Yi Liu and Justine P. Roth1
From the Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Received for publication, May27, 2015, and in revised form, November 10, 2015 Published, JBC Papers in Press, November12, 2015, DOI10.1074/jbc.M115.668038
http://www.jbc.org/content/291/2/948.full
From the Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Received for publication, May27, 2015, and in revised form, November 10, 2015 Published, JBC Papers in Press, November12, 2015, DOI10.1074/jbc.M115.668038
http://www.jbc.org/content/291/2/948.full
The mechanism of ω-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid oxidation
by wild-type cyclooxygenase 2 and the Y334F variant, lacking a
conserved hydrogen bond to the catalytic tyrosyl radical/tyro-
sine, was examined for the first time under physiologically rele-
vant conditions. The enzymes show apparent bimolecular rate
constants and deuterium kinetic isotope effects that increase in
proportion to co-substrate concentrations before converging to
limiting values. The trends exclude multiple dioxygenase mech-
anisms as well as the proposal that initial hydrogen atom
abstraction from the fatty acid is the first irreversible step in
catalysis. Temperature dependent kinetic studies reinforce the
novel finding that hydrogen transfer from the reduced catalytic
tyrosine to a terminal peroxyl radical is the first irreversible step
that controls regio- and stereospecific product formation.
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