PMID- 33020066 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210913 LR - 20211204 IS - 1521-009X (Electronic) IS - 0090-9556 (Print) IS - 0090-9556 (Linking) VI - 48 IP - 12 DP - 2020 Dec TI - Site-Directed Mutagenesis at the Molybdenum Pterin Cofactor Site of the Human Aldehyde Oxidase: Interrogating the Kinetic Differences Between Human and Cynomolgus Monkey. PG - 1364-1371 LID - 10.1124/dmd.120.000187 [doi] AB - The estimation of the drug clearance by aldehyde oxidase (AO) has been complicated because of this enzyme's atypical kinetics and species and substrate specificity. Since human AO (hAO) and cynomolgus monkey AO (mAO) have a 95.1% sequence identity, cynomolgus monkeys may be the best species for estimating AO clearance in humans. Here, O(6)-benzylguanine (O6BG) and dantrolene were used under anaerobic conditions, as oxidative and reductive substrates of AO, respectively, to compare and contrast the kinetics of these two species through numerical modeling. Whereas dantrolene reduction followed the same linear kinetics in both species, the oxidation rate of O6BG was also linear in mAO and did not follow the already established biphasic kinetics of hAO. In an attempt to determine why hAO and mAO are kinetically distinct, we have altered the hAO V811 and F885 amino acids at the oxidation site adjacent to the molybdenum pterin cofactor to the corresponding alanine and leucine in mAO, respectively. Although some shift to a more monkey-like kinetics was observed for the V811A mutant, five more mutations around the AO cofactors still need to be investigated for this purpose. In comparing the oxidative and reductive rates of metabolism under anaerobic conditions, we have come to the conclusion that despite having similar rates of reduction (4-fold difference), the oxidation rate in mAO is more than 50-fold slower than hAO. This finding implies that the presence of nonlinearity in AO kinetics is dependent upon the degree of imbalance between the rates of oxidation and reduction in this enzyme. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Although they have as much as 95.1% sequence identity, human and cynomolgus monkey aldehyde oxidase are kinetically distinct. Therefore, monkeys may not be good estimators of drug clearance in humans. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. FAU - Abbasi, Armina AU - Abbasi A AD - Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. FAU - Joswig-Jones, Carolyn A AU - Joswig-Jones CA AD - Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. FAU - Jones, Jeffrey P AU - Jones JP AD - Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington jpj@wsu.edu. LA - eng GR - R01 GM100874/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20201005 PL - United States TA - Drug Metab Dispos JT - Drug metabolism and disposition: the biological fate of chemicals JID - 9421550 RN - 0 (Coenzymes) RN - 0 (Metalloproteins) RN - 0 (Molybdenum Cofactors) RN - 0 (Pteridines) RN - 01KC87F8FE (O(6)-benzylguanine) RN - 5Z93L87A1R (Guanine) RN - ATN6EG42UQ (molybdenum cofactor) RN - EC 1.2.3.1 (AOX1 protein, human) RN - EC 1.2.3.1 (Aldehyde Oxidase) RN - F64QU97QCR (Dantrolene) SB - IM MH - Aldehyde Oxidase/genetics/*metabolism MH - Animals MH - Coenzymes/*metabolism MH - Dantrolene/pharmacokinetics MH - Drug Evaluation, Preclinical/methods MH - Guanine/analogs & derivatives/pharmacokinetics MH - Macaca fascicularis/genetics MH - Metalloproteins/*metabolism MH - Molybdenum Cofactors MH - Mutagenesis, Site-Directed MH - Oxidation-Reduction MH - Pteridines/*metabolism MH - Sequence Homology, Amino Acid MH - Species Specificity MH - Substrate Specificity/genetics PMC - PMC7718725 EDAT- 2020/10/07 06:00 MHDA- 2021/09/14 06:00 PMCR- 2021/12/01 CRDT- 2020/10/06 05:25 PHST- 2020/07/17 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/09/25 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/10/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/09/14 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/10/06 05:25 [entrez] PHST- 2021/12/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - dmd.120.000187 [pii] AID - DMD_AR2020000187 [pii] AID - 10.1124/dmd.120.000187 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Drug Metab Dispos. 2020 Dec;48(12):1364-1371. doi: 10.1124/dmd.120.000187. Epub 2020 Oct 5.