N(5)-Hydroxy-L-arginine

N(5)-Hydroxy-L-arginine

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Category Antibiotics
Catalog number BBF-00987
CAS 42599-90-6
Molecular Weight 190.20
Molecular Formula C6H14N4O3

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Description

N(5)-Hydroxy-L-arginine is an antibiotic produced by Bacillus. It has anti-gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria activity, which can be offset by L-arginine and its analogs.

Specification

Synonyms N(delta)-hydroxy-L-arginine; N(5)-(Aminoiminomethyl)-N(5)-hydroxy-L-ornithine
IUPAC Name (2S)-2-amino-5-[carbamimidoyl(hydroxy)amino]pentanoic acid
Canonical SMILES C(CC(C(=O)O)N)CN(C(=N)N)O
InChI InChI=1S/C6H14N4O3/c7-4(5(11)12)2-1-3-10(13)6(8)9/h4,13H,1-3,7H2,(H3,8,9)(H,11,12)/t4-/m0/s1
InChI Key KWDSFGYQALRPMG-BYPYZUCNSA-N

Properties

Antibiotic Activity Spectrum Gram-positive bacteria; Gram-negative bacteria

Reference Reading

1. Structures of the N(omega)-hydroxy-L-arginine complex of inducible nitric oxide synthase oxygenase dimer with active and inactive pterins
B R Crane, A S Arvai, S Ghosh, E D Getzoff, D J Stuehr, J A Tainer Biochemistry. 2000 Apr 25;39(16):4608-21. doi: 10.1021/bi992409a.
Nitric oxide synthases (NOSs) catalyze two mechanistically distinct, tetrahydrobiopterin (H(4)B)-dependent, heme-based oxidations that first convert L-arginine (L-Arg) to N(omega)-hydroxy-L-arginine (NHA) and then NHA to L-citrulline and nitric oxide. Structures of the murine inducible NOS oxygenase domain (iNOS(ox)) complexed with NHA indicate that NHA and L-Arg both bind with the same conformation adjacent to the heme iron and neither interacts directly with it nor with H(4)B. Steric restriction of dioxygen binding to the heme in the NHA complex suggests either small conformational adjustments in the ternary complex or a concerted reaction of dioxygen with NHA and the heme iron. Interactions of the NHA hydroxyl with active center beta-structure and the heme ring polarize and distort the hydroxyguanidinium to increase substrate reactivity. Steric constraints in the active center rule against superoxo-iron accepting a hydrogen atom from the NHA hydroxyl in their initial reaction, but support an Fe(III)-peroxo-NHA radical conjugate as an intermediate. However, our structures do not exclude an oxo-iron intermediate participating in either L-Arg or NHA oxidation. Identical binding modes for active H(4)B, the inactive quinonoid-dihydrobiopterin (q-H(2)B), and inactive 4-amino-H(4)B indicate that conformational differences cannot explain pterin inactivity. Different redox and/or protonation states of q-H(2)B and 4-amino-H(4)B relative to H(4)B likely affect their ability to electronically influence the heme and/or undergo redox reactions during NOS catalysis. On the basis of these structures, we propose a testable mechanism where neutral H(4)B transfers both an electron and a 3,4-amide proton to the heme during the first step of NO synthesis.
2. Generation of nitroxyl by heme protein-mediated peroxidation of hydroxylamine but not N-hydroxy-L-arginine
Sonia Donzelli, Michael Graham Espey, Wilmarie Flores-Santana, Christopher H Switzer, Grace C Yeh, Jinming Huang, Dennis J Stuehr, S Bruce King, Katrina M Miranda, David A Wink Free Radic Biol Med. 2008 Sep 1;45(5):578-84. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2008.04.036. Epub 2008 May 3.
The chemical reactivity, toxicology, and pharmacological responses to nitroxyl (HNO) are often distinctly different from those of nitric oxide (NO). The discovery that HNO donors may have pharmacological utility for treatment of cardiovascular disorders such as heart failure and ischemia reperfusion has led to increased speculation of potential endogenous pathways for HNO biosynthesis. Here, the ability of heme proteins to utilize H2O2 to oxidize hydroxylamine (NH2OH) or N-hydroxy-L-arginine (NOHA) to HNO was examined. Formation of HNO was evaluated with a recently developed selective assay in which the reaction products in the presence of reduced glutathione (GSH) were quantified by HPLC. Release of HNO from the heme pocket was indicated by formation of sulfinamide (GS(O)NH2), while the yields of nitrite and nitrate signified the degree of intramolecular recombination of HNO with the heme. Formation of GS(O)NH2 was observed upon oxidation of NH2OH, whereas NOHA, the primary intermediate in oxidation of L-arginine by NO synthase, was apparently resistant to oxidation by the heme proteins utilized. In the presence of NH2OH, the highest yields of GS(O)NH2 were observed with proteins in which the heme was coordinated to a histidine (horseradish peroxidase, lactoperoxidase, myeloperoxidase, myoglobin, and hemoglobin) in contrast to a tyrosine (catalase) or cysteine (cytochrome P450). That peroxidation of NH2OH by horseradish peroxidase produced free HNO, which was able to affect intracellular targets, was verified by conversion of 4,5-diaminofluorescein to the corresponding fluorophore within intact cells.
3. Oxidation of NG-hydroxy-L-arginine by nitric oxide synthase: evidence for the involvement of the heme in catalysis
R A Pufahl, M A Marletta Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1993 Jun 30;193(3):963-70. doi: 10.1006/bbrc.1993.1719.
The involvement of the protoporphyrin IX heme iron of macrophage nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in the oxidation of NG-hydroxy-L-arginine (L-NHA) to nitric oxide (NO) and citrulline was investigated by carbon monoxide (CO) inhibition studies and binding difference spectroscopy. A CO:oxygen mixture (80:20) was found to inhibit the reaction by 33% with L-NHA as a substrate compared to 57% with L-arginine. Spectral perturbations were observed upon the addition of L-NHA to oxidized NOS, producing a type I binding difference spectrum with a maximum at 384 nm and minimum at 420 nm. In addition, L-NHA was incapable of reducing anaerobic oxidized NOS in the absence of NADPH. These studies support the involvement of the heme in the oxidation of L-NHA to NO and citrulline, indicating that the heme functions in both of the currently characterized oxidative steps of the NOS reaction.

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