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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. A2015

Probing the Hydrogen Bonding of the Ferrous-NO Heme Center of nNOS by Pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance.

Andrei V Astashkin, Li Chen, Bradley O Elmore, Deepak Kunwar, Yubin Miao, Huiying Li, Thomas L Poulos, Linda J Roman, Changjian Feng

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Andrei V Astashkin†Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States.
Li Chen‡College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States.
Bradley O Elmore‡College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States.
Deepak Kunwar‡College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States.
Yubin Miao‡College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States.
Huiying Li§Departments of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-3900, United States.
Thomas L Poulos§Departments of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-3900, United States.
Linda J Roman∥Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States.
Changjian Feng‡College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States.
University of New Mexico · USUniversity of California, Irvine · USThe University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · USUniversity of Arizona · US

Funding

STRUCTURAL STUDIES ON NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASER01GM057353 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI POULOS, THOMAS L · 1998 to 2018
$6.8M
Structure/Function Modularity in Nitric Oxide SynthaseR01GM052419 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI MASTERS, BETTIE SUE SILER, ROMAN, LINDA J · 1996 to 2012
$3.5M
Mechanisms of Electron Transfer in Nitric Oxide Synthases: the Output State in NiR15GM081811 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI FENG, CHANGJIAN · 2007 to 2016
$1.0M
Training Program in Chemical and Structural BiologyT32GM108561 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI POULOS, THOMAS L, TOBIAS, DOUGLAS J · 2014 to 2018
$860k
Acquisition of a modern continuous wave EPR spectrometer equipped with an ENDOR sS10RR026416 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI ASTACHKINE, ANDREI · 2010 to 2010
$392k
UPGRADE OF VARIABLE FREQUENCY PULSED EPR FACILITY: BIOCHEMISTRYS10RR020959 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI ENEMARK, JOHN H · 2005 to 2005
$205k
NCRR NIH HHS 1S10RR026416-01NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR020959NCRR NIH HHS S10RR020959NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR026416NIGMS NIH HHS GM052419NIGMS NIH HHS GM081811NIGMS NIH HHS GM57353NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM052419NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM057353NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM081811NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM108561
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oxidation of L-arginine (L-Arg) to nitric oxide (NO) by NO synthase (NOS) takes place at the heme active site. It is of current interest to study structures of the heme species that activates O2 and transforms the substrate. The NOS ferrous-NO complex is a close mimic of the obligatory ferric (hydro)peroxo intermediate in NOS catalysis. In this work, pulsed electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) spectroscopy was used to probe the hydrogen bonding of the NO ligand in the ferrous-NO heme center of neuronal NOS (nNOS) without a substrate and with L-Arg or N-hydroxy-L-arginine (NOHA) substrates. Unexpectedly, no H-bonding interaction connecting the NO ligand to the active site water molecule or the Arg substrate was detected, in contrast to the results obtained by X-ray crystallography for the Arg-bound nNOS heme domain [Li et al. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 2006, 11, 753-768]. The nearby exchangeable proton in both the no-substrate and Arg-containing nNOS samples is located outside the H-bonding range and, on the basis of the obtained structural constraints, can belong to the active site water (or OH). On the contrary, in the NOHA-bound sample, the nearby exchangeable hydrogen forms an H-bond with the NO ligand (on the basis of its distance from the NO ligand and a nonzero isotropic hfi constant), but it does not belong to the active site water molecule because the water oxygen atom (detected by (17)O ENDOR) is too far. This hydrogen should therefore come from the NOHA substrate, which is in agreement with the X-ray crystallography work [Li et al. Biochemistry 2009, 48, 10246-10254]. The nearby nonexchangeable hydrogen atom assigned as H(ε) of Phe584 was detected in all three samples. This hydrogen atom may have a stabilizing effect on the NO ligand and probably determines its position.

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AnimalsArginineCatalysisCatalytic DomainElectron Spin Resonance SpectroscopyHemeHydrogenHydrogen BondingNitric OxideNitric Oxide Synthase Type IProtonsRatsWaterArginineHemeHydrogenNitric OxideNitric Oxide Synthase Type INos1 protein, ratProtonsWater

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