Chloroperoxidase phosphatase activity

Renirie R, W Hemrika, R Wever (2000) Peroxidase and phosphatase activity of active-site mutants of vanadium chloroperoxidase from the fungus Curvularia inaequalis. J Biol Chem 275 11650-11657. 

Recently the amino acid sequence of vanadium chloroperoxidase was determined to have similar stretches with three families of acid phosphatases, which were previously considered unrelated [72], This sequence raises questions about the phosphatase activity of apo-V-ClPO and whether the acid phosphatases can coordinate vanadate and carry out peroxidative halogenation chemistry. In fact, apo-V-C1PO does have phosphatase activity, catalyzing the hydrolysis of/i-nitrophe-nol phosphate (p-NPP). In addition, /i-NPP displaces vanadate from V-CIPO. At this point, the haloperoxidase activity of the acid phosphatases containing coordinated vanadium(V) has not been reported. 

A similiar approach was performed by van de Velde (1999), using incorporation of vanadate into an acid phosphatase (phytase) to create a semi-synthetic peroxidase similar to the heme-dependent chloroperoxidase. The latter is a useful enzyme for the asymmetric epoxidation of olefins, but less stable due to oxidation of the porphyrin ring and difficult to express outside the native fungal host. The authors exploited the structural similarity of active sites from vanadate-dependent halo-peroxidases and acid phosphatases and have shown the useful application as an enantioselective catalyst for the synthesis of chiral sulfoxides (van de Velde, 1999). 

Figure 7 The active site of vanadiiun chloroperoxidase from C. inaequalis (a) and the acid phosphatase from E. blattea (b)...

Since vanadium chloroperoxidase from Curvularia inaequalis is structurally closely related to acid phosphatases and transition metal oxoanions are potent inhibitors of the related phytases, (Figure 10.8) [35,36], Sheldon and coworkers investigated the peroxidase activity of phytase from Aspergillus ficuum in the presence of sodium orthovanadate Na3V04 [37-39]. Oxidation of thioanisole with H2O2 proceeded to produce the sulfoxide in quantitative yield in the presence of [VO4]-phytase. The reaction rate showed saturation kinetics with respect to the vanadate concentration, indicating a maximum rate of 120pmol/h (TOF = 11 min ) and a dissociation constant for the vanadate ion of 15.4 pM. 

Fig. 2. Left The active centers of the bromoperoxidase (VBrPO) from A nodosum (6). Center The active center of the chloroperoxidase (VClPO) from C. inaequalis (8). Right Vanadate-inhibited rat prostate acid phosphatase. Some of the hydrogen-bonding interactions with amino acid side-chains are shown. For highlighted amino acids, see the text.

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