Thioredoxin reductase from the malaria mosquitoAnopheles gambiae Comparisons with the orthologous enzymes of Plasmodium falciparum and the human host Holger Bauer1, Stephan Gromer1, Andr
Trang 1Thioredoxin reductase from the malaria mosquito
Anopheles gambiae
Comparisons with the orthologous enzymes of Plasmodium falciparum
and the human host
Holger Bauer1, Stephan Gromer1, Andrea Urbani2, Martina Schno¨lzer2, R Heiner Schirmer1
and Hans-Michael Mu¨ller3
1
Biochemie Zentrum, Universita¨t Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany;2Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany;
3
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
The mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, is an important vector of
Plasmodium falciparum malaria Full genome analysis
revealed that, as in Drosophila melanogaster, the enzyme
glutathione reductase is absent in A gambiae and
func-tionally substituted by the thioredoxin system The key
enzyme of this system is thioredoxin reductase-1, a
homo-dimeric FAD-containing protein of 55.3 kDa per subunit,
which catalyses the reaction NADPH + H++
thio-redoxin disulfidefi NADP++ thioredoxin dithiol The
A gambiae trxr gene is located on chromosome X as a
single copy; it represents three splice variants coding for two
cytosolic and one mitochondrial variant The predominant
isoform, A gambiae thioredoxin reductase-1, was
recomb-inantly expressed in Escherichia coli and functionally
com-pared with the wild-type enzyme isolated in a final yield
of 1.4 UÆml)1 of packed insect cells In redox titrations,
the substrate A gambiae thioredoxin-1 (Km¼ 8.5 lM,
kcat¼ 15.4 s)1at pH 7.4 and 25C) was unable to oxidize
NADPH-reduced A gambiae thioredoxin reductase-1 to
the fully oxidized state This indicates that, in contrast to
other disulfide reductases, A gambiae thioredoxin
reduc-tase-1 oscillates during catalysis between the four-electron reduced state and a two-electron reduced state The thio-redoxin reductases of the malaria system were compared
A gambiaethioredoxin reductase-1 shares 52% and 45% sequence identity with its orthologues from humans and
P falciparum,respectively A major difference among the three enzymes is the structure of the C-terminal redox cen-tre, reflected in the varying resistance of catalytic inter-mediates to autoxidation The relevant sequences of this centre are Thr–Cys–Cys–SerOH in A gambiae thioredoxin reductase, Gly–Cys–selenocysteine–GlyOH in human thio-redoxin reductase, and Cys–X–X–X–X–Cys–GlyOH in the
P falciparumenzyme These differences offer an interesting approach to the design of species-specific inhibitors Notably, A gambiae thioredoxin reductase-1 is not a selenoenzyme but instead contains a highly unusual redox-active Cys–Cys sequence
Keywords: Anopheles gambiae; Drosophila melanogaster; Diptera; insect redox metabolism; Plasmodium falciparum
The mosquito Anopheles gambiae is of importance as a
vector of tropical malaria caused by the protozoan organism
Plasmodium falciparum The genome of A gambiae is the
second insect genome – after the distantly related model
organism Drosophila melanogaster [1,2] – that has been completely sequenced [3] Annotation of the nucleotide sequences allows access to the genetic background of a disease-transmitting dipteran insect and, furthermore, offers the opportunity of comparative sequence analyses from single genes up to genomic organization [4] Another aspect is highlighted in this report: only on the basis of the full genome sequence does it become possible to exclude the presence of a given protein function in all cells and all developmental stages
of an organism A case in point is the absence of the enzyme glutathione reductase (GR) in Diptera [5]
Our focus is the redox metabolism of insects [6] Being present at millimolar concentrations, the tripeptide gluta-thione (GSH) is the most abundant antioxidative thiol compound in most cell compartments Its redox state determines the intracellular redox environment [7] Thus, GSH is the major redox buffer compound and essential for the detoxification of free radicals and xenobiotics [8,9]
In the majority of pro- and eukaryotic organisms, the oxidized form of glutathione (glutathione disulfide, GSSG) is reduced to the mono-thiol form (GSH) by the
Correspondence to R H Schirmer, Biochemie Zentrum, Im
Neuen-heimer Feld 504, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Fax: + 49 6221 545586, Tel.: + 49 6221 544165,
E-mail: heiner.schirmer@gmx.de or H.-M Mu¨ller, European
Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstr 1, D-69117 Heidelberg,
Germany Fax: + 49 6221 387306, Tel.: + 49 6221 387440,
E-mail: hmueller@embl-heidelberg.de
Abbreviations: EH 2 , enzyme in a two-electron reduced state; EH 4 ,
enzyme in a four-electron reduced state; E ox , enzyme in an oxidized
state; EST, expressed sequence tag; GR, glutathione reductase;
GSH/GSSG, reduced/oxidized glutathione; Sec, selenocysteine;
Trx, thioredoxin; TrxR, thioredoxin reductase.
(Received 14 July 2003, revised 29 August 2003,
accepted 1 September 2003)
Trang 2NADPH-dependent flavoenzyme GR, which catalyses the
following reaction: NADPH + GSSG + H+fi NADP++
2GSH [10–12] D melanogaster cells exhibit a high 2[GSH]/
[GSSG] ratio but have been shown to lacka typical GR [5]
As reported here, this is also true for A gambiae An
important candidate able to functionally substitute for
GR is the thioredoxin (Trx) system [13], which
compri-ses NADPH, thioredoxin reductase(s) (TrxR) and Trxs
[14,15]
Trxs are small, ubiquitous thiol proteins with a relative
molecular mass of 12 kDa and a redox active cysteine
pair represented in a WCGPC sequence motif Therefore,
they cycle between a disulfide (TrxS2) and a dithiol
[Trx(SH)2] form
Trxs were first described as electron-donating substrates
for ribonucleotide reductase [16], but they cleave disulfide
bonds in a number of other proteins equally well Thus, Trxs
take part in the redox control of numerous processes such
as protein folding, signalling and transcription [14,17–19]
Trx reduction is catalysed by the flavin-dependent
oxido-reductase TrxR, as follows: NADPH + TrxS2+ H+fi
NADP++ Trx(SH)2 TrxRs belong to a disulfide
reduc-tase superfamily that includes enzymes such as GR,
trypanothione reductase, lipoamide dehydrogenase, and
mercuric ion reductase These homodimeric proteins are
structurally, as well as mechanistically, closely related [20]
Evolution has produced two classes of TrxRs: small
TrxRs (found in bacteria, plants and fungi) and large
TrxRs (present in other eukaryotes) [21] In contrast to
GRs and low molecular weight TrxRs, large TrxRs
possess an additional redox centre located in the
C-terminal extension which is necessary for the interaction
with the substrate Trx In mammalian enzymes this redox
centre is represented by a neighboring
cysteine–seleno-cysteine pair [22] and in the TrxR of P falciparum it is a
cysteine pair separated by a spacer sequence of four
amino acids [23] D melanogaster TrxR was described as
the first member of a third type of large TrxRs It is
characterized by two adjacent cysteines preceding the
C-terminus [5,24]
High molecular mass TrxRs exhibit a rather broad
substrate spectrum that includes a number of natural and
also artificial disulfide compounds, such as
5,5¢-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoate) Glutathione disulfide, however, is not a
substrate In the fruit fly it was shown that GSSG reduction
can occur in a dithiol–disulfide exchange reaction
with reduced Trx [5] At physiological concentrations of
GSSG and Trx, this system allows GSSG fluxes of
> 100 lMÆmin)1[25]
In this report we introduce the TrxR of the malaria
mosquito A gambiae The protein could be isolated from
whole insects and from cultured insect cells With the
progress of the Anopheles genome project it was possible to
identify the complete sequence of the gene and its
organi-zation We cloned, recombinantly expressed and
character-ized the enzyme Our data support the assumption that the
substitution of the Trx system for GR, as well as the
mechanistic particularities of the TrxR, are a common
principle in dipteran insects In the context of the malarial
system, this implies that the TrxRs of insect vector, parasite,
and human host differ in their cellular roles as well as their
enzyme mechanisms
Experimental procedures
D melanogasterTrx-2, A gambiae Trx-1 and P falciparum Trx-1 were prepared and purified as previously described [25,26] PCR chemicals and restriction enzymes were purchased from MBI Fermentas and Applied Biosystems, precast polyacrylamide gels from Bio-Rad and molecular mass standards from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Anti-biotics, substrates for enzyme assays, and other chemicals were from BioMol, Fluka, or Sigma All compounds were
of the highest available purity
Purification of authenticA gambiae TrxR from insect cells
A gambiae cells (cell line 4a-2s4) were cultured in Schneider’s medium and harvested as described previ-ously [27] A 0.3-mL volume of lysis buffer (50 mMTris/ HCl, 3 mM EDTA, 2.5 mM phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride, 5 lM pepstatin and 5 lM cystatin, pH 7.6) was added per mL of frozen cell pellet The pellets were thawed at 37C in a water bath, fresh phenyl-methanesulfonyl fluoride (ad 500 lM) was added, and the cells were disintegrated by ultrasound All subsequent steps were carried out at 4C The suspension was centrifuged for 1 h at 26 000 g The supernatant was set aside, and the pellet was resuspended in lysis buffer and centrifuged as described above The combined supernatants were mixed with two volumes of TE buffer (50 mMTris/HCl,
1 mMEDTA, pH 7.6) and slowly loaded onto a cooled 2¢,5¢-ADP–Sepharose column (1.5 mL per 10 mL of cell pellet) equilibrated with TE buffer The column was washed with two column volumes of TE buffer, 1.5 column volumes of
100 mMKCl in TE buffer, three column volumes of 1 : 3 diluted TE buffer, 1.5 column volumes of 1 mMNADH in
1 : 3 diluted TE buffer, and two column volumes of TE buffer TrxR activity was then eluted with 2 mMNADP+in
TE buffer Fractions containing significant amounts of activity were pooled, concentrated and washed with TE buffer in a 10-kDa Amicon concentrator Purity was analyzed by SDS/PAGE and silver staining GR activity was not detected in the crude extract or in any column fraction, even when the column was washed with 1MKCl and 1 mM NADPH in TE buffer The combined and concentrated washing solutions were stored at)80 C as a source of other NADPH-dependent enzymes of A gambiae TrxR assay
TrxR assays were conducted at 25C with a reaction volume
of 1 mL consisting of buffer T (100 mM potassium phos-phate, 2 mM EDTA, pH 7.4) and 100 lM NADPH For determination of the Kmvalues of Trxs, Trx concentrations were varied from 3 to 50 lM[25] The assays were started
by the addition of 10 milliunits of A gambiae TrxR-1 (1 unit¼ 1 lmol of NADPH consumption per minute under substrate saturation), and the Trx-dependent NADPH oxidation was followed spectrophotometrically at 340 nm applying an e-value of 6.22 mM )1Æcm)1 Kmand Vmaxvalues were obtained by applying the Michaelis–Menten equation
GR activity was determined using established protocols [28,29]
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The Trx-dependent GSSG-reduction assay was conducted
as described previously [25,26] The mixture contained
100 lM NADPH and A gambiae Trx-1 in concentrations
from 5 to 50 lM The assay was started by the addition of
1 U of A gambiae TrxR-1, and NADPH oxidation was
followed at 340 nm After reduction of Trx was complete,
1 mMGSSG was added, and GSSG reduction was followed
by further NADPH consumption The composition of the
assay mixture guarantees that > 98% of Trx is present in
the reduced form
L-Dehydroascorbate reduction assay for TrxR
L-Dehydroascorbate (dimer; Sigma-Aldrich) was studied as
a substrate in the range of 50 lMto 5 mMin TrxR assay
mixture containing 200 lMNADPH and 300 nMA
gamb-iaeTrxR subunits; NADPH consumption was determined
spectroscopically at 340 nm Purified human TrxR served
as a positive control
Protein determination
The protein concentration in crude fractions was estimated
assuming an absorption of 10 at 280 nm for a 1% solution
For determining the exact concentration of TrxR, flavin
absorbance was measured at 450 nm after denaturation
of the enzyme sample by 0.1% SDS and heating to 80C;
the FAD released by this procedure has an e-value of
11.3 mM )1Æcm)1
Sequence studies on authenticA gambiae TrxR
A 10 lg sample of purified authentic A gambiae TrxR was
applied per lane in reducing SDS/PAGE After
electro-phoresis, one lane was Coomassie-stained and the putative
TrxR band was subjected to tryptic digestion (see below)
Another lane was blotted [in 50 mM sodium borate, 20%
(v/v) methanol, pH 9.0, at 150 mA] overnight onto a
poly(vinylidene difluoride) membrane and stained with
0.1% amido-blackin 2% acetic acid This yielded a protein
band of 58 kDa An additional minor band of 62 kDa
appeared when phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride was present
during all steps of the protein isolation Both bands were
excised and subjected to Edman degradation
Selenium analysis
Ten microgram samples of purified authentic A gambiae
TrxR were subjected to atomic absorption spectrometry for
selenium determination (Dr Muntean, Labor Seelig,
Karls-ruhe, Germany) A negative control (TE buffer) and a
positive control (10 lg of human TrxR in TE buffer) were
analysed in parallel
Cloning ofA gambiae TrxR-1
The A gambiae trxr-1 gene was PCR cloned from genomic
DNA as well as from the cDNA of adult insects In the case
of the amplification from genomic DNA, the bases coding
for the first five amino acids, located on the first exon, were
included in the primer For the cloning of genomic DNA, the following primers were applied: forward, 5¢-CGCAG GATCCGCGCCATTGAATCAGGAAAACTATGAGT ACGATCTGGTG-3¢ (containing a BamHI restriction site); and reverse, 5¢-TCCTAAGCTTCTAGCTGCAG CAGGTCGCCGGCGTCG-3¢ (containing a HindIII restriction site) Dimethylsulfoxide [5% (v/v)] was added
to the PCR mixture to improve amplification of the GC-rich gene PCR conditions were as follows: 94C for 60 s; 35 cycles of 30 s at 94C, 30 s at 68 C and 90 s at 72 C; then
10 min at 72C The PCR fragment was cloned into the expression vector, pQE-60 (Qiagen), and Escherichia coli NovaBlue cells (Novagen) were transformed with the plasmid The insert was verified by sequencing
Protein expression Transformed E coli NovaBlue cells were grown overnight
at 34C in 2· YT medium containing 50 lgÆmL)1 carbeni-cillin A gambiae TrxR-1 expression was then induced with 0.3 mM isopropyl-b-D-thiogalactopyranoside for 4 h at
34C After centrifugation (3000 g, 10 min, 4 C), cells were resuspended in 25 mM TE buffer and treated with lysozyme (0.2 mgÆmL)1) and DNase (0.02 mgÆmL)1) for
20 min at room temperature Phenylmethanesulfonyl fluo-ride (100 lM), pepstatin (3 lM) and cystatin (80 nM) were added as protease inhibitors and the cells were disintegrated
by ultrasound The homogenate was centrifuged at 38 000 g for 30 min at 4C and the supernatant was applied to a 2¢,5¢-ADP–Sepharose column equilibrated with 50 mMTE buffer The column was washed with five volumes of 25 mM
TE buffer and one volume of 50 mMTE buffer A gambiae TrxR-1 was eluted by 2 mM NADP+in 50 mM TE, the final yield being 40 mgÆL)1 of protein culture SDS/ PAGE, using a 10% gel, showed a single band of the expected size, the purity being > 95% as judged by silver staining
MS of tryptic peptides Protein bands were excised from SDS/PAGE, and their cysteine residues were reduced and alkylated with iodoacet-amide The samples were then digested with porcine trypsin (Promega) in 40 mMammonium bicarbonate at 37C for 6–8 h The reaction was stopped by freezing Tryptic peptides were extracted by ZipTip C18 reverse phase material (Millipore), chromatographed, and taken up in a saturated solution of a-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamonic acid in 50% (v/v) acetonitrile/water
MALDI mass spectra were recorded in the positive ion mode with delayed extraction on a Reflex IV time-of-flight instrument equipped with an MTP multiprobe inlet and a 337-nm nitrogen laser Mass spectra were obtained by averaging 50–200 individual laser shots Calibration of the spectra was internally performed by a two-point linear fit using the autolysis products of trypsin at m/z 842.50 and m/z 2211.10
The peptide masses were screened against the NCBInr database using the peptide search algorithm MASCOT
(Matrix Science) Fragments generated by postsource decay experiments were analysed using the database search algorithm - (http://prospector.ucsf.edu)
Trang 4When this project started, only one Trx (A gambiae Trx-1)
had been described as a part of the Trx-based redox
metabolism in the malaria mosquito A gambiae [25]
Complementary studies on the fruit fly, D melanogaster
[5], suggested investigating, in detail, the redox homeostasis
in a disease-transmitting insect The characterization of
A gambiaeTrxR allows the comparison of three different
mechanisms of Trx reduction in the P falciparum malaria
system, i.e that in the parasite, the human host, and the
insect vector
Isolation ofA gambiae TrxR from insect cells
From 8 mL of pelleted A gambiae cells, 19 U of A
gamb-iaeTrxR activity was extracted Approximately 60% TrxR
was recovered from the 2¢,5¢-ADP–Sepharose affinity
column No GR activity was detected either in the dialyzed
crude extract or in any fraction eluted from the column
SDS/PAGE analysis of the TrxR fraction revealed two
major bands representing apparent molecular masses of
62 kDa and 58 kDa (inset Fig 1A) We observed a decrease
in intensity of the heavy band when the cell extract was
ageing As this process could be prevented by repeated
addition of phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride, it was
conclu-ded that proteolytic cleavage of the 62 kDa protein yielconclu-ded
a product co-migrating with the 58 kDa band
Sequence analysis by Edman degradation
and mass spectral analysis
Edman degradation of the 58 kDa band resulted in the
N-terminal sequence of 17 residues given in Fig 1B; the
62 kDa protein resisted Edman degradation
For further sequence information on A gambiae TrxR,
we conducted mass spectral analyses of the two bands from
the SDS/PAGE gel To achieve this, the proteins were
subjected to tryptic digestion The patterns of high-yield
peptides (Fig 1B) were indistinguishable, which suggests
that the two electrophoretic bands represent splice isoforms
of A gambiae TrxR (see below) Furthermore, sequence
comparison of the peptides with D melanogaster TrxR-1
confirmed that we had indeed isolated a homologue of the
Drosophilaenzyme [5]
Lack of detectable selenium
A particular point of interest was whether TrxR from
Anophelesis a selenoprotein (like its relatives from humans
and other mammals) [30,31] or whether A gambiae TrxR is
a selenium-free Drosophila-type enzyme In mammalian
TrxR, the C-terminal redox centre is formed by a Cys–
selenocysteine (Sec) pair [22,32] No significant selenium –
less than 0.01 mol per mol of A gambiae TrxR subunit
compared with 0.94 mol per mol of human TrxR subunit –
was determined by atomic absorption spectrometry The
absence of a catalytic Sec residue in A gambiae TrxR was
corroborated by the finding that L-dehydroascorbate –
which is a substrate of the selenium-dependent TrxRs of
mammals [33] – was not a substrate at concentrations up to
5 m
Genomic organization of theA gambiae TrxR gene The genome sequence analysis of A gambiae, reported previously [3], enabled us to address the genomic organiza-tion of the gene (Fig 2) A gambiae trxr occurs in three different splicing variants (AJ459821, AJ549084, AJ549085)
as a single-copy gene on chromosome X In contrast to
D melanogaster TrxR-1 – where the coding sequence is interrupted by three introns – the A gambiae TrxR coding sequences were found to be separated by a single intron corresponding to the proximal intron in D melanogaster TrxR-1 (Fig 2)
The identification of three types of expressed sequence tags (ESTs), varying in the sequence of the first exon only, suggests that three alternative transcription start sites are operative (exons 1–3 of A gambiae trxr in Fig 2) Exon 1 is
Fig 1 Characterization of authentic Anopheles gambiae thioredoxin reductase-1 (TrxR-1) by physicochemical analyses (A) The absorption spectra of 6.6 l M TrxR-1 in the oxidized form E ox (dashed curve) and
in the four-electron reduced form (EH 4 ) (solid curve), which was obtained by adding 33 l M NADPH to the E ox sample In the EH 4
sample, the absorption at wavelengths below 400 nm is largely a result
of excess NADPH The inset shows A gambiae TrxR species in a silver-stained gel after SDS/PAGE In lane 1, the two variants of
A gambiae TrxR isolated from cultured insect cells can be distin-guished; lane 2 shows recombinant A gambiae TrxR-1, and the outer lane marker proteins (B) The results of peptide analyses The DNA-deduced sequence of A gambiae TrxR-1 is shown in standard script Tryptic peptides of authentic enzyme that were identified by MS are underlined and marked in bold These peptides were found in both protein bands shown on lane 1 in the inset The N-terminal sequence (17 residues in bold italics) was identified by Edman degradation of the protein isolated from the major band of the SDS/PAGE gel The minor band of 62 kDa resisted Edman degradation.
Trang 5represented in the NCBI database by 14 ESTs that overlap
with exon 4 Joining of exon 1 (encoding the five amino
acids MAPLN) with exon 4 (encoding QENYEY and
further 491 amino acids), leads to a protein of 502 residues
which is the orthologue of D melanogaster TrxR-1 (Figs 1B
and 3) This protein is introduced here as A gambiae TrxR-1
(CAD30858)
Two alternative 5¢ exons – exon 2 and exon 3 – were
identified, each represented by a single EST The N-terminal
segment contributed by exon 2 (MATAVLARPARS
LINVVQCVRLIRTQATVMFA) shows the properties of
a mitochondrial targeting sequence containing the predicted
cleavage site between IRT and QAT The last four amino
acids (VMFA) are not encoded by EST BM603316, but the
correct overlap with exon 4 was proven by sequencing a
PCR product amplified with an oligonucleotide pair specific
for exon 1 and exon 4 (data not shown) The deduced
N-terminal sequence of the putative mitochondrial enzyme
is thus QATVMFA|KENEY, the change from Q to K in
position 5 resulting from splicing
Exon 3 occurs in EST BM583435, which extends into
exon 4 The resulting N-terminal sequence – MAAATAAE|
QENYEY – probably represents a second cytosolic species
of TrxR
As judged by the number of EST sequences and by Edman degradation of enzyme isolated from insect cells,
we can state that A gambiae TrxR-1 is the major isoform
in vivo Similarly to the fruit fly, no GR-like sequence could
be identified in the mosquito genome [34] This is consistent with the absence of detectable genuine GR activity in Anophelescell extracts
Cloning and characterization ofA gambiae TrxR-1 The A gambiae trxr-1 gene was cloned and recombinantly expressed in E coli In SDS/PAGE, this protein co-migrates with wild-type A gambiae TrxR-1 – isolated from cultured Anophelescells or whole insects – at a position representing
a molecular mass of 58 kDa (Fig 1A) The discrepancy between this value and the molecular mass of 54.5 kDa deduced from the amino acid sequence has also been observed in other disulfide reductases; they all show a subunit molecular mass (deduced by SDS/PAGE) that is overestimated by 7–10% The molecular basis for this electrophoretic behaviour is unknown [35]
The identity between authentic and recombinant
A gambiae Trx-1 is supported by the concurrence of deduced and experimentally determined amino acid sequences (Fig 1B) Thus, TrxR-1 from A gambiae con-tains 502 amino acids per subunit; the calculated molecular mass is 54.5 kDa per subunit for the apoprotein and
2· 55.3 kDa for the FAD-containing homodimeric holo-enzyme The protein shares 69% sequence identity with its orthologue from D melanogaster (Fig 3) Both insect enzymes have sequence elements that are typical for large TrxRs, including the flavin-near redox-active Cys–Val– Asn–Val–Gly–Cys motif, as well as a C-terminally located redox centre (Fig 3) In the sequence of A gambiae TrxR-1 and D melanogaster TrxR-1 a sequentially adjacent cys-teine pair (Cys500¢ and Cys501¢) is present Thus, the two insect Trxs known, to date, are typical members of the large TrxR enzyme class characterized by an additional redox centre However, in contrast to mammalian TrxRs or TrxR from P falciparum, this part of the active site is structurally distinct in the insect enzymes Indeed a redox centre formed
by two sequential Cys residues is highly unusual [24]
A gambiae TrxR-1 as a Trx-reducing enzyme TrxR-1 was tested with Trxs from A gambiae (A gambiae Trx-1), D melanogaster (D melanogaster Trx-2), and
P falciparum(P falciparum Trx-1) as oxidizing substrates (Table 1) The catalytic efficiency of A gambiae TrxR-1 is
Fig 2 Genomic organization of the Anopheles gambiae thioredoxin
reductase-1 (TrxR-1) gene in com parison with the Drosophila
melano-gaster TrxR gene In both insects the trxr locus is located on
chro-mosome X Numbered boxes represent exons within the gene Coding
regions are shown in black, untranslated sequences are shaded in grey.
Scale bar divisions are in kilobases A gambiae trxr occurs in three
possible splice isoforms (AJ459821, AJ549084, AJ549085) that differ in
the first exon (exon 1, 2 or 3) joined to exon 4 The orthologous
Drosophila locus, shown below, is similarly organized, except that the
sequence corresponding to exon 4 of A gambiae trxr is interrupted by
two short introns, which results in exons 4–6 Exons 1, 2 or 3 joined to
exons 4–6 yield transcripts RA, RB and
CG2151-RC, respectively In both insect species, exon 1 encodes the N-terminal
sequence of an abundant cytosolic, exon 2 of a mitochondrial, and
exon 3 of a minor cytosolic TrxR form.
Table 1 Kinetic parameters of Anopheles gambiae thioredoxin reductase-1 (TrxR-1) with different thioredoxins and 5,5¢-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) All values were determined in 100 m M potassium phosphate buffer, 2 m M EDTA, pH 7.4 As expected, A gambiae Trx-1 was the best substrate of A gambiae TrxR-1, but the k cat /K m value was only marginally better than for thioredoxin-2 (Trx-2) from Drosophila melanogaster Plasmodium falciparum thioredoxin-1 (Trx-1) showed the highest k cat value, but the K m was significantly lower than for the insect thioredoxins DTNB was included as an artificial disulfide substrate which is reduced by most high molecular mass thioredoxin reductases.
Substrate K m (l M ) V max (UÆmg)1) k cat (s)1) k cat /K m ( M )1 Æs)1)
A gambiae Trx-1 8.5 ± 1.5 16.9 ± 1.6 15.4 ± 1.5 1.81 · 10 6
D melanogaster Trx-2 9.0 ± 1.0 15.7 ± 1.3 14.3 ± 1.2 1.58 · 10 6
P falciparum Trx-1 33 ± 5 17.2 ± 1.2 15.7 ± 1.1 0.48 · 10 6
DTNB 700 ± 200 6.0 ± 0.7 5.5 ± 0.6 7.9 · 10 3
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D melanogasterTrxR-1 [5,25] Expectedly, with a Kmvalue
of 8.5 lMand a kcatof 15.4 s)1, A gambiae Trx-1 is the best
substrate of the enzyme but D melanogaster Trx-2, i.e the
orthologue of A gambiae Trx-1 in Drosophila, is an almost
equally good substrate The Km value for the reducing
substrate NADPH was found to be 5.0 lM
By comparison with other TrxRs [21,24,36], we can
delineate the pathways of electrons in A gambiae TrxR-1
during catalysis (Figs 3 and 4) The reducing equivalents
flow from the nicotinamide of NADPH via the flavin and
the pair Cys57/Cys62 to the redox centre Cys500’/Cys501’
of the other subunit, and hence to the disulfide of the
substrate Trx The thiolate of Cys62 in A gambiae
TrxR-1 forms a charge transfer complex with the
reoxidized flavin during catalysis [20,24,37] This charge
transfer gives rise to the absorption band at 530 nm (Fig 1A) and thus to the orange/red colour of stable catalytic intermediates that contain both oxidized flavin and Cys62 as a thiolate Unexpectedly, freshly prepared
A gambiae TrxR was found to be orange/red, which indicated the presence of reduced Cys62 Auto-oxidation
of the A gambiae TrxR-1 preparations was very slow and proceeded over a range of hours to days, finally producing the typical yellow colour of oxidized enzyme Eox (Fig 1A) The freshly isolated enzyme also resisted oxidation by its native substrate, A gambiae Trx In contrast, most disulfide reductases, when present in reduced forms, can be easily oxidized by their native substrates [20] Consequently, we conducted redox titration experiments on A gambiae TrxR-1, starting out with the oxidized form, Eox, and monitoring the absorbance
Fig 3 Multiple sequence alignment ( CLUSTAL W ) of high molecular mass thioredoxin reductases (TrxR) The search was conducted (NCBI accession numbers in parentheses) with the enzymes from Anopheles gambiae (AgTrxR-1, CAD30858), Drosophila melanogaster (DmTrxR-1, AAG25639), humans (hTrxR, AAB35418), and from the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum (PfTrxR-1, CAA60574) The enzyme of Anopheles shares 69%, 52%, and 45% sequence identity with the TrxRs of D melanogaster, humans, and P falciparum, respectively The sequences of the redox-active centres are shaded in grey; U (residue 498) in the human enzyme represents selenocysteine (Sec).
Trang 7at 530 nm As shown in Fig 1A, the absorption coefficient
at 530 nm was 0.4 mM )1Æcm)1for the oxidized enzyme, Eox,
1.6 mM )1Æcm)1after addition of one equivalent NADPH,
leading to the two-electron reduced enzyme species EH2,
and 3.0 mM )1Æcm)1 for the enzyme reduced with two or
more equivalents NADPH, giving rise to the four-electron
reduced enzyme species EH4 After reoxidation with 100 lM
A gambiaeTrx-1, the e-value fell to 1.6 mM )1Æcm)1,
indi-cative of a two-electron reduced enzyme species (EH2) In
contrast, reoxidation of EH4 with 125 lM potassium
ferricyanide, as described previously [16,24], led to the Eox
species with an e-value of 0.4 mM )1Æcm)1at 530 nm
These data confirm that the native substrate does not
reoxidize the enzyme to Eoxbut only to the EH2state where
the redox-active Cys residues 57, 62, 500’, and 501’ are
present partly as thiols so that the thiolate of Cys62 can still
form a charge transfer complex with flavin For catalysis,
this implies that the very first catalytic cycle is primed by two
NADPH molecules, which results in the four-electron
reduced state Oxidation with TrxS2then leads to the
two-electron reduced state, where the two disulfide bridges
are partially reduced, i.e.: priming reaction, Eox+
2NADPH + 2H+fi EH4+ 2NADP+; catalytic cycle,
EH4+ TrxS2fi EH2+ Trx(SH)2; EH2+ NADPH +
H+fi EH4+ NADP+ TrxS2+ NADPH + H+ fi
Trx(SH)2+ NADP+ This balance reaction of the
cata-lytic cycle, of course, represents the net reaction catalyzed by
TrxR
Discussion
The isolation and characterization of A gambiae TrxR contributes to the understanding of the redox metabolism in Diptera The principles of redox homeostasis that were tentatively postulated for the fruit fly can be extended to a disease-transmitting insect In short, a GR is absent, although GSH is a key compound of the redox networks also in insects [38] The nonenzymatic reduction of GSSG
by reduced Trx is probably a major pathway for GSH reduction in these organisms [5] Thus, TrxR indirectly substitutes for the function of GR As described previously,
A gambiaeTrx-1 is a highly expressed protein in vivo [25] The efficiency of GSSG reduction by A gambiae Trx-1 is similar to its orthologue (Trx-2) in D melanogaster and probably sufficient to maintain physiological needs
In the Anopheles mosquito, one TrxR gene is present which occurs in three splice variants Alternative use of first exons was previously reported for mammalian and Droso-phila TrxRgenes [39] In D melanogaster, three alternative transcripts have been identified: CG2151-RA is the ortho-logue of A gambiae TrxR-1; CG2151-RB corresponds to a mitochondrial TrxR form; and CG2151-RC encodes a second cytosolic TrxR Transcripts coding for the latter form are rare, as only two ESTs corresponding to
CG2151-RC have been identified (compared with more than 80 CG2151-RA ESTs) Thus, the trxr loci in Anopheles and
in Drosophila are structurally organized in a similar way: there are three alternative first exons, coding probably for a major cytosolic, a mitochondrial, and a minor cytosolic form (Fig 2)
Unlike in A gambiae, a second TrxR gene, trxr-2, was identified in the genome of D melanogaster However, a
D melanogasterTrxR-1 null mutant leads to death, at the latest during the second larval instar [40], and both cytosolic and mitochondrial TrxR-1 forms have been shown to be necessary for survival [41] Thus, the putative activity of TrxR-2 is not sufficient to compensate for the lackof either the cytosolic or the mitochondrial TrxR-1
The A gambiae TrxR preparation from insect cells results in two enzyme species that can be distinguished by SDS/PAGE (Fig 1) The predominant band represents the cytosolic variant A gambiae TrxR-1, and the 62 kDa band
is possibly the mitochondrial precursor variant This assumption is supported by the size of the protein and by the observation that it is stabilized by protease inhibitors
A gambiae TrxR-1 shares 69% sequence identity with
D melanogaster TrxR-1, including the important redox-active Cys–Cys motif on the C-terminal extension (Figs 3 and 4) For the Drosophila enzyme it was shown that both cysteines are essential for the interaction with the natural substrate Trx [5,24] In the case of rat TrxR, which is a selenoprotein with a Cys–Sec–sequence instead, the Secfi Cys exchange results in a mutant with less than 1% catalytic activity when compared with the wild-type enzyme [30,42] The main difference between the insect enzymes and the TrxR from rat concerns the amino acid residues adjacent to the cysteines In mammalian TrxRs, including the human orthologue, we find a Gly– Cys–Cys–Gly sequence, whereas in A gambiae TrxR-1, it is Thr–Cys–Cys–Ser and in D melanogaster TrxR-1 it is Ser– Cys–Cys–Ser There is evidence that the hydroxyl functions
Fig 4 Sketch of homodimeric Anopheles gambiae in the four-electron
reduced (EH 4 ) form The dimer interface is shown as a diagonal line
with a blackcircle at the centre This circle represents the molecular
two-fold symmetry axis The sketch shows the EH 4 form where all
four redox-active cysteines are present in the reduced form The
thiolate 62 forms a charge transfer complex with oxidized flavin,
and Cys501¢ is ready to attackthe disulfide bond of the substrate
thioredoxin disulfide By analogy with other disulfide reductases,
the most probable scenario leading from oxidized enzyme (E ox ) to
EH 4 is as follows When NADPH binds to one subunit (upper
right), its reducing equivalents flow via the flavin to the disulfide
Cys62/Cys57 The resulting dithiol is reoxidized by exchange with
the disulfide bridge between residues 500¢ and 501¢ of the other
subunit Subsequently, binding and oxidation of a second NADPH
molecule leads to re-reduction of the disulfide between Cys57 and
Cys62.
Trang 8of the flanking amino acid residues are crucial for catalysis
(H S Gromer et al., unpublished data) It is interesting to
note that despite the evolutionary distance of 250 million
years [34] between the fruit fly and the mosquito, not only
the basic principles of redox metabolism and the genomic
organization of the TrxR gene, but also the mechanistic
peculiarities of these orthologous enzymes, have remained
highly conserved
With a kcatof 15–22 s)1for Trx [5,24], the insect TrxRs
exhibit a somewhat lower turnover number than their
mammalian relatives ( 35–45 s)1) [30,43], but they have
the advantage of being independent of the rare trace element
selenium This evolutionary adaptation is plausible because
TrxR is apparently the mainstay enzyme of the antioxidant
metabolism in insects, whereas mammals have a second,
GR-based system
Redox processes also represent an interesting aspect of
parasite–host interaction For human malaria it is well
known that disturbance of the antioxidative metabolism
results in an inhibition of parasitic growth in erythrocytes
The most prominent example is
glucose-6-phosphate-dehy-drogenase (Glc6PDH) deficiency, an inherited disease also
known as favism [44,45] A major effect of Glc6PDH
deficiency is an impaired NADPH production, which
affects the ability of the erythrocyte to resist oxidative
stress The effects of Glc6PDH deficiency can be imitated by
GR-inhibitors such as carmustine [46] or isoalloxazines [47]
The current interpretation of Glc6PDH deficiency, as a
condition protecting from severe malaria, is based on the
observation that the anion channel protein of the
erythro-cyte membrane undergoes oxidative changes when
ring-stage parasites are present in the red blood cell This
oxidized band-3 protein is recognized by a specific antibody
that initiates immunologic processes to eliminate the
parasitized cell [48,49]
With respect to the insect vector A gambiae, it has also
been shown that nitrosative and oxidative stress imposed
by NO and peroxynitrite play a dominating role in the
host’s defence against the parasite [50,51] The insect cells,
in turn, have to protect themselves against these reactive
agents When Anopheles cells are challenged by oxidative
stress, transcription of numerous genes that are associated
with the Trx system are induced, prominently among
them the TrxR gene [52] Interestingly, a similar response
occurs after exposing the cells to bacterial peptidoglycan
Trx system-related genes are also transcribed in the
salivary glands of A gambiae It is assumed that the
corresponding proteins are especially important for
pro-tecting the glands from heme-driven free radical attack
[53] Thus, redox processes play a major role in host–
parasite interactions, not only in human blood but also
inside the insect vector
The differences between the enzyme systems involved in
antioxidative metabolism offer an interesting novel target
for the development of insect-specific TrxR inhibitors The
potential of TrxR as a target for novel insecticides is
supported by the fact that TrxR-1 knockouts in Drosophila
are lethal in early embryonic stages [40] Based on the
genomic data and comparative genome analyses, it can be
reasonably assumed that this is also true for Anopheles The
development of novel insecticides is an important approach
in the fight against malaria which is becoming more and
more complicated, not least as a result of the occurrence of insecticide resistance [54] In this context it should be noted that inhibitors of the Trx system have toxic effects themselves but, in addition, they sensitize organisms for other toxic agents [13,55,56] Consequently, inhibitors of
A gambiae TrxR-1 are expected to protect other insecti-cides from the development of resistance
Acknowledgements
We are indebted to Dr Stefan M Kanzokfor the early studies on the Anopheles thioredoxin system and for his help in database searches Our workwas supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Grants B2 and C1 of SFB 544 Control of Tropical Infectious Diseases to R.H.S and H.M.M., respectively, as well as grant GR2028/1-1 to S.G.) and by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (Grant 161576) to R.H.S.
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