TY - JOUR
T1 - Structural characterization of the catalytic high-spin heme b of nitric oxide reductase
T2 - A resonance Raman study
AU - Moënne-Loccoz, Pierre
AU - De Vries, Simon
PY - 1998/6/3
Y1 - 1998/6/3
N2 - Nitric oxide reductase (NOR) from Paracoccus denitrificans is a transmembrane heterodimer containing a low-spin heme c, a low-spin heme b, a high-spin heme b, and a non-heme iron. Protein sequence similarities between NOR and the cytochrome oxidase superfamily suggest the catalytic center of NO reduction to be the dinuclear high-spin heme b/non-heme iron site and the two low-spin hemes to facilitate electron transfer. The EPR-silent character of the non-heme iron and the ferric high-spin heme b is believed to be due to an antiferromagnetic coupling between these two metal centers via a bridging ligand. Soret or red excitations on the fully reduced, reduced CO-bound, and fully oxidized states of NOR allow enhancement of the resonance Raman (RR) contributions of the catalytic heme b of the enzyme. Resonance Raman spectra of the fully reduced enzyme are consistent with the presence of two six- coordinate low-spin hemes and one five-coordinate heme b ligated to a histidine. In the low-frequency region of the RR spectrum, a band at 218 cm- 1 is assigned to the Fe-N(His) stretching mode of the high-spin heme. Addition of CO induces spectral changes in the high-frequency region of the RR spectra that confirm the binding of CO to the high-spin species. Isotopically labeled CO is used to assign the vibrational modes of the Fe-CO unit: the v(Fe)-co (476 cm-1) and v(C-O) (1970 cm-1) as well as the bending mode δ(Fe-C-O) (569 cm-1). These frequencies show that the catalytic heme is present in an unusual environment, possibly negatively charged, in which CO adopts a geometry quite different from that in cytochrome c oxidase (CcO). The RR study of the oxidized enzyme demonstrates that the high-spin heme b conserves a pentacoordinate structure in the ferric state. To reconcile the EPR data, which indicate the presence of a bridging ligand in the ferric state of the dinuclear center, with the characteristic five-coordinate RR signature of the high-spin heme b in both oxidized and reduced NOR, we propose a mechanism in which the bond between the proximal histidine and the heme iron is broken upon binding of NO, leaving the diiron center bridged after its catalytic turnover.
AB - Nitric oxide reductase (NOR) from Paracoccus denitrificans is a transmembrane heterodimer containing a low-spin heme c, a low-spin heme b, a high-spin heme b, and a non-heme iron. Protein sequence similarities between NOR and the cytochrome oxidase superfamily suggest the catalytic center of NO reduction to be the dinuclear high-spin heme b/non-heme iron site and the two low-spin hemes to facilitate electron transfer. The EPR-silent character of the non-heme iron and the ferric high-spin heme b is believed to be due to an antiferromagnetic coupling between these two metal centers via a bridging ligand. Soret or red excitations on the fully reduced, reduced CO-bound, and fully oxidized states of NOR allow enhancement of the resonance Raman (RR) contributions of the catalytic heme b of the enzyme. Resonance Raman spectra of the fully reduced enzyme are consistent with the presence of two six- coordinate low-spin hemes and one five-coordinate heme b ligated to a histidine. In the low-frequency region of the RR spectrum, a band at 218 cm- 1 is assigned to the Fe-N(His) stretching mode of the high-spin heme. Addition of CO induces spectral changes in the high-frequency region of the RR spectra that confirm the binding of CO to the high-spin species. Isotopically labeled CO is used to assign the vibrational modes of the Fe-CO unit: the v(Fe)-co (476 cm-1) and v(C-O) (1970 cm-1) as well as the bending mode δ(Fe-C-O) (569 cm-1). These frequencies show that the catalytic heme is present in an unusual environment, possibly negatively charged, in which CO adopts a geometry quite different from that in cytochrome c oxidase (CcO). The RR study of the oxidized enzyme demonstrates that the high-spin heme b conserves a pentacoordinate structure in the ferric state. To reconcile the EPR data, which indicate the presence of a bridging ligand in the ferric state of the dinuclear center, with the characteristic five-coordinate RR signature of the high-spin heme b in both oxidized and reduced NOR, we propose a mechanism in which the bond between the proximal histidine and the heme iron is broken upon binding of NO, leaving the diiron center bridged after its catalytic turnover.
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U2 - 10.1021/ja973671e
DO - 10.1021/ja973671e
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0141777543
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 120
SP - 5147
EP - 5152
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 21
ER -