Mammalian heme oxygenase, HO, possesses catalytically implicated distal ordered water molecules within an extended H-bond network, with one of the ordered water molecules (#1) providing a bridge between the iron-coordinated ligand and the catalytically critical Asp140, that, in turn, serves as an acceptor for the Tyr58 OH H-bond. The degree of H-bonding by the ligated water molecule and the coupling of this water molecule to the H-bond network are of current interest and are herein investigated by 1 H NMR. 2D NMR allowed sufficient assignments to provide both the H-bond strength and hyperfine shifts, the latter of which were used to quantify the magnetic anisotropy in both the ferric high-spin aquo and low-spin hydroxo complexes. The anisotropy in the aquo complex indicates that the H-bond donation to water #1 is marginally stronger than in a bacterial HO, while the anisotropy for the hydroxo complex reveals a conventional (d xz , d yz ) 1 ground state indicative of only moderate to weak H-bond acceptance by the ligated hydroxide. Mapping out the changes of the H-bond strengths in the network during the ligated water → hydroxide conversion by correcting for the effects of magnetic anisotropy, reveals a very substantial change in H-bond strength for Tyr58 OH, and lesser effects on nearby H-bonds. The effect of pH on the H-bonding network in human HO is much larger and transmitted much further from the iron than in a pathogenic bacterial HO. The implications for the HO mechanism of the H-bond of Tyr58 to Asp140 are discussed.
KeywordsMagnetic anisotropy; hyperfine shifts; ligand deprotonation; heme oxygenase; H-bonding Heme oxygenase, HO, 1 is a widely distributed enzyme (1) that uses heme as a substrate and cofactor to cleave the heme via three intermediates, (2-6) as depicted in Figure 1. HOs occur in at least two forms in humans, a constitutive isozyme, designated hHO-2, and an inducible hHO-1. Both are membrane-bound, although the majority of the structure and function ‡ This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, GM62830 (GNL) and DK30297 (PROM).* lamar@chem.ucdavis.edu; phone: (530) 752-0958; FAX: (530) 752-8995.Supporting Information: Seven Figures (low-field 1 H NMR spectra, aromatic, aliphatic TOCSY, and inter-aliphatic NOESY for hHO-DMDH-H 2 O, and aromatic TOCSY, aromatic NOESY spectra and magnetic axes for hHO-DMDH-OH) and one table of chemical shifts. Total pages, 15. This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org. 1 Abbreviations used: DSS, 2,2-dimethyl-2-silapentane-5-sulfonate; PH, protohemin; DMDH, 2-,4-dimethyldeuterohemin; HO, heme oxygenase, hHO, human heme oxygenase#1; D140A-hHO, Asp140→Ala human heme oxygenase#1; NmHO, Neisseria meningitidis heme oxygenase; CdHO, Corynebacterium diphtheriae heme oxygenase; PaHO, Pseudomonas aeruginosa heme oxygenase; NOESY, two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser spectroscopy; TOCSY, two-dimensional total correlation spectroscopy;
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