Factor-inhibiting hypoxia-inducible factor (FIH) catalyses the post-translational hydroxylation of histidinyl residues within ankyrin repeat domains

Factor-inhibiting hypoxia-inducible factor (FIH) is an Fe(II)/2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase that acts as a negative regulator of the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) by catalysing β-hydroxylation of an asparaginyl residue in its C-terminal transcriptional activation domain (CAD). In addition to the hypoxia-inducible factor C-terminal transcriptional activation domain (HIF-CAD), FIH also catalyses asparaginyl hydroxylation of many ankyrin repeat domain-containing proteins, revealing a broad sequence selectivity. However, there are few reports on the selectivity of FIH for the hydroxylation of specific residues. Here, we report that histidinyl residues within the ankyrin repeat domain of tankyrase-2 can be hydroxylated by FIH. NMR and crystallographic analyses show that the histidinyl hydroxylation occurs at the β-position. The results further expand the scope of FIH-catalysed hydroxylations. DATABASE: The coordinates for the structure have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe) under accession code 2y0i STRUCTURED DIGITAL ABSTRACT: FIH and TNKS-1 hydroxylate by enzymatic study (View Interaction 1, 2). FIH and Tankyrase-2 bind by x-ray crystallography (View interaction). FIH and Tankyrase-2 hydroxylate by enzymatic study (View Interaction 1, 2, 3). FIH and TRPV4 hydroxylate by enzymatic study (View interaction). GABPB2 and FIH hydroxylate by enzymatic study (View interaction). Factor-inhibiting hypoxia-inducible factor (FIH) is an asparaginyl hydroxylase that catalyses the β-hydroxylation of an Asn-residue in the C-terminal transcriptional activation domain of the hypoxia inducible factor and of highly conserved Asn-residues within the ubiquitous ankyrin repeat domain protein family. Here we report that FIH also catalyses the β-hydroxylation of histidinyl residues in the ankyrin repeat domain of tankyrase-2, further expanding the scope of FIH-catalysed hydroxylations.