Structure–Function Relationships of Human Jmjc Oxygenases
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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Structure–function relationships of human JmjC oxygenases — demethylases versus hydroxylases 1,3 1,2,3 Suzana Markolovic , Thomas M Leissing , 1 1 2 Rasheduzzaman Chowdhury , Sarah E Wilkins , Xin Lu and 1 Christopher J Schofield The Jumonji-C (JmjC) subfamily of 2-oxoglutarate (2OG)- response [1]. Of these, the Jumonji-C domain-containing dependent oxygenases are of biomedical interest because of oxygenases (JmjC oxygenases) have attracted attention, their roles in the regulation of gene expression and protein including from a pharmaceutical perspective [2], principally biosynthesis. Human JmjC 2OG oxygenases catalyze oxidative because of their roles in histone demethylation [3 ,4 ,5 ,6], modifications to give either chemically stable alcohol products, though they have wider roles in protein hydroxylation e or in the case of N -methyl lysine demethylation, relatively [7 ,8 ,9]. The JmjC oxygenases are a subfamily of 2OG unstable hemiaminals that fragment to give formaldehyde and oxygenases that share sequence homology and structural the demethylated product. Recent work has yielded conflicting similarities (as detailed below). Most JmjC oxygenases reports as to whether some JmjC oxygenases catalyze (>20) have been assigned as histone lysine demethylases e N-methyl group demethylation or hydroxylation reactions. We (KDMs), which catalyze N -methyl lysine residue demeth- e review JmjC oxygenase-catalyzed reactions within the context ylation reactions (Figure 1a), proceeding via initial N - of structural knowledge, highlighting key differences between methyl group hydroxylation followed by fragmentation to hydroxylases and demethylases, which have the potential to give the demethylated product and formaldehyde. Other inform on the possible type(s) of reactions catalyzed by partially members of the JmjC subfamily catalyze oxidation of characterized or un-characterized JmjC oxygenases in humans proteins (and, in one case, tRNA) to give a stable hydroxyl- and other organisms. ated product; we refer to these as ‘JmjC hydroxylases’. This Addresses dual functionality within the JmjC subfamily has led to 1 Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, conflicting reports regarding the assignment of some JmjC Oxford OX1 3TA, UK oxygenases. To date, several JmjC oxygenases have been 2 Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Nuffield Department of Clinical reported to catalyze both demethylation and hydroxylation. Medicine, Old Road Campus Research Building, Old Road Campus, Here, we review JmjC oxygenases from structural and University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK biochemical perspectives, focusing on members that have Corresponding author: Schofield, Christopher J been structurally characterized. We discuss structural (christopher.schofi[email protected]) 3 features common to different types of JmjC oxygenases These authors contributed equally to this work. (i.e. hydroxylases versus demethylases) and correlate these with the types of reactions that they catalyze. Current Opinion in Structural Biology 2016, 41:62–72 This review comes from a themed issue on Catalysis and regulation History and overview of the JmjC oxygenases Edited by David Christianson and Nigel Scrutton The JmjC domain is named after the ‘Jumonji’ protein in which it was first identified [10]. The name ‘Jumonji’ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2016.05.013 (meaning ‘cruciform’ in Japanese) is based on the abnor- mal ‘cross-like’ appearance of neural grooves in Jumonji 0959-440/# 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an (Jmj)-null mice. The Jmj gene was proposed to encode for open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecom- mons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). a putative Jumonji protein (corresponding to human JARID2) [10], which contains a DNA-binding domain (AT-rich interaction domain, ARID), JmjC, and Jumonji- N (JmjN) domains [11]. The latter two were proposed to co-occur [11], though later work revealed they are sepa- rate structural and functional units [12]. Bioinformatics Introduction indicated that the JmjC domain is widely distributed in Interest in human Fe(II)- and 2-oxoglutarate (2OG)-de- eukaryotes [11,12]. Since many of the proteins containing pendent oxygenases has been stimulated by the discovery JmjN and JmjC domains had been previously linked with of their roles in regulation of gene expression and protein transcriptional control and contained known DNA bind- biosynthesis. More than 60 human 2OG oxygenases have ing domains (e.g. plant homeobox domain (PHD), ARID, been identified, with roles in diverse processes such as or Zn fingers), they were collectively termed the Jumonji fatty acid metabolism (including carnitine biosynthesis), family of transcription factors [11]. Bioinformatics identi- collagen biosynthesis, development, and the hypoxic fied that the JmjC domain shared considerable similarity Current Opinion in Structural Biology 2016, 41:62–72 www.sciencedirect.com Structure–function relationships of JmjC oxygenases Markolovic et al. 63 Figure 1 (a) Histone demethylases RNA hydroxylase H + + N N+ NH O + 2 NH3 OH H2N O KDM4-6 KDM2-7 KDM2-7 N N N N N N H 2OG succinate H 2OG succinate H 2OG succinate H N N N O CO O CO O CO O O2 2 O2 2 O 2 H CO H CO 2 Kme3 2 Kme2 2 Kme1 H2CO Iysine yW-72 + Protein hydroxylases TYW5, Fe(II) NH3 2OG HO O2 NH NH + OH NH N MINA53/NO66/FIH, Fe(II) N 3 JMJD6, Fe(II) succinate N N N H 2OG succinate H 2OG succinate H CO2 O O O CO2 O CO 2 O2 2 histidine 3S-hydroxyhistidine 5S-hydroxylysine N O H + O JMJD4, F NH OH 3 H2N Iysine e(II) O O O 2OG HO OH O N R FIH, Fe(II) R for R = OH 2 OH N 3S-hydroxyaspartate succinate CO N N N N N for R = NH2 2 N H 2OG succinate H H O 3S-hydroxyasparagine O O CO O 2 2 4-hydroxylysine aspartate OHyW* (b) Extended loop at N-terminus of DSBH characteristic of basic residue LysLys JmjC KDMs coordinating 2OG DDSBHSBH C-5 carboxylate I IIII VIIIVIII VIIVII IIIIII IVIV VIVI V N-terminally-terminally extendedextended Fe anti-parallelanti-parallel β-strands-strands C N N HxD/E...H C iron-coordinating residues βIV-V insert β involved in N-terminal-terminal extraextra IV-V insert substrate binding β-strands-strands Current Opinion in Structural Biology Characteristic features of JmjC domain architecture and reaction catalysis. (a) Demethylation and hydroxylation reactions catalyzed by human JmjC oxygenases. (b) (Left) View from a crystal structure of an FIH monomer (PBD ID: 1H2K, [14 ]) as a representative JmjC oxygenase, and (right) two dimensional domain topology of a generalized JmjC domain (generated using TopDraw). The JmjC domain fold contains a distorted double-stranded b-helix (DSBH; b-strands I–VIII; blue) fold, additional N-terminal anti-parallel b-strands that extend the DSBH (grey), and a bIV-V insert (red). Fe(II) (orange sphere) and 2OG (cyan sticks) are bound in the active site. Abbreviations are defined in Table 1. with enzymes containing a cupin or double-stranded b- factor (FIH), reveal the JmjC domain indeed adopts a helix (DSBH) fold, leading to the proposal that JmjC DSBH fold [7 ,8 ,13 ,14 ,15 ]. Rather than supporting a proteins act as Zn(II)-dependent transcriptional regula- Zn(II)-binding active site, FIH is an Fe(II)- and 2OG- tors, since phosphomannose isomerase is a Zn(II)-utiliz- dependent oxygenase like many JmjC enzymes. This work ing DSBH fold enzyme [12]. identified roles for JmjC oxygenases in transcriptional reg- ulation via FIH-catalyzed asparaginyl hydroxylation of Studies on the first biochemically and structurally charac- hypoxia inducible factor-a (HIF-a) isoforms [7 ,8 ], a reac- terized JmjC oxygenase, factor inhibiting hypoxia inducible tion important in the hypoxic response; FIH regulates HIF www.sciencedirect.com Current Opinion in Structural Biology 2016, 41:62–72 64 Catalysis and regulation activity by reducing its binding to transcriptional coactiva- ‘distal’ His is positioned at the start of bVII, spatially tors (CBP/p300) [16]. These discoveries were followed by adjacent to bII (Figure 1b). 2OG binds to Fe(II) in a important work identifying the first JmjC domain-contain- bidentate manner via its C-2 keto and C-1 carboxylate ing KDMs, that is the KDM2, 3, and 4 subfamilies [3 ,4 ,5 ]. groups (Supplementary Figure 2A); its binding is stabi- These studies expanded roles of JmjC oxygenase catalysis lized by electrostatic and hydrogen bonding interactions, to ‘epigenetic’ regulation and identified JmjC KDMs as the including between its C-5 carboxylate and a basic residue largest class of histone KDMs [6], with the flavin-depen- located deeper in the DSBH. For human JmjC oxyge- dent lysine specific KDMs constituting a smaller class [17]. nases, this residue is typically a lysine located at the bIV Structural studies of the JmjC catalytic core of KDM4A N-terminus. Exceptions to this include the KDM6 sub- provided the first insights into KDM structure–function family [37–39], where the lysine is on bI, and KDM3B, relationships [18 ,19 ,20 ]. Since the identification of FIH where the lysine is on bVIII (PBD ID: 4LXL). The and the first JmjC KDMs, the substrate repertoire of JmjC bacterial JmjC hydroxylase ycfD is the only structurally oxygenases has expanded to include other KDMs acting on characterized JmjC oxygenase with an arginine rather histone tails [6], multiple non-HIF-a FIH substrates (most- than a lysine residue on the bIV strand [40,41 ], a differ- ly ankyrin repeat domain proteins) [21], mRNA splicing ence proposed to reflect changes in JmjC evolution [41 ]. factors [22 ], tRNA [23 ], ribosomal proteins [24 ], and As for other 2OG oxygenases, the JmjC oxygenases other proteins involved in translation [25 ] (Table 1). These appear to use an ordered sequential mechanism, where discoveries reveal 2OG oxygenase-catalyzed hydroxylation 2OG binding is followed by substrate and, finally, O2 of proteins is more extensive than was perceived before the (Supplementary Figure 2B) [42].