26- Hydroxylation ferredoxin

H)2-D3 is a weak agonist and must be modified by hydroxylation at position Cj for full biologic activity. This is accomplished in mitochondria of the renal proximal convoluted tubule by a three-component monooxygenase reaction that requires NADPFl, Mg, molecular oxygen, and at least three enzymes (1) a flavoprotein, renal ferredoxin reductase (2) an iron sulfur protein, renal ferredoxin and (3) cytochrome P450. This system produces l,25(OH)2-D3, which is the most potent namrally occurring metabolite of vitamin D. 

The degradation of bisphenol-A by Sphingomonas sp. strain AOl is initiated by hydroxylation to intermediates that undergo fission to 4-hydroxyacetophenone and 4-hydroxybenzoate. The components have been purified, and consist of cytochrome P450, ferredoxin reductase, and ferredoxin (Sasaki et al. 2005). 

This heme-thiolate-dependent enzyme [EC 1.14.15.4], also known as steroid 11/3-monooxygenase, catalyzes the reaction of a steroid with reduced adrenal ferredoxin and dioxygen to produce an 11/3-hydroxysteroid, oxidized adrenal ferredoxin, and water. The enzyme also catalyzes the hydroxylation of steroids at the 18-position and can catalyze the conversion of 18-hydroxycorticosterone into aldosterone. 

Putidaredoxin. Cushman et al. (36) isolated a low molecular iron-sulfur protein from camphor-grown Pseudomonas putida. This protein, putidaredoxin, is similar to the plant type ferredoxins with two irons attached to two acid-labile sulfur atoms (37). It has a molecular weight of 12,000 and shows absorption maxima at 327, 425 and 455 nm. Putidaredoxin functions as an electron transfer component of a methylene hydroxylase system involved in camphor hydroxylation by P. putida. This enzyme system consists of putidaredoxin, flavoprotein and cytochrome P.cQ (38). The electron transport from flavoprotein to cytochrome P.cq is Smilar to that of the mammalian mixed-function oxidase, but requires NADH as a primary electron donor as shown in Fig. 4. In this bacterial mixed-function oxidase system, reduced putidaredoxin donates an electron to substrate-bound cytochrome P. g, and the reduced cytochrome P. g binds to molecular oxygen. One oxygen atom is then used for substrate oxidation, and the other one is reduced to water (39, 40). 

The active forms of the D vitamins are la,25-dihydroxy-vitamin Dj and 25-hydroxy-vitamin Dj. They are formed by enzymatic hydroxylation in the liver microsomes and then in the kidney mitochondria by a ferredoxin flavoprotein and cytochrome P-450. The 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin is then transported to the bone, intestine, and other target organs (kidneys, parathyroid gland). Consequently, it can be considered a hormone since it is produced in one organ but used elsewhere. It mobilizes calcium and phosphate and also influences the absorption of these ions in the intestine, thus promoting bone mineralization. The hormone is also active in relieving hypoparathyroidism and postmenopausal osteoporosis, which, for example, results in the brittle bones of elderly women. 

Scheme 4.104 PikC-catalyzed hydroxylation ofYC-17 to methymycin and neomethymycin in the presence of NADPH, ferredoxin and ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase [433].

Ferredoxins are involved in many microbial redox reactions as well as in mitochondrial hydroxylation reactions in mammals. They are also components of complexes I, II, and III, but not complex IV. 

Monooxygenase reactions catalyze the introduction of only one of the two oxygen atoms from molecular oxygen to form a hydroxyl or keto group in the substrate. The other oxygen atom ends up in water. Both the substrate and the NADPH act as proton and electron donors. Monooxygenase reactions occur in the ER membrane and involve iron-sulfur proteins, ferredoxin, and cytochrome P450-... 

Our study on the distribution of electron transferring proteins in animal sources is still in progress. From present knowledge, adrenodoxin can be found in adrenal cortexes from pig, beef, and rat. Further, a similar protein was isolated from pig testis (see II-A-2), and it was also found in the ovary. However, brain, heart, liver, kidney, and pancreas appear to lack adrenodoxin-like protein. If this is correct, the proteins of the ferredoxin family are located solely in the glands which directly act in the biosynthesis of steroid hormones. It is of interest that adrenodoxin-like protein does not participate in the steroid hydroxylation involved in cholesterol and cholic acid biosyntheses. All of these reactions without the participation of adrenodoxin are similar to enzymes responsible for microsomal non-specific hydroxylation, which consist of the following sequence of electron transfer ... 

A fermentation process was developed for the production of epothilone B, and the titer of epothilone B was increased by a continuous feed of sodium propionate during fermentation. The inclusion of XAD-16 resin during fermentation to adsorb epothilone B and to carry out volume reduction made the recovery of product very simple (Benigni et al., 2004). A microbial hydroxylation process was developed for the conversion of epothilone B (10) to epothilone F (11) by Amycolatopsis orientalis SC 15847. A bioconversion yield of 37-47 % was obtained when the process was scaled up to 100-250 L. Recently, epothilone B hydroxylase and the ferredoxin gene have been cloned and expressed in Streptomyces rimosus from Amycolatopsis orientalis SC 15847 by our colleagues in Bristol-Myers Squibb. Mutants and variants thereof this cloned enzyme has been used in the hydroxylation of epothilone B to epothilone F to obtain even higher yields of product (Basch et al, 2004). 

The active metabolite of vitamin D, calcitriol, is formed in the proximal tubules of the kidneys from calcidiol. There are three cytochrome P450-dependent enzymes in kidneys that catalyze 1-hydroxylation of calcidiol CYP27A and CYP27 in mitochondria and a microsomal la-hydroxylase, which is ferredoxin-dependent. It is likely that the microsomal enzyme is the most important its synthesis is induced by cAMP in response to parathyroid hormone (Section 3.2.8.2) and repressed by calcitriol (Omdahl et al., 2001 Wikvall, 2001). 

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