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Electron nuclear double-resonance spectroscopy of n-15-enriched phthalate dioxygenase from pseudomonas-cepacia proves that 2 histidines are coordinated to the 2fe-2s rieske-type clusters

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authors

  • Gurbiel, R. J.
  • Batie, C. J.
  • Sivaraja, M.
  • True, A. E.
  • Fee, James
  • Hoffman, B. M.
  • Ballou, D. P.

publication date

  • May 1989

journal

  • Biochemistry  Journal

abstract

  • We have performed ENDOR spectroscopy at microwave frequencies of 9 and 35 GHz at 2 K on the reduced Rieske-type [2Fe-2S] cluster of phthalate dioxygenase (PDO) from Pseudomonas cepacia. Four samples have been examined: (1) 14N (natural abundance); (2) uniformly 15N labeled; (3) [15N]histidine in a 14N background; (4) [14N]histidine in a 15N background. These studies establish unambiguously that two of the ligands to the Rieske [2Fe-2S] center are nitrogens from histidine residues. This contrasts with classical ferredoxin-type [2Fe-2S] centers in which all ligation is by sulfur of cysteine residues. Analysis of the polycrystalline ENDOR patterns has permitted us to determine for each nitrogen ligand the principal values of the hyperfine tensor and its orientation with respect to the g tensor, as well as the 14N quadrupole coupling tensor. The combination of these results with earlier Mössbauer and resonance Raman studies supports a model for the reduced cluster with both histidyl ligands bound to the ferrous ion of the spin-coupled [Fe2+ (S = 2), Fe3+ (S = 5/2)] pair. The analyses of 15N hyperfine and 14N quadrupole coupling tensors indicate that the geometry of ligation at Fe2+ is approximately tetrahedral, with the (Fe)2(N)2 plane corresponding to the g1-g3 plane, and that the planes of the histidyl imidazoles lie near that plane, although they could not both lie in the plane. The bonding parameters of the coordinated nitrogens are fully consistent with those of an spn hybrid on a histidyl nitrogen coordinated to Fe. Differences in 14N ENDOR line width provide evidence for different mobilities of the two imidazoles when the protein is in fluid solution. We conclude that the structure deduced here for the PDO cluster is generally applicable to the full class of Rieske-type centers.

subject areas

  • Electron Transport Complex III
  • Electrons
  • Histidine
  • Iron-Sulfur Proteins
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Metalloproteins
  • Molecular Structure
  • Oxygenases
  • Pseudomonas
  • Spectroscopy, Mossbauer
  • Spectrum Analysis, Raman
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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0006-2960

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1021/bi00437a051

PubMed ID

  • 2765515
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 4861

end page

  • 4871

volume

  • 28

issue

  • 11

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