AMERICAN JOURNAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES ISSN Print: 2159-3698, ISSN Online: 2159-3701, doi:10.5251/ajbms.2011.1.1.30.38 © 2011, ScienceHuβ, http://www.scihub.org/AJBMS A specific role of 43Ca in the enzymatic ATP synthesis. Anatoly L. Buchachenko 1, Natalia N. Breslavskaya 2, Dmitry A. Kuznetsov 1,3 *, Stanislav E. Arkhangelsky 3, Vladimir P. Chekhonin 3 1 N.N.Semenov Institute for Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Kosygin St., Moscow 119991, Russian Federation 2 N.S.Kurnakov Institute for General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31 Lenin Avenue, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation 3 Department of Medicinal Nanobiotechnologies, N.I.Pirogov Russian State Medical University, 1 Ostrovityanov St., Moscow 117997, Russian Federation ABSTRACT 43 40 This is the first report ever on the nuclear spin selective Ca Ca isotope effect expressed in the Calcium affected enzymatic ATP synthesis. Once the creatine kinase (CK) catalytic sites were 43 2+ loaded with Ca , the resulting enzyme activity goes up (2.0±0.3 – fold) compared to the CK40 directed ATP synthesis rate occurred in the presence of nonmagnetic, spinless, Ca nuclei. The effect manifests itself predominantly within a high concentration range (Calcium chloride,40 mM) indicating that the ATP synthesis is a spin-selective ion-radical process. Primary reaction of this 2+ 3path is an electron transfer between the reaction partners, С a(H2O)n ( n ≤ 4) and Ca(ADP) , generating an ion-radical pair where the singlet -triplet spin conversion takes place as a result of the nuclear spin selectivity and a consequent magnetic isotope effect. This, in turn, makes an essential impact on the final reaction’s ATP yield. To the contrast, there is no any isotope effect 2+ found within a low Ca concentration range showing that the ATP synthesis proceeds in a most common nucleophylic way. The submolecular mechanisms of phenomena described and their possible applied significance are under discussion. Keywords ATP synthesis, magnetic isotope effect, Calcium-43, creatine kinase INTRODUCTION A novel isotope effect that makes a truly dramatic impact on enzymatic, magnesium dependent, ATP synthesis was recently discovered: the specific 2+ activity level of enzyme possessing Mg enriched 25 with the Mg nuclei was found to be almost twicetriple higher than that of the very same enzymes (creatine kinase, pyruvate kinase, alphaphosphoglycerate kinase, etc) but containing 24 26 spinless, nonmagnetic, nuclei Mg and Mg (Buchachenko et al. 2005 a,b,c; Buchachenko, 2009) These data are no doubt in a favor to a statement that the ATP synthesis is a spin-dependent ionradical process. There is no difference in activities of 24 26 enzymes with Mg and Mg; this is an evidence for the fact that the magnetic isotope effect operates indeed in ATP synthesis instead of a classical, massdependent (kinetic) isotope effect . Magnesium isotope effect in ATP synthesis was shown to be a function of concentration of Mg2+ ions. At low concentrations, there is no isotope effect found. Once a concentration of Mg2+ ions exceeds physiological (intracellular) level by 20−60 times, a huge isotope effect appears. It means that the additional ion-radical mechanism of ATP synthesis is switched on to provide some extra source for the ATP yield increase. (Buchachenko et al., 2008) The starting reaction of this mechanism relates to an electron transfer path from the complexes Mg2+(ADP)2- or Mg2+(ADP)3- to the Mg(H 2 O) n 2+ ion (Buchachenko et al., 2010). It generates the ionradical pairs where populations of both singlet and triplet states as well as the rates of a singlet-triplet spin conversion are controlled by hyperfine coupling of unpaired electrons with magnetic 25Mg and 31P nuclei due to a Zeeman interaction. Consequently, the resulting yield of ATP is a function of the nuclear magnetic moment and magnetic field. All these effects were observed and specified in experiment (Buchachenko et al., 2008 a,b) . Both nucleophylic and ion-radical mechanisms coexists independently, they are about to contribute additively into the common ATP synthesis multi-compartment biochemical system. The former dominates in vivo, the latter may be turned on artificially by the targeted delivering of Mg (or, even better, 25Mg) to the heart Am. J. Biotechnol. Mol. Sci., 2011, 1(1): 30-38 muscle in order to hyper-stimulate suppressed ATP synthesis rate and hence some pathologies related to the ATP (Amirshahi et al., 2008 a,b; Rezayat et al., phosphocreatine/160 M ADP for 40 min. This time is found to be enough for the yield of ATP (or creatine) to reach a limiting value. In control tests, i.e. in the absence of CaCl 2 , the yield of ATP was negligible as well as in case of the ice-cold incubation measurements. the preto prevent deficiency 2009) . This present work deals with an effort to reveal whether or not the enzymatic ATP synthesis is to be also specifically affected by magnetic calcium ions. The contribution of Ca2+ ions to enzymatic ATP synthesis processed in intact eucaryotic cells seems to be rather neglected due to some known circumstances. Thus, Ca2+ ions are bound with the kinases catalytic site compounds more weakly than Mg2+ ions; besides, the calcium concentration in mitochondria is by order of magnitude lower than that of magnesium ions. Two series of experiments were carried out. First, the enzymatic activities of 40Ca-CK and 43Ca-CK were measured with unlabeled phosphocreatine by LC-MS detection of creatine as the CK reaction product which is formed simultaneously with ATP in the same sample incubated. Secondly, [32P]phosphocreatine was used. The former approach includes a HPLCderived mass-spec analysis of the acetone-soluble pool of the post-incubated reaction mixture (Buchachenko et al., 2008) while the latter is based on determination of the HPLC-monitored ATP yield by measuring radioactivity of the newly synthesized gamma-[32P]ATP.(Buchachenko et al., 2005) Natural calcium pool contains mostly nonmagnetic isotopes with spinless nuclei 40Ca (96.6%), 42Ca (0.65%) and 44Ca (2.1%); for brevity we will further specify natural calcium as 40Ca. We have substituted magnesium ions in catalytic sites of creatine kinase (CK) with different, magnetic and nonmagnetic, calcium ions. For this purpose, the only magnetic isotope of calcium with an atomic mass equal to 43 (natural abundance of 43Ca is 0.135%, nuclear spin 7/2, magnetic moment 1.3 µ B ) was also employed. These two samples of calcium creatine kinase (further we will denote them as 40Ca-CK and 43CaCK, respectively) were shown to exhibit enormous isotope effect in enzymatic ATP synthesis similar to that found earlier for magnesium creatine kinases 24 Mg-CK and 25Mg-CK.( Buchachenko et al., 2008) Theoretical calculations of the energy characteristics with full optimization of geometry was performed with the Gaussian-03 program package (Frisch, 2003) using density functional theory (DFT) with B3LYP three-parameter exchange-correlation functional and conventional 6-31G* split-valence basis set. (Foresman, 1996) For this purpose, the HP9077A analytical unit has been employed. RESULTS Structure of Calcium Complexes: The idea of search for the Calcium-43 related isotope effect in the reactions of enzymatic ATP synthesis was in fact stemmed from DFT calculations of the energy of electron transfer reactions: METHODS 40 CaCl 2 and 43CaCl 2 were prepared by treatment of CaO (0.135% of 43Ca) and 43CaO (86.7% of 43Ca), both purchased from the RAS Isotope Center, Obninsk, Russia, with analytically pure HCl. The impurities of metals (Na, K, Zn, Mg, Fe, Ni, Ba) determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy did not exceed 30-50 ppm in both 40CaCl 2 and 43CaCl 2 samples. Creatine kinase CK (E.C.2.7.3.2), 40.0 kDa active monomer, purified from V. xanthia raddei venom (Buchachenko et al., 2008; Kouznetsov et al., and [32P]phosphocreatine with 6,4002003) 7,200 Ci/mmol initial specific activity (from Amersham Radiochemical Centre, UK) were also employed. 40 Ca(H 2 O) n 2+ + Ca(H 2 O) m 2+(HOPO 2 OPO 3 СН 3 )2- → (1) Ca(H 2 O) n + + Ca(H 2 O) m 2+(HOPO 2 OPO 3 СH 3 )Ca(H 2 O) n 2+ + Ca(H 2 O) m 2+(OPO 2 OPO 3 СН 3 )3- → (2) Ca(H 2 O) n + + Ca(H 2 O) m 2+(OPO 2 OPO 3 СH 3 )2The CK catalytic site – engaging phosphorylation mode might be presented as: For CK activity measurements, enzyme samples were incubated at 37C in Mg-free media containing Tris-HCl (pH 6.35)/CaCl 2 (either 43Ca or 40Ca) 10−160 mM/12.5 M ATP/80 g CK/15 mM potassium phosphate/160 M ADP Ca(H 2 O) n 2+ Ca2+(ADP)- + Ca2+(ADP)2(3) → Ca(H 2 O) n + + Ca(H 2 O) n 2+ Ca2+(ADP)2- + Ca2+(ADP)3(4) → Ca(H 2 O) n + + We have calculated the structure / energy patterns of complexes 1 (Chart 1) in which Ca2+(ADP)2- is modeled by a hydrated pyrophosphate complex Ca(H 2 O) m 2+(HOPO 2 OPO 2 CH 3 )2- with methyl group 31 Am. J. Biotechnol. Mol. Sci., 2011, 1(1): 30-38 instead of adenosine monophosphate residue. Calcium ion is supposed to be added to oxygen atoms of pyrophosphate anion as shown in Chart 1 and donates two coordination bonds. The other four coordination bonds may be used for addition of the m water molecules; m being dispersed in the range from 0 to 4. (2) These values, however, are firmly dependent on n, that is on the number of water molecules in hydrate shell of Ca(H 2 O) n 2+ and Ca(H 2 O) n +. (3) We may talk about a “trigger”, threshold value of n (n* = 4), which determines the essential link between two energetic regimes of reaction 1. At n > 4, it is endoergic and energy forbidden, while at n < 4 it is allowed by energy and generates the ion-radical pair. For reaction 2, the threshold is far larger (n* >4) because this reaction is significantly more exoergic (by 4eV). These statements are identical to those ones derived from calculations for similar reactions of the ADP-magnesium complexes (Buchachenko et al., 2010). This itself is a good enough reason for an attempt to search for the calcium-related magnetic isotope effect expressed in the bivalent metal dependent reactions of ATP synthesis directed by enzymes belonging to the known kinases superfamily. The value m = 4 corresponds to a completely filled up six-coordinated shell of Ca2+ ion. Apart of the complexes 1, we have also calculated the structure /energy patterns of the ion-radicals 1a (Chart 1) generated from 1 by electron detachment. (Figure 1) shows a few typical structures for some selected values of m. The withdrawal of electron from complexes 1 results in redistribution of the electron density and slightly changes the inter-atomic distances in complexes 1a with respect to those in 1 (see Figure 1). Taking into account that the CK catalytic site may contain all ADP molecules, protonated and deprotonated ones, we have calculated the structure and energy patterns of the complexes 2+ 3(they simulate Ca(H 2 O) m (OPO 2 OPO 3 СН 3 ) Ca2+(ADP)3- ) and of those ones with the detached electrons. The structure and energy parameters of ions Ca(H 2 O) n 2+ and Ca(H 2 O) n + were also calculated as a function of n, the number of water molecules in the coordination sphere of calcium ion; n is supposed to be placed within the range 0 - 6. Calcium Isotope Effect: The yields of ATP synthesized by 40Ca-CK and 43Ca-CK, respectively, are shown in Figure 3 as a function of CaCl 2 concentration. The ATP yields increases as the concentration of CaCl 2 goes up reaching a maximum at [CaCl 2 ]>120 mM with a following decrease inside a highest calcium concentration range. At low concentration of CaCl 2 , there is almost no difference in the ATP yields. However, at [CaCl 2 ] ≥40 mM , 43 Ca-CK produces ATP more efficiently compared to 40 Ca-CK. At a maximum point ([CaCl 2 ]120 mM), the isotope effect seen from the ratio of the yields is equal to 1.8±0.2. Taking into account that the content of 43Ca in 43Ca-CK is 86.7% only, it is easy to estimate a net. Referring to 100% of 43Ca, the resulting isotope effect magnitude is equal to 2.0±0.3. Energy of Electron Transfer Reactions: The total energy values of reactions 1 and 2, which simulates reactions 3 and 4, were determined as a difference between the total energies of reactants and products. The reaction is exoergic if the difference is positive. Vice versa, the reaction is endoergic and its starting energy is forbidden if the difference is negative. This approach has an obvious advantage since it helps to avoid errors compensating some possible inaccuracies in energies estimated for individual reagents and products. Both reactions presented (1 and 2) are to generate the ion-radical pairs, a “source” of the magnetic isotope effect. As seen from Figure 4, the Calcium-43 related magnetic isotope effect is no doubt detectable by monitoring over the CK-directed creatine production rate as well. This leads to the very same, listed above, conclusion derived from the data presented in (Figure 3). DISCUSSION The energies E of reactions 1 and 2 are presented in Figure 2 as the functions of m and n. This would lead to the following statements. It should be noticed first that Ca2+ ion affects the ATP synthesis with almost the same efficiency as Mg2+ does. (Buchachenko et al., 2008) Likewise, both Mg2+ and Ca2+ ions do not promote any isotope effect within a low concentration range where the so called “classical”, i.e. nucleophylic, mechanism of ATP synthesis dominates. (1) The energy values are almost independent on m (m = 0-4), i.e. on the number of water molecules in the first coordination sphere of complexes Ca(H 2 O)2+ m (HOPO 2 OPO 3 CH 3 )2− and, therefore, Ca2+(ADP)2-. 32 Am. J. Biotechnol. Mol. Sci., 2011, 1(1): 30-38 However, some critically big amount of Ca2+ ions turns on another mechanism of enzymatic phosphorylation which relies upon a very specific physical phenomenon, namely the nuclear spin selective formation of ion-radical pairs. That’s the Calcium-43 related magnetic isotope effect is about. formation of ATP and the final ion-radical pair which, in turn, generates creatine and regenerates Ca2+ by the reverse electron transfer. It should be pointed out that both Ca2+ and Ca+ ions are hydrated ones (see below). The rate of an ATP synthesis associated with the singlet channel (reactions 1-3 in Scheme 1) is suppressed by a spin-allowed reverse electron transfer in the primary ion-radical pair; this is to regenerate the starting (initial) reactants and surely decreases the resulting ATP yield. However, the 43 Ca2+ induced hyperfine coupling of an unpaired electron with the 43Ca nucleus in Ca+ ion provokes a singlet-triplet spin conversion inside the primary ionradical pair transforming it into the triplet state where the reverse electron transfer is spin forbidden. Moreover, this peculiar effect mentioned looks even more productive compared to the well-known nucleophylic reaction path. All above listed regularities are based on the following postulates supported by both experiments and DFT calculations: (1) Phosphorylation starts as an electron transfer reaction which generates an ion-radical pair comprised of the hydrated Ca+ radical-cation and the phosphate radical-anion of ADP as the partners; A triplet phosphorylation channel, therefore, provides an additional yield of ATP increasing its total production up to about twice. It should be outlined that the reaction 1 (Scheme 1) is indeed the electron transfer path, from Ca2+(ADP)2- or Ca2+(ADP)3complexes to the Ca(H 2 O) n 2+ ion and occurs only at n ≤ n*. At least two important consequences seem to derive from this result. (2) Due to the singlet-triplet spin conversion that had happen inside an ion-radical pair, a resulting chemical reactivity of either triplet or singlet states of the pair is essentially different one from another. This is a cause for a remarkably higher ATP yield level provided by the triplet engaging phosphorylation channel; First, the ion-radical mechanism of ATP synthesis is found to be launched exclusively in the presence of the excess of Ca2+ ions. This is about to happen on a condition that the phosphocreatine-free and/or ADPfree Ca(H 2 O) n 2+ ions appear in the CK catalytic site. (3) The relative contribution of these spin channels into the final ATP yield depends on the electron-nuclear (hyperfine) magnetic coupling of unpaired electrons with magnetic nucleus 43Ca in the hydrated Ca+ ion and with 31P in the radical pyrophosphate fragment of ADP. This Coulomb coupling induces a singlet-triplet spin conversion and hence determines the nuclear spin selectivity of the whole ATP synthesis process. Secondly, this may explain why as a matter of fact the ATP synthesis occurs in such specific devices as the molecular enzymatic machines. The bottom line is that their functioning includes a compression of reactants and hence the partial “squeezing” of the water molecules out of the catalytic site. This is to dehydrate the Ca2+ ion which helps to activate the further attachment of electron to Ca(H 2 O) n 2+ ion, when (if) n ≤ n*. This is a reason why the ATP synthesis does not occur in water where Сa2+ ions, as well as Mg2+ ions, (Buchachenko et al., 2010) are highly hydrated (n >> 4). Compression of reactants in catalytic site stimulates both nucleophylic and ionradical reactions. However, the mechanisms of this stimulation are different. These critical points of the Calcium-43 involving spin selective biochemical pathway are summarized in the (Scheme 1). This type of mechanism has been proposed earlier for the Mg-CK (Buchachenko et al., 2008) directed ATP synthesis. The very first reaction step shown in the Scheme 1 implies a transfer of electron from the terminal phosphate group of ADP to the Ca2+ ion; it generates a primary ion-radical pair composed of the radicalcation Ca+ and the oxy-radical of ADP (reaction 1 in (Scheme 1)); all this takes place within a singlet spin state prior to the forthcoming spin conservation act. Since the information on a role of calcium as the physiologically valid agent is certainly important for its variable medicinal applications, it is hardly possible to exaggerate a significance of research revealing such novel aspects of this element’s biological activity as its enzyme affecting magnetic isotope effects. The next step is the phosphorylation itself proceeded as an attack of P=O chemical bond of creatine phosphate by the ADP oxy-radical (reaction 2). The resulting oxy-radical decomposes via the -scission of PO chemical bond (reaction 3) followed by a 33 AMERICAN JOURNAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES ISSN Print: 2159-3698, ISSN Online: 2159-3701, doi:10.5251/ajbms.2011.1.1.30.38 © 2011, ScienceHuβ, http://www.scihub.org/AJBMS FIGURES Graphical Abstract (if needed) Am. J. Biotechnol. Mol. Sci., 2011, 1(1): 30-38 1 1a 2+ Ca(H2O) - O 2+ Ca(H2O) m O- O O O 2+ O- HO P O P OCH3 HO P O P OCH3 O m 2- 2+ Ca(H2O) m (HOPO2OPO3CH3) O - Ca(H2O) m (HOPO2 OPO3 CH3 ) Chart 1. Calcium phosphate complexes. Fig 1. Schematic presentation of the calcium pyrophosphate complexes. Calcium atoms are gold, phosphorus is green, oxygen is red, carbon is yellow, and hydrogen is blue. The figures are inter-atomic distances in Å. Structures for m = 0, 2, 4 are shown in Supporting Information. 35 Am. J. Biotechnol. Mol. Sci., 2011, 1(1): 30-38 E, eV 9,0 8,0 7,0 6,0 5,0 4,0 3,0 2 2,0 1,0 n 0,0 -1,0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 -2,0 Fig 2. Energies of reactions 1 and 2 as a function of the number of water molecules n in the Ca (H 2 O)2+ n ions for different m, the number of water molecules in Ca(H 2 O) m 2+(HOPO 2 OPO 3 СН 3 )2- (curve 1) and 32+ Ca(H 2 O) m (OPO 2 OPO 3 СH 3 ) (curve 2). Ax10 50 3 40 2 30 20 1 10 0 0 40 80 120 160 200 [CaCl2], mM Fig 3. The 40Ca-CK (1) - and 43Ca-CK (2) – directed ATP synthesis rates.Ordinate - A, (c.p.m. γ - [ 32P] ATP/mg CK) x 103. 36 Am. J. Biotechnol. Mol. Sci., 2011, 1(1): 30-38 Y 35 30 25 20 2 15 10 1 5 0 0 50 100 150 200 [CaCl2 ], mM Fig 4. The yield of creatine ( Y, concentration. M/mg CK) produced by 40Ca-CK (1) and 43Ca-CK (2) as a function of CaCl2 2+ Ca CH3 O O O -O P O AMP HO2C CH2 N C NH P +NH 2 O O 1 40,42,44Ca . Ca+ O O NH . O P . + S O 43Ca P O O O O 2' . Ca+ . S O O. P NH . O P O. 3 . O O O O NH Ca+ T + Ca O P NH P O 2 O O O . HN P O O T Ca P O 3' . S . NH Ca+ + ATP T + ATP SCHEME 1. Ion-radical mechanism of the calcium impacted ATP synthesis catalysed by CK. 37 Am. 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