The Crystal Structure of the C45S Mutant of Annelid Arenicola Marina
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JOBNAME: PROSCI 17#4 2008 PAGE: 1 OUTPUT: Wednesday March 5 15:35:56 2008 csh/PROSCI/152302/ps0733993 The crystal structure of the C45S mutant of annelid Arenicola marina peroxiredoxin 6 supports its assignment to the mechanistically typical 2-Cys subfamily without any formation of toroid-shaped decamers AUDE SMEETS,1 ELE´ ONORE LOUMAYE,2 ANDRE´ CLIPPE,2 JEAN-FRANCxOIS REES,2 2 1 BERNARD KNOOPS, AND JEAN-PAUL DECLERCQ 1Unit of Structural Chemistry (CSTR), Universite´ catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 2Laboratory of Cell Biology, Institut des Sciences de la Vie, Universite´ catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (RECEIVED December 10, 2007; FINAL REVISION January 24, 2008; ACCEPTED January 28, 2008) Abstract The peroxiredoxins (PRDXs) define a superfamily of thiol-dependent peroxidases able to reduce hydrogen peroxide, alkyl hydroperoxides, and peroxynitrite. Besides their cytoprotective antioxidant function, PRDXs have been implicated in redox signaling and chaperone activity, the latter depending on the formation of decameric high-molecular-weight structures. PRDXs have been mechanistically divided into three major subfamilies, namely typical 2-Cys, atypical 2-Cys, and 1-Cys PRDXs, based on the number and position of cysteines involved in the catalysis. We report the structure of the C45S mutant of annelid worm Arenicola marina PRDX6 in three different crystal forms determined at 1.6, 2.0, and 2.4 A˚ resolution. Although A. marina PRDX6 was cloned during the search of annelid homo- logs of mammalian 1-Cys PRDX6s, the crystal structures support its assignment to the mechanistically typical 2-Cys PRDX subfamily. The protein is composed of two distinct domains: a C-terminal domain and an N-terminal domain exhibiting a thioredoxin fold. The subunits are associated in dimers com- patible with the formation of intersubunit disulfide bonds between the peroxidatic and the resolving cysteine residues in the wild-type enzyme. The packing of two crystal forms is very similar, with pairs of dimers associated as tetramers. The toroid-shaped decamers formed by dimer association and observed in most typical 2-Cys PRDXs is not present. Thus, A. marina PRDX6 presents structural features of typical 2-Cys PRDXs without any formation of toroid-shaped decamers, suggesting that it should function more like a cytoprotective antioxidant enzyme or a modulator of peroxide-dependent cell signaling rather than a molecular chaperone. Keywords: peroxiredoxin; crystal structure; Arenicola marina; toroid-shaped decamer; thioredoxin fold Reprint requests to: Jean-Paul Declercq, Unit of Structural Chem- Besides classical cellular antioxidant enzymes involved istry (CSTR), Universite´ catholique de Louvain, 1 place Louis Pasteur, in the reduction of hydrogen peroxide and alkyl hydro- B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; e-mail: [email protected]; peroxides in animal cells, such as glutathione peroxidases fax: 32-10-472707. Article and publication are at http://www.proteinscience.org/cgi/ (GPXs) and catalase (CAT), peroxiredoxins (PRDXs) doi/10.1110/ps.073399308. have emerged more recently as a major superfamily of 700 Protein Science (2008), 17:700–710. Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Copyright Ó 2008 The Protein Society ps0733993 Smeets et al. ARTICLE RA JOBNAME: PROSCI 17#4 2008 PAGE: 2 OUTPUT: Wednesday March 5 15:35:59 2008 csh/PROSCI/152302/ps0733993 Crystal structure of A. marina peroxiredoxin 6 evolutionarily conserved peroxidases (Hofmann et al. typical 2-Cys subfamily without any formation of toroid- 2002; Wood et al. 2002; Rhee et al. 2005a). shaped decamers. A similar situation was already ob- PRDXs are selenium- and heme-free peroxidases that served for the archaeal PRDX from Aeropyrum pernix depend on cysteines for their catalytic activity (for K1, but with the formation of toroid-shaped decamers review,seeWoodetal.2003).Mechanistically,PRDXs (Mizohata et al. 2005). have been classified into three subfamilies depending on the number and the position of cysteines implicated in Results and Discussion the catalysis. All PRDXs contain a conserved peroxidatic cysteine residue in the N-terminal domain of the protein. Quality of the models During the catalytic cycle, the peroxidatic cysteine is first oxidized by peroxide or peroxynitrite to sulfenic acid. We report here the crystal structure of the C45S mutant of Then, this intermediate is transformed either by forming a Arenicola marina PRDX6 in three different crystal forms. disulfide bond with a resolving C-terminal cysteine of Thefirsttwoformsaremonoclinic with four monomers another subunit (typical 2-Cys subfamily) or the same (A–D) in the asymmetric unit, and the last one is ortho- subunit (atypical 2-Cys subfamily). In the 1-Cys sub- rhombic with eight monomers (A–H) in the asymmetric family, only an N-terminal peroxidatic cysteine is present unit. In all cases, pairs of monomers are associated to in the enzyme, and the sulfenic acid of the peroxidatic form dimers. cysteine is reduced by a heterologous thiol-containing In the monoclinic structures, the electron density is reductant such as glutathione. usually well defined along the protein chain except for Functionally, PRDXs are important cytoprotective anti- the first residue at the N-terminal part and a few residues oxidant enzymes, although their reactivity with peroxides (including the 63His tag) at the C-terminal part of the hasbeenpreviouslyquestionedcomparedwithGPXs polypeptides. The situation is similar for the first four and CAT (Hofmann et al. 2002). However, reassessments chains (A–D) of the orthorhombic structure, but in the of the kinetic values have shown that PRDXs may exhibit four remaining chains (E–H) the electron density is poorly high catalytic efficiencies compatible with their role as defined in some loop (residues 188–201), and in this region cytoprotective antioxidant enzymes (Parsonage et al. 2005; the structural model was built according to the well-defined Oguscu et al. 2007; Peskin et al. 2007; Trujillo et al. 2007). chains. The Ramachandran diagrams computed by the pro- Mammalian typical 2-Cys PRDXs have been also implicated gram Molprobity (Lovell et al. 2003) indicate that about as regulators of redox signaling due to their ability to be 98% of the residues lie in favored regions and that all of reversibly inactivated by peroxides during the catalytic them adopt an allowed conformation. process that accommodates the intracellular messenger All the monomers are very similar, as well as their function of hydrogen peroxide (Rhee et al. 2005b). Finally, association to form dimers. For this reason, one monomer more recently, bacteria, yeast, and human 2-Cys PRDXs and one dimer from the first monoclinic form were have been shown to act alternatively as peroxidases and selected for a detailed description since the resolution molecular chaperones, the functional switch necessitating of 1.6 A˚ achieved for this structure is substantially higher the formation of toroid-shaped homodecamers and high- than the two other ones (2.0 A˚ and 2.4 A˚ ). The avail- molecular-weight complexes (Jang et al. 2004; Chuang et al. ability of three different crystal structures remains impor- 2006; Lee et al. 2007). tant, however, because they will present differences in the In search of a homolog of mammalian 1-Cys PRDX6 packing of the dimers. Indeed, it has been shown that in the marine annelid Arenicola marina,wehavecloned in the case of typical 2-Cys PRDXs, the oligomerization and initiated the biochemical characterization of a PRDX of the dimers may play an important role in the redox with high sequence homology with mammalian PRDX6s mechanism and that enzyme activity could be linked to (E.Loumaye,A.Andersen,A.Clippe,H.Degand,M. the oligomeric state (Alphey et al. 2000; Schro¨der et al. Dubuisson, F. Zal, P. Morsomme, J.F. Rees, and B. 2000; Wood et al. 2002; Parsonage et al. 2005). Knoops, in prep.). Interestingly, although A. marina PRDX6 presents 63% identity and 85% similarity with Structure of the monomer human 1-Cys PRDX6, the protein possesses five cys- teines, among which two cysteines function as peroxi- In the first monoclinic crystal form, the average RMS de- datic and resolving cysteines of typical 2-Cys PRDXs viation between the Ca atoms of the four chains is 0.184 (E.Loumaye,A.Andersen,A.Clippe,H.Degand,M. A˚ , and chain B can be considered as the ‘‘central subunit’’ Dubuisson, F. Zal, P. Morsomme, J.F. Rees, and B. with an average RMS deviation of 0.165 A˚ between this Knoops, in prep.). The crystal structures of the C45S chain and the three other ones. Figure 1 shows the fold mutant of annelid worm Arenicola marina PRDX6 pre- of this monomer and a topological diagram. The structure sented here support its assignment to the mechanistically is composed of two domains. The N-terminal domain 1 www.proteinscience.org 701 JOBNAME: PROSCI 17#4 2008 PAGE: 3 OUTPUT: Wednesday March 5 15:36:00 2008 csh/PROSCI/152302/ps0733993 Smeets et al. b-sheet (b10, b11, b13, b12) and one a-helix (a6) located between strands b11 and b12. There are only a very few intrasubunit contacts between the two domains. They involve residues located in helix a5indomain1and in the loop between b10 and b11 in domain 2. Hydrogen bonds are formed between Ser162 Og andThr173Og1 and between Arg158 Nh1 and the carbonyl oxygen of Trp177. A. marina PRDX6 presents 63% identity with human PRDX6 (hORF6), whose crystal structure has been deter- mined and corresponds to PDB code 1prx (Choi et al. 1998). The folds of these two monomers of PRDX6 are very similar: 195 residues can be aligned with an RMS deviation of 0.97 A˚ between the Ca atoms. Large differ- ences occur mainly in domain 1, in two regions that do not belong to the thioredoxin fold: the loop between a3 and b5, and the short two-stranded b-sheet (b6, b7), which is a unique feature of A.