Substrate Recognition and Molecular Mechanism of Fatty Acid Hydroxylation by Cytochrome P450 from Bacillus subtilis

Cytochrome P450 isolated from Bacillus subtilis (P450BSβ; molecular mass, 48 kDa) catalyzes the hydroxylation of a long-chain fatty acid (e.g. myristic acid) at the α- and β-positions using hydrogen peroxide as an oxidant. We report here on the crystal structure of ferric P450BSβ in the substrate-bound form, determined at a resolution of 2.1 Å. P450BSβ exhibits a typical P450 fold. The substrate binds to a specific channel in the enzyme and is stabilized through hydrophobic interactions of its alkyl side chain with some hydrophobic residues on the enzyme as well as by electrostatic interaction of its terminal carboxylate with the Arg242 guanidium group. These interactions are responsible for the site specificity of the hydroxylation site in which the α- and β-positions of the fatty acid come into close proximity to the heme iron sixth site. The fatty acid carboxylate group interacts with Arg242 in the same fashion as has been reported for the active site of chloroperoxidase, His105-Glu183, which is an acid-base catalyst in the peroxidation reactions. On the basis of these observations, a possible mechanism for the hydroxylation reaction catalyzed by P450BSβ is proposed in which the carboxylate of the bound-substrate fatty acid assists in the cleavage of the peroxide O-O bond.

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