Structural and Mechanistic Insights into Hemoglobin-catalyzed Hydrogen Sulfide Oxidation and the Fate of Polysulfide Products
Abstract
Hydrogen sulfide is a cardioprotective signaling molecule but is toxic at elevated concentrations. Red blood cells can synthesize H2S but, lacking organelles, cannot dispose of H2S via the mitochondrial sulfide oxidation pathway. We have recently shown that at high sulfide concentrations, ferric hemoglobin oxidizes H2S to a mixture of thiosulfate and iron-bound polysulfides in which the latter species predominates. Here, we report the crystal structure of human hemoglobin containing low spin ferric sulfide, the first intermediate in heme-catalyzed sulfide oxidation. The structure provides molecular insights into why sulfide is susceptible to oxidation in human hemoglobin but is stabilized against it in HbI, a specialized sulfide-carrying hemoglobin from a mollusk adapted to life in a sulfide-rich environment. We have also captured a second sulfide bound at a postulated ligand entry/exit site in the α-subunit of hemoglobin, which, to the best of our knowledge, represents the first direct evidence for this site being used to access the heme iron. Hydrodisulfide, a postulated intermediate at the junction between thiosulfate and polysulfide formation, coordinates ferric hemoglobin and, in the presence of air, generated thiosulfate. At low sulfide/heme iron ratios, the product distribution between thiosulfate and iron-bound polysulfides was approximately equal. The iron-bound polysulfides weremore »
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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- Journal of Biological Chemistry
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- Journal Volume: 292; Journal Issue: 13; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9258
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- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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- United States
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- ENGLISH
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- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES
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Vitvitsky, Victor, Yadav, Pramod K., An, Sojin, Seravalli, Javier, Cho, Uhn-Soo, and Banerjee, Ruma. Structural and Mechanistic Insights into Hemoglobin-catalyzed Hydrogen Sulfide Oxidation and the Fate of Polysulfide Products. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1074/jbc.M117.774943.
Vitvitsky, Victor, Yadav, Pramod K., An, Sojin, Seravalli, Javier, Cho, Uhn-Soo, & Banerjee, Ruma. Structural and Mechanistic Insights into Hemoglobin-catalyzed Hydrogen Sulfide Oxidation and the Fate of Polysulfide Products. United States. doi:10.1074/jbc.M117.774943.
Vitvitsky, Victor, Yadav, Pramod K., An, Sojin, Seravalli, Javier, Cho, Uhn-Soo, and Banerjee, Ruma. Fri .
"Structural and Mechanistic Insights into Hemoglobin-catalyzed Hydrogen Sulfide Oxidation and the Fate of Polysulfide Products". United States. doi:10.1074/jbc.M117.774943.
@article{osti_1351356,
title = {Structural and Mechanistic Insights into Hemoglobin-catalyzed Hydrogen Sulfide Oxidation and the Fate of Polysulfide Products},
author = {Vitvitsky, Victor and Yadav, Pramod K. and An, Sojin and Seravalli, Javier and Cho, Uhn-Soo and Banerjee, Ruma},
abstractNote = {Hydrogen sulfide is a cardioprotective signaling molecule but is toxic at elevated concentrations. Red blood cells can synthesize H2S but, lacking organelles, cannot dispose of H2S via the mitochondrial sulfide oxidation pathway. We have recently shown that at high sulfide concentrations, ferric hemoglobin oxidizes H2S to a mixture of thiosulfate and iron-bound polysulfides in which the latter species predominates. Here, we report the crystal structure of human hemoglobin containing low spin ferric sulfide, the first intermediate in heme-catalyzed sulfide oxidation. The structure provides molecular insights into why sulfide is susceptible to oxidation in human hemoglobin but is stabilized against it in HbI, a specialized sulfide-carrying hemoglobin from a mollusk adapted to life in a sulfide-rich environment. We have also captured a second sulfide bound at a postulated ligand entry/exit site in the α-subunit of hemoglobin, which, to the best of our knowledge, represents the first direct evidence for this site being used to access the heme iron. Hydrodisulfide, a postulated intermediate at the junction between thiosulfate and polysulfide formation, coordinates ferric hemoglobin and, in the presence of air, generated thiosulfate. At low sulfide/heme iron ratios, the product distribution between thiosulfate and iron-bound polysulfides was approximately equal. The iron-bound polysulfides were unstable at physiological glutathione concentrations and were reduced with concomitant formation of glutathione persulfide, glutathione disulfide, and H2S. Hence, although polysulfides are unlikely to be stable in the reducing intracellular milieu, glutathione persulfide could serve as a persulfide donor for protein persulfidation, a posttranslational modification by which H2S is postulated to signal.},
doi = {10.1074/jbc.M117.774943},
journal = {Journal of Biological Chemistry},
issn = {0021-9258},
number = 13,
volume = 292,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {2}
}
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