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Enzyme Kinetics of Different Types of Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenases Determine the Observable Contaminant Stable Isotope Fractionation Reto S. Wijker, Sarah Pati, Josef Zeyer, and Thomas B. Hofstetter Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00254 • Publication Date (Web): 16 Oct 2015 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on October 20, 2015
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Enzyme Kinetics of Different Types of Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenases Determine the Observable Contaminant Stable Isotope Fractionation Reto S. Wijker,†, ¶ Sarah G. Pati,‡,† Josef Zeyer,† and Thomas B. Hofstetter∗,‡,† Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics (IBP), ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland, and Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland E-mail: thomas.hofstetter@eawag.ch
Fax: +41 58 765 50 28, Phone: +41 58 765 50 76
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whom correspondence should be addressed Zürich ‡ Eawag ¶ Present address: Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA † ETH
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Abstract
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The assessment of oxidative pollutant biotransformation by compound-specific isotope
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analysis (CSIA) is often complicated by the variability of kinetic isotope effects associated
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with carbon oxygenation in enzymatic reactions. Here, we illustrate how information on the
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kinetics of oxidative biocatalysis by flavin-dependent monooxygenases (FMOs) enables one to
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assess if CSIA could be applied for tracking contaminant biodegradation. In “cautious” FMOs,
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which form reactive flavin (hydro)peroxide species after substrate binding, the monooxygena-
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tion of organic compounds is not rate-determining and consequently does not lead to substrate
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isotope fractionation. Conversely, “bold” FMOs generate hydroperoxides regardless of sub-
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strate availability and substrate disappearance is thus subject to isotope fractionation trends,
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which are typical for hydroxylation reactions. Because monooxygenations of aromatic moieties
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are often initial steps of organic pollutant transformation, knowledge of the kinetics of FMOs
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and other oxidative enzymes can support decisions regarding the use of CSIA.
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Introduction
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Compound specific isotope analysis (CSIA) is an increasingly used approach for assessing (bio)de-
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gradation of organic pollutants in the environment. 1–5 Bonding changes during initial steps of
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transformation, especially bond cleavage reactions, give rise to kinetic isotope effects (KIEs), which
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lead to characteristic changes of stable isotope ratios in the remaining contaminant. This so-called
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stable isotope fractionation enables one to characterize contaminant transformation, especially
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when isotope ratios of several elements are considered simultaneously. Based on a quantitative
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understanding of KIEs, it is possible to derive the extent and rates of (bio)degradation from pollutant
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stable isotope fractionation. 6–13 Such insights are invaluable for assessing degradation processes
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that occur over timescales of years to decades.
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During oxidative pollutant transformations, which are often enzyme-catalyzed reactions, 14 the
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interpretation of contaminant isotope fractionation is challenging because of the complex kinetics
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of enzymatic dioxygen activation. 15–17 Isotope fractionation can be masked if formation of reactive
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oxygen species rather than bond cleavage reactions of the contaminant become rate-limiting. Such
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phenomena may lead to erroneous interpretations of small isotope fractionation, 18–21 especially
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when CSIA is restricted to one isotopic element (e.g., due to analytical constraints of continuous
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flow isotope ratio mass spectrometry 22 ). Even though variations of isotope fractionation behaviour
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are frequently addressed in CSIA studies, 23–29 there have been no attempts to interpret the latter
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systematically based on the extensively-studied kinetics of oxidative biocatalysis.
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Here, we show how the two major catalytic strategies of flavin-dependent monooxygenases
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with regard to O2 activation can be used to rationalize the isotope fractionation associated with the
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monooxygenation of organic micropollutants. Flavin-dependent monooxygenases (FMO) play a key
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role in many biological processes 30–32 and are known to catalyze the initial steps of degradation of
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many contaminants including chloro- and nitrophenol derivatives, 33–41 toluenes, 42 and xylenes. 43
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FMOs have evolved two catalytic strategies to prevent wasteful NAD(P)H oxidation and therefore
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differ regarding the sequence of substrate binding and O2 activation. 44 “Bold” FMOs generate
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strate molecules are encountered. In contrast, the formation of the reactive flavin (hydro)peroxide
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species responsible for hydroxylation “cautious” FMOs is only triggered in the presence of the sub-
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strate. Therefore, we hypothesize that the isotope fractionation of organic substrates hydroxylated
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by “bold” and “cautious” FMOs is fundamentally different. Rate of substrate disappearance would
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be determined by its chemical reaction with “bold ” FMOs thus leading to measurable substrate
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isotope fractionation. The transformation in “cautious” FMOs, in contrast, would be limited, for
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example, by substrate binding, whose isotope effects are much smaller 45 and difficult to detect. A
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priori knowledge of kinetic mechanisms of FMOs with organic pollutants as substrates could thus
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enable one to delineate cases where CSIA may be suited to track biodegradation from cases where
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it is not.
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We tested the above hypothesis that monooxygenations by “bold” FMOs leads to measurable
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substrate isotope fractionation whereas no isotope fractionation can be observed if the reaction is
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catalyzed by “cautious” FMOs. To this end, we investigated the two known prototypes for “bold” and
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“cautious” FMOs, namely the transformation of cyclohexanone by cyclohexanone monooxygenase
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(EC 1.14.13.22, a Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenase) 46,47 and of 4-hydroxybenzoate (4-HBA) by 4-
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hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase (EC 1.14.13.2). 48 Crude cell extracts containing 4-hydroxybenzoate
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hydroxylase were used to rule out the masking of isotope fractionation by transport processes
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across cell membranes. Insights from the work with the prototype-FMOs was applied to interpret
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the catalytic strategy associated with the monooxygenation of 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid (4-HPA)
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by 4-hydroxyphenylacetate hydroxylase. While the mechanism of 4-HPA monooxygenation is
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identical to the one for 4-HBA, 49 the 4-hydroxyphenylacetate hydroxylase belongs to the group of
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two component flavin-dependent monooxygenases, 50 which are more widely related to contaminant
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biodegradation 39,41 and supposedly react like “bold” Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases. 49
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Materials and Methods
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Biodegradation and biotransformation experiments
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We carried out three different types of experiments with (a) enzyme assays, (b) resting cells, and
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(c) crude cell extracts to study the monooxygenation of cyclohexanone, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (4-
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HBA), and 4-hydroxyphenylacetate (4-HPA) as described in detail in the Supporting Information.
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All experiments were performed in duplicates and aqueous samples, taken at predefined time-points
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and acidified with 2 vol.% of HCl (7.5%) to stop substrate conversion, were stored at 4 ℃ until
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concentration and isotopic analyses.
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(a) Experiments in enzyme assays of a commercially available cyclohexanone monooxygenase
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purified from Acinetobacter sp. were set up according to a modified procedure form Sheng et al. 46
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to study the transformation of cyclohexanone . Assay solutions contained 5 ml 0.1 M glycine/NaOH
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buffer (pH 9), 25 µM FAD, 3 mM NADPH and 50 µl cyclohexanone monooxygenase (≥12 U/mL).
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The reaction was initiated with 1.5 mM cyclohexanone and subsequently incubated in a flask on a
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rotary shaker at 25 ℃. NADPH oxidation was monitored at 340 nm with a spectrophotometer. Con-
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trol experiments were carried out identically except for addition of cyclohexanone monooxygenase
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or NADPH, respectively.
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(b) Experiments with resting cells of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 were carried out in phos-
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phate buffer (0.025 M, pH 7) and incubated on a rotary shaker at 28 ℃ with the substrate used in
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the pre-grown culture, that is either 5 mM 4-HBA or 2 mM 4-HPA (see Supporting Information,
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SI). Control experiments did not contain cells.
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(c) Experiments with crude cell extract of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 were prepared to
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study 4-HBA transformation. 25 Cells were suspended in phosphate buffer (0.02 M, pH 7.0) on
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ice, followed by sonication (Sonics Vibra Cell VCX130) and centrifugation at 18000 rpm for 20
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minutes. The supernatant was designated as crude cell extract. Reactions were performed on a
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rotary shaker at 25 ℃ in 10 ml flasks containing 25 mM phosphate buffer (pH 7.0), 3 ml crude cell
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extract, 40 µM FAD, and 1 mM NADPH. The reaction was initiated by adding 350 µM 4-HBA.
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Control experiments were set up identically without NADPH.
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Chemical, biological, and isotopic analyses
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Protein concentrations were determined according to Lowry et al. 51 . Instrumental settings for
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both chemical and isotopic analysis followed previously established procedures, 23,52,53 which are
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described in the SI. Concentrations of 4-HBA, 4-HPA were quantified without further treatment
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by reverse-phase HPLC with a UV-Vis detection. Ethyl acetate extracts of cyclohexanone were
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measured by GC/MS. The natural abundance 13 C/12 C ratios of 4-HBA, 4-HPA, and cyclohexanone
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were measured by high-temperature liquid chromatography coupled to isotope ratio mass spectrom-
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etry. All C isotope ratios are expressed as δ13 C relative to Vienna PeeDee Belemnite (δ13 CVPDB )
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using calibrated reference materials.
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C isotope enrichment factors, ǫ C , were obtained from linear regression analysis of logarithms of
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normalized δ13 C-values vs. fraction of the remaining reactant (c/c0 , eq. S1). Apparent 13 C-kinetic
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isotope effects (13 C-AKIEs) for the reacting C bond(s) were calculated with eq. S2 by accounting
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for the total number of C atoms and neglecting secondary isotope effects.
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Cyclohexanone monooxygenase
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The catalytic cycle of cyclohexanone monooxygenase is displayed in Scheme 1a and the δ13 C-values
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of cyclohexanone (compound 1) during its transformation to ǫ-caprolactone (3) are shown in Figure
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1a. We observed substantial C isotope fractionation in the remaining substrate corresponding to a
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C isotope enrichment factor, ǫ C , of −8.7 ± 0.1h. The Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of cyclohexanone
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to ǫ-caprolactone is well-studied and proceeds through a Criegee two-step mechanism, which
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involves formation of a hemiperacetal intermediate (2). 54,55 We assumed that only the carbonyl-C
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experiences a primary C isotope effect to calculate a large
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of similar magnitude as the
for the carbonyl position of cyclohexanone (1.051 ± 0.004)
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during Baeyer-Villiger oxidation in dichloromethane by 13 C-NMR. 56 The good agreement of isotope
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effects for the enzymatic and chemical Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of cyclohexanone suggests that
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the oxidation of the substrate was the rate-limiting step of cyclohexanone disappearance in our
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experiments.
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As shown in Scheme 1a, the overall kinetic mechanism of cyclohexanone monooxygenase
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involves the reduction of the oxidized enzyme, E-Flox , by NADPH followed by the rapid oxygenation
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of the reduced flavin NADP+ -E-Flred to a (hydro)peroxide. While the hydroperoxide species is
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unreactive, the peroxide, NADP+ -E-Fl–OO− , rapidly transforms 1 to 3. 46 Dehydration of the flavin
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C4 -hydroxide (NADP+ -E-Fl–OH) as well as the release of 3 and NADP+ lead to the recovery of
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the oxidized enzyme, E-Flox . Spectroscopic analyses by Sheng et al. 46 revealed that the reaction
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of the Criegee adduct (2 → 3) and dehydration of NADP+ -E-Fl–OH are faster than the first step
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of substrate transformation (1 → 2). The authors also ruled out that the release 3 and NADP+
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limited the rate of catalytic turnover for cyclohexanone as substrate. The current knowledge of the
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catalytic cycle of cyclohexanone monooxagenase thus strongly supports the above interpretation of
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the 13 C-kinetic isotope effects. As hypothesized for a “bold” FMO, our data indicate that the initial
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oxidation of cyclohexanone is rate-determining and, consequently, responsible for the observed
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substrate isotope fractionation.
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4-Hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase
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Resting cells of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 transformed 4-hydroxybenzoate (4-HBA) within 7.5
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h following zero-order kinetics and we did not observe significant substrate C isotope fractionation
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(Figure 1b). The ǫ C -value was 0.03 ± 0.05h. The corresponding 13 C-AKIE was 0.9997 ± 0.0004,
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that is not different from unity. 4-HBA transformation in experiments with crude cell extracts of
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Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 was approximately three times faster (Table S1) but the ǫ C -value
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did not mask the isotope effect of monooxygenation, in agreement with previously findings for
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nitrophenols. 25 Changes of C hybridization upon (enzymatic) hydroxylation of aromatic moieties
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such as those hypothesized for 4-HBA (Scheme 1b) 44,48,49 typically lead to larger C isotope
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fractionation.
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toluene, and nitrophenols. 25,28,29 These numbers imply that the C isotope fractionation during
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monooxygenation by 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase is at least tenfold smaller than expected from
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bonding changes of 4-HBA and that the oxidation of the substrate was not the rate-limiting step of
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4-HBA disappearance.
13 C-AKIE between 1.008 and 1.012 were reported for monooxygenation of benzene,
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The kinetic mechanism of 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase shown in Scheme 1b indeed features
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important differences to that of cyclohexane monooxygenase. The oxidized enzyme E–Flox ex-
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hibits a high affinity for 4-HBA (4 in Scheme 1b) and rapidly binds the substrate. Deprotonation of
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4-HBA in the active site triggers a first conformational rearrangement of the enzyme, which limits
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the overall rate of the enzymatic reaction. This step is followed by rapid reduction of the flavin
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by NADPH. 44,48,49 Because the association rate constant of E-Flox for 4-HBA is several orders of
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magnitude larger than for E-Flred , 44 the substrate is kinetically trapped while E-Flred reduces O2
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to form the oxidant, flavin hydroperoxide (E-Fl–OOH). 4-HBA reacts in an electrophilic aromatic
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substitution to compound 5, which tautomerises rapidly to 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate (6). The return
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to the initial state (E-Flox ) requires further conformational change, in which E-Fl–OH is protonated
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to eliminate H2 O and release 6. High substrate levels trap E-Fl–OH in the 4-hydroxybenzoate
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hydroxylase and may limit the rate of enzymatic activity in addition to conformational rearrange-
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ments of 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase upon 4-HBA binding. The absence of substrate isotope
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1c). The 13 C-AKIE of 1.0088 ± 0.0007 agrees well with the range of isotope effects reported for
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aromatic hydroxylations obtained with resting cells and crude cell extracts as discussed above. The
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ylase, where the rate of 4-HPA removal is determined by its reaction with a flavin hydroperoxide
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(EO -Fl–OOH, Scheme 1c). Such two-component FMOs differ from the one-component FMOs in
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that reduced flavins are formed in a separate, NADH-dependent reductase (ER ) as co-substrates and
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need to be transferred to the monooxygenase (EO ) as opposed to being bound as prosthetic group to
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the oxygenase. 44,49 This catalytic strategy implies that the activity of the reductase is not coupled
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to substrate binding like in the 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase. Instead, the flavin hydroperoxide
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is formed regardless of the presence of 4-HPA after binding of the flavin to ER (Scheme 1c). This
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behaviour resembles the kinetic mechanism of the “bold” cyclohexane monooxygenase (Scheme
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Implications for the assessment of pollutant biotransformation
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Both metabolic and co-metabolic monooxygenations are frequently the initial step of organic
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pollutant transformation 14 and therefore typical degradation processes to be assessed by CSIA. 1–5,22
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FMOs catalyze such oxidations at aromatic and (cyclic) ketone moieties, for example in chloro-
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and nitrophenols as well as alkylated benzenes. A selection of bacterial strains that carry out
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these reactions is listed in Table 1. The kinetic mechanisms of FMOs discussed above may
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determine the observable isotope fractionation of many organic contaminants. We have recently
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observed that monooxygenation of 4-nitrophenol by three microorganisms, in which FMOs have
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been identified, 39,40,58 is not necessarily associated with substrate isotope fractionation. 25 Only
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in two of three cases did the
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atom hybridization upon hydroxylation. Evidence presented here suggests that isotope fractionation
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during 4-nitrophenol monooxygenation was observable if the FMOs followed the kinetic mechanism
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of “bold” FMOs. Conversely, the absence of isotope fractionation in 4-nitrophenol, as observed in
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experiments with Pseudomonas sp. 1A, may have been due to oxidative catalysis by a “cautious”
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is consistent with the catalytic cycle of 4-hydroxyphenylacetate hydrox-
13 C-AKIEs
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FMO. These examples show that knowledge of the kinetic mechanisms of oxidative enzymes,
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especially with regard to the sequence of oxygen activation and substrate binding, is key for assessing
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contaminant transformation by CSIA. While our study illustrates these points for FMOs, similar
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kinetic mechanisms may also be encountered in oxidative reactions of copper- or iron-dependent
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enzymes. 15 Increasing our understanding of the enzymes involved in contaminant hydroxylation
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may be crucial for future applications of CSIA.
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Acknowledgement
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We thank Dr. Andreas Essig for providing the two Pseudomonas fluorescens strains.
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Supporting Information Available
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Description of growth conditions, analytical methods, and data evaluation procedures. Compilation
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of rates, ǫ C -, and
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http://pubs.acs.org/.
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The authors declare no competing financial interest.
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Table 1. Examples of oxygenations and substrates degraded by microorganisms that exhibit flavindependent monooxygenases.
Substrates
Strain
Reference
Hydroxylation 4-Nitrophenol
Trichlorophenol (TCP)
Pseudomonas sp. 1A Bacillus spharericus JS905 Arthrobacter sp. JS443 Burkholderia cepacia AC1100 Azetobacter sp strain GP1 Cupriavidus necator JMP134 Ralstonia eutropha JMP134
40 39,41 58 33 34 35 36
Flavobacterium sp. Strain ATCC 39723 Sphingomonas chlorophenolica
37
Burkholderia cepacia G4 Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1
42
Aceton
Gordonia sp. TY-5
59
(Cyclic) ketones
Pseudomonas putida KT2440 Pseudomonas sp. HI-70
60
Pentachlorophenol (PCP) Toluene and o-xylene
38
43
Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
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(a) Cyclohexanone monooxygenase ("bold" FMO) NADPH E-Flox
NADPH
NADP
E-Flox
E-Flred
O2
NADP E-Fl-OO –
3 H 2O NADP
1
O
NADP
NADP
NADP
E-Fl
E-Fl
E-Fl
O
HO
H+
O O
O
O
O
O
3
2
1
(b) 4-Hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase ("cautious" FMO) 4
NADPH
E-Flox
NADP NADPH
NADP
E-Flox
E-Flox
E-Flred
E-Flred
4
4
4
4
6 H 2O
O2 E-Fl
E-Fl
E-Fl
O
O
HO OH
OH
H
O
O OH
O
O
OH O
O
OH O
HB
6
B 4
5
(c) 4-Hydroxyphenylacetate hydroxylase NAD ER-Flred NAD Fl red
NADH ER
ER-Flox
O2
EO
E O-Fl-OOH
E O-Flred
NADH + Fl ox 7
9
E O-Fl
OH O O
9
OH
H OH
O
O
O
OH
O
E O-Fl
E O-Fl
OH
O
HB 8
OH O
B O
7
Scheme 1. Catalytic cycles of FMOs studied in this work (modified from Palfey and McDonald 44 , Sheng et al. 46 , Ballou et al. 49 ). (a) Cyclohexanone monooxygenase, the prototype for “bold” FMOs. E stands for the enzyme, Flox and Flred are the oxidized and reduced flavin prosthetic groups, respectively. E-Fl–OO− is the flavin peroxide. Cyclohexanone (1) is oxidized via a Criege intermediate (2) to ǫ -caprolactone (3). (b) 4-Hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase, the prototype for “cautious” monooxygenases. 44,48 The oxidized flavin prosthetic group (Flox ) binds the substrate 4-HBA (4) prior to reduction of the 4-HBA-enzyme complex by NADPH. Compound 6 is 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate, B and BH+ stand for a neutral and protonated base. (c) The 4-hydroxyphenylacetate hydroxylase is a two component FMO 49,57 where ER and EO are the reductase and oxidase, respectively. Compound 7 is 4-HPA, 9 is 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetate.
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0 (a) Cyclohexanone
-5
-1
k0 = 240±11 µM min (g protein)
13
! C (‰)
-10 -15
13
-1
C-AKIE = 1.055±0.007 "C = -8.7±1.0
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13
! C (‰)
-10
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
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(b) 4-hydroxybenzoate -1
k0 = 31±1 µM min (g protein) "C = 0.07±0.05
-1
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0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
(c) 4-hydroxyphenylacetate -1
k0 = 11±1 µM min (g protein)
13
! C (‰)
-10 -15
0.0
13
-1
C-AKIE = 1.0088±0.0007 "C = -1.1±0.1
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0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.0
c/c0
Figure 1. Substrate C isotope fractionation measured in the three experimental systems vs. fraction of remaining substrate c/c0 . k0 stands for the zero-order reaction rate constant, 13 C-AKIE is the apparent 13 C-kinetic isotope effect, and ǫ C is the substrate C isotope enrichment factor. (a) Cyclohexanone transformation by cyclohexanone monooxygenase in enzyme assays, (b) Transformation of 4-HBA by 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase in resting cells of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf5, (c) Transformation of 4-HPA by 4-hydroxyphenylacetate hydroxylase in resting cells of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf5. Lines were calculated with eq. S1. Light gray symbols and dashed lines refer to data from control experiments that did not contain enzymes or cells. Note that error bars are smaller than marker size.
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