ENDOR Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations: Evidence for the Hydrogen-Bond Network Within α2 in the PCET of E. coli Ribonucleotide Reductase
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Argirević, Tomislav
Riplinger, Christoph
Stubbe, JoAnne
Neese, Frank
Bennati, Marina
Date Issued
October 2012
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
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Argirevi?, Tomislav et al. “ENDOR Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations: Evidence for the Hydrogen-Bond Network Within ?2 in the PCET of E. Coli Ribonucleotide Reductase.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 134.42 (2012): 17661–17670.
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Abstract
Escherichia coli class I ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) catalyzes the conversion of nucleotides to deoxynucleotides and is composed of two subunits: α2 and β2. β2 contains a stable di-iron tyrosyl radical (Y[subscript 122]•) cofactor required to generate a thiyl radical (C[subscript 439]•) in α2 over a distance of 35 Å, which in turn initiates the chemistry of the reduction process. The radical transfer process is proposed to occur by proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) via a specific pathway: Y[subscript 122] ⇆ W[subscript 48][?] ⇆ Y[subscript 356] in β2, across the subunit interface to Y[subscript 731] ⇆ Y[subscript 730] ⇆ C[subscript 439] in α2. Within α2 a colinear PCET model has been proposed. To obtain evidence for this model, 3-amino tyrosine (NH2Y) replaced Y[subscript 730] in α2, and this mutant was incubated with β2, cytidine 5′-diphosphate, and adenosine 5′-triphosphate to generate a NH2Y730• in D2O. [[superscript 2]H]-Electron–nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) spectra at 94 GHz of this intermediate were obtained, and together with DFT models of α2 and quantum chemical calculations allowed assignment of the prominent ENDOR features to two hydrogen bonds likely associated with C[subscript 439] and Y[subscript 731]. A third proton was assigned to a water molecule in close proximity (2.2 Å O–H···O distance) to residue 730. The calculations also suggest that the unusual g-values measured for NH[subscript 2]Y[subscript 730]• are consistent with the combined effect of the hydrogen bonds to Cys[subscript 439] and Tyr[subscript 731], both nearly perpendicular to the ring plane of NH[subscript 2]Y[subscript 730]. The results provide the first experimental evidence for the hydrogen-bond network between the pathway residues in α2 of the active RNR complex, for which no structural data are available.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
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