Cystathionine p lyase

Cyclohexanedione, reaction with guanidinium groups, 126 Cyclophilin 488 human 488s D-Cycloserine 739s Cyclosporin 488, 488s p Cylinders 65, 66, 686 Cystathionine, 746s formation 746 Cystathionine p lyase 742 Cystathionine p-synthase 744 Cystathionine y-synthase 743, 746 Cystatins 622, 629... 

Autotrophic organisms synthesize methionine from asparfafe as shovm in the lower right side of Fig. 24-13. This involves fransfer of a sulfur atom from cysfeine info homocysfeine, using the carbon skeleton of homoserine, the intermediate cystathionine, and two PLP-dependent enzymes, cystathionine y-synthase and cystathionine p-lyase. This transsulfuration sequence (Fig. 24-13, Eq. 14-33) is essentially irreversible because of the cleavage to pyruvate and NH4+ by the P-lyase. Nevertheless, this transsulfuration pathway operates in reverse in the animal body, which uses two different PLP enzymes, cystathionine P s3mthase (which also contains a bound heme) and cystathionine y-lyase (Figs. 24-13,24-16, steps h and i), in a pathway that metabolizes excess methionine. 

Thiocysteine can also arise in a similar manner through action of cystathionine P lyase on cystine. Thiocysteine is eliminated with production of pyruvate and ammonia from the rest of the cystine molecule. One of the nifS-like proteins of E. coli is thought to transfer a selenium atom from selenocys-teine (pp. 823-827) into selenophosphate. The latter can be formed by transfer of a phospho group from ATP to selenide HSe. The other products of ATP cleavage are AMP and Pj. Reduction of Se to HSe is presumably necessary. 

Since even a slightly elevated L-cysteine concentration is inhibitory or possibly toxic for the cells E. coli possesses another mechanism for detoxification of this compound in addition to excretion degradation of L-cysteine. Five enzymes with L-cysteine desulfhydrase activity have been identified so far in this organism L-tryptophanase (TnaA), L-cystathionine p-lyase (MetC),... 

So, the biosynthesis of methionine (Met, M), the first of the essential amino adds to be considered (Scheme 12.13), begins by the conversion of aspartate (Asp, D) to aspartate semialdehyde in the same way glutamate (Glu, E) was converted to glutamate semialdehyde (vide supra. Scheme 12.6). Phosphorylation on the terminal carboxylate of aspartate (Asp, D) by ATP in the presence of aspartate kinase (EC 2.7.2.4) and subsequent reduction of the aspart-4 yl phosphate by NADPH in the presence of aspartate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.11) yields the aspartate semialdehyde. The aspartate semialdehyde is further reduced to homoserine (homoserine oxoreductase, EC 1.1.1.3) and the latter is succinylated by succinyl-CoA with the liberation of coenzyme A (CoA-SH) in the presence of homoserine O-succinyl-transferase (EC 2.3.1.46). Then, reaction with cysteine (Cys, C) in the presence of cystathionine y-synthase (EC 2.5.1.48) produces cystathionine and succinate. In the presence of the pyridoxal phosphate protein cystathionine P-lyase (EC 4.4.1.8), both ammonia and pyruvate are lost from cystathionine and homocysteine is produced. Finally, methylation on sulfur to generate methionine (Met, M) occurs by the donation of the methyl from 5-methyltetrahydrofolate in the presence of methonine synthase (EC 2.1.1.13). 

Fernandez, M., van Doesburg, W., Rutten, G.A., et al. (2000) Molecular and functional analyses of the metC gene of Lactococcus lactis, encoding cystathionine p-lyase. Appl Environ Microbiol 66, 42-48. 

Cysteine is formed in plants and in bacteria from sulfide and serine after the latter has been acetylated by transfer of an acetyl group from acetyl-CoA (Fig. 24-25, step f). This standard PLP-dependent (3 replacement (Chapter 14) is catalyzed by cysteine synthase (O-acetylserine sulfhydrase).446 447 A similar enzyme is used by some cells to introduce sulfide ion directly into homocysteine, via either O-succinyl homoserine or O-acetyl homoserine (Fig. 24-13). In E. coli cysteine can be converted to methionine, as outlined in Eq. lb-22 and as indicated on the right side of Fig. 24-13 by the green arrows. In animals the converse process, the conversion of methionine to cysteine (gray arrows in Fig. 24-13, also Fig. 24-16), is important. Animals are unable to incorporate sulfide directly into cysteine, and this amino acid must be either provided in the diet or formed from dietary methionine. The latter process is limited, and cysteine is an essential dietary constituent for infants. The formation of cysteine from methionine occurs via the same transsulfuration pathway as in methionine synthesis in autotrophic organisms. However, the latter use cystathionine y-synthase and P-lyase while cysteine synthesis in animals uses cystathionine P-synthase and y-lyase. 

Dc Angclis, M., Curin, A.C., McSweeney, P.L., Faccia, M., Gobbetti, M. 2002. Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 20016 Purification and characterization of a cystathionine gamma-lyase and use as adjunct starter in cheesemaking. J Dairy Res 69 255-267. 

Figure 21-2. Metabolism of homocysteine. BHMT, betaineihomocysteine methyl-transferase CBS, cystathionine P-synthase Cob, cobalamin CTH, cystathionine y-lyase DHF, dihydrofolate DMG, dimethylglycine FAD, flavin adenine dinucleotide MAT, methionine adenosyltransferase 5-MTHF, 5-methyltetrahydrofolate 5,10-MTHF, 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate MTHFR, methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase MS, methionine synthase MTRR, methionine synthase reductase MTs, methyl transferases PLE pyridoxal phosphate SAH, S-adenosylhomocysteine SAHH, SAH hydrolase SAM, 5-adenosylmethionine SHMT, serine hydroxymethyltransferase THF, tetrahydrofolate Zn, zinc.

Fig. 20.3 Pathway of methionine metabolism. The numbers represent the following enzymes or sequences (1) methionine adenosyltransferase (2) S-adenosylmethionine-dependent transmethylation reactions (3) glycine methyltransferase (4) S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase (5) betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase (6) 5-methyltetrahydrofolate homocysteine methyltransferase (7) serine hydroxymethyltransferase (8) 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (9) S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (10) spermidine and spermine synthases (11) methylthio-adenosine phosphorylase (12) conversion of methylthioribose to methionine (13) cystathionine P-synthase (14) cystathionine y-lyase (15) cysteine dioxygenase (16) cysteine suplhinate decarboxylase (17) hypotaurine NAD oxidoreductase (18) cysteine sulphintite a-oxoglutarate aminotransferase (19) sulfine oxidase. MeCbl = methylcobalamin PLP = pyridoxal phosphate...

Transsulfuration is facilitated by the action of two vitamin Be-dependent enzymes, cystalhionine-p-synthase (CBS), the enzyme deficient in homocystinuria, and cystathionine-Y-lyase (CTH). CBS catalyzes the condensation of homocysteine and serine to cystathionine, and CTH subsequently catalyzes the hydrolysis of cystathionine to cysteine and a-ketobutyrale. Cysteine is important in protein synthesis and taurine synthesis and is a precursor to glutathione, a strong antioxidant and essential compound in detoxification of many xenobiotics [8,10,11]. 

Corticosterone methyl oxidase II deficiency Costeff optic atrophy syndrome Coupling state defect Creatine deficiency Creatine transporter deficiency Cu-binding P-type ATPase deficiency y-Cystathionase deficiency Cystathionine gamma-lyase deficiency Cystathionine y -synthase deficiency Cystathioninuria... 

Several PLP-dependent enzymes catalyze elimination and replacement reactions at the y-carbon of substrates, an unusual process which provides novel routes for mechanism-based inactivation. An example of this class of enzymes is cystathionine y-synthase [0-succinylhomoserine (thiol)-lyase], which converts (7-succinyl-L-homoserine and L-cysteine to cystathionine and succinate as part of the bacterial methionine biosynthetic pathway (Walsh, 1979, p. 823). Formation of a PLP-stabilized o-carbanion intermediate activates the )8-hydrogen for abstraction, yielding j8-carbanion equivalents and allowing elimination of the y-substituent. The resulting j8,y-unsaturated intermediate serves as an electrophilic acceptor for the replacement nucleophile. Suitable manipulation of the j8-carbanion intermediate allows strategies for the design of inactivators which do not affect enzymes which abstract only the a-hydrogen. 

Fig. II. Mechanism proposed for inactivation of cystathionine y-synthase and methionine y-lyase by 2-amino-4-chloro-5-(p-nitrophenylsulfinyl)pentanoic acid (11).

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