Abstract
Human indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (hIDO1) is an attractive cancer immunotherapeutic target owing to its role in promoting tumoral immune escape. However, drug development has been hindered by limited structural information. Here, we report the crystal structures of hIDO1 in complex with its substrate, Trp, an inhibitor, epacadostat, and/or an effector, indole ethanol (IDE). The data reveal structural features of the active site (Sa) critical for substrate activation; in addition, they disclose a new inhibitor-binding mode and a distinct small molecule binding site (Si). Structure-guided mutation of a critical residue, F270, to glycine perturbs the Si site, allowing structural determination of an inhibitory complex, where both the Sa and Si sites are occupied by Trp. The Si site offers a novel target site for allosteric inhibitors and a molecular explanation for the previously baffling substrate-inhibition behavior of the enzyme. Taken together, the data open exciting new avenues for structure-based drug design.
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Introduction
hIDO1 is a heme-containing enzyme that catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step of the kynurenine pathway—the dioxygenation of Trp to N-formyl kynurenine (NFK)1,2,3. It negatively regulates cellular immune response via depleting Trp and promoting the accumulation of kynurenine pathway metabolites4,5,6,7. Increased expression of hIDO1 is associated with poor prognosis and shortened survival of cancer patients8,9. An analog of hIDO1, human tryptophan dioxygenase (hTDO)10, and a second isoform of hIDO1, named hIDO211,12, have also recently been identified as immunomodulatory proteins with potential relevance to cancer. Together, they represent a new attractive class of immunotherapeutic targets. Intense efforts have been devoted to develop inhibitors against the three proteins13. So far, all the reported hIDO1 inhibitors target the active site, Sa, which is spacious and flexible; in addition, most of the inhibitors are prone to heme iron coordination. Together, they pose serious limitations in computer-aided drug design13. It is hence important to have a comprehensive understanding of the structural properties of hIDO1. The structures of hTDO have been solved in both substrate and product-bound states14, while those of hIDO1 are limited to substrate-free forms15,16,17,18. Here we report the structures of the wild-type hIDO1 in complex with Trp, an inhibitor (epacadostat), and/or an effector (IDE), as well as comparable structures of an active site mutant, F270G. The data shed new light into substrate–protein and inhibitor–protein interactions in the distal heme pocket; in addition, they unveil a small molecule binding site in the proximal heme pocket. The implication of the data on the dioxygenase and substrate-inhibition mechanisms of hIDO1, as well as structure-based design of hIDO1-selective inhibitors, will be discussed.
Results
Binding mode of Trp
As shown in Fig. 1a, hIDO1 is an α-helical protein, made up by a large C-terminal domain containing the Sa site and a small N-terminal domain sitting on top of it. Trp binding in the Sa site induces the organization of the C-terminal fragment of the highly disordered JK-Loop (referred to as the JK-LoopC hereafter) into a β-hairpin structure, while the N-terminal fragment of the loop (referred to as the JK-LoopN hereafter) unexpectedly remains disordered. The JK-LoopN is only present in hIDO1, not in hTDO, although the two dioxygenases share high structure-based sequence homology, in particular in the active site (Supplementary Fig. 1). The JK-LoopN contains two phosphorylation sites19; in addition, the truncation of the loop fragment by up to 14 residues only slightly reduces the enzyme efficiency by approximately fourfold, suggesting that the biological function of the highly flexible JK-LoopN is to control signal transduction, rather than regulating enzyme activity. Other than the JK-LoopN, several unique structural features of hIDO1 distinguishing it from hTDO are identified as discussed in the Supplementary Fig. 2.
The substrate Trp binds in the distal heme pocket, which is enclosed by the JK-LoopC and the DE-Loop, and is capped by a small helix from the N-terminal domain. The binding site is lined with a group of hydrophobic residues, including F226, L234, F163, V130, and Y126 (Fig. 1b). The indole group of the Trp, lying perpendicular to the heme, occupies the so-called “A site”13. Its indoleamine group H-bonds with S167 via an intervening water molecule. The ammonium and carboxylate groups extend into the so-called “B site”13, forming an interlaced H-bonding network with the conserved “GTGG” motif in the JK-LoopC (Supplementary Fig. 1) and the G262 in the DE-Loop, as well as the 7-propionate group of the heme (Fig. 1c). The carboxylate group is further secured by ion-pairing with R231, which plays a critical role in substrate binding and recognition. Together, these interactions force the iron-bound CN to adopt an unusual bent conformation (with the Fe–C–N angle of ~137°) and position its nitrogen atom next to the C2 atom of the Trp in an oxyanion hole, made up by the indoleamine and ammonium groups of the Trp and the peptide amide group of A264. The active site structure is distinct from that of hTDO (Supplementary Fig. 3), but it resembles that of the hIDO1-O2-Trp complex predicted by QM/MM simulations3,20,21,22, offering a direct evidence supporting the hypothesized radical addition mechanism (Supplementary Fig. 4). The Trp-binding site is completely shielded from the bulk solvent, except that a tunnel penetrating from bulk solvent into the distal and proximal heme pockets is evident (displayed as the tint lightblue surface in Fig. 1a). Although the tunnel is relatively narrow, dynamic motion of the residues lining the tunnel may allow it to function as a conduit for delivering small molecules into or out of the Sa site and the Si site (which will be defined later).
Binding mode of epacadostat
We next crystalized hIDO1 in complex with epacadostat, the most advanced hIDO1 inhibitor in clinical trials23, and determined its structure at a resolution of 2.50 Å. Modeling of the inhibitor in the Sa site was assisted by identification of a peak consistent with Br in the anomalous difference Fourier electron density map (see Methods section). The data reveal that epacadostat coordinates to the heme iron via the oxygen atom of the hydroxyamidine group (Fig. 2a). The unusual O-based coordination bond has not been experimentally identified in any known hIDO1-inhibitor complex structures, although it has been suspected based on molecular docking simulations23. The coordination bond is stabilized by a H-bond with A264 in the DE-Loop, as well as two intramolecular H-bonds within the inhibitor, as summarized in the inset in Fig. 2b. The benzene group occupies the “A site”, and is surrounded by a group of hydrophobic residues, including F163, L234, F164, V130, Y126, and S167. The Br and F atoms sit next to C129 in the N-terminal domain, offering a favorable fluorine–sulfur contact that is known to stabilize protein–inhibitor interactions24. The side arm of epacadostat extends out into the “B site”, with the furazan group stabilized by F163, L234, and F226, and the sulfamide group stabilized by R231. To determine the electronic properties of the hIDO1-epacadostat complex, we carried out optical absorption spectroscopic studies. The spectra of the ferric and ferrous complexes show peak maxima at 412/543/573 nm and 419/540/573 nm, respectively (Fig. 2b). They are similar to those of the complexes with INCB149439, an analog of epacadostat (Supplementary Fig. 5D), but distinct from those of the complexes with N-based inhibitors that coordinate to the heme iron via the nitrogen atom of their imidazole groups, such as NLG919 (Fig. 2c and Supplementary Fig. 5B) or 4-phenylimidazole (Supplementary Fig. 5C), which exhibit characteristic peak maxima at 412/534/564 nm and 423/529/558 nm, respectively. The unique spectral markers of the O-based and N-based inhibitors provide useful guidelines for future evaluation of new hIDO1 inhibitors.
A second small molecule binding site in hIDO1
To explore additional inhibition site(s), we used IDE (3-indole ethanol) as a structural probe. IDE is an effector of hIDO125. Earlier studies suggest that IDE promotes enzyme activity by occupying a hypothesized second Trp-binding site, Si, which is responsible for substrate inhibition behavior of the enzyme (Fig. 3a)25. Activity studies as a function of [IDE] show that the K d (IDE)si is ~230 μM (Fig. 3b). We crystallized the hIDO1-CN-Trp complex in the presence of excess IDE, and determined its structure at a resolution of 2.60 Å (Fig. 3c). Electron density associated with IDE is surprisingly evident on the proximal side of the heme, offering the first glimpse of the long-suspected Si site. The IDE sits on top of a hydrophobic base constituted by L207, L339, A210, L342, and F214 (Fig. 3d). Its indole ring forms an offset π-stack with the heme, while its OH group establishes a H-bond with the 6-propionate group. The overall structure of the enzyme is mostly unaffected by IDE binding, except that the EF-Loop becomes slightly more rigid, while the JK-LoopC is more flexible (Supplementary Fig. 6A, B). More importantly, significant conformational changes are evident in the E-Helix. In particular, the side chain of F270 is pushed up due to a steric clash with the indole ring of IDE. This finding prompted us to construct and study the F270G mutant, in which the bulky side chain is eliminated.
Si site as an inhibitor-binding site
The F270G mutation leads to approximately fourfold reduction in k cat, while the k cat′ remains almost the same; in contrast, K m is unaffected, while K si is raised by approximately threefold (Fig. 4a). Titration studies surprisingly reveal that IDE functions as an inhibitor, instead of an effector (see the right inset). In addition, the apparent K d (IDE) is reduced from 230 to 100 μM. We next crystallized the F270G-CN-Trp complex in the presence and absence of IDE, and solved their structures at a resolution of 2.69 and 3.03 Å, respectively. In the IDE complex (Fig. 4b), IDE binds to the Si site in a manner similar to that observed in the wild-type complex. Remarkably, in the absence of IDE, electron density associated with Trp is evident in the Si site (Fig. 4c). It demonstrates that the Si site can indeed accommodate a second Trp, offering molecular explanation for the substrate inhibition behavior of the enzyme. Why is Trp not observed in the Si site of the wild-type enzyme, in particular considering the fact that its K si is approximately threefold lower than that of the mutant? It is important to note that the affinity of Trp towards the Si site is sensitive to the oxidation and coordination states of the heme iron26,27. The K si values determined by the activity measurements plausibly reflects the Trp affinity towards the oxy complexes (which are preferentially populated during active enzyme turnover), not the ferric hIDO1-CN-Trp complex. The K d (Trp) of the Si site in the ferric hIDO1-CN-Trp complex is too high (~26 mM)27 to allow the trapping of the second Trp in the wild-type crystals.
The F270G data show that the Trp bound in the Si site adopts a unique conformation with respect to IDE. Specifically, its indole group flips 180°, such that the ammonium and carboxylate groups point away from the proprionate-6 group of the heme. The carboxylate and ammonium groups are in position to H-bond with E171/S267/G270 and V170, respectively, although their relatively weak density indicates that these potential H-bonding interactions are not strong. The E171 is fully conserved in IDO1 family of enzymes (Supplementary Fig. 1). In addition, it is only one helical turn away from S167 in the B-Helix, which directly interacts with the Trp bound in the Sa site, suggesting that it is a structural element mediating the structural communication between the Si and Sa sites. Although both the IDE complex and the two Trp-bound complex of the F270G mutant exhibit impeded enzyme activity (Fig. 4a), their structures are surprisingly similar to that of the wild-type complex (Fig. 1), except that the heme is more planar and that the protein matrix is more flexible, in particular in the regions near the JK-LoopC, the K-Helix and D-Helix (Supplementary Fig. 6), as exemplified by the ability of the R231 sidechain to adopt two conformations in the IDE complex (Fig. 4b). The structural data suggest that the enzyme activity is controlled by protein dynamics, as well as heme distortion, which has been recognized as an important factor in tuning the functionalities of a variety of hemeproteins, including hIDO13,28,29,30,31.
Binding mode of mitomycin C
To determine if the Si site can be a target for allosteric inhibitors, we carried out molecular docking studies with an uncompetitive inhibitor, mitomycin C25. The data demonstrate that mitomycin C preferentially binds to the Si site (Fig. 4d), not the Sa site (see Methods section). In contrast to the much smaller IDE and Trp, it establishes extensive contacts with the protein matrix. Specifically, its quinone group interacts with the heme by π-stacking with it, while its polar groups are within H-bonding distances from V170, D274, G270, R343, and the 6-propionate group of the heme. The data support the view that identification of the Si site as a new inhibitor-binding site, as well as the disclosure of the unique binding modes of the substrate Trp and the inhibitor epacadostat in the Sa site, offer enticing prospects for structure-based designed of new generations of hIDO1 inhibitors. Furthermore, the fact that the Si site is only present in hIDO1, not in hTDO, (Supplementary Fig. 2) opens up new opportunities for rational design of hIDO1-selective inhibitors.
Discussion
Dioxygenases belong to one of the three major classes of heme-based enzymes that utilize atmospheric O2 as a substrate1. Oxidases, such as cytochrome c oxidase, reduce O2 to two water molecules by consuming four electrons and four protons, and utilize the redox energy to pump four protons across the protein matrix. Monooxygenases, such as P450s, convert one atom of dioxygen to a water by using two electrons and two protons, and utilize the redox energy to insert the other oxygen atom into an organic substrate to generate an alcohol type of product. The dioxygenases, hIDO1, hIDO2, and hTDO, are unique as they insert both atoms of O2 into Trp without consuming any electrons or protons. The structural features of hIDO1 reported here offer an important blueprint for computational validation of the hypothesized radical addition mechanism (Supplementary Fig. 4) and provide new guidelines for structure-based design of hIDO1-selective inhibitors.
Methods
Protein preparation
The wild-type hIDO1 and F270G mutant proteins were expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) cells32. The E. coli cells were grown in TB broth with 100 μg ml−1 ampicillin at 37 °C. When the O.D.600 nm of the culture reached ~0.8–1.0, the temperature was lowered to 25 °C; hemin chloride (8 μM), glucose (0.2%), and IPTG (1 mM) were then added to the culture to induce protein expression. The cells were grown for an additional 12–16 h, before they were harvested and lysed. The cell lysate was then loaded into a Ni-NTA column (Novagen). The target proteins were eluted with 150 mM imidazole in pH 7.4 Tris buffer (50 mM with 500 mM NaCl), and then oxidized by ferricyanide, to ensure a homogeneous population of the proteins in the ferric state. The mixture was loaded into a G25 column to eliminate NaCl, imidazole and ferricyanide, as well as its reduction product, and to exchange the buffer to pH 7.4 Tris buffer (50 mM). The purified proteins were stored at −80 °C until usage.
The F270G mutant was constructed by using the QuikChange II Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA) using the following primers (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO):
5′-CAGGCCAAAGCAGCGTCGGTCAGTGCTTTGACGTCC-3′,
5′-GGACGTCAAAGCACTGACCGACGCTGCTTTGGCCTG-3′.
The plasmid DNA containing the wild-type hIDO gene in a pET100/D-TOPO vector (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) was used as the template. The plasmid DNA was confirmed by DNA sequencing before it was transformed into E. coli BL21 (DE3) cells.
Crystal preparation
The crystal growth was initiated by mixing protein solutions (40 mg ml−1) with precipitant solution (100 mM sodium thiosulfate in 100 mM CAPS buffer (pH 10.0) and 20% (w/v) PEG 8000). Crystals were grown at 4 °C using the microbatch method. The Trp complexes of the wild type and mutant hIDO1 were prepared with 10 mM and 40 mM Trp, respectively; while the IDE complexes were prepared with 2 mM and 5 mM Trp, respectively, in the presence of 10 mM IDE. The crystals of the hIDO1-epacadostat complex was prepared by soaking the hIDO1-CN-Trp crystals with 5 mM epacadostat dissolved in the crystallization solution. All crystals were cryoprotected by supplementing the mother solution with 20% (v/v) ethylene glycol before they were flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen for data collection.
Crystallographic data collection and analysis
The data of all hIDO1 complexes, except the epacadostat complex, were collected remotely using the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) beamline 9-2. The data of the epacadostat complex were collected by the Lilly Research Laboratories Collaborative Access Team (LRL-CAT) beamline staff at Sector 31 of the Advanced Photon Source. The diffraction images were indexed, integrated, and scaled with XDS33 and Aimless34. The Karplus–Diederichs method35 was used to find a proper resolution cutoff for each structure. Molecular replacement was conducted with Phaser36 through the CCP4i graphic interface37 using the 4-phenylimidazole complex structure (PDB code: 2D0T) as the search model. Further model building was performed using COOT38. Structure refinements were performed using Refmac537,39,40. To confirm the pose of the bound epacadostat, single wavelength anomalous diffraction (SAD) data were collected at a wavelength near the bromine absorption edge (λ = 0.91988 Å). SAD data were processed using XDS and were scaled and merged using Aimless. Molecular replacement, model building, and refinement were carried out as described above. Omit phases from advanced stages of building and refinement (i.e., prior to inclusion of epacadostat) were used in a Fourier synthesis to generate an anomalous difference electron density map at 4.0 Å. The prominent peaks identified in this map were consistent with heme iron sites and bromine positions present in epacadostat allowing unambiguous positioning of the aryl moiety of the inhibitor. Data processing and refinement statistics are summarized in Table1. The structural models were displayed with PyMOL (http://www.pymol.org/), based on the subunit B, as its electron density is in general stronger than that of the subunit A.
Activity measurements
The steady-state activities were measured in 50 mM Tris buffer (pH 7.4) at 25 °C with a standard protocol25,41,42. Briefly, the reactions were initiated by adding ascorbate into a solution mixture containing 0.1–0.25 μM protein, 12 μM methylene blue, 200 nM catalase, and a desired amount of L-Trp and/or IDE in 100 mM Tris (pH 7.4) in a quartz cuvette. The initial linear velocities of the reactions, V, were obtained by monitoring the formation of the product, NFK, at 321 nm (ε = 3750 M−1 cm−1) as a function of time with a UV2100 spectrophotometer (Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc.) with a spectral slit width of 2 nm. V was calibrated with the concentration of the enzyme. IDE titration of the wild-type enzyme and the F270G mutant were carried out with 0.1 mM Trp. All the data were analyzed with Origin 6.1 software (Microcal Software, Inc., MA).
Optical absorption spectroscopic measurements
The absorption spectra of hIDO1 in complex with various inhibitors were obtained with a UV2100 spectrophotometer (Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc.) with a spectral slit width of 1 nm. The samples were prepared with 4 μM hIDO1 and 0.2–1.0 mM inhibitors in 50 mM Tris buffer (pH 7.4).
Molecular docking studies
Molecular docking studies were conducted using the X-ray structure of the two Trp-bound complex of the F270G mutant, with the Trp removed from the Si site, as the receptor. The receptor was prepared for docking using the Protein Preparation Wizard suite implemented in Maestro version 11 (Schrödinger, LLC). Hydrogen atoms and bond orders were added to the initial coordinates, while water molecules were removed from the binding pocket. The structure was protonated based on pH = 7.0. The positions of the hydrogen atoms were optimized using the OPLS3 force field. The ligand, mitomycin C (MitoC), was built using 2D draw (Maestro, version 11; Schrödinger, LLC), and prepared as a single, low energy three-dimensional structure using LigPrep Module (LigPrep 2.6; Schrödinger, LLC), which checks for various ionization states, tautomers, stereochemistry, and ring conformation. The ligand structure was energy minimized using the MacroModel suite45 of Maestro (OPLS3 force field, default settings). Protonation states and possible tautomers were then generated at pH = 7.0 using the Epik program. Molecular docking was performed with Glide 7.4 (ligand–receptor docking software; Schrödinger, LLC). A grid box was set by covering the volume of the Si site region with the van der Waals radius scaling to 1.0 with a partial cutoff of 0.25 to soften the potential for nonpolar parts of receptor, where other atoms are free of scaling. Glide standard precision mode, where the ligand sampling was set flexible, was used for the docking. The best docked substrate conformation, representing 90% of the observed poses is shown in Fig. 4d. Comparable studies with a grid box set in the Sa site region show that MitoC does not bind to the Sa site.
Data availability
Coordinates and structure factors for the reported crystal structures have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank under the accession codes 5WN8, 5WMU, 5WMV, 5WMW, and 5WMX. Other data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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Acknowledgements
S.-R.Y., A.L.-B., and K.N.P. thank Dr D.L. Rousseau for helpful discussions. The structural data of the Trp-complexes were collected at SSRL, a national user facility operated by Stanford University on behalf of the United States Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Structural Molecular Biology Program is supported by the United States Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research and by the National Center for Research Resources, Biomedical Technology Program, and NIGMS of the National Institutes of Health. The Einstein Crystallographic Core X-ray diffraction facility is supported by NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant S10 OD020068, which we gratefully acknowledge. The structural data of the epacadostat complex were collected by the LRL-CAT beamline staff at Sector 31 of the Advanced Photon Source. This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357. Use of the Lilly Research Laboratories Collaborative Access Team (LRL-CAT) beamline at Sector 31 of the Advanced Photon Source was provided by Eli Lilly Company, which operates the facility. We acknowledge the contributions of Drs F. Forouhar, S. Lew, J. Seetharaman and L. Tong to the initial stages of this project. This work was supported by National Institute of Health Grant GM115773 and National Science Foundation Grant CHE-1404929 (to S.-R.Y.) and National Institute of Health Grant GM57353 (to T.L.P.).
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S.-R.Y., A.L.-B. and K.N.P. designed the project. A.L.-B., K.N.P. and S.K. expressed and purified recombinant hIDO1 protein. A.L.-B. crystallized all the Trp and IDE complexes. D.B. collected the diffraction data of the Trp and IDE complexes, which were analyzed by D.B., A.L.-B. and K.N.P., as supervised by T.L.P. and S.-R.Y. K.N.P. crystallized the epacadostat complex and analyzed the diffraction data. J.B.B. designed the single wavelength anomalous scattering experiment. J.B.B., A.L.-B. and S.-R.Y. supervised the structural determination of the epacadostat complex. K.N.P. determined the absorption spectra of the inhibitor complexes and carried out the molecular docking studies. A.L.-B. carried out all other biochemical studies in free solution. S.-R.Y. wrote the initial draft of the manuscript; all authors contributed to the final draft and approved the final version for submission.
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Lewis-Ballester, A., Pham, K.N., Batabyal, D. et al. Structural insights into substrate and inhibitor binding sites in human indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1. Nat Commun 8, 1693 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01725-8
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