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Site-Specific Incorporation of 3-Nitrotyrosine as a Probe of pK[subscript a] Perturbation of Redox-Active Tyrosines in Ribonucleotide Reductase

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Yokoyama, Kenichi; Uhlin, Ulla; Stubbe, JoAnne
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E. coli ribonucleotide reductase catalyzes the reduction of nucleoside 5′-diphosphates into 2′-deoxynucleotides and is composed of two subunits: α2 and β2. During turnover, a stable tyrosyl radical (Y•) at Y[subscript 122-]β2 reversibly oxidizes C[subscript 439] in the active site of α2. This radical propagation step is proposed to occur over 35 Å, to use specific redox-active tyrosines (Y[subscript 122] and Y[subscript 356] in β2, Y[subscript 731] and Y[subscript 730] in α2), and to involve proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET). 3-Nitrotyrosine (NO[subscript 2]Y, pK[subscript a] 7.1) has been incorporated in place of Y[subscript 122], Y[subscript 731], and Y[subscript 730] to probe how the protein environment perturbs each pK[subscript a] in the presence of the second subunit, substrate (S), and allosteric effector (E). The activity of each mutant is <4 × 10[subscript −3] that of the wild-type (wt) subunit. The [NO[subscript 2]Y[subscript 730]]-α2 and [NO[subscript 2]Y[subscript 731]]-α2 each exhibit a pK[subscript a] of 7.8−8.0 with E and E/β2. The pK[subscript a] of [NO[subscript 2]Y[subscript 730]]-α2 is elevated to 8.2−8.3 in the S/E/β2 complex, whereas no further perturbation is observed for [NO[subscript 2]Y[subscript 731]]-α2. Mutations in pathway residues adjacent to the NO[subscript 2]Y that disrupt H-bonding minimally perturb its pK[subscript a]. The pK[subscript a] of NO[subscript 2]Y[subscript 122-]β2 alone or with α2/S/E is >9.6. X-ray crystal structures have been obtained for all [NO[subscript 2]Y]-α2 mutants (2.1−3.1 Å resolution), which show minimal structural perturbation compared to wt-α2. Together with the pK[subscript a] of the previously reported NO[subscript 2]Y[subscript 356-]β2 (7.5 in the α2/S/E complex; Yee, C. et al. Biochemistry 2003, 42, 14541−14552), these studies provide a picture of the protein environment of the ground state at each Y in the PCET pathway, and are the starting point for understanding differences in PCET mechanisms at each residue in the pathway.
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2010-06
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72363
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
Journal
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Citation
Yokoyama, Kenichi, Ulla Uhlin, and JoAnne Stubbe. “Site-Specific Incorporation of 3-Nitrotyrosine as a Probe of pK[subscript a]Perturbation of Redox-Active Tyrosines in Ribonucleotide Reductase.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 132.24 (2010): 8385–8397.
Version: Author's final manuscript
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0002-7863
1520-5126

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