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Nitric Oxide Dioxygenase: an Enzymic Function for Flavohemoglobin Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 95, pp. 10378–10383, September 1998 Biochemistry Nitric oxide dioxygenase: An enzymic function for flavohemoglobin PAUL R. GARDNER*, ANNE M. GARDNER,LORI A. MARTIN, AND ANDREW L. SALZMAN Division of Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229 Communicated by Irwin Fridovich, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, July 7, 1998 (received for review June 9, 1998) ABSTRACT Nitric oxide (NO•) is a toxin, and various life Moreover, this aerobic cyanide-sensitive NO• consumption forms appear to have evolved strategies for its detoxification. activity appeared to constitute part of an adaptive defense NO•-resistant mutants of Escherichia coli were isolated that against NO• toxicity. Thus, we supposed that E. coli mutants rapidly consumed NO•.AnNO•-converting activity was re- containing elevated activity might be selected for resistance to • constituted in extracts that required NADPH, FAD, and O2, 2 NO -mediated killing, and furthermore, that they could be was cyanide-sensitive, and produced NO3 . This nitric oxide used to facilitate the biochemical and genetic characterization dioxygenase (NOD) contained 19 of 20 N-terminal amino of the NO• scavenging activity. acids identical to those of the E. coli flavohemoglobin. Fur- Here, we describe the isolation and characterization of an thermore, NOD activity was produced by the flavohemoglobin O2-dependent and cyanide-sensitive nitric oxide dioxygenase gene and was inducible by NO•. FlavohemoglobinyNOD- (NOD) from NO•-resistant E. coli, which is a flavohemoglo- deficient mutants were also sensitive to growth inhibition by bin. The identification of NOD with flavohemoglobin is sig- gaseous NO•. The results identify a function for the evolu- nificant because the cellular function of (flavo)hemoglobins in tionarily conserved flavohemoglobins and, moreover, suggest E. coli, yeast, and other organisms has long remained obscure that NO• detoxification may be a more ancient function for the whereas physical, biochemical, and genetic information has widely distributed hemoglobins, and associated methemoglo- been bountiful. But, perhaps more significantly, the remark- bin reductases, than dioxygen transport and storage. able amino acid homology of the respective hemoglobin and flavin domains of flavohemoglobins with hemoglobins and Nitric oxide (NO•) is a free radical with multiple and diverse methemoglobin reductases from distantly related animals, biological functions. It is a common product of enzymic and plants, protists, helminths, and bacteria (13–16) suggests that nonenzymic oxidations of reduced nitrogen compounds and of the more primitive role of the well-characterized and ubiqui- • reductions of nitrogen oxides. In bacteria, the metabolic tous O2-binding hemoglobins is NO detoxification. 2 2 reduction of inorganic nitrate (NO3 ) or nitrite (NO2 )isan • • important source of toxic NO (1). In mammals, NO is MATERIALS AND METHODS produced by arginine-oxidizing NO• synthases (2). At low levels, NO• functions as a membrane-permeable signaling Bacteria Strains, Mutagenesis, and Plasmid Constructs. molecule controlling blood pressure and memory (3, 4). Dur- E. coli strain RB9060 (Dhmp) and the parent strain YCM10 ing responses to infection, foreign bodies, or tissue injury, toxic (17) were generously provided by Alex Ninfa (Univ. of Mich- amounts of NO• are produced by an inducible NO• synthase igan). Strain AB1157 was from Bruce Demple (Harvard Univ.) isoform presumably to help kill or inhibit the growth of and was mutagenized with N-methyl-N9-nitro-N-nitrosogua- invading microorganisms or neoplastic tissue (5). nidine as described (18). The hmp gene was cloned by using the Given the diverse and abundant sources of NO•, and the respective 59 and 39 PCR oligonucleotide primers 59- prevalence of NO•-sensitive targets (6), cells would be ex- CCGAATTCTTGTGCGATAACAGGTCTTGAC-39 and pected to benefit from defenses that limit damage by NO• and 59-AGGGATCCACGCGGCAATTTAAACCGCGTC-39, NO•-derived reactive nitrogen species. In principle, these which contain homology to sequences flanking the hmp coding defenses would be analogous to the well-characterized anti- sequence and operator–promoter region (19). PCR products oxidant systems which protect aerobic organisms from reactive were gel purified, digested with EcoRI and BamHI, and ligated oxygen species. Indeed, several cellular adaptations, and cel- in the plasmid vector pAlter (Promega), and plasmids were lular reactions of NO• or NO•-derived species, have been transformed into JM109 cells. proposed to participate in the overall protection against NO• Bacterial Growth, Harvest and Extract Preparation. Cul- toxicity in bacteria (5, 7) and mammalian cells (8). In addition, ture growth, gas exposures, and medium preparation was as NO• reductases have been shown to function in NO• detoxi- described (11). Medium contained 12 mgyml tetracycline for fication; however, their expression appears to occur during the cells containing plasmids. Cells were harvested, cell-free ex- anaerobic assimilation and dissimilation of nitrogen from tracts were prepared in 50 mM potassium phosphate buffer nitrite and nitrate (1, 9, 10). (pH 7.8) containing 0.1 mM EDTA, and extract protein was Previously, we demonstrated an NO• sensitivity of the assayed as described (11). Escherichia coli and the mitochondrial aconitases in cells and NO• Consumption and NOD Assays. NO• consumption was in vitro (11). During the course of investigation, we observed followed polarographically by using an NO• microelectrode an O2-dependent and cyanide-sensitive mechanism for acon- (Diamond General, Ann Arbor, MI). Cellular NO• consump- itase protection which correlated with the rate of NO• con- tion was determined from rates of NO• removal ina2mlassay sumption by E. coli (12). In E. coli, aconitase protection and containing minimal glucose medium and 1 mMNO• incubated • • NO consumption was induced in response to NO exposure, at 37°C. NOD activity was measured at 37°C in a reaction mix and this increase was dependent upon protein synthesis. containing 50 mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.8), 0.1 mM EDTA, 2.5 mM glucose 6-phosphate (G6P), 0.5 unityml The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by page charge glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), 0.2 mM payment. This article must therefore be hereby marked ‘‘advertisement’’ in accordance with 18 U.S.C. §1734 solely to indicate this fact. Abbreviations: NOD, nitric oxide dioxygenase; LB, Luria–Bertani. © 1998 by The National Academy of Sciences 0027-8424y98y9510378-6$2.00y0 *To whom reprint requests should be addressed. e-mail: gardp0@ PNAS is available online at www.pnas.org. chmcc.org. 10378 Downloaded by guest on September 28, 2021 Biochemistry: Gardner et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95 (1998) 10379 1 m m • NADP ,1 M FAD, and 1 MNO.O2 was depleted from the reaction mixture by preincubating the mixture for 5 min with Aspergillus glucose oxidase (2 unitsyml) (Sigma), glucose (10 mM), and bovine liver catalase (130 unitsyml) (Boehringer Mannheim), and O2 depletion was verified with an O2 elec- trode. Rates were corrected for extract or cell-independent NO• decomposition. 2 Nitrite and Nitrate Assays. NO was measured with the 2 2 Griess reagent, and NO was determined from the nitrate 3 2 reductase (Boehringer Mannheim) catalyzed formation NO2 (20). NOD Isolation and Sequencing. Cell-free lysates were pre- pared from a culture of the E. coli mutant PG118 grown with vigorous aeration in 1 liter of phosphate-buffered Luria– Bertani medium. Cells were harvested by centrifugation and lysed in 10 ml of a 50 mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.8) containing 0.1 mM EDTA and 1 mM DTT (buffer A) plus '0.5 mg of DNase. Extracts were resuspended at 12 mgyml FIG. 1. Elevated NO• consumption by NO•-resistant mutants of E. protein, and proteins were precipitated with 33% ammonium coli.(A) Cultures were grown in phosphate-buffered LB medium with minimal aeration (open bars), with vigorous shaking under air sulfate on ice and were removed by centrifugation. NOD • activity was precipitated from the supernatant with 55% (hatched bars), or under an atmosphere containing 960 ppm NO in 21% O2 balanced with N2 for 60 min (filled bars), and cells were ammonium sulfate, and the ammonium sulfate precipitant was harvested and washed and NO• consumption was measured. (B)A resuspended in buffer A and dialyzed extensively against total of 2.5 million cells from logarithmic cultures of AB1157, PG110, buffer A. Dialysates ('100 mg protein) were then diluted in and PG118 were plated on phosphate-buffered LB agar medium bufferAto2mgyml and mixed by gentle inversion with 5 ml containing phanazine methosulfate (50 mM) and were exposed to 960 • of FAD-agarose (Sigma) at 4°C overnight. FAD-agarose was ppm NO under an atmosphere of 10% air balanced with N2 or to air loaded on a column and washed extensively with buffer A. at 37°C for 16 h. Cultures were then incubated at 37°C under a normal FAD binding proteins were eluted with 20 mM FAD in 25 mM air atmosphere for 24 h to allow the outgrowth of bacterial colonies. m Colonies were counted and percent survival was calculated relative to potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.8) containing 50 M EDTA 5 6 and 1 mM DTT, and the eluate was concentrated with a air exposed controls (n 2; SD). Millipore ultrafree concentrator. FAD-agarose eluates were y and approximate 25- and 150-fold increases in resistance to fractionated on a Superdex 200 column (Pharmacia LKB) in NO•-mediated killing (Fig. 1B). buffer A containing 4 mM 2-mercaptoethanol in place of DTT, Assay of the NO• Converting Activity in Cell-Free Extracts. and fractions containing activity were pooled and concen- Cell pellets and extracts of mutants exhibited a yellowish- trated, and then loaded on a HiTrap Mono Q column (Phar- brown hue which correlated with the level of NO• consump- maciayLKB), washed with buffer A, eluted with 0.2 M NaCl in tion activity.
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