Biology of the molybdenum cofactor
Journal of Experimental Botany,Vol.58,No.9,pp.2289–2296,
2007
Nitrogen Nutrition Special Issue
doi:10.1093/jxb/erm024Advance Access publication9March,2007
SPECIAL ISSUE PAPER
Biology of the molybdenum cofactor
Ralf R.Mendel*
Institute of Plant Biology,Technical University of Braunschweig,38106Braunschweig,Germany Received1December2006;Revised23January2007;Accepted23January2007
Abstract
The transition element molybdenum(Mo)is an essen-tial micronutrient for plants where it is needed as a catalytically active metal during enzyme catalysis.Four plant enzymes depend on molybdenum:nitrate reduc-tase,sulphite oxidase,xanthine dehydrogenase,and aldehyde oxidase.However,in order to gain biological activity and ful?l its function in enzymes,molybdenum has to be complexed by a pterin compound thus form-ing the molybdenum cofactor.In this article,the path of molybdenum from its uptake into the cell,via formation of the molybdenum cofactor and its storage,to the?nal modi?cation of the molybdenum cofactor and its in-sertion into apo-metalloenzymes will be reviewed.
Key words:Aldehyde oxidase,Arabidopsis thaliana, molybdenum cofactor,nitrate reductase,sulphite oxidase, xanthine dehydrogenase.
Introduction
The transition element molybdenum(Mo)is an essential micronutrient for plants,animals,and most micro-organ-isms(Sigel and Sigel,2002).In soils,the molybdate anion is the only form of Mo that is available for plants and bacteria(Stiefel,2002).To this end,more than50en-zymes are known to contain Mo and most of them occur in bacteria,while in plants only four were found,with nitrate reducatse(NR)as the most prominent one(Sigel and Sigel,2002).For this journal,molybdenum metabo-lism in plants was reviewed5years ago(Mendel and Hansch,2002).Therefore,the progress that has been reached since then will be discussed here.
In all organisms,Mo has to be complexed by a pterin com-pound,thereby forming the molybdenum cofactor(Moco), in order to gain biological activity.This pterin compound is a unique pterin named molybdopterin or metal-containing petrin(MPT).With the exception of nitrogen-?xing nitro-genase,all Mo-containing enzymes characterized to date contain the pterin-type cofactor(Hille,1996).As depicted in Fig.1,Moco is a tricyclic pterin that co-ordinates the metal via a dithiolene group at the third(pyrano)ring.The task of the cofactor is to position the catalytic metal Mo correctly within the active centre,to control its redox be-haviour,and to participate with its pterin ring system in the electron transfer to or from the Mo atom.The pterin, with its several possible reduction states as well as dif-ferent structural conformations,might also be important in channelling electrons from or to other prosthetic groups (Hille,2005).
Nitrate reductase needs Moco
Eukaryotic NR is a homodimeric enzyme.The monomer of plant NR consists of three functional domains:the N-terminal domain associated with Moco,the central haem-binding cytochrome b5domain,and the C-terminal FAD-binding domain,each redox active prosthetic group bound to the monomer in a ratio of1:1:1.Dimerization is dependent on the presence of Moco(Campbell,2001). The domains are connected by solvent-exposed and protease-sensitive hinge regions which had already been observed in the1980s when de?ned degradation products of the NR monomer generated by limited proteolysis were detected on SDS-PAGE gels.The three domains form three redox centres catalysing the transfer of electrons from the reductant NAD(P)H via FAD,haem,and Moco to nitrate.
The atomic structure of holo-NR is still unsolved, probably because the puri?cation of large amounts of native,non-degraded plant NR suf?cient for crystalliza-tion experiments was principally possible,yet there was no success in obtaining diffracting crystals.Also,the
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Abbreviations:AO,aldehyde oxidase;MCP,molybdenum cofactor carrier protein;Mo,molybdenum;Moco,molybdenum cofactor;MPT,molybdopterin; NR,nitrate reductase;SO,sulphite oxidase;XDH,xanthine dehydrogenase.
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recombinant expression of holo-NR in Escherichia coli yielded only inactive NR proteins,while expression in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris was more promising.So use was made of the linear domain arrangement of the NR monomer to express recombinantly the FAD-domain and the haem-domain separately and to solve their struc-tures (Dwivedi et al.,1994;Lu et al.,1995).Finally,the structure of the Mo-binding domain of the yeast Pichia angusta was solved (Fischer et al.,2005).This structure revealed a unique slot for binding nitrate in the active site and also showed that the Mo-domain can be further
subdivided into a Moco-binding catalytic domain and a C-terminal domain representing the dimerization interface of holo-NR.It is remarkable that the Moco is completely buried inside the protein and a funnel-like structure leads from the surface of the protein to the active site.
Molybdenum uptake
Biologically,Mo belongs to the group of trace elements,i.e.the organism needs it only in minute
amounts.
Fig.1.Biosynthesis and distribution of Moco in plant cells.The basic steps of Moco biosynthesis are shown,starting from GTP (right upper part)to Moco,including Moco biosynthesis enzymes.MPT-synthase,consisting of Cnx6and Cnx7,is sulphurated by Cnx5,with the primary sulphur donor of Cnx5(X-S)being unknown.It is assumed that copper (Cu)is inserted directly after dithiolene formation.Mature Moco can be bound either to a Moco carrier protein (MCP),to NR and SO,or to the ABA3protein.ABA3is known to generate a protein-bound persulphide,which is the source of the inorganic sulphur ligand of Moco in enzymes of the XDH/AO family.The domain structure of the Mo-enzyme monomers is given in the lower part of the ?gure.Like Cnx2,XDH and AO also depend on iron–sulphur clusters [Fe–S]supplied by the mitochondria.Clearly,the formation of active Mo-enzymes depends not only on the availability of Mo but also on the presence of the two metals iron and copper.
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However,unavailability of Mo is lethal for the organism. However,even if Mo is available for the cell,it seems to be biologically inactive until it becomes complexed to form Moco,thus gaining biological activity.Uptake of Mo as molybdate anion requires speci?c uptake systems to scavenge molybdate in the presence of competing anions. Eukaryotic molybdate transport is still poorly understood. There are reports that sulphate(Alhendawi et al.,2005)as well as phosphate(Heuwinkel et al.,1992)starvation of plants enhances Mo uptake up to10-fold which means that sulphate transporters and phosphate transporters might co-transport molybdate anions.In the alga Chlamy-domonas reinhardtii,genetic evidence suggested the exis-tence of a distinct molybdate uptake system(Llamas et al., 2000)and very recently a molybdate transporter has been cloned from this organism(E Fernandez,personal commu-nication).In parallel,in Arabidopsis thaliana,a molybdate transporter has been cloned and characterized(T Fujiwara, personal communication).In bacteria,high-af?nity molyb-date transporters are described,driven by ATP hydrolysis. In some bacteria,speci?c molybdate-binding proteins are known with a capacity of up to eight anions(Pau and Lawson,2002)that store molybdate until further use by the cell;however,these proteins have not been found in eukaryotes yet.
Moco biosynthesis
In pre-genomic times,the detailed characterization of NR-de?cient mutants contributed substantially to our understanding of the genetics and biochemistry of Moco biosynthesis in plants.These NR-de?cient mutants fell into two groups:those with a defect in the NR-apoprotein and others which were defective in Moco.The identi?cation of several genetic complementation groups among Moco-de?cient mutants and the conserved structure of Moco provided a basis on which to propose an evolutionary multi-step biosynthetic pathway(Mendel,1992).Among eukaryotes,the molecular,biochemical,and genetic analy-sis of Moco mutants was most advanced in higher plants. These results formed the basis to decipher Moco bio-synthesis in humans as well,where Moco de?ciency is a severe genetic disease with fatal consequences for the affected individuals(Reiss and Johnson,2003).
In plants and in all organisms studied so far,Moco is synthesized by a conserved biosynthetic pathway that can be divided into four steps,according to the biosynthetic intermediates precursor Z,MPT,adenlyated MPT,and Moco(Fig.1).In plants,six gene products participate in Moco biosynthesis(Schwarz and Mendel,2006).These genes are homologous to their counterparts in humans, fungi,and bacteria.Genes and gene products were named in plants according to the cnx nomenclature(cofactor for nitrate reductase and xanthine dehydrogenase).Step1:conversion of GTP into precursor Z
A guanosine derivative(probably GTP)is transformed
into a sulphur–free pterin compound,the precursor Z
(Fig.1).GTP labelling studies and NMR demonstrated
that each carbon atom of the ribose and of the guanine
ring is incorporated into precursor Z(Wuebbens and Rajagopalan,1995;Rieder et al.,1998).This reaction is catalysed by Cnx2and Cnx3,one of them(Cnx2) containing iron–sulphur clusters and belonging to the superfamily of S-adenosylmethionine-dependent radical enzymes(Hanzelmann et al.,2004).
Step2:synthesis of molybdopterin
In the second stage,sulphur is transferred to precursor Z in
order to generate MPT.This reaction is catalysed by the enzyme MPT synthase.After MPT synthase has trans-
ferred the two sulphurs to precursor Z,it has to be resul-phurated in order to reactivate the enzyme for the next reaction cycle of precursor Z conversion(Fig.1).This resulphuration is catalysed by Cnx5involving an adeny-
lation of MPT synthase followed by sulphur transfer (Matthies et al.,2004,2005).Cnx5is a two-domain pro-
tein consisting of an N-terminal domain responsible for adenylating MPT synthase and a C-terminal rhodanese-
like domain where the sulphur is bound to a conserved cysteine in the form of persulphide(Matthies et al.,2005).
The identity of the donor for the reactive mobile sulphur
is as yet unknown.
Step3:adenlyation of molybdopterin
In the third step,Mo has to be transferred to MPT in order
to form Moco,thus linking the molybdate uptake system to
the MPT pathway.In plants,this step is catalysed by the
two domain-protein Cnx1.Its C-terminal domain(?Cnx1-
G)was known to bind MPT tightly(Schwarz et al.,1997),
yet its crystal structure(Kuper et al.,2004)revealed an unexpected?nding:a novel reaction intermediate,adeny-
lated MPT(MPT-AMP)(Fig.1),was found.Subse-
quently it was demonstrated that Cnx1-G adenylates MPT
in an Mg2+-and ATP-dependent way and forms MPT-
AMP that remains bound to Cnx1-G(Llamas et al.,2004).
Step4:molybdenum insertion
The crystal structure of the Cnx1-G revealed another unexpected?nding,namely a copper bound to the MPT dithiolate sulphurs.Up to now,the function of this novel
MPT ligand is unknown but copper might play a role in
sulphur transfer to precursor Z,in protecting the MPT dithiolate from oxidation,and/or presenting a suitable
leaving group for Mo insertion.The origin of this copper
is still unclear,but it is reasonable to assume that it binds
to the dithiolate group just after the latter has been formed,
i.e.at the end of step2of Moco biosynthesis.In the?nal
step of Moco biosynthesis,MPT-AMP is transferred to the
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N-terminal domain of Cnx1(?Cnx1-E)that cleaves the adenylate in a molybdate-dependent way (Llamas et al.,2006),releases copper,and inserts Mo,thus yielding active Moco (Fig.1).Is there storage of Moco?
Moco is highly unstable once liberated from proteins;it loses the Mo atom and undergoes rapid and irreversible loss of function due to oxidation (Rajagopalan and Johnson,1992).Therefore,it was assumed that Moco does not occur free in the cell,rather Moco should be transferred immediately after biosynthesis to an apo-target-enzyme,or Moco could be bound to a carrier protein that protects and stores it until further use (Fig.1).The availability of suf-?cient amounts of Moco is essential for the cell to meet its changing demand for synthesizing Mo enzymes,there-fore the existence of a Moco carrier protein (MCP)would provide a way to buffer supply and demand of Moco.Among eukaryotes,an MCP was described ?rst in the green alga C.rheinhardtii (Aguilar et al.,1992).It is able to bind and protect Moco against oxidation (Witte et al.,1998;Ataya et al.,2003),and its crystal structure shows that it is a homotetramer (Fischer et al.,2006).It is still open whether MCP represents the default pathway for Moco allocation to its users or whether MCP is only a buffer,and the default pathway goes directly from Cnx1to the appropriate apo-enzymes.Among higher plants,pro-teins with homologies to C.reinhardtii MCP are found that form a multi-gene familiy in A.thaliana (R Mendel,unpublished data).
How is Moco assembled into apo-nitrate reductase?
How do Moco,terminal sulphur,FAD,iron–sulphur clusters and haem become assembled into the apoproteins of Mo-enzymes?Nothing is known about how and when FAD,iron–sulphur centres,and haem are bound to the proteins.For Moco,however,the ?rst crystallographic analyses of Mo-enzymes showed that the cofactor is deeply buried within the holo-enzyme so that Moco could only have been incorporated prior to or during completion of folding and dimerization of the apoprotein monomers.For the insertion of Moco into the target apo-enzymes as occurs in the living cell,either (still unknown)chaperone proteins would be needed or the Moco carrier proteins could become involved at this stage.For some bacterial Mo-enzymes,system-speci?c chaperones are required for Moco insertion and protein folding,for example NarJ for E.coli nitrate reductase (Vergnes et al.,2006).
Having been introduced into the apoprotein,Mo is co-ordinated by additional ligands present in the active centre of the respective Mo-enzyme.Moco forms an important part of the active centre but it is not the only constituent of
the centre because the additional ligands supplied by the apoprotein are equally important for the speci?city of the reaction.
Like every other protein,Mo-enzymes are ?nally degraded after having ful?lled their tasks.In particular,the pool of NR is degraded to a large extent once a day during its diurnal rhythm.Nothing is known about the fate of Moco and Mo after hydrolysis of the apoprotein.It can be assumed,however,that Moco is degraded as well,because free Moco released from proteins is extremely labile and sensitive to oxidation.
Nitrate reductase and sulphite oxidase are sister enzymes
Five years ago,the gene for plant sulphite oxidase (SO)was cloned from A.thaliana (Eilers et al.,2001)exhibit-ing high sequence similitaries to the Moco-domain of the NR gene.The SO gene is found to be widespread and highly conserved within the plant kingdom.It encodes the smallest (43kDa for the monomer)and simplest eukary-otic Mo-enzyme that possesses only Moco as redox centre (Fig.1).Recently,the crystal structures of SO and of the Moco-domain of NR were also solved (Schrader et al.,2003;Fischer et al.,2005),revealing a high degree of structural conservation between both proteins with only few differences in the boundaries of the enzymes.Sub-strate binding is proposed to be very similar between SO and NR due to three overall conserved residues in the ac-tive sites.Yet,there are also important changes within the active site that are believed to determine substrate speci-?city and catalytic properties.Consequently,the question might be raised of whether or not it is possible to convert the nitrate-reducing Moco-domain of NR into a sulphite-oxidizing domain,and vice versa.
Oxygen serves as the terminal electron acceptor for plant SO (EC 1.8.3.1)and becomes reduced to hydrogen peroxide (Ha ¨nsch et al.,2006).The latter ?nding explains the peroxisomal localization of plant SO (Nowak et al.,2004).Since plant SO is not found in the chloroplasts,it can be assumed that the function of SO is not related to the chloroplast-based sulphur assimilation pathway (Saito,2004).Rather it was recently found that SO has a sulphite-detoxifying function (Lang et al.,2007);sulphite is a highly reactive metabolite that can react with a wide variety of cellular components.Therefore it has to be removed in order to protect the cell against a surplus of sulphite derived from SO 2gas in the atmosphere (acid rain)(Heber and Hu ¨ve,1998)or during the decomposition of sulphur-containing amino acids.The compartmental-ization of sulphur assimilation and sulphite oxidation in different organelles allows plants to co-regulate these op-posing metabolic demands.As SO is capable of producing hydrogen peroxide,its function might also be connected to reactive oxygen metabolism.
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What other enzymes need molybdenum in plants?
There are more than50different enzymes known that need Moco(Sigel and Sigel,2002),but most of them occur in bacteria and only very few are found in eukaryotes.In addition to NR and SO,only two additional Mo-enzymes are described in plants:xanthine dehydrogenase(XDH) and aldehyde oxidase(AO).
Xanthine dehydrogenase
Xanthine dehydrogenase(XDH;EC1.1.1.204)is a key enzyme of purine degradation that oxidizes hypoxanthine to xanthine and xanthine to uric acid by simultaneous release of electrons from the substrate.Two genes were found in Arabidopsis,located side by side in the genome, encoding the isoenyzmes XDH1and XDH2(Hesberg et al.,2004).XDH is active as a homodimer of two ident-ical subunits(150kDa for the monomer),each being subdivided into three distinct domains(Fig.1):an N-terminal domain with a size of20kDa for binding of two[2Fe-2S]clusters,a40kDa domain harbouring an FAD-binding site,and a C-terminal domain required for Moco binding and dimerization.Electrons derived from substrate oxidation are either transferred to NAD+to form NADH,or they are transferred to molecular oxygen to yield superoxide anions.Plant XDH also has an NADH oxidase activity(Yesbergenova et al.,2005)and might, therefore,have additional physiological functions in react-ive oxygen metabolism because increasing XDH activities and simultaneous ROS production were observed upon plant–pathogen interactions(Montalbini,1992a,b),hy-persensitive response(Montalbini and Della Torre,1996), drought stress(Yesbergenova et al.,2005),and natural senescence(Pastori and Rio,1997;Hesberg et al.,2004). The subcellular localization of XDH is still not clear as both a cytosolic(Datta et al.,1991)and a peroxisomal lo-calization(Sandalio et al.,1988)were reported. Aldehyde oxidase
Aldehyde oxidase(AO;EC1.2.3.1)enzymes are very similar to XDH enzymes(Fig.1)as they share a high degree of sequence homology,have nearly identical molecular mass,bind the same cofactors,form dimers, and also act as hydroxylases.AO enzymes can be aligned along their entire length with XDH enzymes,and phylo-genetic analysis has shown that AO proteins have derived from XDH after ancient gene duplications(Rodriguez-Trelles et al.,2003).Arabidopsis thaliana has four AO genes,aao1–aao4,whose products form homodimers as well as heterodimers,thus leading to altered substrate speci?cities of the respective isoenzymes.AO enzymes are strict oxidases that are unable to bind NAD+and exclusively use molecular oxygen as an electron acceptor, thus producing hydrogen peroxide(Badwey et al.,1981;Yesbergenova et al.,2005).One AO isoform(AAO3)acts
best with abscisic aldehyde as a substrate.Abscisic aldehyde is the native precursor of the plant hormone absicisic acid which is essential for many developmental processes as well as for a variety of abiotic and biotic
stress responses(Seo and Koshiba,2002;Mauch-Mani
and Mauch,2005;Verslues and Zhu,2005).Hence,AO enzymes in plants are essential for many physiological processes that require the involvement of absicisic acid
and perhaps also of auxins.
A novel plant Mo-enzyme?
Very recently,a novel Mo-enzyme in mammals has been
found that forms part of the amidoxime reductase complex (Havemeyer et al.,2006),for which the homologous sequence from Arabidopsis has been cloned(F Bittner,
R Mendel,unpublished data),so that it might well be that
plants possess a?fth Mo-enzyme.
Post-translational activation of AO and XDH
AO and XDH require a?nal step of maturation during or
after insertion of Moco,i.e.the addition of a terminal inorganic sulphur to the Mo-centre in order to gain enzymatic activity.This sulphur ligand does not originate
from the apoprotein nor does it come from the Moco
moiety(Wahl and Rajagopalan,1982),but it is added by
a separate enzymatic reaction catalysed by the Moco-sulphurase ABA3(Bittner et al.,2001).ABA3is a two
domain protein acting as a homodimer(Fig.1).In a pyridoxal phosphate-dependent manner,the N-terminal
domain of ABA3decomposes L-cysteine to yield alanine
and elemental sulphur,the latter being bound as a persul-
phide to a highly conserved cysteine residue of ABA3 (Heidenreich et al.,2005).As the C-terminal domain of
ABA3recently was found to bind sulphurated Moco
ef?ciently(S Wollers,F Bittner,unpublished data),it appears likely that the persulphide sulphur is transferred
from the N-terminal domain to Moco bound at the C-terminal domain prior to activation of the respective target enzyme.It is still unclear whether ABA3?nally activates
its target enzymes by transferring only the sulphur,which
is bound to the Moco of the C-terminal domain,or whether it transfers the entire sulphurated Moco of the C-terminus in order to activate XDH and AO.Under physiological aspects the terminal sulphuration step provides an ef?cient way of regulating the amount of
active XDH and AO enzymes in the cell.
Molybdenum de?ciency
The Mo content of plants is directly correlated to the bioavailability of Mo in the soil.The lower the soil pH,
the less available is Mo(Mengel and Kirkby,2001),thus causing Mo de?ciency in plants.Mo-de?cient plants
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develop a characteristic phenotype including lesions and altered morphology of leaves (referred to as ‘whiptail’)that was ?rst described by Arnon and Stout (Arnon and Stout,1939)and later analysed in detail by Hewitt’s group (Fido et al.,1977).In contrast,Mo toxicity in plants under most agricultural conditions is rare.There is an extensive literature about Mo nutrition in ?eld-grown plants that was recently reviewed (Kaiser et al.,2005).
Mo de?ciency could also be caused by a mutation in the Mo-speci?c uptake system.As the Mo-transporter of higher plants is still not published,its loss cannot be discussed here.Particularly this point,however,would be interesting because knock-out plants in the Mo transporter could be used as a tool to study the assumed contribution of the sulphate and phosphate uptake systems to the Mo supply of higher plants.
Finally,Mo de?ciency can be caused by a defect in Moco biosynthesis which has dramatic consequences for the cell because pleiotropically all Mo-enzyme activities are lost or strongly reduced.The loss of which Mo-enzyme is most severe for the plant?This question can be answered by comparing the phenotypes of Arabidopsis knock-out mutants in one of the four Mo-enzyme types described to this end in plants.(i)NR-mutants with com-plete loss of NR-activity have been known about for many years;the loss of NR activity is lethal if these mutants are cultured with nitrate as the sole nitrogen source (Gabard et al.,1988;Mu ¨ller and Mendel,1989).(ii)The loss of SO has no phenotype provided the plants are not challenged to an atmosphere with high sulphur dioxide (Lang et al.,2007).(iii)The loss of XDH1has no lethal consequences although the phenotype of the plants is slightly,but not dramatically changed (F Bittner,R Mendel,unpublished results).(iv)For AO,only a mutation in AAO3has been documented (Seo et al.,2000).AAO3is important for the conversion of abscisic aldehyde into abscisic acid,hence its loss leads to a wilty phenotype which is severe for the survival of the plant.In summary,the complete loss of Moco as occurs in cnx -mutants is lethal and leads to the death of plants when they are grown in soil.In cell culture,however,these mutants can be kept alive when grown on media with reduced nitrogen as N-source.Outlook
Recent years have brought rapid progress in our un-derstanding of the role and the function of Mo in plants.Clearly,research concentrates both on the detailed enzy-mology of Moco biosynthesis/allocation and on studying the structure–function relationships of Mo-enzymes.Yet there is still a large number of unresolved questions that need to be answered.How is the molybdate transporter organized in detail?What is the role of copper in Moco synthesis?How is the multi-enzyme complex for Moco
biosynthesis organized?What is the mechanism of Moco insertion into apo-enzymes?In which cellular compart-ment is Moco synthesized and how is Moco biosynthesis regulated to meet the changing demands of the cell for Moco?The coming years will bring insight into these and perhaps novel aspects of Mo within the metabolic and physiological network of the cell.
Acknowledgements
I thank the many people who have worked with me over the years on molybdenum.I am grateful to Steffen Rump for help with the ?gures.My research was consistenly supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft which is gratefully acknowledged.Finan-cial support also came from the European Union and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.
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