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Disease
OAT_HUMAN Defects in OAT are the cause of hyperornithinemia with gyrate atrophy of choroid and retina (HOGA) [MIM:258870. HOGA is a slowly progressive blinding autosomal recessive disorder.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Function
OAT_HUMAN
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common form of liver cancer and the leading cause of death among people with cirrhosis. HCC is typically diagnosed in advanced stages when tumors are resistant to both radio- and chemotherapy. Human ornithine aminotransferase (hOAT) is a pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzyme involved in glutamine and proline metabolism. Because hOAT is overexpressed in HCC cells and a contributing factor for the uncontrolled cellular division that propagates malignant tumors (Ueno et al. J. Hepatol. 2014, 61, 1080-1087), it is a potential drug target for the treatment of HCC. (1S,3S)-3-Amino-4-(hexafluoropropan-2-ylidenyl)-cyclopentane-1-carboxylic acid (BCF3) has been shown in animal models to slow the progression of HCC by acting as a selective and potent mechanism-based inactivator of OAT (Zigmond et al. ACS Med. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 840-844). Previous studies have shown that the BCF3-hOAT reaction has a bifurcation in which only 8% of the inhibitor inactivates the enzyme while the remaining 92% ultimately acts as a substrate and undergoes hydrolysis to regenerate the active PLP form of the enzyme. In this manuscript, the rate-limiting step of the inactivation mechanism was determined by stopped-flow spectrophotometry and time-dependent (19)F NMR experiments to be the decay of a long-lived external aldimine species. A crystal structure of this transient complex revealed both the structural basis for fractional irreversible inhibition and the principal mode of inhibition of hOAT by BCF3, which is to trap the enzyme in this transient but quasi-stable external aldimine form.
Structural and Kinetic Analyses Reveal the Dual Inhibition Modes of Ornithine Aminotransferase by (1S,3S)-3-Amino-4-(hexafluoropropan-2-ylidenyl)-cyclopentane-1-carboxylic Acid (BCF3).,Butrin A, Beaupre BA, Kadamandla N, Zhao P, Shen S, Silverman RB, Moran GR, Liu D ACS Chem Biol. 2020 Dec 14. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00728. PMID:33316155[7]
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References
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- ↑ Brody LC, Mitchell GA, Obie C, Michaud J, Steel G, Fontaine G, Robert MF, Sipila I, Kaiser-Kupfer M, Valle D. Ornithine delta-aminotransferase mutations in gyrate atrophy. Allelic heterogeneity and functional consequences. J Biol Chem. 1992 Feb 15;267(5):3302-7. PMID:1737786
- ↑ Michaud J, Thompson GN, Brody LC, Steel G, Obie C, Fontaine G, Schappert K, Keith CG, Valle D, Mitchell GA. Pyridoxine-responsive gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina: clinical and biochemical correlates of the mutation A226V. Am J Hum Genet. 1995 Mar;56(3):616-22. PMID:7887415
- ↑ Kobayashi T, Ogawa H, Kasahara M, Shiozawa Z, Matsuzawa T. A single amino acid substitution within the mature sequence of ornithine aminotransferase obstructs mitochondrial entry of the precursor. Am J Hum Genet. 1995 Aug;57(2):284-91. PMID:7668253
- ↑ Butrin A, Beaupre BA, Kadamandla N, Zhao P, Shen S, Silverman RB, Moran GR, Liu D. Structural and Kinetic Analyses Reveal the Dual Inhibition Modes of Ornithine Aminotransferase by (1S,3S)-3-Amino-4-(hexafluoropropan-2-ylidenyl)-cyclopentane-1-carboxylic Acid (BCF(3)). ACS Chem Biol. 2021 Jan 15;16(1):67-75. PMID:33316155 doi:10.1021/acschembio.0c00728
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