Fukuoka Mami, Tokuda Eiichi, Nakagome Kenta, Wu Zhiliang, Nagano Isao, Furukawa Yoshiaki
Laboratory for Mechanistic Chemistry of Biomolecules, Department of Chemistry, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan.
Department of Parasitology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu 501-1194, Japan.
J Inorg Biochem. 2017 Oct;175:208-216. doi: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2017.07.036. Epub 2017 Jul 31.
Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD1) is an enzyme that disproportionates superoxide anion into hydrogen peroxide and molecular oxygen. The enzymatic activity of SOD1 requires the binding of copper and zinc ions and also the formation of a conserved intramolecular disulfide bond. In a eukaryotic cell, a copper chaperone for SOD1 (CCS) has been known to supply a copper ion and also introduce the disulfide bond into SOD1; however, a mechanism controlling the CCS-dependent activation of SOD1 remains obscure. Here, we characterized CCS isolated from a human liver fluke, Clonorchis sinensis, and found that an N-terminal domain of CCS was essential in supplying a copper ion in SOD1. Regardless of the presence and absence of the N-terminal domain, CCS was able to bind a cuprous ion at the CxC motif of its C-terminal domain with quite high affinity (K~10). The copper-bound form of full-length CCS successfully activated C. sinensis SOD1, but that of CCS lacking the N-terminal domain did not. Nonetheless, the N-terminally truncated CCS with the bound copper ion was found to correctly introduce the disulfide bond into SOD1. Based upon these results, we propose that the N-terminal domain of CCS has roles in the release of the copper ion bound at the C-terminal domain of CCS to SOD1.
铜锌超氧化物歧化酶(SOD1)是一种将超氧阴离子歧化为过氧化氢和分子氧的酶。SOD1的酶活性需要铜离子和锌离子的结合,以及形成一个保守的分子内二硫键。在真核细胞中,已知一种SOD1的铜伴侣蛋白(CCS)可提供铜离子并将二硫键引入SOD1;然而,控制CCS依赖性激活SOD1的机制仍不清楚。在这里,我们对从华支睾吸虫中分离出的CCS进行了表征,发现CCS的N端结构域对于在SOD1中提供铜离子至关重要。无论N端结构域是否存在,CCS都能够以相当高的亲和力(K~10)在其C端结构域的CxC基序处结合亚铜离子。全长CCS的铜结合形式成功激活了华支睾吸虫SOD1,但缺乏N端结构域的CCS则不能。尽管如此,发现结合了铜离子的N端截短的CCS能够正确地将二硫键引入SOD1。基于这些结果,我们提出CCS的N端结构域在将结合在CCS C端结构域的铜离子释放到SOD1中起作用。