Copper amine oxidases catalyze the oxidative deamination and hydrolysis of cyclic imines

Toshiki Nagakubo, Takuto Kumano, Takehiro Ohta, Yoshiteru Hashimoto and Michihiko Kobayashi ()
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Toshiki Nagakubo: University of Tsukuba
Takuto Kumano: University of Tsukuba
Takehiro Ohta: University of Hyogo
Yoshiteru Hashimoto: University of Tsukuba
Michihiko Kobayashi: University of Tsukuba

Nature Communications, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract Although cyclic imines are present in various bioactive secondary metabolites, their degradative metabolism remains unknown. Here, we report that copper amine oxidases, which are important in metabolism of primary amines, catalyze a cyclic imine cleavage reaction. We isolate a microorganism (Arthrobacter sp. C-4A) which metabolizes a β-carboline alkaloid, harmaline. The harmaline-metabolizing enzyme (HarA) purified from strain C-4A is found to be copper amine oxidase and catalyze a ring-opening reaction of cyclic imine within harmaline, besides oxidative deamination of amines. Growth experiments on strain C-4A and Western blot analysis indicate that the HarA expression is induced by harmaline. We propose a reaction mechanism of the cyclic imine cleavage by HarA containing a post-translationally-synthesized cofactor, topaquinone. Together with the above results, the finding of the same activity of copper amine oxidase from E. coli suggests that, in many living organisms, these enzymes may play crucial roles in metabolism of ubiquitous cyclic imines.

Date: 2019
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