Studies on the L-2-hydroxy-acid oxidase 2 catalyzed metabolism of S-mandelic acid and its analogues
Mandelic acid (MA) is generally used as a biomarker of the exposure of styrene , which is classified as a class of hazardous environmental pollutants, and also used as an important chiral intermediate in pharmaceutical industry. The previous studies have found the excretion of phenylglyoxylic acid (PGA) in human and rat, a metabolite of MA, was mainly from S- MA rather than R -MA. The metabolic mechanism, however, is not clear. In order to explore the possible metabolic mechanism, the enzyme types involved in the stereoselectivity metabolism of MA were firstly studied, and then human and rat long-chain 2-hydroxy-acid oxidase 2 (HAO2) were recombinantly expressed to study the metabolic profiles of S- MA and its analogues. The results indicated that HAO2 might catalyze the stereoselectivity metabolism of S- MA in rats. Human HAO2 ( h HAO2) and rat HAO2 ( r HAO2) isozymes β 1 and β 2 were successfully cloned and expressed with high purity and good enzyme activities. The enzyme kinetic profiles of these enzymes were different for S- MA and analogues. The order of catalytic efficiency for h HAO2 and r HAO2, however, was reverse. It might be relevance to the difference in active amino acid residues and loop 4 in human and rat L-2-hydroxy acid oxidase isozyme B crystal structures.
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