Evidence for Catalytic Cysteine–Histidine Dyad in Chalcone Synthase

Author： Suh D-Y.   Kagami J.   Fukuma K.   Sankawa U.  

Publisher： Elsevier

ISSN： 0006-291X

Source： Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Vol.275, Iss.3, 2000-09, pp. : 725-730

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Abstract

Chalcone and stilbene synthases (CHS and STS) catalyze condensation reactions of p-coumaroyl-CoA and three C2-units from malonyl-CoA, but catalyze different cyclization reactions to produce naringenin chalcone and resveratrol, respectively. Condensing activities of wild-type CHS and STS as well as STS-C60S mutant were inhibited by iodoacetamide (Idm) and diethyl pyrophosphate (DPC). DPC also inhibited malonyl-CoA decarboxylation activity of wild-type and C164S mutants of CHS and STS. Meanwhile, Idm treatment enhanced (two- to fourfold) malonyl decarboxylase activity of wild-type enzymes and STS-C60S, whereas this priming effect was not observed with C164S mutants of CHS and STS, indicating that the cysteine residue being modified by Idm is the catalytic Cys164 of CHS and STS. DPC inhibition of decarboxylation activity of wild-type CHS was pH-independent in the range of pH 5.8 to 7.8; however, its inhibitory effect on CHS-C164S increased as pH increased from 6.2 to 7.4 with a midpoint of 6.4. Based on the 3-D structure of CHS and the observed shift in microscopic pKa, it was concluded that the histidine residue being modified by DPC in CHS is likely the catalytic His303 and that His303 forms an ionic pair (catalytic dyad) with Cys164 in wild-type CHS. In addition, our results showed that Cys60 in STS is not essential for the activity and only a single cysteine (Cys164) participates in the catalysis as in CHS.

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