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Török P, Lakk-Bogáth D, Unjaroen D, Browne WR, Kaizer J. Effect of monodentate heterocycle co-ligands on the μ-1,2-peroxo-diiron(III) mediated aldehyde deformylation reactions. J Inorg Biochem 2024; 258:112620. [PMID: 38824901 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2024.112620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2024] [Revised: 05/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/25/2024] [Indexed: 06/04/2024]
Abstract
Peroxo-diiron(III) species are present in the active sites of many metalloenzymes that carry out challenging organic transformations. The reactivity of these species is influenced by various factors, such as the structure and topology of the supporting ligands, the identity of the axial and equatorial co-ligands, and the oxidation states of the metal ion(s). In this study, we aim to diversify the importance of equatorial ligands in controlling the reactivity of peroxo-diiron(III) species. As a model compound, we chose the previously published and fully characterized [(PBI)2(CH3CN)FeIII(μ-O2)FeIII(CH3CN)(PBI)2]4+ complex, where the steric effect of the four PBI ligands is minimal, so the labile CH3CN molecules easily can be replaced by different monodentate co-ligands (substituted pyridines and N-donor heterocyclic compounds). Thus, their effect on the electronic and spectral properties of peroxo-divas(III) intermediates could be easily investigated. The relationship between structure and reactivity was also investigated in the stoichiometric deformylation of PPA mediated by peroxo-diiron(III) complexes. It was found that the deformylation rates are influenced by the Lewis acidity and redox properties of the metal centers, and showed a linear correlation with the FeIII/FeII redox potentials (in the range of 197 to 415 mV).
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- Patrik Török
- Research Group of Bioorganic and Biocoordination Chemistry, Universtiy of Pannonia, 8201 Veszprém, Hungary
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- Research Group of Bioorganic and Biocoordination Chemistry, Universtiy of Pannonia, 8201 Veszprém, Hungary
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- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands.
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- Research Group of Bioorganic and Biocoordination Chemistry, Universtiy of Pannonia, 8201 Veszprém, Hungary.
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Li RN, Chen SL. Mechanistic Insights into the N-Hydroxylations Catalyzed by the Binuclear Iron Domain of SznF Enzyme: Key Piece in the Synthesis of Streptozotocin. Chemistry 2024; 30:e202303845. [PMID: 38212866 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202303845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2023] [Revised: 01/10/2024] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 01/13/2024]
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SznF, a member of the emerging family of heme-oxygenase-like (HO-like) di-iron oxidases and oxygenases, employs two distinct domains to catalyze the conversion of Nω-methyl-L-arginine (L-NMA) into N-nitroso-containing product, which can subsequently be transformed into streptozotocin. Using unrestricted density functional theory (UDFT) with the hybrid functional B3LYP, we have mechanistically investigated the two sequential hydroxylations of L-NMA catalyzed by SznF's binuclear iron central domain. Mechanism B primarily involves the O-O bond dissociation, forming Fe(IV)=O, induced by the H+/e- introduction to the FeA side of μ-1,2-peroxo-Fe2(III/III), the substrate hydrogen abstraction by Fe(IV)=O, and the hydroxyl rebound to the substrate N radical. The stochastic addition of H+/e- to the FeB side (mechanism C) can transition to mechanism B, thereby preventing enzyme deactivation. Two other competing mechanisms, involving the direct O-O bond dissociation (mechanism A) and the addition of H2O as a co-substrate (mechanism D), have been ruled out.
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- Rui-Ning Li
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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Yang B, Song X, Wang B. DFT mechanistic study of biomimetic diiron complex catalyzed dehydrogenation: Unexpected Fe(III)Fe(III)-1,1-μ-hydroperoxy active species for hydride abstraction. J Inorg Biochem 2024; 251:112426. [PMID: 37980877 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2023.112426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2023] [Revised: 11/03/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/21/2023]
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The diiron active site is pivotal in catalyzing transformations in both biological and chemical systems. Recently, a range of biomimetic diiron catalysts have been synthesized, drawing inspiration from the active architecture of soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO). These catalysts have been successfully deployed for the dehydrogenation of indolines, marking a significant advancement in the field. Using density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we have identified a novel mechanistic pathway that governs the dehydrogenation of indolines catalyzed by a biomimetic diiron complex. Specifically, this reaction is facilitated by the transfer of a hybrid atom from the C1 position of the substrate to the distal oxygen atom of the Fe(III)Fe(III)-1,1-μ-hydroperoxy active species. This transfer serves as the rate-limiting step for the heterolytic cleavage of the OO bond, ultimately generating the substrate cation. The mechanism we propose aligns well with mechanistic investigations incorporating both kinetic isotope effect (KIE) measurements and evaluations of stereochemical selectivity. This research contributes to the broader scientific understanding of catalysis involving biomimetic diiron complexes and offers valuable insights into the catalytic behaviors of non-heme diiron metalloenzymes.
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- Boxuan Yang
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Ecology-Toxicological Effects & Control for Emerging Contaminants, College of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Putian University, Putian 351100, China; Key Laboratory of Ecological Environment and Information Atlas, Fujian Provincial University (Putian University), Putian 351100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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Shi J, Zang X, Zhao Z, Shen Z, Li W, Zhao G, Zhou J, Du YL. Conserved Enzymatic Cascade for Bacterial Azoxy Biosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:27131-27139. [PMID: 38018127 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c12018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2023]
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Azoxy compounds exhibit a wide array of biological activities and possess distinctive chemical properties. Although there has been considerable interest in the biosynthetic mechanisms of azoxy metabolites, the enzymatic basis responsible for azoxy bond formation has remained largely enigmatic. In this study, we unveil the enzyme cascade that constructs the azoxy bond in valanimycin biosynthesis. Our research demonstrates that a pair of metalloenzymes, comprising a membrane-bound hydrazine synthase and a nonheme diiron azoxy synthase, collaborate to convert an unstable pathway intermediate to an azoxy product through a hydrazine-azo-azoxy pathway. Additionally, by characterizing homologues of this enzyme pair from other azoxy metabolite pathways, we propose that this two-enzyme cascade could represent a conserved enzymatic strategy for azoxy bond formation in bacteria. These findings provide significant mechanistic insights into biological N-N bond formation and should facilitate the targeted isolation of bioactive azoxy compounds through genome mining.
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- Jingkun Shi
- Department of Microbiology, and Department of Pharmacy of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Microbiology, and Department of Pharmacy of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Microbiology, and Department of Pharmacy of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Microbiology, and Department of Pharmacy of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Microbiology, and Department of Pharmacy of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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Guo YY, Tian ZH, Ma C, Han YC, Bai D, Jiang Z. Unlocking mild-condition benzene ring contraction using nonheme diiron N-oxygenase. Chem Sci 2023; 14:11907-11913. [PMID: 37920353 PMCID: PMC10619644 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc04660e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023] Open
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Benzene ring contractions are useful yet rare reactions that offer a convenient synthetic route to various valuable chemicals. However, the traditional methods of benzene contraction rely on noble-metal catalysts under extreme conditions with poor efficiency and uncontrollable selectivity. Mild-condition contractions of the benzene ring are rarely reported. This study presents a one-step, one-pot benzene ring contraction reaction mediated by an engineered nonheme diiron N-oxygenase. Using various aniline substrates as amine sources, the enzyme causes the phloroglucinol-benzene-ring contraction to afford a series of 4-cyclopentene-1,3-dione structures. A reaction detail study reveals that the nonheme diiron N-oxygenase first oxidizes the aromatic amine to a nitroso intermediate, which then attacks the phloroglucinol anion and causes benzene ring contraction. Besides, we have identified two potent antitumor compounds from the ring-contracted products.
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- Yuan-Yang Guo
- State Key Laboratory of Antiviral Drugs, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Henan Province for Green Manufacturing of Fine Chemicals, Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Media and Reactions, Ministry of Education, NMPA Key Laboratory for Research and Evaluation of Innovative Drug, Henan Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecule and Drug Innovation, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University Xinxiang Henan 453007 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Antiviral Drugs, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Henan Province for Green Manufacturing of Fine Chemicals, Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Media and Reactions, Ministry of Education, NMPA Key Laboratory for Research and Evaluation of Innovative Drug, Henan Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecule and Drug Innovation, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University Xinxiang Henan 453007 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Antiviral Drugs, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Henan Province for Green Manufacturing of Fine Chemicals, Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Media and Reactions, Ministry of Education, NMPA Key Laboratory for Research and Evaluation of Innovative Drug, Henan Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecule and Drug Innovation, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University Xinxiang Henan 453007 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Antiviral Drugs, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Henan Province for Green Manufacturing of Fine Chemicals, Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Media and Reactions, Ministry of Education, NMPA Key Laboratory for Research and Evaluation of Innovative Drug, Henan Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecule and Drug Innovation, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University Xinxiang Henan 453007 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Antiviral Drugs, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Henan Province for Green Manufacturing of Fine Chemicals, Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Media and Reactions, Ministry of Education, NMPA Key Laboratory for Research and Evaluation of Innovative Drug, Henan Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecule and Drug Innovation, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University Xinxiang Henan 453007 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Antiviral Drugs, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Henan Province for Green Manufacturing of Fine Chemicals, Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Media and Reactions, Ministry of Education, NMPA Key Laboratory for Research and Evaluation of Innovative Drug, Henan Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecule and Drug Innovation, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University Xinxiang Henan 453007 China
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Battistella B, Lohmiller T, Cula B, Hildebrandt P, Kuhlmann U, Dau H, Mebs S, Ray K. A New Thiolate-Bound Dimanganese Cluster as a Structural and Functional Model for Class Ib Ribonucleotide Reductases. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202217076. [PMID: 36583430 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202217076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2022] [Revised: 12/24/2022] [Accepted: 12/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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In class Ib ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) a dimanganese(II) cluster activates superoxide (O2 ⋅- ) rather than dioxygen (O2 ), to access a high valent MnIII -O2 -MnIV species, responsible for the oxidation of tyrosine to tyrosyl radical. In a biomimetic approach, we report the synthesis of a thiolate-bound dimanganese complex [MnII 2 (BPMT)(OAc)2 ](ClO)4 (BPMT=(2,6-bis{[bis(2-pyridylmethyl)amino]methyl}-4-methylthiophenolate) (1) and its reaction with O2 ⋅- to form a [(BPMT)MnO2 Mn]2+ complex 2. Resonance Raman investigation revealed the presence of an O-O bond in 2, while EPR analysis displayed a 16-line St =1/2 signal at g=2 typically associated with a MnIII MnIV core, as detected in class Ib RNRs. Unlike all other previously reported Mn-O2 -Mn complexes, generated by O2 ⋅- activation at Mn2 centers, 2 proved to be a capable electrophilic oxidant in aldehyde deformylation and phenol oxidation reactions, rendering it one of the best structural and functional models for class Ib RNRs.
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- Beatrice Battistella
- Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489, Berlin, Germany.,EPR4Energy Joint Lab, Department Spins in Energy Conversion and Quantum Information Science, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Str. 16, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Fakultät II, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Fakultät II, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Freie Universität zu Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Freie Universität zu Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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Ushimaru R, Abe I. Unusual Dioxygen-Dependent Reactions Catalyzed by Nonheme Iron Enzymes in Natural Product Biosynthesis. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c05247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Richiro Ushimaru
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Collaborative Research Institute for Innovative Microbiology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- ACT-X, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Collaborative Research Institute for Innovative Microbiology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Wang Y, Dong L, Su H, Liu Y. Dioxygen Activation and N δ,N ε-Dihydroxylation Mechanism Involved in the Formation of N-Nitrosourea Pharmacophore in Streptozotocin Catalyzed by Nonheme Diiron Enzyme SznF. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:15721-15734. [PMID: 36148800 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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SznF is a nonheme diiron-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the critical N-nitrosation involved in the formation of the N-nitrosourea moiety in the pancreatic cancer drug streptozotocin. The N-nitrosation contains two successive N-hydroxylation and N-nitrosation steps, which are carried out by two separate active sites, namely, the central domain and cupin domain. Recently, the crystal structure of SznF was obtained, and the central domain was proved to contain a diiron cofactor to catalyze the N-hydroxylation. In this work, to gain insights into the O2 activation and the successive N-hydroxylation mechanism, on the basis of the high-resolution crystal structure, the enzyme-substrate complex models were constructed, and a series of combined QM/MM calculations were performed. Based on our calculations, the activation of O2 starts from the diiron(II,III)-superoxo (S) to generate the diiron(IV)-oxo species (Q) via a diiron(III,III)-peroxo (P)-like transition state or unstable intermediate (P'), and species P' can be described as a hybridization of diiron(IV)-oxo species and diiron(III,III)-peroxo (P) owing to the long distances of Fe1-Fe2 (4.22 Å) and O1-O2 (1.89 Å), which is different from those of other nonheme diiron enzymes. In the following hydroxylation of Nδ and Nε, the Nδ-hydroxylation was confirmed to occur first, agreeing with the experimental observations. Because the diiron(IV)-oxo species (Q) is responsible for hydroxylation, the reaction follows the H-abstraction/OH rebound mechanism, and the first abstraction occurs on the Nδ-H rather than Nε-H, which may be attributed to the different orientation of Fe(IV)-oxo relative to N-H as well as the bond dissociation enthalpies of two N-H bonds. The hydroxylation of N-methyl-L-arginine does not employ the diiron(III,III)-hydroperoxo (P″) to trigger the electrophilic attack of the guanidine to directly form the N-O bond, as previously suggested. In addition, our calculations also revealed that the direct attack of the Fe(IV)═O unit to the Nδ of the substrate corresponds to a higher barrier than that in the H-abstraction/OH rebound mechanism. These results may provide useful information for understanding the formation of the di-hydroxylation intermediate involved in the biosynthesis of N-nitrosation.
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- Yijing Wang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qilu Normal University, Jinan, Shandong 250013, China
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Science, Tianjin 300308, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
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Wu MR, Miao LL, Liu Y, Qian XX, Hou TT, Ai GM, Yu L, Ma L, Gao XY, Qin YL, Zhu HZ, Du L, Li SY, Tian CL, Li DF, Liu ZP, Liu SJ. Identification and characterization of a novel hydroxylamine oxidase, DnfA, that catalyzes the oxidation of hydroxylamine to N 2. J Biol Chem 2022; 298:102372. [PMID: 35970391 PMCID: PMC9478400 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2022] [Revised: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Nitrogen (N2) gas in the atmosphere is partially replenished by microbial denitrification of ammonia. Recent study has shown that Alcaligenes ammonioxydans oxidizes ammonia to dinitrogen via a process featuring the intermediate hydroxylamine, termed “Dirammox” (direct ammonia oxidation). However, the unique biochemistry of this process remains unknown. Here, we report an enzyme involved in Dirammox that catalyzes the conversion of hydroxylamine to N2. We tested previously annotated proteins involved in redox reactions, DnfA, DnfB, and DnfC, to determine their ability to catalyze the oxidation of ammonia or hydroxylamine. Our results showed that none of these proteins bound to ammonia or catalyzed its oxidation; however, we did find DnfA bound to hydroxylamine. Further experiments demonstrated that, in the presence of NADH and FAD, DnfA catalyzed the conversion of 15N-labeled hydroxylamine to 15N2. This conversion did not happen under oxygen (O2)-free conditions. Thus, we concluded that DnfA encodes a hydroxylamine oxidase. We demonstrate that DnfA is not homologous to any known hydroxylamine oxidoreductases and contains a diiron center, which was shown to be involved in catalysis via electron paramagnetic resonance experiments. Furthermore, enzyme kinetics of DnfA were assayed, revealing a Km of 92.9 ± 3.0 μM for hydroxylamine and a kcat of 0.028 ± 0.001 s−1. Finally, we show that DnfA was localized in the cytoplasm and periplasm as well as in tubular membrane invaginations in HO-1 cells. To the best of our knowledge, we conclude that DnfA is the first enzyme discovered that catalyzes oxidation of hydroxylamine to N2.
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- Meng-Ru Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19(A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China 100049
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19(A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China 100049
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 230031, Hefei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19(A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China 100049
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19(A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China 100049
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19(A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China 100049
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266273, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266273, China
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- High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 230031, Hefei, China; The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, and Center for BioAnalytical Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory of Physical Science at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19(A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China 100049.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19(A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China 100049.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19(A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China 100049; State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266273, China.
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Bastrakov M, Starosotnikov A. Recent Progress in the Synthesis of Drugs and Bioactive Molecules Incorporating Nitro(het)arene Core. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2022; 15:ph15060705. [PMID: 35745627 PMCID: PMC9228974 DOI: 10.3390/ph15060705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Revised: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022] Open
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Aromatic nitro compounds play a unique role in the synthesis of drugs and pharmaceutically oriented molecules. This field of organic chemistry continues to be in demand and relevant. A significant number of papers are published annually on new general methods for the synthesis of nitrodrugs and related biomolecules. This review is an analysis of the literature on methods for the synthesis of both new and already-known aromatic and heteroaromatic nitrodrugs covering the period from 2010 to the present.
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Zhou TP, Deng WH, Wu Y, Liao RZ. QM/MM Calculations Suggested Concerted O‒O Bond Cleavage and Substrate Oxidation by Nonheme Diiron Toluene/o‐xylene Monooxygenase. Chem Asian J 2022; 17:e202200490. [DOI: 10.1002/asia.202200490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Revised: 06/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Tai-Ping Zhou
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of chemistry and chemical engineering CHINA
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- Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of chemistry and chemical engineering CHINA
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- Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of chemistry and chemical engineering CHINA
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- Huazhong University of Science and technology College of Chemistry and Chemical Engeneering Luoyulu 1037 430074 Wuhan CHINA
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Manley OM, Tang H, Xue S, Guo Y, Chang WC, Makris TM. BesC Initiates C-C Cleavage through a Substrate-Triggered and Reactive Diferric-Peroxo Intermediate. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:21416-21424. [PMID: 34898198 PMCID: PMC8876372 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c11109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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BesC catalyzes the iron- and O2-dependent cleavage of 4-chloro-l-lysine to form 4-chloro-l-allylglycine, formaldehyde, and ammonia. This process is a critical step for a biosynthetic pathway that generates a terminal alkyne amino acid which can be leveraged as a useful bio-orthogonal handle for protein labeling. As a member of an emerging family of diiron enzymes that are typified by their heme oxygenase-like fold and a very similar set of coordinating ligands, recently termed HDOs, BesC performs an unusual type of carbon-carbon cleavage reaction that is a significant departure from reactions catalyzed by canonical dinuclear-iron enzymes. Here, we show that BesC activates O2 in a substrate-gated manner to generate a diferric-peroxo intermediate. Examination of the reactivity of the peroxo intermediate with a series of lysine derivatives demonstrates that BesC initiates this unique reaction trajectory via cleavage of the C4-H bond; this process represents the rate-limiting step in a single turnover reaction. The observed reactivity of BesC represents the first example of a dinuclear-iron enzyme that utilizes a diferric-peroxo intermediate to capably cleave a C-H bond as part of its native function, thus circumventing the formation of a high-valent intermediate more commonly associated with substrate monooxygenations.
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- Olivia M. Manley
- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States,Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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Zhang S, Li X, Wang Y, Yan L, Wei J, Liu Y. Computational Study of the C5-Hydroxylation Mechanism Catalyzed by the Diiron Monooxygenase PtmU3 as Part of the Platensimycin Biosynthesis. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:17783-17796. [PMID: 34762413 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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PtmU3 is a newly identified nonheme diiron monooxygenase, which installs a C-5 β-hydroxyl group into the C-19 CoA-ester intermediate involved in the biosynthesis of unique diterpene-derived scaffolds of platensimycin and platencin. PtmU3 possesses a noncanonical diiron active site architecture of a saturated six-coordinate iron center and lacks the μ-oxo bridge. Although the hydroxylation process is a simple reaction for nonheme mononuclear iron-dependent enzymes, how PtmU3 employs the diiron center to catalyze the H-abstraction and OH-rebound is still unknown. In particular, the electronic characteristic of diiron is also unclear. To understand the catalytic mechanism of PtmU3, we constructed two reactant models in which both the Fe1II-Fe2III-superoxo and Fe1II-Fe2IV═O are considered to trigger the H-abstraction and performed a series of quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics calculations. Our calculation results reveal that PtmU3 is a special monooxygenase, that is, both atoms of the dioxygen molecule can be incorporated into two molecules of the substrate by the successive reactions. In the first-round reaction, PtmU3 uses the Fe1II-Fe2III-superoxo to install a hydroxyl group into the substrate, generating the high-reactive Fe1II-Fe2IV═O complex. In the second-round reaction, the Fe1II-Fe2IV═O species is responsible for the hydroxylation of another molecule of the substrate. In the diiron center, Fe2 adopts the high spin state (S = 5/2) during the catalysis, whereas for Fe1, in addition to its structural role, it may also play an assistant role for Fe1 catalysis. In the two successive OH-installing steps, the H-abstraction is always the rate-liming step. E241 and D308 not only act as bridging ligands to connect two Fe ions but also take part in the electron reorganization. Owing to the high reactivity of Fe1II-Fe2IV═O compared to Fe1II-Fe2III-superoxo, besides the C5-hydroxylation, the C3- or C18-hydroxylation was also calculated to be feasible.
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- Shiqing Zhang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, China
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Chandra A, Ansari M, Monte‐Pérez I, Kundu S, Rajaraman G, Ray K. Ligand‐Constraint‐Induced Peroxide Activation for Electrophilic Reactivity. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202100438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Anirban Chandra
- Department of Chemistry Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2 12489 Berlin Germany
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- Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai Mumbai Maharashtra 400 076 India
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- Department of Chemistry Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2 12489 Berlin Germany
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- Department of Chemistry Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2 12489 Berlin Germany
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- Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai Mumbai Maharashtra 400 076 India
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- Department of Chemistry Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2 12489 Berlin Germany
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Chandra A, Ansari M, Monte-Pérez I, Kundu S, Rajaraman G, Ray K. Ligand-Constraint-Induced Peroxide Activation for Electrophilic Reactivity. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:14954-14959. [PMID: 33843113 PMCID: PMC8252416 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202100438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2021] [Revised: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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μ‐1,2‐peroxo‐bridged diiron(III) intermediates P are proposed as reactive intermediates in various biological oxidation reactions. In sMMO, P acts as an electrophile, and performs hydrogen atom and oxygen atom transfers to electron‐rich substrates. In cyanobacterial ADO, however, P is postulated to react by nucleophilic attack on electrophilic carbon atoms. In biomimetic studies, the ability of μ‐1,2‐peroxo‐bridged dimetal complexes of Fe, Co, Ni and Cu to act as nucleophiles that effect deformylation of aldehydes is documented. By performing reactivity and theoretical studies on an end‐on μ‐1,2‐peroxodicobalt(III) complex 1 involving a non‐heme ligand system, L1, supported on a Sn6O6 stannoxane core, we now show that a peroxo‐bridged dimetal complex can also be a reactive electrophile. The observed electrophilic chemistry, which is induced by the constraints provided by the Sn6O6 core, represents a new domain for metal−peroxide reactivity.
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- Anirban Chandra
- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400 076, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400 076, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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Liu J, Wu P, Yan S, Li Y, Cao Z, Wang B. Spin-Regulated Inner-Sphere Electron Transfer Enables Efficient O—O Bond Activation in Nonheme Diiron Monooxygenase MIOX. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c00898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Jia Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry of Solid Surface and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry of Solid Surface and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry of Solid Surface and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry of Solid Surface and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry of Solid Surface and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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Nóbile ML, Stricker AM, Marchesano L, Iribarren AM, Lewkowicz ES. N-oxygenation of amino compounds: Early stages in its application to the biocatalyzed preparation of bioactive compounds. Biotechnol Adv 2021; 51:107726. [PMID: 33675955 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2021.107726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2020] [Revised: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
Abstract
Among the compounds that contain unusual functional groups, nitro is perhaps one of the most interesting due to the valuable properties it confers on pharmaceuticals and explosives. Traditional chemistry has for many years used environmentally unfriendly strategies; in contrast, the biocatalyzed production of this type of products offers a promising alternative. The small family of enzymes formed by N-oxygenases allows the conversion of an amino group to a nitro through the sequential addition of oxygen. These enzymes also make it possible to obtain other less oxidized N-O functions, such as hydroxylamine or nitroso, present in intermediate or final products. The current substrates on which these enzymes are reported to work encompass a few aromatic molecules and sugars. The unique characteristics of N-oxygenases and the great economic value of the products that they could generate, place them in a position of very high scientific and industrial interest. The most important and best studied N-oxygenases will be presented here.
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- Matías L Nóbile
- Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Biocatalysis and Biotransformation Laboratory, Roque Sáenz Peña 352, Bernal 1876, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Biocatalysis and Biotransformation Laboratory, Roque Sáenz Peña 352, Bernal 1876, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Biocatalysis and Biotransformation Laboratory, Roque Sáenz Peña 352, Bernal 1876, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Biocatalysis and Biotransformation Laboratory, Roque Sáenz Peña 352, Bernal 1876, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Biocatalysis and Biotransformation Laboratory, Roque Sáenz Peña 352, Bernal 1876, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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McBride MJ, Pope SR, Hu K, Okafor CD, Balskus EP, Bollinger JM, Boal AK. Structure and assembly of the diiron cofactor in the heme-oxygenase-like domain of the N-nitrosourea-producing enzyme SznF. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2015931118. [PMID: 33468680 PMCID: PMC7848743 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2015931118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In biosynthesis of the pancreatic cancer drug streptozotocin, the tridomain nonheme-iron oxygenase SznF hydroxylates Nδ and Nω' of Nω-methyl-l-arginine before oxidatively rearranging the triply modified guanidine to the N-methyl-N-nitrosourea pharmacophore. A previously published structure visualized the monoiron cofactor in the enzyme's C-terminal cupin domain, which promotes the final rearrangement, but exhibited disorder and minimal metal occupancy in the site of the proposed diiron cofactor in the N-hydroxylating heme-oxygenase-like (HO-like) central domain. We leveraged our recent observation that the N-oxygenating µ-peroxodiiron(III/III) intermediate can form in the HO-like domain after the apo protein self-assembles its diiron(II/II) cofactor to solve structures of SznF with both of its iron cofactors bound. These structures of a biochemically validated member of the emerging heme-oxygenase-like diiron oxidase and oxygenase (HDO) superfamily with intact diiron cofactor reveal both the large-scale conformational change required to assemble the O2-reactive Fe2(II/II) complex and the structural basis for cofactor instability-a trait shared by the other validated HDOs. During cofactor (dis)assembly, a ligand-harboring core helix dynamically (un)folds. The diiron cofactor also coordinates an unanticipated Glu ligand contributed by an auxiliary helix implicated in substrate binding by docking and molecular dynamics simulations. The additional carboxylate ligand is conserved in another N-oxygenating HDO but not in two HDOs that cleave carbon-hydrogen and carbon-carbon bonds to install olefins. Among ∼9,600 sequences identified bioinformatically as members of the emerging HDO superfamily, ∼25% conserve this additional carboxylate residue and are thus tentatively assigned as N-oxygenases.
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- Molly J McBride
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802;
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802;
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802;
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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Török P, Unjaroen D, Viktória Csendes F, Giorgi M, Browne WR, Kaizer J. A nonheme peroxo-diiron(III) complex exhibiting both nucleophilic and electrophilic oxidation of organic substrates. Dalton Trans 2021; 50:7181-7185. [PMID: 34019062 PMCID: PMC8168641 DOI: 10.1039/d1dt01502h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The complex [FeIII2(μ-O2)(L3)4(S)2]4+ (L3 = 2-(4-thiazolyl)benzimidazole, S = solvent) forms upon reaction of [FeII(L3)2] with H2O2 and is a functional model of peroxo-diiron intermediates invoked during the catalytic cycle of oxidoreductases. The spectroscopic properties of the complex are in line with those of complexes formed with N-donor ligands. [FeIII2(μ-O2)(L3)4(S)2]4+ shows both nucleophilic (aldehydes) and electrophilic (phenol, N,N-dimethylanilines) oxidative reactivity and unusually also electron transfer oxidation. A bidentate ligand based iron complex shows nucleophillic and electrophillice reactivity in the oxidation of organic substrates.![]()
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- Patrik Török
- Research Group of Bioorganic and Biocoordination Chemistry, University of Pannonia, H-8200 Veszprém, Hungary.
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- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Research Group of Bioorganic and Biocoordination Chemistry, University of Pannonia, H-8200 Veszprém, Hungary.
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- Aix-Marseille Université, FR1739, Spectropole, Campus St Jérome, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France
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- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Research Group of Bioorganic and Biocoordination Chemistry, University of Pannonia, H-8200 Veszprém, Hungary.
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Morgan GL, Li B. In Vitro Reconstitution Reveals a Central Role for the N-Oxygenase PvfB in (Dihydro)pyrazine-N-oxide and Valdiazen Biosynthesis. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:21387-21391. [PMID: 32662921 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202005554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Revised: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The Pseudomonas virulence factor (pvf) operon is essential for the biosynthesis of two very different natural product scaffolds: the (dihydro)pyrazine-N-oxides and the diazeniumdiolate, valdiazen. PvfB is a member of the non-heme diiron N-oxygenase enzyme family that commonly convert anilines to their nitroaromatic counterparts. In contrast, we show that PvfB catalyzes N-oxygenation of the α-amine of valine, first to the hydroxylamine and then the nitroso, while linked to the carrier protein of PvfC. PvfB modification of PvfC-tethered valine was observed directly by protein NMR spectroscopy, establishing the intermediacy of the hydroxylamine. This work reveals a central role for PvfB in the biosynthesis of (dihydro)pyrazine-N-oxides and valdiazen.
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- Gina L Morgan
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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Morgan GL, Li B. In Vitro Reconstitution Reveals a Central Role for the N‐Oxygenase PvfB in (Dihydro)pyrazine‐
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‐oxide and Valdiazen Biosynthesis. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202005554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- Gina L. Morgan
- Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27599 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27599 USA
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Kripli B, Szávuly M, Csendes FV, Kaizer J. Functional models of nonheme diiron enzymes: reactivity of the μ-oxo-μ-1,2-peroxo-diiron(iii) intermediate in electrophilic and nucleophilic reactions. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:1742-1746. [PMID: 31967142 DOI: 10.1039/c9dt04551a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The reactivity of the previously reported peroxo-adduct [FeIII2(μ-O)(μ-1,2-O2)(IndH)2(solv)2]2+ (1) (IndH = 1,3-bis(2-pyridyl-imino)isoindoline) has been investigated in nucleophilic (e.g., deformylation of alkyl and aryl alkyl aldehydes) and electrophilic (e.g. oxidation of phenols) stoichiometric reactions as biomimics of ribonucleotide reductase (RNR-R2) and aldehyde deformylating oxygenase (ADO) enzymes. Based on detailed kinetic and mechanistic studies, we have found further evidence for the ambiphilic behaviour of the peroxo intermediates proposed for diferric oxidoreductase enzymes.
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- Balázs Kripli
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pannonia, H-8201 Veszprém, Hungary.
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McBride MJ, Sil D, Ng TL, Crooke AM, Kenney GE, Tysoe CR, Zhang B, Balskus EP, Boal AK, Krebs C, Bollinger JM. A Peroxodiiron(III/III) Intermediate Mediating Both N-Hydroxylation Steps in Biosynthesis of the N-Nitrosourea Pharmacophore of Streptozotocin by the Multi-domain Metalloenzyme SznF. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:11818-11828. [PMID: 32511919 PMCID: PMC7359745 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The alkylating warhead of the pancreatic cancer drug streptozotocin (SZN) contains an N-nitrosourea moiety constructed from Nω-methyl-l-arginine (l-NMA) by the multi-domain metalloenzyme SznF. The enzyme's central heme-oxygenase-like (HO-like) domain sequentially hydroxylates Nδ and Nω' of l-NMA. Its C-terminal cupin domain then rearranges the triply modified arginine to Nδ-hydroxy-Nω-methyl-Nω-nitroso-l-citrulline, the proposed donor of the functional pharmacophore. Here we show that the HO-like domain of SznF can bind Fe(II) and use it to capture O2, forming a peroxo-Fe2(III/III) intermediate. This intermediate has absorption- and Mössbauer-spectroscopic features similar to those of complexes previously trapped in ferritin-like diiron oxidases and oxygenases (FDOs) and, more recently, the HO-like fatty acid oxidase UndA. The SznF peroxo-Fe2(III/III) complex is an intermediate in both hydroxylation steps, as shown by the concentration-dependent acceleration of its decay upon exposure to either l-NMA or Nδ-hydroxy-Nω-methyl-l-Arg (l-HMA). The Fe2(III/III) cluster produced upon decay of the intermediate has a small Mössbauer quadrupole splitting parameter, implying that, unlike the corresponding product states of many FDOs, it lacks an oxo-bridge. The subsequent decomposition of the product cluster to one or more paramagnetic Fe(III) species over several hours explains why SznF was previously purified and crystallographically characterized without its cofactor. Programmed instability of the oxidized form of the cofactor appears to be a unifying characteristic of the emerging superfamily of HO-like diiron oxidases and oxygenases (HDOs).
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- Molly J. McBride
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
- Present address: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
- Present address: Genomatica, 4757 Nexus Center Dr., San Diego, California 92121, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Bím D, Chalupský J, Culka M, Solomon EI, Rulíšek L, Srnec M. Proton-Electron Transfer to the Active Site Is Essential for the Reaction Mechanism of Soluble Δ 9-Desaturase. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:10412-10423. [PMID: 32406236 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c01786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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A full understanding of the catalytic action of non-heme iron (NHFe) and non-heme diiron (NHFe2) enzymes is still beyond the grasp of contemporary computational and experimental techniques. Many of these enzymes exhibit fascinating chemo-, regio-, and stereoselectivity, in spite of employing highly reactive intermediates which are necessary for activations of most stable chemical bonds. Herein, we study in detail one intriguing representative of the NHFe2 family of enzymes: soluble Δ9 desaturase (Δ9D), which desaturates rather than performing the thermodynamically favorable hydroxylation of substrate. Its catalytic mechanism has been explored in great detail by using QM(DFT)/MM and multireference wave function methods. Starting from the spectroscopically observed 1,2-μ-peroxo diferric P intermediate, the proton-electron uptake by P is the favored mechanism for catalytic activation, since it allows a significant reduction of the barrier of the initial (and rate-determining) H-atom abstraction from the stearoyl substrate as compared to the "proton-only activated" pathway. Also, we ruled out that a Q-like intermediate (high-valent diamond-core bis-μ-oxo-[FeIV]2 unit) is involved in the reaction mechanism. Our mechanistic picture is consistent with the experimental data available for Δ9D and satisfies fairly stringent conditions required by Nature: the chemo-, stereo-, and regioselectivity of the desaturation of stearic acid. Finally, the mechanisms evaluated are placed into a broader context of NHFe2 chemistry, provided by an amino acid sequence analysis through the families of the NHFe2 enzymes. Our study thus represents an important contribution toward understanding the catalytic action of the NHFe2 enzymes and may inspire further work in NHFe(2) biomimetic chemistry.
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- Daniel Bím
- J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Dolejškova 3, Prague 8 182 23, Czech Republic.,Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 2, Prague 6 166 10, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 2, Prague 6 166 10, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 2, Prague 6 166 10, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, 333 Campus Drive, Stanford, California 94305-5080, United States
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 2, Prague 6 166 10, Czech Republic
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- J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Dolejškova 3, Prague 8 182 23, Czech Republic
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Kisgeropoulos EC, Griese JJ, Smith ZR, Branca RMM, Schneider CR, Högbom M, Shafaat HS. Key Structural Motifs Balance Metal Binding and Oxidative Reactivity in a Heterobimetallic Mn/Fe Protein. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:5338-5354. [PMID: 32062969 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c00333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Heterobimetallic Mn/Fe proteins represent a new cofactor paradigm in bioinorganic chemistry and pose countless outstanding questions. The assembly of the active site defies common chemical convention by contradicting the Irving-Williams series, while the scope of reactivity remains unexplored. In this work, the assembly and C-H bond activation process in the Mn/Fe R2-like ligand-binding oxidase (R2lox) protein is investigated using a suite of biophysical techniques, including time-resolved optical spectroscopy, global kinetic modeling, X-ray crystallography, electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, protein electrochemistry, and mass spectrometry. Selective metal binding is found to be under thermodynamic control, with the binding sites within the apo-protein exhibiting greater MnII affinity than FeII affinity. The comprehensive analysis of structure and reactivity of wild-type R2lox and targeted primary and secondary sphere mutants indicate that the efficiency of C-H bond activation directly correlates with the Mn/Fe cofactor reduction potentials and is inversely related to divalent metal binding affinity. These findings suggest the R2lox active site is precisely tuned for achieving both selective heterobimetallic binding and high levels of reactivity and offer a mechanism to examine the means by which proteins achieve appropriate metal incorporation.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology-Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 21 Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Kaniusaite M, Goode RJA, Schittenhelm RB, Makris TM, Cryle MJ. The Diiron Monooxygenase CmlA from Chloramphenicol Biosynthesis Allows Reconstitution of β-Hydroxylation during Glycopeptide Antibiotic Biosynthesis. ACS Chem Biol 2019; 14:2932-2941. [PMID: 31774267 PMCID: PMC6929969 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.9b00862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 11/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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β-Hydroxylation plays an important role in the nonribosomal peptide biosynthesis of many important natural products, including bleomycin, chloramphenicol, and the glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs). Various oxidative enzymes have been implicated in such a process, with the mechanism of incorporation varying from installation of hydroxyl groups in amino acid precursors prior to adenylation to direct amino acid oxidation during peptide assembly. In this work, we demonstrate the in vitro utility and scope of the unusual nonheme diiron monooxygenase CmlA from chloramphenicol biosynthesis for the β-hydroxylation of a diverse range of carrier protein bound substrates by adapting this enzyme as a non-native trans-acting enzyme within NRPS-mediated GPA biosynthesis. The results from our study show that CmlA has a broad substrate specificity for modified phenylalanine/tyrosine residues as substrates and can be used in a practical strategy to functionally cross complement compatible NRPS biosynthesis pathways in vitro.
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- Milda Kaniusaite
- The
Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
- EMBL
Australia, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- The
Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
- Monash
Biomedical Proteomics Facility, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- The
Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
- Monash
Biomedical Proteomics Facility, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of South Carolina, 631 Sumter Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, United States
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- The
Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
- EMBL
Australia, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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Kripli B, Csendes FV, Török P, Speier G, Kaizer J. Stoichiometric Aldehyde Deformylation Mediated by Nucleophilic Peroxo-diiron(III) Complex as a Functional Model of Aldehyde Deformylating Oxygenase. Chemistry 2019; 25:14290-14294. [PMID: 31448834 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201903727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The reactivity of the previously reported peroxo adduct [FeIII 2 (μ-O2 )(MeBzim-Py)4 (CH3 CN)2 ]4+ (1) (MeBzim-Py=2-(2'-pyridyl)-N-methylbenzimidazole) towards aldehyde substrates including phenylacetaldehyde (PAA), hydrocinnamaldehyde (HCA), propionaldehyde (PA), 2-phenylpropionaldehyde (PPA), cyclohexanecarboxaldehyde (CCA), and para-substituted benzaldehydes (benzoyl chlorides) has been investigated. Complex 1 proved to be a nucleophilic oxidant in aldehyde deformylation reaction. These models, including detailed kinetic and mechanistic studies, may serve as the first biomimics of aldehyde deformylating oxygenase (ADO) enzymes.
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- Balázs Kripli
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pannonia, 8201, Veszprém, Hungary
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pannonia, 8201, Veszprém, Hungary
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pannonia, 8201, Veszprém, Hungary
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pannonia, 8201, Veszprém, Hungary
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Guo YY, Li ZH, Xia TY, Du YL, Mao XM, Li YQ. Molecular mechanism of azoxy bond formation for azoxymycins biosynthesis. Nat Commun 2019; 10:4420. [PMID: 31594923 PMCID: PMC6783550 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12250-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Azoxy bond is an important chemical bond and plays a crucial role in high energy density materials. However, the biosynthetic mechanism of azoxy bond remains enigmatic. Here we report that the azoxy bond biosynthesis of azoxymycins is an enzymatic and non-enzymatic coupling cascade reaction. In the first step, nonheme diiron N-oxygenase AzoC catalyzes the oxidization of amine to its nitroso analogue. Redox coenzyme pairs then facilitate the mutual conversion between nitroso group and hydroxylamine via the radical transient intermediates, which efficiently dimerize to azoxy bond. The deficiency of nucleophilic reactivity in AzoC is proposed to account for the enzyme's non-canonical oxidization of amine to nitroso product. Free nitrogen radicals induced by coenzyme pairs are proposed to be responsible for the efficient non-enzymatic azoxy bond formation. This mechanism study will provide molecular basis for the biosynthesis of azoxy high energy density materials and other valuable azoxy chemicals.
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- Yuan-Yang Guo
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology & First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310058, Hangzhou, China.,School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University, 453007, Xinxiang, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology & First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310058, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology & First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310058, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology & First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310058, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology & First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310058, Hangzhou, China.
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology & First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310058, Hangzhou, China.
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Zhang B, Rajakovich LJ, Van Cura D, Blaesi EJ, Mitchell AJ, Tysoe CR, Zhu X, Streit BR, Rui Z, Zhang W, Boal AK, Krebs C, Bollinger JM. Substrate-Triggered Formation of a Peroxo-Fe 2(III/III) Intermediate during Fatty Acid Decarboxylation by UndA. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:14510-14514. [PMID: 31487162 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The iron-dependent oxidase UndA cleaves one C3-H bond and the C1-C2 bond of dodecanoic acid to produce 1-undecene and CO2. A published X-ray crystal structure showed that UndA has a heme-oxygenase-like fold, thus associating it with a structural superfamily that includes known and postulated non-heme diiron proteins, but revealed only a single iron ion in the active site. Mechanisms proposed for initiation of decarboxylation by cleavage of the C3-H bond using a monoiron cofactor to activate O2 necessarily invoked unusual or potentially unfeasible steps. Here we present spectroscopic, crystallographic, and biochemical evidence that the cofactor of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 UndA is actually a diiron cluster and show that binding of the substrate triggers rapid addition of O2 to the Fe2(II/II) cofactor to produce a transient peroxo-Fe2(III/III) intermediate. The observations of a diiron cofactor and substrate-triggered formation of a peroxo-Fe2(III/III) intermediate suggest a small set of possible mechanisms for O2, C3-H and C1-C2 activation by UndA; these routes obviate the problematic steps of the earlier hypotheses that invoked a single iron.
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , University of California Berkeley , Berkeley , California 94720 , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , University of California Berkeley , Berkeley , California 94720 , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , University of California Berkeley , Berkeley , California 94720 , United States
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A di-iron protein recruited as an Fe[II] and oxygen sensor for bacterial chemotaxis functions by stabilizing an iron-peroxy species. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:14955-14960. [PMID: 31270241 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1904234116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Many bacteria contain cytoplasmic chemoreceptors that lack sensor domains. Here, we demonstrate that such cytoplasmic receptors found in 8 different bacterial and archaeal phyla genetically couple to metalloproteins related to β-lactamases and nitric oxide reductases. We show that this oxygen-binding di-iron protein (ODP) acts as a sensor for chemotactic responses to both iron and oxygen in the human pathogen Treponema denticola (Td). The ODP di-iron site binds oxygen at high affinity to reversibly form an unusually stable μ-peroxo adduct. Crystal structures of ODP from Td and the thermophile Thermotoga maritima (Tm) in the Fe[III]2-O2 2-, Zn[II], and apo states display differences in subunit association, conformation, and metal coordination that indicate potential mechanisms for sensing. In reconstituted systems, iron-peroxo ODP destabilizes the phosphorylated form of the receptor-coupled histidine kinase CheA, thereby providing a biochemical link between oxygen sensing and chemotaxis in diverse prokaryotes, including anaerobes of ancient origin.
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Wei W, Siegbahn PEM, Liao R. Mechanism of the Dinuclear Iron Enzymep‐Aminobenzoate N‐oxygenase from Density Functional Calculations. ChemCatChem 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201801072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Wen‐Jie Wei
- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage Ministry of Education Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry and Materia Medica Hubei Key Laboratory of Materials Chemistry and Service Failure School of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHuazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 P. R. China
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius LaboratoryStockholm University Stockholm SE-10691 Sweden
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage Ministry of Education Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry and Materia Medica Hubei Key Laboratory of Materials Chemistry and Service Failure School of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHuazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 P. R. China
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Kretsch AM, Morgan GL, Tyrrell J, Mevers E, Vallet-Gély I, Li B. Discovery of (Dihydro)pyrazine N-Oxides via Genome Mining in Pseudomonas. Org Lett 2018; 20:4791-4795. [PMID: 30073838 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b01944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Overexpression of the Pseudomonas virulence factor ( pvf) biosynthetic operon led to the identification of a family of pyrazine N-oxides (PNOs), including a novel dihydropyrazine N,N'-dioxide (dPNO) metabolite. The nonribosomal peptide synthetase responsible for production of (d)PNOs was characterized, and a biosynthetic pathway for (d)PNOs was proposed. This work highlights the unique chemistry catalyzed by pvf-encoded enzymes and sets the stage for bioactivity studies of the metabolites produced by the virulence pathway.
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- Ashley M Kretsch
- Department of Chemistry , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , 250 Bell Tower Road , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , 250 Bell Tower Road , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , 250 Bell Tower Road , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology , Harvard Medical School , 240 Longwood Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS , Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay , 91198 , Gif-sur-Yvette cedex , France
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- Department of Chemistry , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , 250 Bell Tower Road , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States
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Komor AJ, Jasniewski AJ, Que L, Lipscomb JD. Diiron monooxygenases in natural product biosynthesis. Nat Prod Rep 2018; 35:646-659. [PMID: 29552683 PMCID: PMC6051903 DOI: 10.1039/c7np00061h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Covering: up to 2017 The participation of non-heme dinuclear iron cluster-containing monooxygenases in natural product biosynthetic pathways has been recognized only recently. At present, two families have been discovered. The archetypal member of the first family, CmlA, catalyzes β-hydroxylation of l-p-aminophenylalanine (l-PAPA) covalently linked to the nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) CmlP, thereby effecting the first step in the biosynthesis of chloramphenicol by Streptomyces venezuelae. CmlA houses the diiron cluster in a metallo-β-lactamase protein fold instead of the 4-helix bundle fold of nearly every other diiron monooxygenase. CmlA couples O2 activation and substrate hydroxylation via a structural change caused by formation of the l-PAPA-loaded CmlP:CmlA complex. The other new diiron family is typified by two enzymes, AurF and CmlI, which catalyze conversion of aryl-amine substrates to aryl-nitro products with incorporation of oxygen from O2. AurF from Streptomyces thioluteus catalyzes the formation of p-nitrobenzoate from p-aminobenzoate as a precursor to the biostatic compound aureothin, whereas CmlI from S. venezuelae catalyzes the ultimate aryl-amine to aryl-nitro step in chloramphenicol biosynthesis. Both enzymes stabilize a novel type of peroxo-intermediate as the reactive species. The rare 6-electron N-oxygenation reactions of CmlI and AurF involve two progressively oxidized pathway intermediates. The enzymes optimize efficiency by utilizing one of the reaction pathway intermediates as an in situ reductant for the diiron cluster, while simultaneously generating the next pathway intermediate. For CmlI, this reduction allows mid-pathway regeneration of the peroxo intermediate required to complete the biosynthesis. CmlI ensures specificity by carrying out the multistep aryl-amine oxygenation without dissociating intermediate products.
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- Anna J Komor
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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Jasniewski AJ, Que L. Dioxygen Activation by Nonheme Diiron Enzymes: Diverse Dioxygen Adducts, High-Valent Intermediates, and Related Model Complexes. Chem Rev 2018; 118:2554-2592. [PMID: 29400961 PMCID: PMC5920527 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 304] [Impact Index Per Article: 50.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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A growing subset of metalloenzymes activates dioxygen with nonheme diiron active sites to effect substrate oxidations that range from the hydroxylation of methane and the desaturation of fatty acids to the deformylation of fatty aldehydes to produce alkanes and the six-electron oxidation of aminoarenes to nitroarenes in the biosynthesis of antibiotics. A common feature of their reaction mechanisms is the formation of O2 adducts that evolve into more reactive derivatives such as diiron(II,III)-superoxo, diiron(III)-peroxo, diiron(III,IV)-oxo, and diiron(IV)-oxo species, which carry out particular substrate oxidation tasks. In this review, we survey the various enzymes belonging to this unique subset and the mechanisms by which substrate oxidation is carried out. We examine the nature of the reactive intermediates, as revealed by X-ray crystallography and the application of various spectroscopic methods and their associated reactivity. We also discuss the structural and electronic properties of the model complexes that have been found to mimic salient aspects of these enzyme active sites. Much has been learned in the past 25 years, but key questions remain to be answered.
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- Andrew J. Jasniewski
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Zhang L, Xu Y, Makris TM, Wang Q. Enhanced Arylamine N-Oxygenase Activity of Polymer–Enzyme Assemblies by Facilitating Electron-Transferring Efficiency. Biomacromolecules 2018; 19:918-925. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.7b01706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Libo Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, 631 Sumter Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, 631 Sumter Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, 631 Sumter Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, 631 Sumter Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, United States
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Komor AJ, Rivard BS, Fan R, Guo Y, Que L, Lipscomb JD. CmlI N-Oxygenase Catalyzes the Final Three Steps in Chloramphenicol Biosynthesis without Dissociation of Intermediates. Biochemistry 2017; 56:4940-4950. [PMID: 28823151 PMCID: PMC5605456 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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CmlI catalyzes the six-electron oxidation of an aryl-amine precursor (NH2-CAM) to the aryl-nitro group of chloramphenicol (CAM). The active site of CmlI contains a (hydr)oxo- and carboxylate-bridged dinuclear iron cluster. During catalysis, a novel diferric-peroxo intermediate P is formed and is thought to directly effect oxygenase chemistry. Peroxo intermediates can facilitate at most two-electron oxidations, so the biosynthetic pathway of CmlI must involve at least three steps. Here, kinetic techniques are used to characterize the rate and/or dissociation constants for each step by taking advantage of the remarkable stability of P in the absence of substrates (decay t1/2 = 3 h at 4 °C) and the visible chromophore of the diiron cluster. It is found that diferrous CmlI (CmlIred) can react with NH2-CAM and O2 in either order to form a P-NH2-CAM intermediate. P-NH2-CAM undergoes rapid oxygen transfer to form a diferric CmlI (CmlIox) complex with the aryl-hydroxylamine [NH(OH)-CAM] pathway intermediate. CmlIox-NH(OH)-CAM undergoes a rapid internal redox reaction to form a CmlIred-nitroso-CAM (NO-CAM) complex. O2 binding results in formation of P-NO-CAM that converts to CmlIox-CAM by enzyme-mediated oxygen atom transfer. The kinetic analysis indicates that there is little dissociation of pathway intermediates as the reaction progresses. Reactions initiated by adding pathway intermediates from solution occur much more slowly than those in which the intermediate is generated in the active site as part of the catalytic process. Thus, CmlI is able to preserve efficiency and specificity while avoiding adventitious chemistry by performing the entire six-electron oxidation in one active site.
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- Anna J. Komor
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
- Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, 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
- Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
- Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, 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
- Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Murinov YI, Mishinkin VY, Akchurina OV, Grabovskii SA, Kabal’nova NN. Oxidation of 5-aminouracil with molecular oxygen in aqueous solution in the presence of copper(II) chloride. RUSS J GEN CHEM+ 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s1070363217080047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Wang C, Chen H. Convergent Theoretical Prediction of Reactive Oxidant Structures in Diiron Arylamine Oxygenases AurF and CmlI: Peroxo or Hydroperoxo? J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:13038-13046. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b06343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Chao Wang
- Beijing
National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), CAS Key Laboratory
of Photochemistry, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in
Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing
National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), CAS Key Laboratory
of Photochemistry, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in
Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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Banerjee R, Komor AJ, Lipscomb JD. Use of Isotopes and Isotope Effects for Investigations of Diiron Oxygenase Mechanisms. Methods Enzymol 2017; 596:239-290. [PMID: 28911774 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2017.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Isotope effects of four broad and overlapping categories have been applied to the study of the mechanisms of chemical reaction and regulation of nonheme diiron cluster-containing oxygenases. The categories are: (a) mass properties that allow substrate-to-product conversions to be tracked, (b) atomic properties that allow specialized spectroscopies, (c) mass properties that impact primarily vibrational spectroscopies, and (d) bond dissociation energy shifts that permit dynamic isotope effect studies of many types. The application of these categories of isotope effects is illustrated using the soluble methane monooxygenase system and CmlI, which catalyzes the multistep arylamine to arylnitro conversion in the biosynthetic pathway for chloramphenicol.
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- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
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Jasniewski AJ, Komor AJ, Lipscomb JD, Que L. Unprecedented (μ-1,1-Peroxo)diferric Structure for the Ambiphilic Orange Peroxo Intermediate of the Nonheme N-Oxygenase CmlI. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:10472-10485. [PMID: 28673082 PMCID: PMC5568637 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The final step in the biosynthesis of the antibiotic chloramphenicol is the oxidation of an aryl-amine substrate to an aryl-nitro product catalyzed by the N-oxygenase CmlI in three two-electron steps. The CmlI active site contains a diiron cluster ligated by three histidine and four glutamate residues and activates dioxygen to perform its role in the biosynthetic pathway. It was previously shown that the active oxidant used by CmlI to facilitate this chemistry is a peroxo-diferric intermediate (CmlIP). Spectroscopic characterization demonstrated that the peroxo binding geometry of CmlIP is not consistent with the μ-1,2 mode commonly observed in nonheme diiron systems. Its geometry was tentatively assigned as μ-η2:η1 based on comparison with resonance Raman (rR) features of mixed-metal model complexes in the absence of appropriate diiron models. Here, X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and rR studies have been used to establish a refined structure for the diferric cluster of CmlIP. The rR experiments carried out with isotopically labeled water identified the symmetric and asymmetric vibrations of an Fe-O-Fe unit in the active site at 485 and 780 cm-1, respectively, which was confirmed by the 1.83 Å Fe-O bond observed by XAS. In addition, a unique Fe···O scatterer at 2.82 Å observed from XAS analysis is assigned as arising from the distal O atom of a μ-1,1-peroxo ligand that is bound symmetrically between the irons. The (μ-oxo)(μ-1,1-peroxo)diferric core structure associated with CmlIP is unprecedented among diiron cluster-containing enzymes and corresponding biomimetic complexes. Importantly, it allows the peroxo-diferric intermediate to be ambiphilic, acting as an electrophilic oxidant in the initial N-hydroxylation of an arylamine and then becoming a nucleophilic oxidant in the final oxidation of an aryl-nitroso intermediate to the aryl-nitro product.
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- Andrew J. Jasniewski
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
- Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
- Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
- Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
- Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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Ebrahimi KH, Bill E, Hagedoorn PL, Hagen WR. Spectroscopic evidence for the role of a site of the di-iron catalytic center of ferritins in tuning the kinetics of Fe(ii) oxidation. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2017; 12:3576-3588. [PMID: 27722502 DOI: 10.1039/c6mb00235h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Ferritin is a nanocage protein made of 24 subunits. Its major role is to manage intracellular concentrations of free Fe(ii) and Fe(iii) ions, which is pivotal for iron homeostasis across all domains of life. This function of the protein is regulated by a conserved di-iron catalytic center and has been the subject of extensive studies over the past 50 years. Yet, it has not been fully understood how Fe(ii) is oxidized in the di-iron catalytic center and it is not known why eukaryotic and microbial ferritins oxidize Fe(ii) with different kinetics. In an attempt to obtain a new insight into the mechanism of Fe(ii) oxidation and understand the origin of the observed differences in the catalysis of Fe(ii) oxidation among ferritins we studied and compared the mechanism of Fe(ii) oxidation in the eukaryotic human H-type ferritin (HuHF) and the archaeal ferritin from Pyrococcus furiosus (PfFtn). The results show that the spectroscopic characteristics of the intermediate of Fe(ii) oxidation and the Fe(iii)-products are the same in these two ferritins supporting the proposal of unity in the mechanism of Fe(ii) oxidation among eukaryotic and microbial ferritins. Moreover, we observed that a site in the di-iron catalytic center controls the distribution of Fe(ii) among subunits of HuHF and PfFtn differently. This observation explains the reported differences between HuHF and PfFtn in the kinetics of Fe(ii) oxidation and the amount of O2 consumed per Fe(ii) oxidized. These results provide a fresh understanding of the mechanism of Fe(ii) oxidation by ferritins.
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- Kourosh Honarmand Ebrahimi
- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI-CEC), Stiftstrasse 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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Miller EK, Trivelas NE, Maugeri PT, Blaesi EJ, Shafaat HS. Time-Resolved Investigations of Heterobimetallic Cofactor Assembly in R2lox Reveal Distinct Mn/Fe Intermediates. Biochemistry 2017; 56:3369-3379. [PMID: 28574263 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The assembly mechanism of the Mn/Fe ligand-binding oxidases (R2lox), a family of proteins that are homologous to the nonheme diiron carboxylate enzymes, has been investigated using time-resolved techniques. Multiple heterobimetallic intermediates that exhibit unique spectral features, including visible absorption bands and exceptionally broad electron paramagnetic resonance signatures, are observed through optical and magnetic resonance spectroscopies. On the basis of comparison to known diiron species and model compounds, the spectra have been attributed to (μ-peroxo)-MnIII/FeIII and high-valent Mn/Fe species. Global spectral analysis coupled with isotopic substitution and kinetic modeling reveals elementary rate constants for the assembly of Mn/Fe R2lox under aerobic conditions. A complete reaction mechanism for cofactor maturation that is consistent with experimental data has been developed. These results suggest that the Mn/Fe cofactor can perform direct C-H bond abstraction, demonstrating the potential for potent chemical reactivity that remains unexplored.
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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β-Lactone formation during product release from a nonribosomal peptide synthetase. Nat Chem Biol 2017; 13:737-744. [PMID: 28504677 DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2016] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are multidomain modular biosynthetic assembly lines that polymerize amino acids into a myriad of biologically active nonribosomal peptides (NRPs). NRPS thioesterase (TE) domains employ diverse release strategies for off-loading thioester-tethered polymeric peptides from termination modules typically via hydrolysis, aminolysis, or cyclization to provide mature antibiotics as carboxylic acids/esters, amides, and lactams/lactones, respectively. Here we report the enzyme-catalyzed formation of a highly strained β-lactone ring during TE-mediated cyclization of a β-hydroxythioester to release the antibiotic obafluorin (Obi) from an NRPS assembly line. The Obi NRPS (ObiF) contains a type I TE domain with a rare catalytic cysteine residue that plays a direct role in β-lactone ring formation. We present a detailed genetic and biochemical characterization of the entire Obi biosynthetic gene cluster in plant-associated Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 39502 that establishes a general strategy for β-lactone biogenesis.
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Park K, Li N, Kwak Y, Srnec M, Bell CB, Liu LV, Wong SD, Yoda Y, Kitao S, Seto M, Hu M, Zhao J, Krebs C, Bollinger JM, Solomon EI. Peroxide Activation for Electrophilic Reactivity by the Binuclear Non-heme Iron Enzyme AurF. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:7062-7070. [PMID: 28457126 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b02997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Binuclear non-heme iron enzymes activate O2 for diverse chemistries that include oxygenation of organic substrates and hydrogen atom abstraction. This process often involves the formation of peroxo-bridged biferric intermediates, only some of which can perform electrophilic reactions. To elucidate the geometric and electronic structural requirements to activate peroxo reactivity, the active peroxo intermediate in 4-aminobenzoate N-oxygenase (AurF) has been characterized spectroscopically and computationally. A magnetic circular dichroism study of reduced AurF shows that its electronic and geometric structures are poised to react rapidly with O2. Nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopic definition of the peroxo intermediate formed in this reaction shows that the active intermediate has a protonated peroxo bridge. Density functional theory computations on the structure established here show that the protonation activates peroxide for electrophilic/single-electron-transfer reactivity. This activation of peroxide by protonation is likely also relevant to the reactive peroxo intermediates in other binuclear non-heme iron enzymes.
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- Kiyoung Park
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University , Stanford, California 94305-5080, United States.,Department of Chemistry, KAIST , Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University , Stanford, California 94305-5080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University , Stanford, California 94305-5080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University , Stanford, California 94305-5080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University , Stanford, California 94305-5080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University , Stanford, California 94305-5080, United States
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- Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University , Kumatori-cho, Osaka 590-0494, Japan
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- Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University , Kumatori-cho, Osaka 590-0494, Japan
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory , Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory , Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States.,Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States.,Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University , Stanford, California 94305-5080, United States.,Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford, California 94309, United States
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Waldman AJ, Ng TL, Wang P, Balskus EP. Heteroatom-Heteroatom Bond Formation in Natural Product Biosynthesis. Chem Rev 2017; 117:5784-5863. [PMID: 28375000 PMCID: PMC5534343 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Natural products that contain functional groups with heteroatom-heteroatom linkages (X-X, where X = N, O, S, and P) are a small yet intriguing group of metabolites. The reactivity and diversity of these structural motifs has captured the interest of synthetic and biological chemists alike. Functional groups containing X-X bonds are found in all major classes of natural products and often impart significant biological activity. This review presents our current understanding of the biosynthetic logic and enzymatic chemistry involved in the construction of X-X bond containing functional groups within natural products. Elucidating and characterizing biosynthetic pathways that generate X-X bonds could both provide tools for biocatalysis and synthetic biology, as well as guide efforts to uncover new natural products containing these structural features.
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- Abraham J. Waldman
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
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Quist DA, Diaz DE, Liu JJ, Karlin KD. Activation of dioxygen by copper metalloproteins and insights from model complexes. J Biol Inorg Chem 2017; 22:253-288. [PMID: 27921179 PMCID: PMC5600896 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-016-1415-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2016] [Accepted: 11/11/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Nature uses dioxygen as a key oxidant in the transformation of biomolecules. Among the enzymes that are utilized for these reactions are copper-containing metalloenzymes, which are responsible for important biological functions such as the regulation of neurotransmitters, dioxygen transport, and cellular respiration. Enzymatic and model system studies work in tandem in order to gain an understanding of the fundamental reductive activation of dioxygen by copper complexes. This review covers the most recent advancements in the structures, spectroscopy, and reaction mechanisms for dioxygen-activating copper proteins and relevant synthetic models thereof. An emphasis has also been placed on cofactor biogenesis, a fundamentally important process whereby biomolecules are post-translationally modified by the pro-enzyme active site to generate cofactors which are essential for the catalytic enzymatic reaction. Significant questions remaining in copper-ion-mediated O2-activation in copper proteins are addressed.
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- David A Quist
- 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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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA.
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Süssmuth RD, Mainz A. Nonribosomal Peptide Synthesis-Principles and Prospects. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:3770-3821. [PMID: 28323366 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201609079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 543] [Impact Index Per Article: 77.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are large multienzyme machineries that assemble numerous peptides with large structural and functional diversity. These peptides include more than 20 marketed drugs, such as antibacterials (penicillin, vancomycin), antitumor compounds (bleomycin), and immunosuppressants (cyclosporine). Over the past few decades biochemical and structural biology studies have gained mechanistic insights into the highly complex assembly line of nonribosomal peptides. This Review provides state-of-the-art knowledge on the underlying mechanisms of NRPSs and the variety of their products along with detailed analysis of the challenges for future reprogrammed biosynthesis. Such a reprogramming of NRPSs would immediately spur chances to generate analogues of existing drugs or new compound libraries of otherwise nearly inaccessible compound structures.
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- Roderich D Süssmuth
- Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie, Strasse des 17. Juni 124, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie, Strasse des 17. Juni 124, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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Süssmuth RD, Mainz A. Nicht-ribosomale Peptidsynthese - Prinzipien und Perspektiven. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201609079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Roderich D. Süssmuth
- Technische Universität Berlin; Institut für Chemie; Straße des 17. Juni 124 10623 Berlin Deutschland
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- Technische Universität Berlin; Institut für Chemie; Straße des 17. Juni 124 10623 Berlin Deutschland
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Wise CE, Grant JL, Amaya JA, Ratigan SC, Hsieh CH, Manley OM, Makris TM. Divergent mechanisms of iron-containing enzymes for hydrocarbon biosynthesis. J Biol Inorg Chem 2016; 22:221-235. [DOI: 10.1007/s00775-016-1425-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2016] [Accepted: 12/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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