Stearoyl-CoA 9-desaturase

Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (Δ-9-desaturase) is an endoplasmic reticulum enzyme that catalyzes the rate-limiting step in the formation of monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs), specifically oleate and palmitoleate from stearoyl-CoA and palmitoyl-CoA.^[5] Oleate and palmitoleate are major components of membrane phospholipids, cholesterol esters and alkyl-diacylglycerol. In humans, the enzyme is encoded by the SCD gene.^[6]

SCD
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe RCSB List of PDB id codes 4ZYO
Identifiers
Aliases	SCD, FADS5, MSTP008, SCD1, SCDOS, hSCD1, stearoyl-CoA desaturase (delta-9-desaturase), stearoyl-CoA desaturase
External IDs	OMIM: 604031 MGI: 98239 HomoloGene: 74538 GeneCards: SCD
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 10 (human)^[1] Band 10q24.31 Start 100,347,233 bp^[1] End 100,364,826 bp^[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 19 (mouse)^[2] Band 19 C3|19 37.98 cM Start 44,382,894 bp^[2] End 44,396,318 bp^[2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in inferior ganglion of vagus nerve subthalamic nucleus superior vestibular nucleus external globus pallidus pons ventral tegmental area inferior olivary nucleus endothelial cell internal globus pallidus Brodmann area 46 Top expressed in white adipose tissue subcutaneous adipose tissue left lobe of liver gallbladder parotid gland carotid body sciatic nerve ankle right lung right lung lobe More reference expression data BioGPS n/a
Gene ontology Molecular function iron ion binding stearoyl-CoA 9-desaturase activity oxidoreductase activity oxidoreductase activity, acting on paired donors, with oxidation of a pair of donors resulting in the reduction of molecular oxygen to two molecules of water metal ion binding protein binding palmitoyl-CoA 9-desaturase activity Cellular component integral component of membrane endoplasmic reticulum membrane endoplasmic reticulum membrane nucleolus integral component of endoplasmic reticulum membrane Biological process unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process fatty acid biosynthetic process fatty acid metabolic process lipid metabolism regulation of cholesterol biosynthetic process fatty-acyl-CoA biosynthetic process monounsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process response to fatty acid positive regulation of cold-induced thermogenesis Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 6319 20249 Ensembl ENSG00000099194 ENSMUSG00000037071 UniProt O00767 P13516 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_005063 NM_009127 RefSeq (protein) NP_005054 NP_033153 Location (UCSC) Chr 10: 100.35 – 100.36 Mb Chr 19: 44.38 – 44.4 Mb PubMed search ^[3] ^[4]
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stearoyl-CoA 9-desaturase
Identifiers
EC no.	1.14.19.1
CAS no.	9014-34-0^[permanent dead link]
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BRENDA	BRENDA entry
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KEGG	KEGG entry
MetaCyc	metabolic pathway
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PDB structures	RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum
Gene Ontology	AmiGO / QuickGO
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In mammals, the SCD-1 reaction requires molecular oxygen, NAD(P)-cytochrome b5 reductase, cytochrome b5 to conduct an electron flow from NADPH to the terminal electron acceptor molecular oxygen, releasing water.

Stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 is a key enzyme in fatty acid metabolism. It is responsible for forming a double bond in stearoyl-CoA. This is how the monounsaturated fatty acid oleic acid is produced from the saturated fatty acid, stearic acid.

A series of redox reactions, during which two electrons flow from NADH to flavoprotein cytochrome b₅, then to the electron acceptor cytochrome b₅ as well as molecular oxygen introduces a single double bond within a row of methylene fatty acyl-CoA substrates.^[7] The complexed enzyme adds a single double bond between the C9 and C10 of long-chain acyl-CoAs from de-novo synthesis.^[5]

This enzyme belongs to the family of oxidoreductases, specifically those acting on paired donors, with O₂ as oxidant and incorporation or reduction of oxygen. The oxygen incorporated need not be derived from O₂ with oxidation of a pair of donors resulting in the reduction of O to two molecules of water. The systematic name of this enzyme class is stearoyl-CoA,ferrocytochrome-b5:oxygen oxidoreductase (9,10-dehydrogenating). Other names in common use include Delta9-desaturase, acyl-CoA desaturase, fatty acid desaturase, and stearoyl-CoA, hydrogen-donor:oxygen oxidoreductase. This enzyme participates in polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis and ppar signaling pathway. It employs one cofactor, iron.

Function

 

Stearoyl–CoA (black) held in a kinked conformation by SCD1's binding pocket which determines which bond is desaturated. (PDB: 4ZYO​)

Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD; EC 1.14.19.1) is an iron-containing enzyme that catalyzes a rate-limiting step in the synthesis of unsaturated fatty acids. The principal product of SCD is oleic acid, which is formed by desaturation of stearic acid. The ratio of stearic acid to oleic acid has been implicated in the regulation of cell growth and differentiation through effects on cell membrane fluidity and signal transduction.

Four SCD isoforms, Scd1 through Scd4, have been identified in mouse. In contrast, only 2 SCD isoforms, SCD1 and SCD5 (MIM 608370, Uniprot Q86SK9), have been identified in human. SCD1 shares about 85% amino acid identity with all 4 mouse SCD isoforms, as well as with rat Scd1 and Scd2. In contrast, SCD5 (also known as hSCD2) shares limited homology with the rodent SCDs and appears to be unique to primates.^{[6][8][9][10]}

SCD-1 is an important metabolic control point. Inhibition of its expression may enhance the treatment of a host of metabolic diseases.^[11] One of the unanswered questions is that SCD remains a highly regulated enzyme, even though oleate is readily available, as it is an abundant monounsaturated fatty acid in dietary fat.

It catalyzes the chemical reaction

stearoyl-CoA + 2 ferrocytochrome b₅ + O₂ + 2 H⁺ ${\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons }$  oleoyl-CoA + 2 ferricytochrome b₅ + 2 H₂O

The 4 substrates of this enzyme are stearoyl-CoA, ferrocytochrome b5, O₂, and H⁺, whereas its 3 products are oleoyl-CoA, ferricytochrome b5, and H₂O.

Structure

The enzyme's structure is key to its function. SCD-1 consists of four transmembrane domains. Both the amino and carboxyl terminus and eight catalytically important histidine regions, which collectively bind iron within the catalytic center of the enzyme, lie in the cytosol region. The five cysteines in SCD-1 are located within the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum.^[12]

The substrate binding site is long, thin and hydrophobic and kinks the substrate tail at the location where the di-iron catalytic centre introduces the double bond.^[13]

 

SCD is biologically active as a dimer with the major ligand, Stearyl-CoA (magenta), docked to the active site. (PDB: 4YMK)

The literature suggests that the enzyme accomplishes the desaturation reaction by removing the first hydrogen at C9 position and then the second hydrogen from the C-10 position.^[14] Because the C-9 and C-10 are positioned close to the iron-containing center of the enzyme, this mechanism is hypothesized to be specific for the position at which the double bond is formed.

Role in human disease

Monounsaturated fatty acids, the products of SCD-1 catalyzed reactions, can serve as substrates for the synthesis of various kinds of lipids, including phospholipids, triglycerides, and can also be used as mediators in signal transduction and differentiation.^[15] Because MUFAs are heavily utilized in cellular processes, variation in SCD activity in mammals is expected to influence physiological variables, including cellular differentiation, insulin sensitivity, metabolic syndrome, atherosclerosis, cancer, and obesity. SCD-1 deficiency results in reduced adiposity, increased insulin sensitivity, and resistance to diet-induced obesity.^[16]

Under non-fasting conditions, SCD-1 mRNA is highly expressed in white adipose tissue, brown adipose tissue, and the Harderian gland.^[17] SCD-1 expression is significantly increased in liver tissue and heart in response to a high-carbohydrate diet, whereas SCD-2 expression is observed in brain tissue and induced during the neonatal myelination.^[18] Diets high in high-saturated as well as monounsaturated-fat can also increase SCD-1 expression, although not to the extent of the lipogenic effect of a high-carb diet.^[19]

Elevated expression levels of SCD1 is found to be correlated with obesity ^[20] and tumor malignancy.^[21] It is believed that tumor cells obtain most part of their requirement for fatty acids by de novo synthesis. This phenomenon depends on increased expression of fatty acid biosynthetic enzymes that produce required fatty acids in large quantities.^[22] Mice that were fed a high-carbohydrate diet had an induced expression of the liver SCD-1 gene and other lipogenic genes through an insulin-mediated SREBP-1c-dependent mechanism. Activation of SREBP-1c results in upregulated synthesis of MUFAs and liver triglycerides. SCD-1 knockout mice did not increase de novo lipogenesis but created an abundance of cholesterol esters.^[23]

SCD1 function has also been shown to be involved in germ cell determination,^[24] adipose tissue specification, liver cell differentiation^[25] and cardiac development.^[26]

The human SCD-1 gene structure and regulation is very similar to that of mouse SCD-1. Overexpression of SCD-1 in humans may be involved in the development of hypertriglyceridemia, atherosclerosis, and diabetes.^[27] One study showed that SCD-1 activity was associated with inherited hyperlipidemia. SCD-1 deficiency has also been shown to reduce ceramide synthesis by downregulating serine palmitoyltransferase. This consequently increases the rate of beta-oxidation in skeletal muscle.^[28]

In carbohydrate metabolism studies, knockout SCD-1 mice show increased insulin sensitivity. Oleate is a major constituent of membrane phospholipids and membrane fluidity is influenced by the ratio of saturated to monounsaturated fatty acids.^[29] One proposed mechanism is that an increase in cell membrane fluidity, consisting largely of lipid, activates the insulin receptor. A decrease in MUFA content of the membrane phospholipids in the SCD-1^−/− mice is offset by an increase in polyunsaturated fatty acids, effectively increasing membrane fluidity due to the introduction of more double bonds in the fatty acyl chain.^[30]

See also

• Cyclopropene acid
• Fatty acid desaturase
• Fatty acid synthesis

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Further reading

• Mziaut H, Korza G, Ozols J (Aug 2000). "The N terminus of microsomal Δ 9 stearoyl-CoA desaturase contains the sequence determinant for its rapid degradation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 97 (16): 8883–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.97.16.8883. PMC 16790. PMID 10922050.
• Samuel W, Kutty RK, Nagineni S, Gordon JS, Prouty SM, Chandraratna RA, Wiggert B (Aug 2001). "Regulation of stearoyl coenzyme A desaturase expression in human retinal pigment epithelial cells by retinoic acid". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276 (31): 28744–50. doi:10.1074/jbc.M103587200. PMID 11397803.
• Zhang L, Ge L, Tran T, Stenn K, Prouty SM (Jul 2001). "Isolation and characterization of the human stearoyl-CoA desaturase gene promoter: requirement of a conserved CCAAT cis-element". The Biochemical Journal. 357 (Pt 1): 183–93. doi:10.1042/0264-6021:3570183. PMC 1221940. PMID 11415448.
• Samuel W, Nagineni CN, Kutty RK, Parks WT, Gordon JS, Prouty SM, Hooks JJ, Wiggert B (Jan 2002). "Transforming growth factor-beta regulates stearoyl coenzyme A desaturase expression through a Smad signaling pathway". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277 (1): 59–66. doi:10.1074/jbc.M108730200. PMID 11677241.
• Choi Y, Park Y, Storkson JM, Pariza MW, Ntambi JM (Jun 2002). "Inhibition of stearoyl-CoA desaturase activity by the cis-9,trans-11 isomer and the trans-10,cis-12 isomer of conjugated linoleic acid in MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 human breast cancer cells". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 294 (4): 785–90. doi:10.1016/S0006-291X(02)00554-5. PMID 12061775.
• Attie AD, Krauss RM, Gray-Keller MP, Brownlie A, Miyazaki M, Kastelein JJ, Lusis AJ, Stalenhoef AF, Stoehr JP, Hayden MR, Ntambi JM (Nov 2002). "Relationship between stearoyl-CoA desaturase activity and plasma triglycerides in human and mouse hypertriglyceridemia". Journal of Lipid Research. 43 (11): 1899–907. doi:10.1194/jlr.M200189-JLR200. hdl:2066/185468. PMID 12401889.
• Cohen P, Ntambi JM, Friedman JM (Dec 2003). "Stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 and the metabolic syndrome". Current Drug Targets. Immune, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders. 3 (4): 271–80. doi:10.2174/1568008033340117. PMID 14683458.
• Shiwaku K, Hashimoto M, Kitajima K, Nogi A, Anuurad E, Enkhmaa B, Kim JM, Kim IS, Lee SK, Oyunsuren T, Shido O, Yamane Y (May 2004). "Triglyceride levels are ethnic-specifically associated with an index of stearoyl-CoA desaturase activity and n-3 PUFA levels in Asians". Journal of Lipid Research. 45 (5): 914–22. doi:10.1194/jlr.M300483-JLR200. PMID 14967817.
• Wang Y, Kurdi-Haidar B, Oram JF (May 2004). "LXR-mediated activation of macrophage stearoyl-CoA desaturase generates unsaturated fatty acids that destabilize ABCA1". Journal of Lipid Research. 45 (5): 972–80. doi:10.1194/jlr.M400011-JLR200. PMID 14967823.
• Rahman SM, Dobrzyn A, Dobrzyn P, Lee SH, Miyazaki M, Ntambi JM (Sep 2003). "Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 deficiency elevates insulin-signaling components and down-regulates protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B in muscle". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 100 (19): 11110–5. Bibcode:2003PNAS..10011110R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1934571100. PMC 196935. PMID 12960377.

External links

• Stearoyl-CoA+Desaturase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)