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Interspecies Variation Between Fish and Human Transthyretins in Their Binding of Thyroid-Disrupting Chemicals Jin Zhang, Christin Grundström, Kristoffer Brannstrom, Irina Iakovleva, Mikael Lindberg, Anders Olofsson, Patrik L. Andersson, and A. Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b03581 • Publication Date (Web): 18 Sep 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on September 18, 2018
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Interspecies Variation Between Fish and Human
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Transthyretins in Their Binding of Thyroid-
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Disrupting Chemicals
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Jin Zhang†, Christin Grundström†, Kristoffer Brännström‡, Irina Iakovleva†, Mikael Lindberg†,
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Anders Olofsson‡, Patrik L. Andersson†*, A. Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson†*
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†Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden
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‡Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå,
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Sweden
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Corresponding Authors
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ABSTRACT
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Thyroid-disrupting chemicals (TDCs) are xenobiotics that can interfere with the endocrine
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system and cause adverse effects in organisms and their offspring. TDCs affect both the thyroid
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gland and regulatory enzymes associated with thyroid hormone homeostasis. Transthyretin
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(TTR) is found in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of vertebrates, where it transports thyroid
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hormones. Here we explored the interspecies variation in TDC binding to human and fish TTR
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(exemplified by Gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)). The in vitro binding experiments showed
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that TDCs bind with equal or weaker affinity to seabream TTR than to the human TTR,
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particular, the polar TDCs (>500-fold lower affinity). Crystal structures of seabream TTR–TDC
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complexes revealed that all TDCs bound at the thyroid binding sites. However, amino acid
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substitution of Ser117 in human TTR to Thr117 in seabream prevented polar TDCs from binding
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deep in the hormone binding cavity, which explains their low affinity to seabream TTR.
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Molecular dynamics and in silico alanine scanning simulation also suggested that the protein
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backbone of seabream TTR is more rigid than the human one and that Thr117 provides fewer
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electrostatic contributions than Ser117 to ligand bindings. This provides an explanation for the
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weaker affinities of the ligands that rely on electrostatic interactions with Thr117. The lower
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affinities of TDCs to fish TTR, in particular the polar ones, could potentially lead to milder
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thyroid-related effects in fish.
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INTRODUCTION
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Thyroid-disrupting chemicals (TDCs) are environmental xenobiotics that may induce significant
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disorders in physiological processes in humans and wildlife, including macronutrient
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metabolism, energy balance, brain development, and reproduction.1-3 They can alter the structure
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or function of the thyroid gland, interfere with thyroid hormone signaling, and subsequently
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disrupt its homeostasis.4 TDCs have multiple molecular mechanisms. For example, hydroxylated
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polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-PCBs) bind to and disturb thyroid hormone receptors and
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transthyretin,5-7 and polyhalogenated aromatic hydrocarbons accelerate the clearance of thyroid
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hormones by inducing uridine diphosphoglucuronosyl transferases.8 Even low exposures to
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TDCs are cause of concern as these can trigger non-monotonic dose-response relationships
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resulting in severe adverse effects.9-12 In coastal regions with high fish consumption TDC levels
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have been associated with increased incidence of thyroid cancer and thyroid autoimmune
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disease.13, 14
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Transthyretin (TTR) is a serum transport protein that delivers 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3)
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and 3,3',5,5'-tetraiodo-L-thyronine (thyroxine T4) from the thyroid gland to target tissues in
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vertebrates.15 TTR is a molecular transporter of TDCs that include per- and polyfluoroalkyl
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substances (PFASs)16 and OH-PCBs.17 TDCs in the thyroxine-binding sites (TBSs) of TTR can
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disrupt TTR-mediated thyroid hormone transport.18 The subsequent accumulation of TDCs in
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vital organs19 by TTR-assisted delivery, may cause developmental disorders.20
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The three-dimensional structure of transthyretin shows it to be a homotetramer with a central
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hydrophobic channel in which two TBSs are situated.21, 22 Over 200 human TTR (hTTR) crystal
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structures have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB).23,
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Many of these are
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complexes, of which some are complexed with environmental pollutants or their metabolites,
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including
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tetrahydroxybenzophenone (BP2), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctanesulfonic acid
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(PFOS), tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA), and hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-
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PCBs)18, 25, 26, which are of relevance for this study.
hTTR
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TTR transports TH via the choroid plexus into the brain in fish27 and it is expressed in the
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liver, brain, eye, and heart of fish larvae from the first day post-hatch.28 Data on TTR-TDC
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complexes from fish species are scarce despite their importance in toxicity studies.29, 30 Gilthead
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seabream (Sparus aurata) is an indicator species for the estimation of environmental pollutant
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levels in aquatic environments.31 It is one of the most consumed fish species and it is widely
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distributed in the Mediterranean sea and the eastern Atlantic ocean.32 Several classical TDCs
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have been detected in seabream in concentrations ranging from 36.2 pg/g to 141 ng/g wet
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weight, e.g. polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, PCBs, and polybrominated
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diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).33 TDCs can disturb thyroid hormone homeostasis in seabream via
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binding to TTR,34 the primary thyroid hormone transporter; this may cause underdevelopment of
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the juveniles.35 More importantly, TDCs can accumulate in aquatic ecosystems and thereby
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expose humans to high levels of TDCs.36
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TTRs from fish have low sequence identity with hTTR.28, 37 Seabream TTR (SaTTR) has 54%
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sequence identity with hTTR,28 but the only amino acid difference within the TBS is the
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conservative substitution of Ser117 in hTTR to Thr117 in SaTTR.38 Crystal structures of wild-
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type SaTTR38, 39, and SaTTR in complex with T3 and T4 are available.38 However, additional
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crystal structures of the SaTTR protein in complex with diverse environmental pollutants would
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improve our understanding of TDC interaction with SaTTR; interspecies variations of the TTR-
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TDC molecular interactions; and a comparison of the chemical-induced thyroid disruptions in
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fish vs. that in humans.
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Six representative TDCs were selected for this study based on their use in consumer goods and
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products, their structural diversity, and the environmental relevance.16, 25, 40, 41 The compounds
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included TBBPA, BP2, PFOA, 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol (TC2P), 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic
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acid (2,4,5-T), and 2-(3-chloro-2-methylanilino)pyridine-3-carboxylic acid (clonixin).16,
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TBBPA is widely used as a flame retardant in electronics. It has been detected in the serum of IT
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technicians and electronics recycling workers (500-fold, Table 1)
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The TTR-TC2P complex structures are of particular interest. Two TC2P molecules bind
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simultaneously within the TBSs in the hTTR-TC2P complex, i.e., one molecule forms a
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hydrogen bond with Ser117 at the cavity bottom, and the second molecule forms a hydrogen
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bond with the Lys15 at the cavity entrance (Figure 3e). This binding mode is similar to that of
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2,6-dinitro-p-cresol (DNPC) in the hTTR,25 which is probably associated with their relatively
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small molecular sizes and their polar nature. In SaTTR, TC2P only binds in the vicinity of the
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side chain of Lys15 at the cavity entrance. The interspecies differences in binding modes are
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consistent with the 10-fold weaker binding affinity of TC2P to SaTTR (Table 1).
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Molecular dynamics simulations for TTR-TDCs interaction studies. We investigated the
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TTR-TDCs molecular interactions by performing molecular dynamics simulations on the human
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and seabream structures in complex with each of the six TDCs.25, 26 All co-ligands remained
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bound in the thyroid-binding sites, and the root-mean-squared-deviations of the protein and
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ligands were under 2 and 3 Å (except for TC2P in SaTTR) throughout the simulations (Figure
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S2). The ligand binding free energies were calculated using the MM-PBSA method based on the
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last 10 ns of the molecular dynamics trajectory.
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We compared the calculated ligand binding free energy both intra- and interspecies. The
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calculated binding free energies and the experimental binding free energy (∆G) are moderately
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correlated yielding R2=0.56 for SaTTR and R2=0.62 for hTTR (Figure S3). This correlation
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suggests that MM-PBSA could be used for estimating the ligand binding free energy of TDCs to
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TTR and as a scoring function to identify novel TDCs and study their molecular interactions.67
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The mean value (-24.4 kcal/mol) of calculated binding free energies of the six TDCs to SaTTR is
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lower than those (-26.2 kcal/mol) for the hTTR (Figure S3), which agrees with the weaker in
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vitro affinities of the ligands (except PFOA) to SaTTR compared to hTTR.
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We tried to elucidate the contributions of residue 117 to the binding free energies by
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performing in silico alanine scanning simulations on the residue in the TTR-TDC complexes.
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TTR-PFOA and TTR-BP2 complexes from the two species were chosen as representatives for
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the simulations, as they have the smallest and largest interspecies variations in in vitro ligand
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binding affinities, respectively.
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The in silico alanine scanning on TTR-PFOA complexes (Figure S4) showed that the
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calculated binding free energy of PFOA to hTTR and SaTTR both became slightly stronger, at a
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similar scale, when residue 117 was mutated to alanine. The slight increase might be due to the
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improvement of the existing hydrophobic interactions between the fluorinated tail of PFOA and
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the hydrophobic cavity of TTR.25 The similarity in scale increase may indicate that Thr117 in
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SaTTR and Ser117 in hTTR provide a similar contribution to the binding of PFOA; this could
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explain the interspecies similarities in in vitro ligand binding free energies. In silico alanine
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scanning simulations of TTR-BP2 complexes resulted in clear interspecies variations in
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mutation-caused shifts of the calculated ligand binding free energies (Figure S4). In the hTTR-
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BP2 complex, we observed a significant decrease (4 kcal/mol) in calculated binding free energy
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of the ligand to mutated hTTR, since mutation of Ser117 causes loss of important electrostatic
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interactions for hTTR-BP2 recognition.25 In the SaTTR-BP2 complex, the mutation posed a
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limited impact on the calculated binding free energy of BP2 to SaTTR, as Thr117 provides fewer
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electrostatic contributions to the ligand binding due to the locked rotamer of its side chain.
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Interspecies variations in mutation-caused shifts of calculated binding free energy could explain
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the significantly weaker in vitro binding free energies of BP2 to SaTTR compared to hTTR
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(Table 1). This supports our conclusions from the crystal structure analysis that Thr117 provides
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fewer electrostatic contributions and that SaTTR has a clear preference to hydrophobic ligands.
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DISCUSSION
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In the present study, we aimed to elucidate the interspecies variations in human and seabream
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TTR-TDC interactions using crystallographic, in vitro, and in silico data. The six TDCs studied
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here have been detected in humans, wildlife, and the environment.
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In vitro isothermal titration calorimetry binding experiments showed that all six TDCs bound
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to SaTTR and hTTR. TBBPA was the strongest TTR binder, with nM affinity to hTTR.26, 68 With
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the exception of PFOA, the TDC binding affinities to hTTR were significantly stronger than to
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SaTTR. The sequence of hTTR and SaTTR differs at the thyroid-binding site, where it is Ser117
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for hTTR and Thr117 for SaTTR. Serine and threonine are both slightly polar amino acids with a
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hydroxyl group at the Cβ position, with the only difference between being that threonine has a
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methyl group in place of the hydrogen group found in serine. A serine-to-threonine substitution
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could therefore be considered as a fairly neutral substitution. However, the structural comparison
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of the thyroid-binding sites in hTTR and SaTTR showed that the substitution has large functional
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consequences for the two proteins. The side chain of residue 117 is situated at both the
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monomer-monomer and the dimer-dimer interfaces. Superimposing all TTR-TDC complexes
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shows that Ser117 in hTTR has high rotational freedom and that its site chain can occupy all
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three possible rotamers (g+, t, and g). In contrast, the Thr117 in SaTTR is rigid and can only
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occupy one rotamer, otherwise steric clashes will occur between the Cγ2 atoms of the rotamers
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(Figure S5). Consequently, the mobility of Ser117 allows hTTR to make good binding
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interactions with both polar and hydrophobic ligands, whereas SaTTR has a clear preference for
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hydrophobic ones. As a consequence, larger ligands, such as T4, BP2 and clonixin, cannot reach
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as deep into the thyroid-binding cavity of SaTTR as they can in hTTR, due to steric clashes with
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the Cγ2 atom of Thr117.
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In addition to this constraint, the rotamer of Lys15, positioned at entrance of the hormone-
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binding channel, is also locked in SaTTR (Figure S5). Its ε-ammonium group forms a hydrogen
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bond with the main chain carbonyl oxygen of Thr52 and a salt bridge with the side chain of
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Glu54. These contacts are present in all monomers of all SaTTR structures solved to date. In
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hTTR, however, the side chain of Lys15 has more rotational freedom (Figure S5). Inspection of
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the hydrophobic core positioned directly underneath Lys15 suggests that the amino acid
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substitutions Val16Ile and Ile73Phe in SaTTR shift the position of the β-strand A (residues
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Leu12-Ala19) by up to 1 Å, which explains the different properties of the hTTR and SaTTR
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Lys15 side chains. The significantly wider entrance of the hormone-binding channel in SaTTR,
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in combination with its narrower cavity, provides an additional structural explanation for the
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different binding affinities of human and seabream TTR to TDCs.38
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The finding that Thr117 in SaTTR prevents high affinity binding to polar ligands could be
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generalized to others piscine species, e.g. zebrafish (Danio rerio), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar),
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Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), and Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus). Like
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seabream, they share high similarity in their thyroid-binding site residues and the same Thr117
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residues.69 Here in silico molecular dynamics simulations could be used with advantage to
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predict potential TDC binders to other fish species TTRs.
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Of the six TDCs used here, BP2 was the most polar. We therefore used isothermal titration
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calorimetry to determine binding affinities of three additional polar compounds to SaTTR. These
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were two thyroid disrupting compounds 2,6-dinitro-p-cresol (DNPC) and bisphenol S (BPS), and
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the flavonoid luteolin (Figure S6a). The binding affinities (Kd) and binding interactions to hTTR
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are known: DNPC 1.3 µM, PDB code 5L4F; BPS 52 µM, PDB code 5L4J; and luteolin 0.07 µM
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PDB code 4QXV.25, 70 These have 34-fold, 1.5-fold, and 250-fold higher affinities, respectively,
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to hTTR than SaTTR. A close look at the hTTR-DNPC, hTTR-PBS, and hTTR-luteolin complex
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structures explains the large variation in binding affinities of the three polar compounds to
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SaTTR, in particular to the 250-fold higher affinity of luteolin to hTTR (Figure S6b). In
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summary, isothermal titration calorimetry data from the three polar compounds support our
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observation that Thr117 prevents high-affinity binding of polar ligands to SaTTR, and
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presumably to other fish species that have a threonine at position 117. The ability of small,
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strong binders adapting to multiple conformations in the thyroid-binding sites can explain the
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interactions between TTR and such ligands, and provide guidance for molecular design and
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hazard identification. Our results also highlight the difficulty in extrapolating data from one
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species to another. Without structural data it would be difficult, if not impossible, to explain the
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differences in the binding affinity data.
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The thyroid hormone system is vital for early development, metabolism, and growth in wildlife
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and humans. In humans, thyroxine can be transported in the blood by albumin, thyroxine binding
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globulin and TTR, whereas in fish TTR is the primary thyroid hormone transporter.71 It is well-
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known that a large number of environmental pollutants bind to TTR and a few of these are even
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stronger binders than the natural hormone thyroxine.41, 68, 72-74 This specific binding of organic
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contaminants to TTR pose a risk of transport across biological barriers, e.g. the blood brain
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barrier and placenta, and tissue specific accumulation, that could induce adverse effects in
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vulnerable organs or developing organisms. Currently, no specific biomarker for thyroid
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hormone disruption has been generally agreed upon even if effects on hormonal levels, gene
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expression and histology are often being used.1 Binding to TTR is one potential marker of TDCs
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which could be designed for high throughput screening.75 This study described on a molecular
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level potential variation in interaction at the TTR binding site that that could cause species
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variation in read-out from toxicity assays. In particular, these variations are expected for small
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and polar chemicals. In assessing environmental and human health risks of industrial chemicals
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and development of drug candidates, fish based assays is frequently being used motivated by the
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high number of orthologs for human drug targets in e.g. zebrafish.76 Here we studied, seabream
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but the amino acid sequence in the binding pocket of TTR is well conserved for several fish
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species including zebrafish and rainbow trout which are frequently being used for toxicity tests.
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Findings presented here may thus have an impact on data from fish tests for in particular small
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and polar chemicals that could result in underestimating risks when extrapolated to the human
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This information is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.
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Details of the X-ray structures, in vitro isothermal titration calorimetry experiments; procedures
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and results of the molecular dynamics simulations, MM-PBSA calculations and alanine scanning
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simulations are in the supporting information.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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This study was financed by the MiSSE project through grants from the Swedish Research
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Council for the Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas) (210-2012-
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131) and by the Swedish Research Council (521-2011-6427 and 2015-03607). We also thank the
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staff of the Protein Expertise Platform at Umeå University for cloning services. The molecular
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dynamics simulations were conducted at the High Performance Computing Center North.
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Table 1. Studied compounds with abbreviations, chemical abstract services (CAS) registry
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CAS number
Use
3,3',5,5'-tetraiodo-Lthyronine (T4)
51-48-9
Fish
Human
Ratio
Kd (µM)
Kd (µM)
Fish:Human Kd
Control
0.23a (0.01b66)
0.09a (0.015b77) (0.084b78)
~1:1-1:3
2,2',4,4'131-55-5 tetrahydroxybenzophe none (BP2)
UV absorber
54.61
0.10
1:500
2-(3-chloro-217737-65-4 methylanilino)pyridin e-3-carboxylic acid (Clonixin)
Pharmaceutical
3.61
0.52
1:7
335-67-1
Surfactant
2.16
2.19
1:1
2,2',6,6'tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA)
79-94-7
Flame retardant
0.18
0.02
1:9
3,5,6-Trichloro-2pyridinol (TC2P)
6515-38-4
Herbicide
28.41
3.34
1:9
2,4,5trichlorophenoxyaceti c acid (2,4,5-T)
93-76-5
Herbicide
10.20
3.19
1:3
pentadecafluorooctan oic acid (PFOA)
657 658
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The binding affinity of T4 is only an approximate value due to its thermoinstability and poor solubility in the isothermal titration calorimetry buffer. bKd values reported in literatures.
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Figure 1. Structural comparison of SaTTR (PDB code: 1SN0) and hTTR (PDB code: 2ROX). (a)
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Ribbon drawing of the superimposed tetrameric structures, SaTTR in green and hTTR in gray.
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SaTTR has a tetramer in the asymmetric unit; these are labelled A, B, C and D. hTTR has a
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dimer in the asymmetric unit of the crystal; these are labelled A and B, and the symmetry-related
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monomers in the hTTR tetramer are consequently labelled A’ and B’. T4 bound at the two
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thyroxine binding sites are shown as sticks. (b) Close-up view of the thyroid-binding sites of
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monomers B and B´ in hTTR and monomers B and D in SaTTR. Note that T4 in hTTR
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penetrates deeper into the thyroid-binding site than the T4 in SaTTR. c) Global pair-wise
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sequence alignment of SaTTR and hTTR. Residues constituting the thyroid-binding site are
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highlighted in red.
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Figure 2. Compound binding in the thyroid-binding site formed by monomers B and D in SaTTR
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and monomers B and B´ in hTTR; (a) SaTTR-BP2, (b) SaTTR-clonixin (c) SaTTR-PFOA (d)
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SaTTR-TBBPA (e) SaTTR-TC2P, (f) hTTR-TC2P, (g) SaTTR-2,4,5-T, (h) hTTR-2,4,5-T. The
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refined (2m|Fo|−D|Fc|) electron density is shown in gray mesh at 1σ contour level. Water
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molecules around the ligands are shown as red spheres.
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Figure 3. Superimposed structures of SaTTR (green) and hTTR (gray) in complex with: (a) BP2
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(hTTR-BP2, PDB code: 5JIQ), (b) clonixin (hTTR-clonixin, PDB code: 5L4I), (c) PFOA
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(hTTR-PFOA, PDB code: 5JID), (d) TBBPA (hTTR-clonixin, PDB code: 5HJG), (e) TC2P, and
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(f) 2,4,5-T. Selected water molecules are shown as red spheres. Hydrogen bonds are shown as
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