby postsynaptic stimulation of nitric-oxide (NO) formation feeds back to presynaptic cells to S-nitrosylate SR and decrease D-serine availability to postsynaptic NMDA receptors.
丝氨酸消旋酶(SR)可生成D-丝氨酸,它是N-甲基-D-天冬氨酸(NMDA)受体处与谷氨酸协同作用的激动剂。我们发现,SR在生理条件下会发生S-亚硝基化,从而导致酶活性受到显著抑制。这种抑制作用涉及与辅因子ATP的相互作用,这反映出ATP结合位点与生理S-亚硝基化位点半胱氨酸-113(C113)相邻。NMDA受体通过激活神经元型一氧化氮合酶(nNOS)在生理条件下增强SR的S-亚硝基化。这些发现支持了一种模型,即突触后一氧化氮(NO)生成的刺激反馈至突触前细胞,使SR发生S-亚硝基化,并减少突触后NMDA受体可利用的D-丝氨酸。