Role of Glu318 at the putative distal site in the catalytic function of cytochrome P450d.

Most microsomal P450s have a conserved "threonine cluster" composed of three Thrs (Thr319, Thr321, Thr322 for P450d) at a putative distal site. An ionic amino acid at 318 is also well conserved as Glu or Asp for most P450s. To understand the role of these conserved polar amino acids at the putative distal site in the catalytic function of microsomal P450, we studied how mutations at this site of P450d influence the activation of molecular oxygen in the reconstituted system. Catalytic activity (0.02 min-1) toward 7-ethoxycoumarin of the Glu318Ala mutant of P450d was just 6% of that (0.33 min-1) of the wild type, while those of Glu318Asp, Thr319Ala, and Thr322Ala were comparable to or even higher than that of the wild type. Consumption rates of O2 and formation rates of H2O2 of those mutants varied in accord with the catalytic activities. Especially, the efficiency (0.5%) of incorporated oxygen atom to the substrate versus produced H2O2 for the Glu318Ala mutant was much lower than that (3.7%) of the wild type, while that (58.8%) for the mutant Glu318Asp was 16-fold higher than that of the wild type. In addition, the autoxidation [Fe(II)---- Fe(III)] rate (0.074 s-1) of the Glu318Ala mutant was much lower than those (0.374-0.803 s-1) of the wild type and other mutants. Thus, we strongly suggest that Glu318 plays an important role in the catalytic function toward 7-ethoxycoumarin of microsomal P450d.

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