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Xenobiotica
the fate of foreign compounds in biological systems
Volume 41, 2011 - Issue 4
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General Xenobiochemistry

Multiple substrate-binding sites are retained in cytochrome P450 3A4 mutants with decreased cooperativity

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Pages 281-289 | Received 27 Sep 2010, Accepted 05 Nov 2010, Published online: 14 Dec 2010
 

Abstract

  1. The basis of decreased cooperativity in substrate binding in the cytochrome P450 3A4 mutants F213W, F304W, and L211F/D214E was studied with fluorescence resonance energy transfer and absorbance spectroscopy.

  2. Although in the wild type enzyme, the absorbance changes reflecting the interactions with 1-pyrenebutanol exhibit a Hill coefficient (nH) around 1.7 (S50 = 11.7 µM), the mutants showed no cooperativity (nH ≤ 1.1) with unchanged S50 values.

  3. Contrary to the premise that the mutants lack one of the two binding sites, the mutants exhibited at least two substrate binding events. The high-affinity interaction is characterized by a dissociation constant (KD) ≤ 1.0 µM, whereas the KD of the second binding has the same magnitude as the S50.

  4. Theoretical analysis of a two-step binding model suggests that nH values may vary from 1.1 to 2.2 depending on the amplitude of the spin shift caused by the first binding event.

  5. Alteration of cooperativity in the mutants is caused by a partial displacement of the “spin-shifting” step. Although in the wild type the spin shift occurs in the ternary complex only, the mutants exhibit some spin shift on binding of the first substrate molecule.

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