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Karmakar S, Sankhla A, Katiyar V. Supramolecular organization of Cytochrome-C into quantum-dot decorated macromolecular network under pH and thermal stress. Int J Biol Macromol 2021; 193:1623-1634. [PMID: 34742836 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.10.225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 10/30/2021] [Accepted: 10/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The holo form of Cytochrome-C which is involved in the electron transfer chain of aerobic and anaerobic respiration remains structurally intact by its complex with heme. However, when a prolonged thermal and pH stress was applied, heme was found to abruptly dissociate from the holo protein, resulting in complete collapse of the three-dimensional functional structure. Interestingly, two distinct structures were formed as the consequence of the dissociation event: (i) A macromolecular amyloid-network formed by the collapsed protein fragments, generated by self-oxidation, and (ii) Fe-containing Quantum-Dots (FeQDs) with 2-3 nm diameter formed by heme reorganization. Further adding to intrigue, the FeQDs were re-adsorbed on the surface of the amyloid network leading to FeQD-decorated macromolecular amyloid matrix. The heme-interactant Met80, constituting the amyloidogenic region, initiates the amylogenic cascade, and gradual exposure of Trp59 synergistically emit intrinsic fluorescence alongside FeQDs. The development of the aforementioned events were probed through a multitude of biophysical, chemical and computational analyses like ThT/ANS/intrinsic fluorescence assays, CD-spectroscopy, FETEM/STEM/elemental mapping, Foldamyloid/Foldunfold/Isunstruct/H-protection/LIGplot analyses, etc. The FeQD-decorated amyloid-network was found to exhibit gel-like property, which supported the growth of BHK-21 fibroblast without cytotoxicity. Further studies on FeQD-decorated Cytochrome C amyloid network might open possibilities to design advanced biomaterial for diverse biological applications.
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- Srijeeb Karmakar
- Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam 781039, India.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam 781039, India.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam 781039, India.
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Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) convert ammonia (NH3) to nitrite (NO2-) as their primary metabolism and thus provide a blueprint for the use of NH3 as a chemical fuel. The first energy-producing step involves the homotrimeric enzyme hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO), which was originally reported to oxidize hydroxylamine (NH2OH) to NO2-. HAO uses the heme P460 cofactor as the site of catalysis. This heme is supported by seven other c hemes in each monomer that mediate electron transfer. Heme P460 cofactors are c-heme-based cofactors that have atypical protein cross-links between the peptide backbone and the porphyrin macrocycle. This cofactor has been observed in both the HAO and cytochrome (cyt) P460 protein families. However, there are differences; specifically, HAO uses a single tyrosine residue to form two covalent attachments to the macrocycle whereas cyt P460 uses a lysine residue to form one. In Nitrosomonas europaea, which expresses both HAO and cyt P460, these enzymes achieve the oxidation of NH2OH and were both originally reported to produce NO2-. Each can inspire means to effect controlled release of chemical energy.Spectroscopically studying the P460 cofactors of HAO is complicated by the 21 non-P460 heme cofactors, which obscure the active site. However, monoheme cyt P460 is more approachable biochemically and spectroscopically. Thus, we have used cyt P460 to study biological NH2OH oxidation. Under aerobic conditions substoichiometric production of NO2- was observed along with production of nitrous oxide (N2O). Under anaerobic conditions, however, N2O was the exclusive product of NH2OH oxidation. We have advanced our understanding of the mechanism of this enzyme and have showed that a key intermediate is a ferric nitrosyl that can dissociate the bound nitric oxide (NO) molecule and react with O2, thus producing NO2- abiotically. Because N2O was the true product of one P460 cofactor-containing enzyme, this prompted us to reinvestigate whether NO2- is enzymatically generated from HAO catalysis. Like cyt P460, we showed that HAO does not produce NO2- enzymatically, but unlike cyt P460, its final product is NO, establishing it as an intermediate of nitrification. More broadly, NO can be recognized as a molecule common to the primary metabolisms of all organisms involved in nitrogen "defixation".Delving deeper into cyt P460 yielded insights broadly applicable to controlled biochemical redox processes. Studies of an inactive cyt P460 from Nitrosomonas sp. AL212 showed that this enzyme was unable to oxidize NH2OH because it lacked a glutamate residue in its secondary coordination sphere that was present in the active N. europaea cyt P460 variant. Restoring the Glu residue imbued activity, revealing that a second-sphere base is Nature's key to controlled oxidation of NH2OH. A key lesson of bioinorganic chemistry is reinforced: the polypeptide matrix is an essential part of dictating function. Our work also exposed some key functional contributions of noncanonical heme-protein cross-links. The heme-Lys cross-link of cyt P460 enforces the relative position of the cofactor and second-sphere residues. Moreover, the cross-link prevents the dissociation of the axial histidine residue, which stops catalysis, emphasizing the importance of this unique post-translational modification.
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- Rachael E. Coleman
- Baker Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Baker Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Facile decoration of graphene oxide with Cu(II)/1H-benzotriazole complex via π–π interaction for sensitive determination of hydrogen peroxide and hydroxylamine. JOURNAL OF THE IRANIAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s13738-019-01653-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Paquete CM, Rusconi G, Silva AV, Soares R, Louro RO. A brief survey of the "cytochromome". Adv Microb Physiol 2019; 75:69-135. [PMID: 31655743 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2019.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Multihaem cytochromes c are widespread in nature where they perform numerous roles in diverse anaerobic metabolic pathways. This is achieved in two ways: multihaem cytochromes c display a remarkable diversity of ways to organize multiple hemes within the protein frame; and the hemes possess an intrinsic reactive versatility derived from diverse spin, redox and coordination states. Here we provide a brief survey of multihaem cytochromes c that have been characterized in the context of their metabolic role. The contribution of multihaem cytochromes c to dissimilatory pathways handling metallic minerals, nitrogen compounds, sulfur compounds, organic compounds and phototrophism are described. This aims to set the stage for the further exploration of the vast unknown "cytochromome" that can be anticipated from genomic databases.
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Yang YJ, Yao C, Li W. Immobilization of phosphotungstic acid on multiwalled carbon nanotubes with cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide as the molecular linker for enhanced oxidation of hydroxylamine. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.06.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Lin YW. The broad diversity of heme-protein cross-links: An overview. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2015; 1854:844-59. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2015.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Revised: 03/26/2015] [Accepted: 04/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Dietl A, Maalcke W, Barends TRM. An unexpected reactivity of the P460cofactor in hydroxylamine oxidoreductase. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 71:1708-13. [DOI: 10.1107/s1399004715010706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2015] [Accepted: 06/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Hydroxylamine oxidoreductases (HAOs) contain a unique haem cofactor called P460that consists of a profoundly ruffledc-type haem with two covalent bonds between the haem porphyrin and a conserved tyrosine. This cofactor is exceptional in that it abstracts electrons from a ligand bound to the haem iron, whereas other haems involved in redox chemistry usually inject electrons into their ligands. The effects of the tyrosine cross-links and of the haem ruffling on the chemistry of this cofactor have been investigated theoretically but are not yet clear. A new crystal structure of an HAO fromCandidatusKuenenia stuttgartiensis, a model organism for anaerobic ammonium oxidation, now shows that its P460cofactor has yet another unexpected reactivity: when ethylene glycol was used as a cryoprotectant, the 1.8 Å resolution electron-density maps showed additional density which could be interpreted as an ethylene glycol molecule covalently bound to the C16atom of the haem ring, opposite the covalent links to the conserved tyrosine. Possible causes for this unexpected reactivity are discussed.
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Attia AAA, Silaghi-Dumitrescu R. Computational investigation of the initial two-electron, two-proton steps in the reaction mechanism of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:12140-5. [PMID: 25277374 DOI: 10.1021/jp507023a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Reported here is a computational study based on density functional theory that presents the first attempt to investigate the 2-electron 2-proton reaction of Fe(III)-H2NOH to Fe(III)-HNO in the catalytic cycle of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase-a multiheme-containing enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of hydroxylamine (HA) to nitrite in nitrifying bacteria. Two subsequent protonation events are proposed to initiate the process, of which the second is suggested to be concerted with a one-electron oxidation. The final one-electron oxidation is further proposed to be accompanied by a third deprotonation process, suggesting that Fe(III)-HNO may not be an isolable intermediate in the HAO catalytic cycle. Further explorations are suggested to be focused on the following steps in the catalytic cycle, the influence of the lateral substituents of the heme (and especially of the Cys and Tyr cross-links), the comparative study of hydrazine oxidation, the proton delivery network in the distal site and, possibly, on linkage isomerism.
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- Amr A A Attia
- Department of Chemistry, Babes-Bolyai University , Cluj-Napoca, RO-400028 Romania
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Cedervall P, Hooper AB, Wilmot CM. Structural Studies of Hydroxylamine Oxidoreductase Reveal a Unique Heme Cofactor and a Previously Unidentified Interaction Partner. Biochemistry 2013; 52:6211-8. [DOI: 10.1021/bi400960w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Peder Cedervall
- Department
of Biochemistry,
Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry,
Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry,
Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Cedervall PE, Hooper AB, Wilmot CM. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of a new crystal form of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase from Nitrosomonas europaea. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2009; 65:1296-8. [PMID: 20054133 PMCID: PMC2802885 DOI: 10.1107/s1744309109046119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2009] [Accepted: 11/02/2009] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO) from Nitrosomonas europaea is a homotrimeric protein that catalyzes the oxidation of hydroxylamine to nitrite. Each monomer, with a molecular weight of 67.1 kDa, contains seven c-type hemes and one heme P460, the porphyrin ring of which is covalently linked to a tyrosine residue from an adjacent subunit. HAO was first crystallized and structurally characterized at a resolution of 2.8 A in 1997. The structure was solved in space group P6(3) and suffered from merohedral twinning. Here, a crystallization procedure is presented that yielded untwinned crystals belonging to space group P2(1)2(1)2, which diffracted to 2.25 A resolution and contained one trimer in the asymmetric unit. The unit-cell parameters were a = 140.7, b = 142.6, c = 107.4 A.
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Klotz MG, Schmid MC, Strous M, op den Camp HJM, Jetten MSM, Hooper AB. Evolution of an octahaem cytochromecprotein family that is key to aerobic and anaerobic ammonia oxidation by bacteria. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:3150-63. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01733.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Ammonia oxidizing bacteria extract energy for growth from the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite. Ammonia monooxygenase, which initiates ammonia oxidation, remains enigmatic given the lack of purified preparations. Genetic and biochemical studies support a model for the enzyme consisting of three subunits and metal centers of copper and iron. Knowledge of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase, which oxidizes hydroxylamine formed by ammonia monooxygenase to nitrite, is informed by a crystal structure and detailed spectroscopic and catalytic studies. Other inorganic nitrogen compounds, including NO, N2O, NO2, and N2 can be consumed and/or produced by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. NO and N2O can be produced as byproducts of hydroxylamine oxidation or through nitrite reduction. NO2 can serve as an alternative oxidant in place of O2 in some ammonia-oxidizing strains. Our knowledge of the diversity of inorganic N metabolism by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria continues to grow. Nonetheless, many questions remain regarding the enzymes and genes involved in these processes and the role of these pathways in ammonia oxidizers.
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- Daniel J Arp
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
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Fernández ML, Estrin DA, Bari SE. Theoretical insight into the hydroxylamine oxidoreductase mechanism. J Inorg Biochem 2008; 102:1523-30. [PMID: 18336913 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2008.01.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2007] [Revised: 01/18/2008] [Accepted: 01/21/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The multiheme enzyme hydroxylamine oxidoreductase from the autotrophic bacteria Nitrosomonas europaea catalyzes the conversion of hydroxylamine to nitrite, with a complicate arrangement of heme groups in three subunits. As a distinctive feature, the protein has a covalent linkage between a tyrosyl residue of one subunit and a meso carbon atom of the heme active site of another. We studied the influence of this bond in the catalysis from a theoretical perspective through electronic structure calculations at the density functional theory level, starting from the crystal structure of the protein. Geometry optimizations of proposed reaction intermediates were used to calculate the dissociation energy of different nitrogen containing ligands, considering the presence and absence of the meso tyrosyl residue. The results indicate that the tyrosine residue enhances the binding of hydroxylamine, and increases the stability of a Fe(III)NO intermediate, while behaving indifferently in the Fe(II)NO form. The calculations performed on model systems including neighboring aminoacids revealed the probable formation of a bidentate hydrogen bond between the Fe(III)H(2)O complex and Asp 257, in a high-spin aquo complex as the resting state. Characterization of non-planar heme distortions showed that the meso-substituent induces significant ruffling in the evaluated intermediates.
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- M Laura Fernández
- Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física/INQUIMAE-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón 2, Buenos Aires, C1428EHA, Argentina
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Pearson AR, Elmore BO, Yang C, Ferrara JD, Hooper AB, Wilmot CM. The crystal structure of cytochrome P460 of Nitrosomonas europaea reveals a novel cytochrome fold and heme-protein cross-link. Biochemistry 2007; 46:8340-9. [PMID: 17583915 PMCID: PMC2527454 DOI: 10.1021/bi700086r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We have determined the 1.8 A X-ray crystal structure of a monoheme c-type cytochrome, cytochrome P460, from Nitrosomonas europea. The chromophore possesses unusual spectral properties analogous to those of the catalytic heme P460 of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO), the only known heme in biology to withdraw electrons from an iron-coordinated substrate. The analysis reveals a homodimeric structure and elucidates a new c-type cytochrome fold that is predominantly beta-sheet. In addition to the two cysteine thioether links to the porphyrin typical of c-type hemes, there is a third proteinaceous link involving a conserved lysine. The covalent bond is between the lysine side-chain nitrogen and the 13'-meso carbon of the heme, which, following cross-link formation, is sp3-hybridized, demonstrating the loss of conjugation at this position within the porphyrin. The structure has implications for the analogous tyrosine-heme meso carbon cross-link observed in HAO.
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- Arwen R. Pearson
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, U. S. A
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, U. S. A
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- Rigaku Americas Corp. 9009 New Trails Drive, The Woodlands, TX, 77381, U. S. A
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- Rigaku Americas Corp. 9009 New Trails Drive, The Woodlands, TX, 77381, U. S. A
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, U. S. A
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, U. S. A
- Corresponding Author: Carrie M. Wilmot, e-mail: , tel: +1-612-624-2406, fax: +1-612-624-5121
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Elmore BO, Bergmann DJ, Klotz MG, Hooper AB. Cytochromes P460 andc′-beta; A new family of high-spin cytochromesc. FEBS Lett 2007; 581:911-6. [PMID: 17292891 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.01.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2007] [Revised: 01/24/2007] [Accepted: 01/25/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Cytochromes-P460 of Nitrosomonas europaea and Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath), and the cytochrome c' of M. capsulatus, believed to be involved in binding or transformation of N-oxides, are shown to represent an evolutionarily related new family of monoheme, approximately 17kDa, cytochromes c found in the genomes of diverse Proteobacteria. All members of this family have a predicted secondary structure predominantly of beta-sheets in contrast to the predominantly alpha-helical cytochromes c' found in photoheterotrophic and denitrifying Proteobacteria.
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- Bradley O Elmore
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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Elmore BO, Pearson AR, Wilmot CM, Hooper AB. Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction of a novel Nitrosomonas europaea cytochrome, cytochrome P460. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2006; 62:395-8. [PMID: 16582494 PMCID: PMC2222571 DOI: 10.1107/s1744309106008785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2006] [Accepted: 03/08/2006] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Cytochrome P460 from Nitrosomonas europaea, a novel mono-heme protein containing an unusual cross-link between a conserved lysine and the porphyrin ring, has been recombinantly expressed and purified from Escherichia coli. The protein crystallizes readily and diffraction to 1.7 angstroms has been obtained in-house. The crystals belong to the trigonal space group P3(1/2)21, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 53.3, c = 127.1 angstroms, and contain one monomer in the asymmetric unit.
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- Bradley O. Elmore
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Dixon DA, Francisco JS, Alexeev Y. Thermochemical Properties of HxNO Molecules and Ions from ab Initio Electronic Structure Theory. J Phys Chem A 2005; 110:185-91. [PMID: 16392854 DOI: 10.1021/jp054642q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Coupled-cluster calculations through noniterative triple excitations were used to compute optimized structures, atomization energies at 0 K, and heats of formation at 0 and 298 K for NH2O, HNOH, NH2O-, NH2OH+, NH3OH+, HNO-, and HON. These molecules are important in the gas-phase oxidation of NH3, as well as its solution-phase chemistry. The O-H, N-H, and N-O bond energies of these molecules are given and compared. The N-H and O-H bond energies are quite low, and, for NH2OH, the O-H bond is weaker than the N-H bond (by 7.5 kcal/mol). The energetics for a variety of ionic chemical processes in the gas phase, including the electron affinities of NH2O and HNO, the proton affinities of NH2O and NH2OH, and the acidities of NH2OH and NH2O, are given. The compounds are weak bases and weak acids in the gas phase. Solvation effects were included at the PCM and COSMO levels. The COSMO model gave better values than the PCM model. The relative values for pKa for NH2O and NH2OH are in good agreement with the experimental values, showing both compounds to be very strong bases in aqueous solution with NH2OH being the stronger base by 1.8 pK units at the COSMO level, compared to the experimental pK difference of 1.1+/-0.3 pK units. We predict that NH2OH+ will not be formed in aqueous solution, because it is a very strong acid. Based on the known acidity of NH3OH+, we predict pKa(NH2OH+)=-5.4 at the COSMO level, which is in good agreement with the experimental estimate of pKa(NH2OH+)=-7+/-2.
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- David A Dixon
- Chemistry Department, University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Box 870336, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, USA.
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- Ivano Bertini
- Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence, Via L. Sacconi 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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Bergmann DJ, Hooper AB. Cytochrome P460 of Nitrosomonas europaea. Formation of the heme-lysine cross-link in a heterologous host and mutagenic conversion to a non-cross-linked cytochrome c'. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2003; 270:1935-41. [PMID: 12709052 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03550.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The heme of cytochrome P460 of Nitrosomonas europaea, which is covalently crosslinked to two cysteines of the polypeptide as with all c-type cytochromes, has an additional novel covalent crosslink to lysine 70 of the polypeptide [Arciero, D.M. & Hooper, A.B. (1997) FEBS Lett.410, 457-460]. The protein can catalyze the oxidation of hydroxylamine. The gene for this protein, cyp, was expressed in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO lacI, resulting in formation of a holo-cytochrome P460 which closely resembled native cytochrome P460 purified from N. europaea in its UV-visible spectroscopic, ligand binding and catalytic properties. Mutant versions of cytochrome P460 of N. europaea in which Lys70 70 was replaced by Arg, Ala, or Tyr, retained ligand-binding ability but lost catalytic ability and differed in optical spectra which, instead, closely resembled those of cytochromes c'. Tryptic fragments containing the c-heme joined only by two thioether linkages were observed by MALDI-TOF for the mutant cytochromes P460 K70R and K70A but not in wild-type cytochrome P460, consistent with the structural modification of the c-heme only in the wild-type cytochrome. The present observations support the hypothesized evolutionary relationship between cytochromes P460 and cytochromes c' in N. europaea and M. capsulatus[Bergmann, D.J., Zahn, J.A., & DiSpirito, A.A. (2000) Arch. Microbiol. 173, 29-34], confirm the importance of a heme-crosslink to the spectroscopic properties and catalysis and suggest that the crosslink might form auto-catalytically.
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- David J Bergmann
- Department of Biology, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD, USA
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Hendrich MP, Petasis D, Arciero DM, Hooper AB. Correlations of structure and electronic properties from EPR spectroscopy of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase. J Am Chem Soc 2001; 123:2997-3005. [PMID: 11457010 DOI: 10.1021/ja002982d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO) from the autotrophic nitrifying bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea catalyzes the oxidation of NH(2)OH to HNO(2). The enzyme contains eight hemes per subunit which participate in catalytic function and electron transport. The structure of the enzyme shows a unique spatial arrangement of the eight hemes, subsets of which are now observed in four other proteins. The spatial arrangement displays three types of diheme pairing motifs. At least four of the eight hemes are electronically coupled in two distinguishable pairs and one of these pairs is at the active site of the enzyme. Here, the use of quantitative simulation of the EPR signals allows determination of exchange couplings, and assignments of signals and reduction potentials to hemes of the crystal structure. The absence of any obvious heme-to-heme bonding pathway in the crystal structure suggests that the observed exchange interactions are derived from direct electronic overlap of porphyrin orbitals. This provides evidence for heme pairs which function as biological two-electron redox centers in electron-transfer processes.
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- M P Hendrich
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
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Bergmann DJ, Zahn JA, Hooper AB, DiSpirito AA. Cytochrome P460 genes from the methanotroph Methylococcus capsulatus bath. J Bacteriol 1998; 180:6440-5. [PMID: 9851984 PMCID: PMC107742 DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.24.6440-6445.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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P460 cytochromes catalyze the oxidation of hydroxylamine to nitrite. They have been isolated from the ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea (R. H. Erickson and A. B. Hooper, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 275:231-244, 1972) and the methane-oxidizing bacterium Methylococcus capsulatus Bath (J. A. Zahn et al., J. Bacteriol. 176:5879-5887, 1994). A degenerate oligonucleotide probe was synthesized based on the N-terminal amino acid sequence of cytochrome P460 and used to identify a DNA fragment from M. capsulatus Bath that contains cyp, the gene encoding cytochrome P460. cyp is part of a gene cluster that contains three open reading frames (ORFs), the first predicted to encode a 59,000-Da membrane-bound polypeptide, the second predicted to encode a 12, 000-Da periplasmic protein, and the third (cyp) encoding cytochrome P460. The products of the first two ORFs have no apparent similarity to any proteins in the GenBank database. The overall sequence similarity of the P460 cytochromes from M. capsulatus Bath and N. europaea was low (24.3% of residues identical), although short regions of conserved residues are present in the two proteins. Both cytochromes have a C-terminal, c-heme binding motif (CXXCH) and a conserved lysine residue (K61) that may provide an additional covalent cross-link to the heme (D. M. Arciero and A. B. Hooper, FEBS Lett. 410:457-460, 1997). Gene probing using cyp indicated that a cytochrome P460 similar to that from M. capsulatus Bath may be present in the type II methanotrophs Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b and Methylocystis parvus OBBP but not in the type I methanotrophs Methylobacter marinus A45, Methylomicrobium albus BG8, and Methylomonas sp. strains MN and MM2. Immunoblot analysis with antibodies against cytochrome P460 from M. capsulatus Bath indicated that the expression level of cytochrome P460 was not affected either by expression of the two different methane monooxygenases or by addition of ammonia to the culture medium.
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- D J Bergmann
- Department of Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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Jetten MS, Strous M, van de Pas-Schoonen KT, Schalk J, van Dongen UG, van de Graaf AA, Logemann S, Muyzer G, van Loosdrecht MC, Kuenen JG. The anaerobic oxidation of ammonium. FEMS Microbiol Rev 1998; 22:421-37. [PMID: 9990725 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.1998.tb00379.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 343] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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From recent research it has become clear that at least two different possibilities for anaerobic ammonium oxidation exist in nature. 'Aerobic' ammonium oxidizers like Nitrosomonas eutropha were observed to reduce nitrite or nitrogen dioxide with hydroxylamine or ammonium as electron donor under anoxic conditions. The maximum rate for anaerobic ammonium oxidation was about 2 nmol NH4+ min-1 (mg protein)-1 using nitrogen dioxide as electron acceptor. This reaction, which may involve NO as an intermediate, is thought to generate energy sufficient for survival under anoxic conditions, but not for growth. A novel obligately anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox) process was recently discovered in a denitrifying pilot plant reactor. From this system, a highly enriched microbial community with one dominating peculiar autotrophic organism was obtained. With nitrite as electron acceptor a maximum specific oxidation rate of 55 nmol NH4+ min-1 (mg protein)-1 was determined. Although this reaction is 25-fold faster than in Nitrosomonas, it allowed growth at a rate of only 0.003 h-1 (doubling time 11 days). 15N labeling studies showed that hydroxylamine and hydrazine were important intermediates in this new process. A novel type of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase containing an unusual P468 cytochrome has been purified from the Anammox culture. Microsensor studies have shown that at the oxic/anoxic interface of many ecosystems nitrite and ammonia occur in the absence of oxygen. In addition, the number of reports on unaccounted high nitrogen losses in wastewater treatment is gradually increasing, indicating that anaerobic ammonium oxidation may be more widespread than previously assumed. The recently developed nitrification systems in which oxidation of nitrite to nitrate is prevented form an ideal partner for the Anammox process. The combination of these partial nitrification and Anammox processes remains a challenge for future application in the removal of ammonium from wastewater with high ammonium concentrations.
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- M S Jetten
- Kluyver Institute for Biotechnology, TU Delft, The Netherlands.
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The minimal nitrogen cycle involves five reduction reactions and three oxidation reactions, each of which poses interesting problems in bioinorganic chemistry, energy transduction and protein structure/function relationships. Many of the major recent developments in this field have depended on the acquisition of protein crystal structures, including structures of enzymes with bound substrates or products and in protein-protein complexes. These enzymes include nitrogenase, nitrite reductases, hydroxylamine oxidoreductase and a fungal nitric oxide reductase.
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- S J Ferguson
- Department of Biochemistry, Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK.
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Crossman LC, Moir JWB, Enticknap JJ, Richardson DJ, Spiro S. Heterologous expression of heterotrophic nitrification genes. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1997; 143 ( Pt 12):3775-3783. [PMID: 9421902 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-12-3775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Paracoccus denitrificans is a heterotrophic organism capable of oxidizing ammonia to nitrite during growth on an organic carbon and energy source. This pathway, termed heterotrophic nitrification, requires the concerted action of an ammonia monooxygenase (AMO) and hydroxylamine oxidase (HAO). The genes required for heterotrophic nitrification have been isolated by introducing a Pa. denitrificans genomic library into Pseudomonas putida and screening for the accumulation of nitrite. In contrast to the situation in chemolithoautotrophic ammonia oxidizers, the genes encoding AMO and HAO are present in single linked copies in the genome of Pa. denitrificans. AMO from Pa. denitrificans expressed in Ps. putida is capable of oxidizing ethene (ethylene) to epoxyethane (ethylene oxide), which is indicative of a relaxed substrate specificity. Further, when expressed in the methylotroph Methylobacterium extorquens AM1, the AMO endows on this organism the ability to grow on ethene and methane. Thus, the Pa. denitrificans AMO is capable of oxidizing methane to methanol, as is the case for the AMO from Nitrosomonas europaea. The heterotrophic nitrification genes are moderately toxic in M. extorquens, more toxic in Ps. putida, and non-toxic in Escherichia coli. Toxicity is due to the activity of the gene products in M. extorquens, and both expression and activity in Ps. putida. This is the first time that the genes encoding an active AMO have been expressed in a heterologous host.
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- Lisa C Crossman
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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Arciero DM, Hooper AB. Evidence for a crosslink between c-heme and a lysine residue in cytochrome P460 of Nitrosomonas europaea. FEBS Lett 1997; 410:457-60. [PMID: 9237682 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(97)00635-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Cytochrome P460 and hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO) of Nitrosomonas europaea catalyze the oxidation of hydroxylamine. Cytochrome P460 contains an unidentified heme-like chromophore whose distinctive spectroscopic properties are similar to those for the P460 heme found in HAO. The heme P460 of HAO has previously been shown by protein chemistry and NMR structural analysis to be a c-heme with an additional covalent crosslink between the C2 ring carbon of a tyrosine residue of the polypeptide chain and a meso carbon of the porphyrin [Arciero, D.M. et al. (1993) Biochemistry 32, 9370-9378]. The recent determination of the gene sequence for cytochrome P460 [Bergmann, D.J. and Hooper, A.B. (1994) FEBS Lett. 353, 324-326] indicates that the heme in this protein also possesses a c-heme binding site and provides the basis for determining whether an HAO-like crosslink exists to the porphyrin. Sequence analysis of a purified heme-containing tryptic chromopeptide from cytochrome P460 revealed two predominant amino acid residues per cycle. Two peptides present in the chromopeptide with the sequences NLPTAEXAAXHK and DGTVTVXELVSV. Comparison of the data to the gene sequence for the protein revealed that the gaps in the first peptide (indicated by X's) code for C residues, confirming the prediction of a c-heme binding motif. The gap in the sequence in the second peptide at cycle 7 is predicted by the gene sequence to be a K. The results suggest that the lysine residue is crosslinked in some manner to the porphyrin macrocycle, possibly mimicking the tyrosine crosslink found for the heme P460 of HAO. While a common role for the crosslinked residues in HAO and cytochrome P460 is difficult to ascertain due to the dissimilarities in side chain structure, it may be related to the similar pKa values for lysine and tyrosine.
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- D M Arciero
- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108, USA
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Igarashi N, Moriyama H, Fujiwara T, Fukumori Y, Tanaka N. The 2.8 A structure of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase from a nitrifying chemoautotrophic bacterium, Nitrosomonas europaea. NATURE STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 1997; 4:276-84. [PMID: 9095195 DOI: 10.1038/nsb0497-276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The 2.8 A crystal structure of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase of a nitrifying chemoautotrophic bacterium, Nitrosomonas europaea, is described. Twenty-four haems lie in the centre bottom of the trimeric molecule, localized in four clusters within each monomer. The haem clusters within the trimer are aligned to form a ring that has inlet and outlet sites. The inlet is occupied by a novel haem, P460, and there are two possible outlet sites per monomer formed by paired haems lying within a cavity or cleft on the protein surface. The structure suggests pathways by which electron transfer may occur through the precisely arranged haems and provides a framework for the interpretation of previous and future biochemical and genetic observations.
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- N Igarashi
- Department of Life Science, Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
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Prince RC, George GN. The remarkable complexity of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase. NATURE STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 1997; 4:247-50. [PMID: 9095186 DOI: 10.1038/nsb0497-247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Bergmann DJ, Hooper AB. The primary structure of cytochrome P460 of Nitrosomonas europaea: presence of a c-heme binding motif. FEBS Lett 1994; 353:324-6. [PMID: 7957885 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)01072-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Cytochrome P460 and hydroxyamine oxidoreductase of Nitrosomonas europaea both catalyze the oxidation of hydroxylamine and contain a 460 nm-absorbing chromophore. The gene (cyp) encoding cytochrome P460 was cloned and sequenced. The predicted amino acid sequence contains a single c-heme binding motif (CXXCH) near the carboxy-terminus. Cytochrome P460 shows little sequence homology to other c-cytochromes including hydroxyamine oxidoreductase. The presence of a signal peptide and a possible c-heme binding site suggest that the cytochrome P460 of N. europaea is periplasmic.
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- D J Bergmann
- Graduate Program in Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108
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Zahn JA, Duncan C, DiSpirito AA. Oxidation of hydroxylamine by cytochrome P-460 of the obligate methylotroph Methylococcus capsulatus Bath. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:5879-87. [PMID: 7928947 PMCID: PMC196803 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.19.5879-5887.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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An enzyme capable of the oxidation of hydroxylamine to nitrite was isolated from the obligate methylotroph Methylococcus capsulatus Bath. The absorption spectra in cell extracts, electron paramagnetic resonance spectra, molecular weight, covalent attachment of heme group to polypeptide, and enzymatic activities suggest that the enzyme is similar to cytochrome P-460, a novel iron-containing protein previously observed only in Nitrosomonas europaea. The native and subunit molecular masses of the M. capsulatus Bath protein were 38,900 and 16,390 Da, respectively; the isoelectric point was 6.98. The enzyme has approximately one iron and one copper atom per subunit. The electron paramagnetic resonance spectrum of the protein showed evidence for a high-spin ferric heme. In contrast to the enzyme from N. europaea, a 13-nm blue shift in the soret band of the ferrocytochrome (463 nm in cell extracts to 450 nm in the final sample) occurred during purification. The amino acid composition and N-terminal amino acid sequence of the enzyme from M. capsulatus Bath was similar but not identical to those of cytochrome P-460 of N. europaea. In cell extracts, the identity of the biological electron acceptor is as yet unestablished. Cytochrome c-555 is able to accept electrons from cytochrome P-460, although the purified enzyme required phenazine methosulfate for maximum hydroxylamine oxidation activity (specific activity, 366 mol of O2 per s per mol of enzyme). Hydroxylamine oxidation rates were stimulated approximately 2-fold by 1 mM cyanide and 1.5-fold by 0.1 mM 8-hydroxyquinoline.
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- J A Zahn
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames 50011
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