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  • Title: Substrate activation by acyl-CoA dehydrogenases: transition-state stabilization and pKs of involved functional groups.
    Author: Vock P, Engst S, Eder M, Ghisla S.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1998 Feb 17; 37(7):1848-60. PubMed ID: 9485310.
    Abstract:
    The mechanism by which acyl-CoA dehydrogenases initiate catalysis was studied by using p-substituted phenylacetyl-CoAs (substituents-NO2, -CN, and CH3CO-), 3S-C8-, and 3'-dephospho-3S-C8CoA. These analogues lack a beta C-H and cannot undergo alpha,beta-dehydrogenation. Instead they deprotonate at alpha C-H at pH > or = 14 to form delocalized carbanions having strong absorbancies in the near UV-visible spectrum. The pKas of the corresponding phenylacetone analogues were determined as approximately 13.6 (-NO2), approximately 14.5 (-CN), and approximately 14.6 (CH3CO-). Upon binding to human wild-type medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCADH), all analogues undergo alpha C-H deprotonation. While the extent of deprotonation varies, the anionic products from charge-transfer complexes with the oxidized flavin. From the pH dependence of the dissociation constants (Kd) of p-NO2-phenylacetyl-CoA (4NPA-CoA), 3S-C8-CoA, and 3'-dephospho-3S-C8CoA, four pKas at approximately 5, approximately 6, approximately 7.3, and approximately 8 were identified. They were assigned to the following ionizations: (a) pKa approximately 5, ligand (L-H) in the MCADH approximately ligand complex; (b) pKa approximately 6, Glu376-COOH in uncomplexed MCADH; (c) pKa approximately 7.3, Glu99-COOH in uncomplexed MCADH (Glu99 is a residue that flanks the bottom of the active-center cavity; this pK is absent in the mutant Glu99Gly-MCADH); and (d) pK approximately 8, Glu99-COOH in the MCADH approximately 4NPA-CoA complex. The pKa approximately 6 (b) is not significantly affected in the MCADH approximately 4NPA-CoA complex, but it is increased by > or = 1 pK unit in that with 3S-C8CoA and further in the presence of C8-CoA, the best substrate. The alpha C-H pKas of 4NPA-CoA, of 3S-C8-CoA, and of 3'-dephospho-3S-C8CoA in the complex with MCADH are approximately 5, approximately 5, and approximately 6. Compared to those of the free species these pKa values are therefore lowered by 8 to > or = 11 pH units (50 to > or = 65 kJ mol-1) and are close to the pKa of Glu376-COOH in the complex with substrate/ligand. This effect is ascribed mainly to the hydrogen-bond interactions of the thioester carbonyl group with the ribityl-2'-OH of FAD and Glu376-NH. It is concluded that the pKa shifts induced with normal substrates such as n-octanoyl-CoA are still higher and of the order of 9-13 pK units. With 4NPA-CoA and MCADH, alpha C-H abstraction is fast (kapp approximately 55 s-1 at pH 7.5 and 25 degrees C, deuterium isotope effect approximately 1.34). However, it does not proceed to completion since it constitutes an approach to equilibrium with a finite rate for reprotonation in the pH range 6-9.5. The extent of deprotonation and the respective rates are pH-dependent and reflect apparent pKas of approximately 5 and approximately 7.3, which correspond to those determined in static experiments.
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