An X-ray crystallographic study of the binding sites of the azide inhibitor and organic substrates to ceruloplasmin, a multi-copper oxidase in the plasma
An X-ray crystallographic study of the binding sites of the azide inhibitor and organic substrates to ceruloplasmin, a multi-copper oxidase in the plasma
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叠氮化物抑制剂和有机底物与血浆中的多铜氧化酶铜蓝蛋白结合位点的 X 射线晶体学研究
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1999
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P. Lindley
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V. Zaitsev;I. Zaitseva;M. Papiz;P. Lindley
Abstract Ceruloplasmin is a multi-copper oxidase, which contains most of the copper present in the plasma. It is an acute-phase reactant that exhibits a two- to three-fold increase over the normal concentration of 300 μg/ml in adult plasma. However, the precise physiological role(s) of ceruloplasmin has been the subject of intensive debate and it is likely that the enzyme has a multi-functional role, including iron oxidase activity and the oxidation of biogenic amines. The three-dimensional X-ray structure of the human enzyme was elucidated in 1996 and showed that the molecule was composed of six cupredoxin-type domains arranged in a triangular array. There are six integral copper atoms per molecule (mononuclear sites in domains 2, 4 and 6 and a trinuclear site between domains 1 and 6) and two labile sites with roughly 50% occupancy. Further structural studies on the binding of metal cations by the enzyme indicated a putative mechanism for ferroxidase activity. In this paper we report medium-resolution X-ray studies (3.0–3.5 Å) which locate the binding sites for an inhibitor (azide) and various substrates [aromatic diamines, biogenic amines and (+)-lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD]. The binding site of the azide moiety is topologically equivalent to one of the sites reported for ascorbate oxidase. However, there are two distinct binding sites for amine substrates: aromatic diamines bind on the bottom of domain 4 remote from the mononuclear copper site, whereas the biogenic amine series typified by serotonin, epinephrine and dopa bind in close vicinity to that utilised by cations in domain 6 and close to the mononuclear copper. These binding sites are discussed in terms of possible oxidative mechanisms. The binding site for LSD is also reported.