PMID- 22955273 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20130131 LR - 20220331 IS - 1083-351X (Electronic) IS - 0021-9258 (Print) IS - 0021-9258 (Linking) VI - 287 IP - 46 DP - 2012 Nov 9 TI - Rapid equilibrium kinetic analysis of arsenite methylation catalyzed by recombinant human arsenic (+3 oxidation state) methyltransferase (hAS3MT). PG - 38790-9 LID - 10.1074/jbc.M112.368050 [doi] AB - In the human body, arsenic is metabolized by methylation. Understanding this process is important and provides insight into the relationship between arsenic and its related diseases. We used the rapid equilibrium kinetic model to study the reaction sequence of arsenite methylation. The results suggest that the mechanism for arsenite methylation is a completely ordered mechanism that is also of general interest in reaction systems with different reductants, such as tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine, cysteine, and glutathione. In the reaction, cysteine residues of recombinant human arsenic (+3 oxidation state) methyltransferase (hAS3MT) coordinate with arsenicals and involve the methyl transfer step. S-Adenosyl-l-methionine (AdoMet) is the first-order reactant, which modulates the conformation of hAS3MT to a best matched state by hydrophobic interaction. As the second-order reactant, reductant reduces the disulfide bond, most likely between Cys-250 and another cysteine residue of hAS3MT, and exposes the active site cysteine residues for binding trivalent inorganic arsenic (iAs(3+)) to give monomethylarsonic dicysteine (MADC(3+)). In addition, the reaction can be extended to further methylate MADC(3+) to dimethylarsinic cysteine (DAMC(3+)). In the methylation reaction, the beta-pleated sheet content of hAS3MT is increased, and the hydrophobicity of the microenvironment around the active sites is decreased. Similarly, we confirm that both the high beta-pleated sheet content of hAS3MT and the high dissociation ability of the enzyme-AdoMet-reductant improve the yield of dimethylated arsenicals. FAU - Wang, Shuping AU - Wang S AD - State key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China. FAU - Li, Xiangli AU - Li X FAU - Song, Xiaoli AU - Song X FAU - Geng, Zhirong AU - Geng Z FAU - Hu, Xin AU - Hu X FAU - Wang, Zhilin AU - Wang Z LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20120906 PL - United States TA - J Biol Chem JT - The Journal of biological chemistry JID - 2985121R RN - 0 (Arsenites) RN - 0 (Disulfides) RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) RN - EC 2.1.1.- (Methyltransferases) RN - EC 2.1.1.137 (AS3MT protein, human) RN - K848JZ4886 (Cysteine) RN - N5509X556J (arsenite) RN - N712M78A8G (Arsenic) SB - IM MH - Arsenic/*chemistry MH - Arsenites/*chemistry MH - Catalysis MH - Catalytic Domain MH - Circular Dichroism MH - Cysteine/chemistry MH - Disulfides/chemistry MH - Humans MH - Kinetics MH - Methylation MH - Methyltransferases/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Models, Chemical MH - Recombinant Proteins/*chemistry MH - Spectrometry, Fluorescence/methods MH - Time Factors PMC - PMC3493921 EDAT- 2012/09/08 06:00 MHDA- 2013/02/01 06:00 PMCR- 2013/11/09 CRDT- 2012/09/08 06:00 PHST- 2012/09/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/09/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/02/01 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2013/11/09 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0021-9258(20)62342-0 [pii] AID - M112.368050 [pii] AID - 10.1074/jbc.M112.368050 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Biol Chem. 2012 Nov 9;287(46):38790-9. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.368050. Epub 2012 Sep 6.