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STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY IN HEME MONOOXYGENASES

Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Physiology & Biophysics, and Department of Chemistry and the Center in Chemical and Structural Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California

Recent advances in understanding structure-function relationships in cytochrome P450 (P450), nitric-oxide synthase (NOS), and heme oxygenase are summarized. Of particular importance is the role that dynamics plays in P450 function, where the active site undergoes large open/close motions to enable substrates to bind and products to leave. In sharp contrast, the heme-containing active site of NOS is rigid and remains relatively exposed compared with P450s. This difference in dynamics and active site exposure requires that the O₂ activation machinery operate somewhat differently in P450 and NOS. Owing to the open NOS active site, the NOS-oxy complex could be subject to nonspecific protonation that short-circuits the normal reaction path. One working hypothesis holds that NOS recruited the cofactor, tetrahydrobiopterin, to bind near the heme for very rapid coupled electron/proton transfer to the oxy complex, which avoids indiscriminate reaction with bulk solvent. Despite these differences, P450, NOS, and also heme oxygenase use a very similar network of H-bonded water molecules in the active site that are required for oxygen activation. Both P450 and NOS are important drug targets. With NOS, the structural basis for isoform-selective inhibition by a class of dipeptide inhibitors has been worked out, thus providing the basis for structure-based drug design.

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