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Panda S, Phan H, Karlin KD. Heme-copper and Heme O 2-derived synthetic (bioinorganic) chemistry toward an understanding of cytochrome c oxidase dioxygen chemistry. J Inorg Biochem 2023; 249:112367. [PMID: 37742491 PMCID: PMC10615892 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2023.112367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2023] [Revised: 08/22/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/26/2023]
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Cytochrome c oxidase (CcO), also widely known as mitochondrial electron-transport-chain complex IV, is a multi-subunit transmembrane protein responsible for catalyzing the last step of the electron transport chain, dioxygen reduction to water, which is essential to the establishment and maintenance of the membrane proton gradient that drives ATP synthesis. Although many intermediates in the CcO catalytic cycle have been spectroscopically and/or computationally authenticated, the specifics regarding the IP intermediate, hypothesized to be a heme-Cu (hydro)peroxo species whose O-O bond homolysis is supported by a hydrogen-bonding network of water molecules, are largely obscured by the fast kinetics of the A (FeIII-O2•-/CuI/Tyr) → PM (FeIV=O/CuII-OH/Tyr•) step. In this review, we have focused on the recent advancements in the design, development, and characterization of synthetic heme-peroxo‑copper model complexes, which can circumvent the abovementioned limitation, for the investigation of the formation of IP and its O-O cleavage chemistry. Novel findings regarding (a) proton and electron transfer (PT/ET) processes, together with their contributions to exogenous phenol induced O-O cleavage, (b) the stereo-electronic tunability of the secondary coordination sphere (especially hydrogen-bonding) on the geometric and spin state alteration of the heme-peroxo‑copper unit, and (c) a plausible mechanism for the Tyr-His cofactor biogenesis, are discussed in great detail. Additionally, since the ferric-superoxide and the ferryl-oxo (Compound II) species are critically involved in the CcO catalytic cycle, this review also highlights a few fundamental aspects of these heme-only (i.e., without copper) species, including the structural and reactivity influences of electron-donating trans-axial ligands and Lewis acid-promoted H-bonding.
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- Sanjib Panda
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
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Yamaguchi K, Miyagawa K, Shoji M, Kawakami T, Isobe H, Yamanaka S, Nakajima T. Theoretical elucidation of the structure, bonding, and reactivity of the CaMn 4O x clusters in the whole Kok cycle for water oxidation embedded in the oxygen evolving center of photosystem II. New molecular and quantum insights into the mechanism of the O-O bond formation. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2023:10.1007/s11120-023-01053-7. [PMID: 37945776 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-01053-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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This paper reviews our historical developments of broken-symmetry (BS) and beyond BS methods that are applicable for theoretical investigations of metalloenzymes such as OEC in PSII. The BS hybrid DFT (HDFT) calculations starting from high-resolution (HR) XRD structure in the most stable S1 state have been performed to elucidate structure and bonding of whole possible intermediates of the CaMn4Ox cluster (1) in the Si (i = 0 ~ 4) states of the Kok cycle. The large-scale HDFT/MM computations starting from HR XRD have been performed to elucidate biomolecular system structures which are crucial for examination of possible water inlet and proton release pathways for water oxidation in OEC of PSII. DLPNO CCSD(T0) computations have been performed for elucidation of scope and reliability of relative energies among the intermediates by HDFT. These computations combined with EXAFS, XRD, XFEL, and EPR experimental results have elucidated the structure, bonding, and reactivity of the key intermediates, which are indispensable for understanding and explanation of the mechanism of water oxidation in OEC of PSII. Interplay between theory and experiments have elucidated important roles of four degrees of freedom, spin, charge, orbital, and nuclear motion for understanding and explanation of the chemical reactivity of 1 embedded in protein matrix, indicating the participations of the Ca(H2O)n ion and tyrosine(Yz)-O radical as a one-electron acceptor for the O-O bond formation. The Ca-assisted Yz-coupled O-O bond formation mechanisms for water oxidation are consistent with recent XES and very recent time-resolved SFX XFEL and FTIR results.
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- Kizashi Yamaguchi
- Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan.
- RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Hyogo, 650-0047, Japan.
- SANKEN, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan.
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- Center of Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8577, Japan
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- Center of Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8577, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Hyogo, 650-0047, Japan
- Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan
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- Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, and Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Hyogo, 650-0047, Japan
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Yang X, Liu S, Yin Z, Chen M, Song J, Li P, Yang L. New insights into the proton pumping mechanism of ba 3 cytochrome c oxidase: the functions of key residues and water. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:25105-25115. [PMID: 37461851 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp01334k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
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As the terminal oxidase of cell respiration in mitochondria and aerobic bacteria, the proton pumping mechanism of ba3-type cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) of Thermus thermophiles is still not fully understood. Especially, the functions of key residues which were considered as the possible proton loading sites (PLSs) above the catalytic center, as well as water located above and within the catalytic center, remain unclear. In this work, molecular dynamic simulations were performed on a set of designed mutants of key residues (Asp287, Asp372, His376, and Glu126II). The results showed that Asp287 may not be a PLS, but it could modulate the ability of the proton transfer pathway to transfer protons through its salt bridge with Arg225. Maintaining the closed state of the water pool above the catalytic center is necessary for the participation of inside water molecules in proton transfer. Water molecules inside the water pool can form hydrogen bond chains with PLS to facilitate proton transfer. Additional quantum cluster models of the Fe-Cu metal catalytic center are established, indicating that when the proton is transferred from Tyr237, it is more likely to reach the OCu atom directly through only one water molecule. This work provides a more profound understanding of the functions of important residues and specific water molecules in the proton pumping mechanism of CcO.
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- Xiaoyue Yang
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Zhengzhou University, Henan 450001, China.
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Zhengzhou University, Henan 450001, China.
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Zhengzhou University, Henan 450001, China.
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Zhengzhou University, Henan 450001, China.
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- Green Catalysis Center, and College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Henan 450001, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Loyola University Chicago, Illinois 60660, USA
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Zhengzhou University, Henan 450001, China.
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Blomberg MRA. Activation of O 2 and NO in heme-copper oxidases - mechanistic insights from computational modelling. Chem Soc Rev 2021; 49:7301-7330. [PMID: 33006348 DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00877j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Heme-copper oxidases are transmembrane enzymes involved in aerobic and anaerobic respiration. The largest subgroup contains the cytochrome c oxidases (CcO), which reduce molecular oxygen to water. A significant part of the free energy released in this exergonic process is conserved as an electrochemical gradient across the membrane, via two processes, electrogenic chemistry and proton pumping. A deviant subgroup is the cytochrome c dependent NO reductases (cNOR), which reduce nitric oxide to nitrous oxide and water. This is also an exergonic reaction, but in this case none of the released free energy is conserved. Computational studies applying hybrid density functional theory to cluster models of the bimetallic active sites in the heme-copper oxidases are reviewed. To obtain a reliable description of the reaction mechanisms, energy profiles of the entire catalytic cycles, including the reduction steps have to be constructed. This requires a careful combination of computational results with certain experimental data. Computational studies have elucidated mechanistic details of the chemical parts of the reactions, involving cleavage and formation of covalent bonds, which have not been obtainable from pure experimental investigations. Important insights regarding the mechanisms of energy conservation have also been gained. The computational studies show that the reduction potentials of the active site cofactors in the CcOs are large enough to afford electrogenic chemistry and proton pumping, i.e. efficient energy conservation. These results solve a conflict between different types of experimental data. A mechanism for the proton pumping, involving a specific and crucial role for the active site tyrosine, conserved in all CcOs, is suggested. For the cNORs, the calculations show that the low reduction potentials of the active site cofactors are optimized for fast elimination of the toxic NO molecules. At the same time, the low reduction potentials lead to endergonic reduction steps with high barriers. To prevent even higher barriers, which would lead to a too slow reaction, when the electrochemical gradient across the membrane is present, the chemistry must occur in a non-electrogenic manner. This explains why there is no energy conservation in cNOR.
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- Margareta R A Blomberg
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Ehudin MA, Schaefer AW, Adam SM, Quist DA, Diaz DE, Tang JA, Solomon EI, Karlin KD. Influence of intramolecular secondary sphere hydrogen-bonding interactions on cytochrome c oxidase inspired low-spin heme-peroxo-copper complexes. Chem Sci 2019; 10:2893-2905. [PMID: 30996867 PMCID: PMC6431958 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc05165h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Dioxygen reduction by heme-copper oxidases is a critical biochemical process, wherein hydrogen bonding is hypothesized to participate in the critical step involving the active-site reductive cleavage of the O-O bond. Sixteen novel synthetic heme-(μ-O2 2-)-Cu(XTMPA) complexes, whose design is inspired by the cytochrome c oxidase active site structure, were generated in an attempt to form the first intramolecular H-bonded complexes. Derivatives of the "parent" ligand (XTMPA, TMPA = (tris((2-pyridyl)methyl)amine)) possessing one or two amine pendants preferentially form an H-bond with the copper-bound O-atom of the peroxide bridge. This is evidenced by a characteristic blue shift in the ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT) bands observed in UV-vis spectroscopy (consistent with lowering of the peroxo π* relative to the iron orbitals) and a weakening of the O-O bond determined by resonance Raman spectroscopy (rR), with support from Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. Remarkably, with the TMPA-based infrastructure (versus similar heme-peroxo-copper complexes with different copper ligands), the typically undetected Cu-O stretch for these complexes was observed via rR, affording critical insights into the nature of the O-O peroxo core for the complexes studied. While amido functionalities have been shown to have greater H-bonding capabilities than their amino counterparts, in these heme-peroxo-copper complexes amido substituents distort the local geometry such that H-bonding with the peroxo core only imparts a weak electronic effect; optimal H-bonding interactions are observed by employing two amino groups on the copper ligand. The amino-substituted systems presented in this work reveal a key orientational anisotropy in H-bonding to the peroxo core for activating the O-O bond, offering critical insights into effective O-O cleavage chemistry. These findings indirectly support computational and protein structural studies suggesting the presence of an interstitial H-bonding water molecule in the CcO active site, which is critical for the desired reactivity. The results are evaluated with appropriate controls and discussed with respect to potential O2-reduction capabilities.
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- Melanie A Ehudin
- Department of Chemistry , Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland 21218 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland 21218 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland 21218 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland 21218 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland 21218 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland 21218 , USA .
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Wikström M, Krab K, Sharma V. Oxygen Activation and Energy Conservation by Cytochrome c Oxidase. Chem Rev 2018; 118:2469-2490. [PMID: 29350917 PMCID: PMC6203177 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 245] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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This review focuses on the type
A cytochrome c oxidases (CcO), which
are found in all mitochondria
and also in several aerobic bacteria. CcO catalyzes
the respiratory reduction of dioxygen (O2) to water by
an intriguing mechanism, the details of which are fairly well understood
today as a result of research for over four decades. Perhaps even
more intriguingly, the membrane-bound CcO couples
the O2 reduction chemistry to translocation of protons
across the membrane, thus contributing to generation of the electrochemical
proton gradient that is used to drive the synthesis of ATP as catalyzed
by the rotary ATP synthase in the same membrane. After reviewing the
structure of the core subunits of CcO, the active
site, and the transfer paths of electrons, protons, oxygen, and water,
we describe the states of the catalytic cycle and point out the few
remaining uncertainties. Finally, we discuss the mechanism of proton
translocation and the controversies in that area that still prevail.
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- Mårten Wikström
- Institute of Biotechnology , University of Helsinki , P.O. Box 56 , Helsinki FI-00014 , Finland
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- Department of Molecular Cell Physiology , Vrije Universiteit , P.O. Box 7161 , Amsterdam 1007 MC , The Netherlands
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- Institute of Biotechnology , University of Helsinki , P.O. Box 56 , Helsinki FI-00014 , Finland.,Department of Physics , University of Helsinki , P.O. Box 64 , Helsinki FI-00014 , Finland
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Petrik ID, Davydov R, Ross M, Zhao X, Hoffman B, Lu Y. Spectroscopic and Crystallographic Evidence for the Role of a Water-Containing H-Bond Network in Oxidase Activity of an Engineered Myoglobin. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:1134-7. [PMID: 26716352 PMCID: PMC4750474 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b12004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Heme-copper oxidases (HCOs) catalyze efficient reduction of oxygen to water in biological respiration. Despite progress in studying native enzymes and their models, the roles of non-covalent interactions in promoting this activity are still not well understood. Here we report EPR spectroscopic studies of cryoreduced oxy-F33Y-CuBMb, a functional model of HCOs engineered in myoglobin (Mb). We find that cryoreduction at 77 K of the O2-bound form, trapped in the conformation of the parent oxyferrous form, displays a ferric-hydroperoxo EPR signal, in contrast to the cryoreduced oxy-wild-type (WT) Mb, which is unable to deliver a proton and shows a signal from the peroxo-ferric state. Crystallography of oxy-F33Y-CuBMb reveals an extensive H-bond network involving H2O molecules, which is absent from oxy-WTMb. This H-bonding proton-delivery network is the key structural feature that transforms the reversible oxygen-binding protein, WTMb, into F33Y-CuBMb, an oxygen-activating enzyme that reduces O2 to H2O. These results provide direct evidence of the importance of H-bond networks involving H2O in conferring enzymatic activity to a designed protein. Incorporating such extended H-bond networks in designing other metalloenzymes may allow us to confer and fine-tune their enzymatic activities.
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- Igor D Petrik
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- The Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60201, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,The Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60201, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- The Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60201, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Petruk AA, Bartesaghi S, Trujillo M, Estrin DA, Murgida D, Kalyanaraman B, Marti MA, Radi R. Molecular basis of intramolecular electron transfer in proteins during radical-mediated oxidations: computer simulation studies in model tyrosine-cysteine peptides in solution. Arch Biochem Biophys 2012; 525:82-91. [PMID: 22640642 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2012.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2012] [Revised: 05/05/2012] [Accepted: 05/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Experimental studies in hemeproteins and model Tyr/Cys-containing peptides exposed to oxidizing and nitrating species suggest that intramolecular electron transfer (IET) between tyrosyl radicals (Tyr-O(·)) and Cys residues controls oxidative modification yields. The molecular basis of this IET process is not sufficiently understood with structural atomic detail. Herein, we analyzed using molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics-based computational calculations, mechanistic possibilities for the radical transfer reaction in Tyr/Cys-containing peptides in solution and correlated them with existing experimental data. Our results support that Tyr-O(·) to Cys radical transfer is mediated by an acid/base equilibrium that involves deprotonation of Cys to form the thiolate, followed by a likely rate-limiting transfer process to yield cysteinyl radical and a Tyr phenolate; proton uptake by Tyr completes the reaction. Both, the pKa values of the Tyr phenol and Cys thiol groups and the energetic and kinetics of the reversible IET are revealed as key physico-chemical factors. The proposed mechanism constitutes a case of sequential, acid/base equilibrium-dependent and solvent-mediated, proton-coupled electron transfer and explains the dependency of oxidative yields in Tyr/Cys peptides as a function of the number of alanine spacers. These findings contribute to explain oxidative modifications in proteins that contain sequence and/or spatially close Tyr-Cys residues.
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- Ariel A Petruk
- Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (CONICET-UNT), Chacabuco 461, S.M. de Tucumán, Tucumán, T4000CAN, Argentina
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Stabilization of the peroxy intermediate in the oxygen splitting reaction of cytochrome cbb(3). BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2011; 1807:813-8. [PMID: 21315685 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2010] [Revised: 02/02/2011] [Accepted: 02/04/2011] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The proton-pumping cbb(3)-type cytochrome c oxidases catalyze cell respiration in many pathogenic bacteria. For reasons not yet understood, the apparent dioxygen (O(2)) affinity in these enzymes is very high relative to other members of the heme-copper oxidase (HCO) superfamily. Based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations on intermediates of the oxygen scission reaction in active-site models of cbb(3)- and aa(3)-type oxidases, we find that a transient peroxy intermediate (I(P), Fe[III]-OOH(-)) is ~6kcal/mol more stable in the former case, resulting in more efficient kinetic trapping of dioxygen and hence in a higher apparent oxygen affinity. The major molecular basis for this stabilization is a glutamate residue, polarizing the proximal histidine ligand of heme b(3) in the active site.
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Siegbahn PEM, Blomberg MRA. Quantum Chemical Studies of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Metalloenzymes. Chem Rev 2010; 110:7040-61. [DOI: 10.1021/cr100070p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Per E. M. Siegbahn
- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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Siletsky SA, Zhu J, Gennis RB, Konstantinov AA. Partial steps of charge translocation in the nonpumping N139L mutant of Rhodobacter sphaeroides cytochrome c oxidase with a blocked D-channel. Biochemistry 2010; 49:3060-73. [PMID: 20192226 DOI: 10.1021/bi901719e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The N139L substitution in the D-channel of cytochrome oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides results in an approximately 15-fold decrease in the turnover number and a loss of proton pumping. Time-resolved absorption and electrometric assays of the F --> O transition in the N139L mutant oxidase result in three major findings. (1) Oxidation of the reduced enzyme by O(2) shows approximately 200-fold inhibition of the F --> O step (k approximately 2 s(-1) at pH 8) which is not compatible with enzyme turnover ( approximately 30 s(-1)). Presumably, an abnormal intermediate F(deprotonated) is formed under these conditions, one proton-deficient relative to a normal F state. In contrast, the F --> O transition in N139L oxidase induced by single-electron photoreduction of intermediate F, generated by reaction of the oxidized enzyme with H(2)O(2), decelerates to an extent compatible with enzyme turnover. (2) In the N139L mutant, the protonic phase of Deltapsi generation coupled to the flash-induced F --> O transition greatly decreases in rate and magnitude and can be assigned to the movement of a proton from E286 to the binuclear site, required for reduction of heme a(3) from the Fe(4+) horizontal lineO(2-) state to the Fe(3+)-OH(-) state. Electrogenic reprotonation of E286 from the inner aqueous phase is missing from the F --> O step in the mutant. (3) In the N139L mutant, the KCN-insensitive rapid electrogenic phase may be composed of two components with lifetimes of approximately 10 and approximately 40 mus and a magnitude ratio of approximately 3:2. The 10 mus phase matches vectorial electron transfer from Cu(A) to heme a, whereas the 40 mus component is assigned to intraprotein proton displacement across approximately 20% of the membrane dielectric thickness. This proton displacement might be triggered by rotation of the charged K362 side chain coupled to heme a reduction. The two components of the rapid electrogenic phase have been resolved subsequently with other D-channel mutants as well as with cyanide-inhibited wild-type oxidase. The finding helps to reconcile the unusually high relative contribution of the microsecond electrogenic phase in the bacterial enzyme ( approximately 30%) with the net electrogenicity of the F --> O transition coupled to transmembrane transfer of two charges per electron.
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- Sergey A Siletsky
- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
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Yoshioka Y, Mitani M. B3LYP study on reduction mechanisms from O2 to H2O at the catalytic sites of fully reduced and mixed-valence bovine cytochrome c oxidases. Bioinorg Chem Appl 2010; 2010:182804. [PMID: 20396396 PMCID: PMC2852611 DOI: 10.1155/2010/182804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2009] [Revised: 11/27/2009] [Accepted: 01/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Reduction mechanisms of oxygen molecule to water molecules in the fully reduced (FR) and mixed-valence (MV) bovine cytochrome c oxidases (CcO) have been systematically examined based on the B3LYP calculations. The catalytic cycle using four electrons and four protons has been also shown consistently. The MV CcO catalyses reduction to produce one water molecule, while the FR CcO catalyses to produce two water molecules. One water molecule is added into vacant space between His240 and His290 in the catalytic site. This water molecule constructs the network of hydrogen bonds of Tyr244, farnesyl ethyl, and Thr316 that is a terminal residue of the K-pathway. It plays crucial roles for the proton transfer to the dioxygen to produce the water molecules in both MV and FR CcOs. Tyr244 functions as a relay of the proton transfer from the K-pathway to the added water molecule, not as donors of a proton and an electron to the dioxygen. The reduction mechanisms of MV and FR CcOs are strictly distinguished. In the FR CcO, the Cu atom at the Cu(B) site maintains the reduced state Cu(I) during the process of formation of first water molecule and plays an electron storage. At the final stage of formation of first water molecule, the Cu(I) atom releases an electron to Fe-O. During the process of formation of second water molecule, the Cu atom maintains the oxidized state Cu(II). In contrast with experimental proposals, the K-pathway functions for formation of first water molecule, while the D-pathway functions for second water molecule. The intermediates, P(M), P(R), F, and O, obtained in this work are compared with those proposed experimentally.
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- Yasunori Yoshioka
- Chemistry Department for Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Mie University, Kurima-machiya 1577, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan.
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Fee JA, Case DA, Noodleman L. Toward a chemical mechanism of proton pumping by the B-type cytochrome c oxidases: application of density functional theory to cytochrome ba3 of Thermus thermophilus. J Am Chem Soc 2008; 130:15002-21. [PMID: 18928258 DOI: 10.1021/ja803112w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A mechanism for proton pumping by the B-type cytochrome c oxidases is presented in which one proton is pumped in conjunction with the weakly exergonic, two-electron reduction of Fe-bound O 2 to the Fe-Cu bridging peroxodianion and three protons are pumped in conjunction with the highly exergonic, two-electron reduction of Fe(III)- (-)O-O (-)-Cu(II) to form water and the active oxidized enzyme, Fe(III)- (-)OH,Cu(II). The scheme is based on the active-site structure of cytochrome ba 3 from Thermus thermophilus, which is considered to be both necessary and sufficient for coupled O 2 reduction and proton pumping when appropriate gates are in place (not included in the model). Fourteen detailed structures obtained from density functional theory (DFT) geometry optimization are presented that are reasonably thought to occur during the four-electron reduction of O 2. Each proton-pumping step takes place when a proton resides on the imidazole ring of I-His376 and the large active-site cluster has a net charge of +1 due to an uncompensated, positive charge formally associated with Cu B. Four types of DFT were applied to determine the energy of each intermediate, and standard thermochemical approaches were used to obtain the reaction free energies for each step in the catalytic cycle. This application of DFT generally conforms with previously suggested criteria for a valid model (Siegbahn, P. E. M.; Blomberg, M. A. R. Chem. Rev. 2000, 100, 421-437) and shows how the chemistry of O 2 reduction in the heme a 3 -Cu B dinuclear center can be harnessed to generate an electrochemical proton gradient across the lipid bilayer.
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- James A Fee
- The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
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Isaev AN. Cooperative interactions of hydrogen bonds in proton-transfer processes involving water molecules. Simulation of biochemical systems. RUSS J GEN CHEM+ 2008. [DOI: 10.1134/s1070363208040324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The catalytic cycle of cytochrome c oxidase has been simulated by means of quantum mechanical calculations. The experimental energetics of the catalytic cycle is nearly reproduced. The atomic structures of the intermediates are suggested. In particular, the structures of nonactive "resting" intermediates are proposed.
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- Markus Kaukonen
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, Chemical Centre, PO Box 124, S-221 00, Lund, Sweden
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A B3LYP study on the mechanism of second H2O formation in a fully reduced cytochrome c oxidase. Chem Phys Lett 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2007.04.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Takano Y, Nakamura H. Quantum mechanical study of the proton transfer via a peptide bond in the novel proton translocation pathway of cytochrome c oxidase. Chem Phys Lett 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2006.08.138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Yoshioka Y, Sano H, Mitani M. Theoretical Study of Electronic Structures of [Peroxoporphinato]manganate [Mn(P)(O2)]−Anion. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2006. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.79.1201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Cukier RI. A molecular dynamics study of water chain formation in the proton-conducting K channel of cytochrome c oxidase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2005; 1706:134-46. [PMID: 15620374 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2004.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2004] [Revised: 10/01/2004] [Accepted: 10/06/2004] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The formation of water chains in cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) is studied by molecular dynamics (MD). Focus is on water chains in the K channel that can supply a proton to the binuclear center (the heme a3 Fe/CuB region), the site of O2 reduction. By assessing the presence of chains of any length on a short time scale (0.1 ps), a view of the kinds of chains and their persistence is obtained. Chains from the entry of the channel on the inner membrane to Thr359 (Rhodobacter sphaeroides numbering) are often present but are blocked at that point until a rotation of the Thr359 side chain occurs, permitting formation of chains from Thr359 towards the binuclear center. No continuous hydrogen-bonded water chains are found connecting Thr359 and the binuclear center. Instead, waters hydrogen bond from Thr359 to the hydroxyl of the heme a3 farnesyl and then continue to the binuclear center via Tyr288, which has been identified as a source of a proton for O2 reduction. Three hydrogen-bonded waters are found to be present in the binuclear center after a sufficiently long simulation time. One is ligated to the CuB and could be associated with a water (or hydroxyl) identified in the crystal structure as the fourth ligand of CuB. The water hydrogen-bonded to the hydroxyl of Tyr288 is extremely persistent and well positioned to participate in O2 reduction. The third water is located where O2 is often suggested to reside in mechanistic studies of O2 reduction.
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- R I Cukier
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1322, USA.
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- Eunsuk Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Charles and 34th Streets, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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Menyhárd DK. Electron transfer between the heme bound oxygen and the tetrahydrobiopterin cofactor of nitric oxide synthase: a DFT study. Chem Phys Lett 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2004.05.096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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