THE 3-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF AN ARACHIDONIC-ACID 15-LIPOXYGENASE
THE 3-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF AN ARACHIDONIC-ACID 15-LIPOXYGENASE
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DOI:
10.1126/science.8502991
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发表时间:
1993-06-04
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56.9
通讯作者:
AMZEL, LM
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作者:
BOYINGTON, JC;GAFFNEY, BJ;AMZEL, LM
In mammals, the hydroperoxidation of arachidonic acid by lipoxygenases leads to the formation of leukotrienes and lipoxins, compounds that mediate inflammatory responses. Lipoxygenases are dioxygenases that contain a nonheme iron and are present in many animal cells. Soybean lipoxygenase-1 is a single-chain, 839-residue protein closely related to mammalian lipoxygenases. The structure of soybean lipoxygenase-1 solved to 2.6 angstrom resolution shows that the enzyme has two domains: a 146-residue beta barrel and a 693-residue helical bundle. The iron atom is in the center of the larger domain and is coordinated by three histidines and the COO- of the carboxyl terminus. The coordination geometry is nonregular and appears to be a distorted octahedron in which two adjacent positions are not occupied by ligands. Two cavities, in the shapes of a bent cylinder and a frustum, connect the unoccupied positions to the surface of the enzyme The iron, with two adjacent and unoccupied positions, is poised to interact with the 1 4-diene system of the substrate and with molecular oxygen during catalysis.