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Repurposing Resveratrol and Fluconazole to Modulate Human Cytochrome P450-Mediated Arachidonic Acid Metabolism
El-Sherbeni, Ahmed A.,El-Kadi, Ayman O. S.
, p. 1278 - 1288 (2016/04/26)
Cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes metabolize arachidonic acid (AA) to several biologically active epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) and hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids (HETEs). Repurposing clinically-approved drugs could provide safe and readily available means
Identification of an amino acid determinant of pH regiospecificity in a seed lipoxygenase from Momordica charantia
Hornung, Ellen,Kunze, Susan,Liavonchanka, Alena,Zimmermann, Grit,Kuehn, Diana,Fritsche, Kathrin,Renz, Andreas,Kuehn, Hartmut,Feussner, Ivo
scheme or table, p. 2774 - 2780 (2009/04/10)
Lipoxygenases (LOX) form a heterogeneous family of lipid peroxidizing enzymes, which catalyze specific dioxygenation of polyunsaturated fatty acids. According to their positional specificity of linoleic acid oxygenation plant LOX have been classified into linoleate 9- and linoleate 13-LOX and recent reports identified a critical valine at the active site of 9-LOX. In contrast, more bulky phenylalanine or histidine residues were found at this position in 13-LOX. We have recently cloned a LOX-isoform from Momordica charantia and multiple amino acid alignments indicated the existence of a glutamine (Gln599) at the position were 13-LOX usually carry histidine or phenylalanine residues. Analyzing the pH-dependence of the positional specificity of linoleic acid oxygenation we observed that at pH-values higher than 7.5 this enzyme constitutes a linoleate 13-LOX whereas at lower pH, 9-H(P)ODE was the major reaction product. Site-directed mutagenesis of glutamine 599 to histidine (Gln599His) converted the enzyme to a pure 13-LOX. These data confirm previous observation suggesting that reaction specificity of certain LOX-isoforms is not an absolute enzyme property but may be impacted by reaction conditions such as pH of the reaction mixture. We extended this concept by identifying glutamine 599 as sequence determinant for such pH-dependence of the reaction specificity. Although the biological relevance for this alteration switch remains to be investigated it is of particular interest that it occurs at near physiological conditions in the pH-range between 7 and 8.
Biosynthesis of dictyopterene A: Stereoselectivity of a lipoxygenase/hydroperoxide lyase from Gomphonema parvulum (Bacillariophyceae)
Hombeck, Marc,Pohnert, Georg,Boland, Wilhelm
, p. 243 - 244 (2007/10/03)
(9S)-Hydroperoxyicosatetraenoic (9S-HPETE) acid is shown to be an intermediate in the biosynthesis of dictyopterene A in the freshwater diatom Gomphonema parvulum; the stereochemistry of (9S)-HPETE and the position of the hydrogen atom at C(16) lost during fatty acid cyclisation and oxidative cleavage of the hydroperoxide were investigated using trapping experiments and chirally deuterium labelled fatty acids.
