Generation of a stable, aminotyrosyl radical-induced α2β2 complex of Escherichia coli class Ia ribonucleotide reductase
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Minnihan, Ellen Catherine
Ando, Nozomi
Olshansky, Lisa
Chittuluru, Johnathan
Asturias, Francisco J.
Nocera, Daniel G.
Stubbe, JoAnne
Brignole, Edward J
Drennan, Catherine L
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February 2013
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
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Minnihan, E. C., N. Ando, E. J. Brignole, L. Olshansky, J. Chittuluru, F. J. Asturias, C. L. Drennan, D. G. Nocera, and J. Stubbe. “Generation of a stable, aminotyrosyl radical-induced 2 2 complex of Escherichia coli class Ia ribonucleotide reductase.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, no. 10 (March 5, 2013): 3835-3840.
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Abstract
Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) catalyzes the conversion of nucleoside diphosphates to deoxynucleoside diphosphates (dNDPs). The Escherichia coli class Ia RNR uses a mechanism of radical propagation by which a cysteine in the active site of the RNR large (α2) subunit is transiently oxidized by a stable tyrosyl radical (Y•) in the RNR small (β2) subunit over a 35-Å pathway of redox-active amino acids: Y[subscript 122]• ↔ [W[subscript 48]?] ↔ Y[subscript 356] in β2 to Y[subscript 731] ↔ Y[subscript 730] ↔ C[subscript 439] in α2. When 3-aminotyrosine (NH[subscript 2]Y) is incorporated in place of Y[subscript 730], a long-lived NH[subscript 2]Y[subscript 730]• is generated in α2 in the presence of wild-type (wt)-β2, substrate, and effector. This radical intermediate is chemically and kinetically competent to generate dNDPs. Herein, evidence is presented that NH[subscript 2]Y[subscript 730]• induces formation of a kinetically stable α2β2 complex. Under conditions that generate NH[subscript 2]Y[subscript 730]•, binding between Y[subscript 730]NH[subscript 2]Y-α2 and wt-β2 is 25-fold tighter (K[subscript d] = 7 nM) than for wt-α2|wt-β2 and is cooperative. Stopped-flow fluorescence experiments establish that the dissociation rate constant for the Y[subscript 730]NH[subscript 2]Y-α2|wt-β2 interaction is ~10[superscript 4]-fold slower than for the wt subunits (~60 s[superscript −1]). EM and small-angle X-ray scattering studies indicate that the stabilized species is a compact globular α2β2, consistent with the structure predicted by Uhlin and Eklund’s docking model [Uhlin U, Eklund H (1994) Nature 370(6490):533–539]. These results present a structural and biochemical characterization of the active RNR complex “trapped” during turnover, and suggest that stabilization of the α2β2 state may be a regulatory mechanism for protecting the catalytic radical and ensuring the fidelity of its reactivity.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
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