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Petrova VV, Solovev YV, Porozov YB, Polynski MV. Will We Witness Enzymatic or Pd-(Oligo)Peptide Catalysis in Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reactions? J Org Chem 2024; 89:8478-8485. [PMID: 38861408 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.4c00409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2024]
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Despite the development of numerous advanced ligands for Pd-catalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling reaction, the potential of (oligo)peptides serving as ligands remains unexplored. This study demonstrates via density functional theory (DFT) modeling that (oligo)peptide ligands can drive superior activity compared to classic phosphines in these reactions. The utilization of natural amino acids such as Met, SeMet, and His leads to strong binding of the Pd center, thereby ensuring substantial stability of the system. The increasing sustainability and economic viability of (oligo)peptide synthesis open new prospects for applying Pd-(oligo)peptide systems as greener catalysts. The feasibility of de novo engineering an artificial Pd-based enzyme for Suzuki cross-coupling is discussed, laying the groundwork for future innovations in catalytic systems.
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- Vlada V Petrova
- M.M. Shemyakin and Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miklukho-Maklaya 16/10, Moscow 117997, Russia
- Quantum Chemistry Department, Institute of Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetsky Prospect 26, Saint Petersburg 198504, Russia
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- M.M. Shemyakin and Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miklukho-Maklaya 16/10, Moscow 117997, Russia
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- St. Petersburg School of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science, HSE University, Kantemirovskaya Street 3-1A, Saint Petersburg 194100, Russia
- Advitam Laboratory, Vodovodska 158, Belgrade 11147, Serbia
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore 117585, Singapore
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Yuan F, Su B, Yu Y, Wang J. Study and design of amino acid-based radical enzymes using unnatural amino acids. RSC Chem Biol 2023; 4:431-446. [PMID: 37292061 PMCID: PMC10246556 DOI: 10.1039/d2cb00250g] [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: 12/17/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/10/2023] Open
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Radical enzymes harness the power of reactive radical species by placing them in a protein scaffold, and they are capable of catalysing many important reactions. New native radical enzymes, especially those with amino acid-based radicals, in the category of non-heme iron enzymes (including ribonucleotide reductases), heme enzymes, copper enzymes, and FAD-radical enzymes have been discovered and characterized. We discussed recent research efforts to discover new native amino acid-based radical enzymes, and to study the roles of radicals in processes such as enzyme catalysis and electron transfer. Furthermore, design of radical enzymes in a small and simple scaffold not only allows us to study the radical in a well-controlled system and test our understanding of the native enzymes, but also allows us to create powerful enzymes. In the study and design of amino acid-based radical enzymes, the use of unnatural amino acids allows precise control of pKa values and reduction potentials of the residue, as well as probing the location of the radical through spectroscopic methods, making it a powerful research tool. Our understanding of amino acid-based radical enzymes will allow us to tailor them to create powerful catalysts and better therapeutics.
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- Feiyan Yuan
- Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing 102488 China
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- Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing 102488 China
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- Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing 102488 China
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- Laboratory of RNA Biology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100101 China
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Cheng L, Chen H, Ren Y, Cheng Z, Fan M, Liu Y, Shen Z, Yuan T. Study on enhancement of hemoglobin antitoxic ability modified with chromium and ruthenium. Int J Biol Macromol 2023; 242:124756. [PMID: 37178891 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.124756] [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: 02/21/2023] [Revised: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Hemoglobin is essential for carrying oxygen (O2) in the blood. However, its ability to bind excessively to carbon monoxide (CO) makes it susceptible to CO poisoning. To reduce the risk of CO poisoning, Cr-based heme and Ru-based heme were selected from among many transition metal-based hemes based on their characteristics of adsorption conformation, binding intensity, spin multiplicity, and electronic properties. The results showed that hemoglobin modified by Cr-based heme and Ru-based heme had strong anti-CO poisoning abilities. The Cr-based heme and Ru-based heme exhibited much stronger affinity for O2 (-190.67 kJ/mol and -143.18 kJ/mol, respectively) than Fe-based heme (-44.60 kJ/mol). Moreover, Cr-based heme and Ru-based heme exhibited much weaker affinity for CO (-121.50 kJ/mol and -120.88 kJ/mol, respectively) than their affinity for O2, suggesting that they were less likely to cause CO poisoning. The electronic structure analysis also supported this conclusion. Additionally, molecular dynamics analysis showed that hemoglobin modified by Cr-based heme and Ru-based heme was stable. Our findings offer a novel and effective strategy for enhancing the reconstructed hemoglobin's ability to bind O2 and reduce its potential for CO poisoning.
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- Luwei Cheng
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China; State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Health Impact Assessment of Emerging Contaminants, Shanghai Academy of Environment Sciences, Shanghai 200233, PR China
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- College of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie 82070, WY, USA
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China; State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Health Impact Assessment of Emerging Contaminants, Shanghai 200233, PR China; Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recovery, Shanghai 200240, China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China; State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Health Impact Assessment of Emerging Contaminants, Shanghai 200233, PR China; Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recovery, Shanghai 200240, China
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Deng Y, Dwaraknath S, Ouyang WO, Matsumoto CJ, Ouchida S, Lu Y. Engineering an Oxygen-Binding Protein for Photocatalytic CO 2 Reductions in Water. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202215719. [PMID: 36916067 PMCID: PMC10946749 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202215719] [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: 10/25/2022] [Revised: 03/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023]
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While native CO2 -reducing enzymes display remarkable catalytic efficiency and product selectivity, few artificial biocatalysts have been engineered to allow understanding how the native enzymes work. To address this issue, we report cobalt porphyrin substituted myoglobin (CoMb) as a homogeneous catalyst for photo-driven CO2 to CO conversion in water. The activity and product selectivity were optimized by varying pH and concentrations of the enzyme and the photosensitizer. Up to 2000 TON(CO) was attained at low enzyme concentrations with low product selectivity (15 %), while a product selectivity of 74 % was reached by increasing the enzyme loading but with a compromised TON(CO). The efficiency of CO generation and overall TON(CO) were further improved by introducing positively charged residues (Lys or Arg) near the active stie of CoMb, which demonstrates the value of tuning the enzyme secondary coordination sphere to enhance the CO2 -reducing performance of a protein-based photocatalytic system.
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- Yunling Deng
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Texas at AustinAustinTX 78712USA
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbanaIL 61801USA
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbanaIL 61801USA
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbanaIL 61801USA
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbanaIL 61801USA
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Texas at AustinAustinTX 78712USA
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbanaIL 61801USA
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Mo X, Deng Y, Lai SKM, Gao X, Yu HL, Low KH, Guo Z, Wu HL, Au-Yeung HY, Tse ECM. Mechanical Interlocking Enhances the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Activity and Selectivity of Molecular Copper Complexes. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:6087-6099. [PMID: 36853653 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c10988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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Efficient O2 reduction reaction (ORR) for selective H2O generation enables advanced fuel cell technology. Nonprecious metal catalysts are viable and attractive alternatives to state-of-the-art Pt-based materials that are expensive. Cu complexes inspired by Cu-containing O2 reduction enzymes in nature are yet to reach their desired ORR catalytic performance. Here, the concept of mechanical interlocking is introduced to the ligand architecture to enforce dynamic spatial restriction on the Cu coordination site. Interlocked catenane ligands could govern O2 binding mode, promote electron transfer, and facilitate product elimination. Our results show that ligand interlocking as a catenane steers the ORR selectivity to H2O as the major product via the 4e- pathway, rivaling the selectivity of Pt, and boosts the onset potential by 130 mV, the mass activity by 1.8 times, and the turnover frequency by 1.5 fold as compared to the noninterlocked counterpart. Our Cu catenane complex represents one of the first examples to take advantage of mechanical interlocking to afford electrocatalysts with enhanced activity and selectivity. The mechanistic insights gained through this integrated experimental and theoretical study are envisioned to be valuable not just to the area of ORR energy catalysis but also with broad implications on interlocked metal complexes that are of critical importance to the general fields in redox reactions involving proton-coupled electron transfer steps.
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- Xiaoyong Mo
- Department of Chemistry, HKU-CAS Joint Laboratory of New Materials, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, HKU-CAS Joint Laboratory of New Materials, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, HKU-CAS Joint Laboratory of New Materials, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, HKU-CAS Joint Laboratory of New Materials, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Center of Atomic Initiative for New Materials, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, HKU-CAS Joint Laboratory of New Materials, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, HKU-CAS Joint Laboratory of New Materials, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- HKU Zhejiang Institute of Research and Innovation, Hangzhou 311305, People's Republic of China
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- Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Center of Atomic Initiative for New Materials, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, HKU-CAS Joint Laboratory of New Materials, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, HKU-CAS Joint Laboratory of New Materials, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- HKU Zhejiang Institute of Research and Innovation, Hangzhou 311305, People's Republic of China
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Bloomer BJ, Natoli SN, Garcia-Borràs M, Pereira JH, Hu DB, Adams PD, Houk KN, Clark DS, Hartwig JF. Mechanistic and structural characterization of an iridium-containing cytochrome reveals kinetically relevant cofactor dynamics. Nat Catal 2023. [DOI: 10.1038/s41929-022-00899-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Thioester synthesis by a designed nickel enzyme models prebiotic energy conversion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2123022119. [PMID: 35858422 PMCID: PMC9335327 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2123022119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The formation of carbon-carbon bonds from prebiotic precursors such as carbon dioxide represents the foundation of all primordial life processes. In extant organisms, this reaction is carried out by the carbon monoxide dehydrogenase (CODH)/acetyl coenzyme A synthase (ACS) enzyme, which performs the cornerstone reaction in the ancient Wood-Ljungdahl metabolic pathway to synthesize the key biological metabolite, acetyl-CoA. Despite its significance, a fundamental understanding of this transformation is lacking, hampering efforts to harness analogous chemistry. To address these knowledge gaps, we have designed an artificial metalloenzyme within the azurin protein scaffold as a structural, functional, and mechanistic model of ACS. We demonstrate the intermediacy of the NiI species and requirement for ordered substrate binding in the bioorganometallic carbon-carbon bond-forming reaction from the one-carbon ACS substrates. The electronic and geometric structures of the nickel-acetyl intermediate have been characterized using time-resolved optical, electron paramagnetic resonance, and X-ray absorption spectroscopy in conjunction with quantum chemical calculations. Moreover, we demonstrate that the nickel-acetyl species is chemically competent for selective acyl transfer upon thiol addition to biosynthesize an activated thioester. Drawing an analogy to the native enzyme, a mechanism for thioester generation by this ACS model has been proposed. The fundamental insight into the enzymatic process provided by this rudimentary ACS model has implications for the evolution of primitive ACS-like proteins. Ultimately, these findings offer strategies for development of highly active catalysts for sustainable generation of liquid fuels from one-carbon substrates, with potential for broad applications across diverse fields ranging from energy storage to environmental remediation.
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Van Stappen C, Deng Y, Liu Y, Heidari H, Wang JX, Zhou Y, Ledray AP, Lu Y. Designing Artificial Metalloenzymes by Tuning of the Environment beyond the Primary Coordination Sphere. Chem Rev 2022; 122:11974-12045. [PMID: 35816578 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Metalloenzymes catalyze a variety of reactions using a limited number of natural amino acids and metallocofactors. Therefore, the environment beyond the primary coordination sphere must play an important role in both conferring and tuning their phenomenal catalytic properties, enabling active sites with otherwise similar primary coordination environments to perform a diverse array of biological functions. However, since the interactions beyond the primary coordination sphere are numerous and weak, it has been difficult to pinpoint structural features responsible for the tuning of activities of native enzymes. Designing artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) offers an excellent basis to elucidate the roles of these interactions and to further develop practical biological catalysts. In this review, we highlight how the secondary coordination spheres of ArMs influence metal binding and catalysis, with particular focus on the use of native protein scaffolds as templates for the design of ArMs by either rational design aided by computational modeling, directed evolution, or a combination of both approaches. In describing successes in designing heme, nonheme Fe, and Cu metalloenzymes, heteronuclear metalloenzymes containing heme, and those ArMs containing other metal centers (including those with non-native metal ions and metallocofactors), we have summarized insights gained on how careful controls of the interactions in the secondary coordination sphere, including hydrophobic and hydrogen bonding interactions, allow the generation and tuning of these respective systems to approach, rival, and, in a few cases, exceed those of native enzymes. We have also provided an outlook on the remaining challenges in the field and future directions that will allow for a deeper understanding of the secondary coordination sphere a deeper understanding of the secondary coordintion sphere to be gained, and in turn to guide the design of a broader and more efficient variety of ArMs.
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- Casey Van Stappen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 505 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.,Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 505 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Nayek A, Ahmed ME, Samanta S, Dinda S, Patra S, Dey SG, Dey A. Bioinorganic Chemistry on Electrodes: Methods to Functional Modeling. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:8402-8429. [PMID: 35503922 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c01842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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One of the major goals of bioinorganic chemistry has been to mimic the function of elegant metalloenzymes. Such functional modeling has been difficult to attain in solution, in particular, for reactions that require multiple protons and multiple electrons (nH+/ne-). Using a combination of heterogeneous electrochemistry, electrode and molecule design one may control both electron transfer (ET) and proton transfer (PT) of these nH+/ne- reactions. Such control can allow functional modeling of hydrogenases (H+ + e- → 1/2 H2), cytochrome c oxidase (O2 + 4 e- + 4 H+ → 2 H2O), monooxygenases (RR'CH2 + O2 + 2 e- + 2 H+ → RR'CHOH + H2O) and dioxygenases (S + O2 → SO2; S = organic substrate) in aqueous medium and at room temperatures. In addition, these heterogeneous constructs allow probing unnatural bioinspired reactions and estimation of the inner- and outer-sphere reorganization energy of small molecules and proteins.
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- Abhijit Nayek
- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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Controllable Preparation of Chiral Oxazoline-Cu(II) Catalyst as Nanoreactor for Highly Asymmetric Henry Reaction in Water. Catal Letters 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10562-021-03633-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Lehnert N, Kim E, Dong HT, Harland JB, Hunt AP, Manickas EC, Oakley KM, Pham J, Reed GC, Alfaro VS. The Biologically Relevant Coordination Chemistry of Iron and Nitric Oxide: Electronic Structure and Reactivity. Chem Rev 2021; 121:14682-14905. [PMID: 34902255 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is involved in a wide range of physiological and pathological events in biology. Metal coordination chemistry, especially with iron, is at the heart of many biological transformations involving NO. A series of heme proteins, nitric oxide synthases (NOS), soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC), and nitrophorins, are responsible for the biosynthesis, sensing, and transport of NO. Alternatively, NO can be generated from nitrite by heme- and copper-containing nitrite reductases (NIRs). The NO-bearing small molecules such as nitrosothiols and dinitrosyl iron complexes (DNICs) can serve as an alternative vehicle for NO storage and transport. Once NO is formed, the rich reaction chemistry of NO leads to a wide variety of biological activities including reduction of NO by heme or non-heme iron-containing NO reductases and protein post-translational modifications by DNICs. Much of our understanding of the reactivity of metal sites in biology with NO and the mechanisms of these transformations has come from the elucidation of the geometric and electronic structures and chemical reactivity of synthetic model systems, in synergy with biochemical and biophysical studies on the relevant proteins themselves. This review focuses on recent advancements from studies on proteins and model complexes that not only have improved our understanding of the biological roles of NO but also have provided foundations for biomedical research and for bio-inspired catalyst design in energy science.
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- Nicolai Lehnert
- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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Lemon CM, Marletta MA. Designer Heme Proteins: Achieving Novel Function with Abiological Heme Analogues. Acc Chem Res 2021; 54:4565-4575. [PMID: 34890183 PMCID: PMC8754152 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Heme proteins have proven to be a convenient platform for the development of designer proteins with novel functionalities. This is achieved by substituting the native iron porphyrin cofactor with a heme analogue that possesses the desired properties. Replacing the iron center of the porphyrin with another metal provides one inroad to novel protein function. A less explored approach is substitution of the porphyrin cofactor with an alternative tetrapyrrole macrocycle or a related ligand. In general, these ligands exhibit chemical properties and reactivity that are distinct from those of porphyrins. While these techniques have most prominently been utilized to develop artificial metalloenzymes, there are many other applications of this methodology to problems in biochemistry, health, and medicine. Incorporation of synthetic cofactors into protein environments represents a facile way to impart water solubility and biocompatibility. It circumvents the laborious synthesis of water-soluble cofactors, which often introduces substantial charge that leads to undesired bioaccumulation. To this end, the incorporation of unnatural cofactors in heme proteins has enabled the development of designer proteins as optical oxygen sensors, MRI contrast agents, spectroscopic probes, tools to interrogate protein function, antibiotics, and fluorescent proteins.Incorporation of an artificial cofactor is frequently accomplished by denaturing the holoprotein with removal of the heme; the refolded apoprotein is then reconstituted with the artificial cofactor. This process often results in substantial protein loss and does not necessarily guarantee that the refolded protein adopts the native structure. To circumvent these issues, our laboratory has pioneered the use of the RP523 strain of E. coli to incorporate artificial cofactors into heme proteins using expression-based methods. This strain lacks the ability to biosynthesize heme, and the bacterial cell wall is permeable to heme and related molecules. In this way, heme analogues supplemented in the growth medium are incorporated into heme proteins. This approach can also be leveraged for the direct expression of the apoprotein for subsequent reconstitution.These methodologies have been exploited to incorporate non-native cofactors into heme proteins that are resistant to harsh environmental conditions: the heme nitric oxide/oxygen binding protein (H-NOX) from Caldanaerobacter subterraneus (Cs) and the heme acquisition system protein A (HasA) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa). The exceptional stability of these proteins makes them ideal scaffolds for biomedical applications. Optical oxygen sensing has been accomplished using a phosphorescent ruthenium porphyrin as the artificial heme cofactor. Paramagnetic manganese and gadolinium porphyrins yield high-relaxivity, protein-based MRI contrast agents. A fluorescent phosphorus corrole serves as a heme analogue to produce fluorescent proteins. Iron complexes of nonporphyrin cofactors bound to HasA inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria. Moreover, HasA can deliver a gallium phthalocyanine into the bacterial cytosol to serve as a sensitizer for photochemical sterilization. Together, these examples illustrate the potential for designer heme proteins to address burgeoning problems in the areas of health and medicine. The concepts and methodologies presented in this Account can be extended to the development of next-generation biomedical sensing and imaging agents to identify and quantify clinically relevant metabolites and other key disease biomarkers.
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Mukherjee M, Dey A. Rejigging Electron and Proton Transfer to Transition between Dioxygenase, Monooxygenase, Peroxygenase, and Oxygen Reduction Activity: Insights from Bioinspired Constructs of Heme Enzymes. JACS AU 2021; 1:1296-1311. [PMID: 34604840 PMCID: PMC8479764 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Nature has employed heme proteins to execute a diverse set of vital life processes. Years of research have been devoted to understanding the factors which bias these heme enzymes, with all having a heme cofactor, toward distinct catalytic activity. Among them, axial ligation, distal super structure, and substrate binding pockets are few very vividly recognized ones. Detailed mechanistic investigation of these heme enzymes suggested that several of these enzymes, while functionally divergent, use similar intermediates. Furthermore, the formation and decay of these intermediates depend on proton and electron transfer processes in the enzyme active site. Over the past decade, work in this group, using in situ surface enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy of synthetic and biosynthetic analogues of heme enzymes, a general idea of how proton and electron transfer rates relate to the lifetime of different O2 derived intermediates has been developed. These findings suggest that the enzymatic activities of all these heme enzymes can be integrated into one general cycle which can be branched out to different catalytic pathways by regulating the lifetime and population of each of these intermediates. This regulation can further be achieved by tuning the electron and proton transfer steps. By strategically populating one of these intermediates during oxygen reduction, one can navigate through different catalytic processes to a desired direction by altering proton and electron transfer steps.
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- Manjistha Mukherjee
- School of Chemical Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India, 700032
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- School of Chemical Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India, 700032
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Abiological catalysis by myoglobin mutant with a genetically incorporated unnatural amino acid. Biochem J 2021; 478:1795-1808. [PMID: 33821889 PMCID: PMC10071548 DOI: 10.1042/bcj20210091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Revised: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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To inculcate biocatalytic activity in the oxygen-storage protein myoglobin (Mb), a genetically engineered myoglobin mutant H64DOPA (DOPA = L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine) has been created. Incorporation of unnatural amino acids has already demonstrated their ability to accomplish many non-natural functions in proteins efficiently. Herein, the presence of redox-active DOPA residue in the active site of mutant Mb presumably stabilizes the compound I in the catalytic oxidation process by participating in an additional hydrogen bonding (H-bonding) as compared to the WT Mb. Specifically, a general acid-base catalytic pathway was achieved due to the availability of the hydroxyl moieties of DOPA. The reduction potential values of WT (E° = -260 mV) and mutant Mb (E° = -300 mV), w.r.t. Ag/AgCl reference electrode, in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, indicated an additional H-bonding in the mutant protein, which is responsible for the peroxidase activity of the mutant Mb. We observed that in the presence of 5 mM H2O2, H64DOPA Mb oxidizes thioanisole and benzaldehyde with a 10 and 54 folds higher rate, respectively, as opposed to WT Mb. Based on spectroscopic, kinetic, and electrochemical studies, we deduce that DOPA residue, when present within the distal pocket of mutant Mb, alone serves the role of His/Arg-pair of peroxidases.
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Lin YW. Biodegradation of aromatic pollutants by metalloenzymes: A structural-functional-environmental perspective. Coord Chem Rev 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.213774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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De novo biosynthesis of a nonnatural cobalt porphyrin cofactor in E. coli and incorporation into hemoproteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2017625118. [PMID: 33850014 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2017625118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Enzymes that bear a nonnative or artificially introduced metal center can engender novel reactivity and enable new spectroscopic and structural studies. In the case of metal-organic cofactors, such as metalloporphyrins, no general methods exist to build and incorporate new-to-nature cofactor analogs in vivo. We report here that a common laboratory strain, Escherichia coli BL21(DE3), biosynthesizes cobalt protoporphyrin IX (CoPPIX) under iron-limited, cobalt-rich growth conditions. In supplemented minimal media containing CoCl2, the metabolically produced CoPPIX is directly incorporated into multiple hemoproteins in place of native heme b (FePPIX). Five cobalt-substituted proteins were successfully expressed with this new-to-nature cobalt porphyrin cofactor: myoglobin H64V V68A, dye decolorizing peroxidase, aldoxime dehydratase, cytochrome P450 119, and catalase. We show conclusively that these proteins incorporate CoPPIX, with the CoPPIX making up at least 95% of the total porphyrin content. In cases in which the native metal ligand is a sulfur or nitrogen, spectroscopic parameters are consistent with retention of native metal ligands. This method is an improvement on previous approaches with respect to both yield and ease-of-implementation. Significantly, this method overcomes a long-standing challenge to incorporate nonnatural cofactors through de novo biosynthesis. By utilizing a ubiquitous laboratory strain, this process will facilitate spectroscopic studies and the development of enzymes for CoPPIX-mediated biocatalysis.
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Nguyen H, Kleingardner J. Identifying metal binding amino acids based on backbone geometries as a tool for metalloprotein engineering. Protein Sci 2021; 30:1247-1257. [PMID: 33829594 DOI: 10.1002/pro.4074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Revised: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Metal cofactors within proteins perform a versatile set of essential cellular functions. In order to take advantage of the diverse functionality of metalloproteins, researchers have been working to design or modify metal binding sites in proteins to rationally tune the function or activity of the metal cofactor. This study has performed an analysis on the backbone atom geometries of metal-binding amino acids among 10 different metal binding sites within the entire protein data bank. A set of 13 geometric parameters (features) was identified that is capable of predicting the presence of a metal cofactor in the protein structure with overall accuracies of up to 97% given only the relative positions of their backbone atoms. The decision tree machine-learning algorithm used can quickly analyze an entire protein structure for the presence of sets of primary metal coordination spheres upon mutagenesis, independent of their original amino acid identities. The methodology was designed for application in the field of metalloprotein engineering. A cluster analysis using the data set was also performed and demonstrated that the features chosen are useful for identifying clusters of structurally similar metal-binding sites.
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- Hoang Nguyen
- Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Messiah University, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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Reed CJ, Lam QN, Mirts EN, Lu Y. Molecular understanding of heteronuclear active sites in heme-copper oxidases, nitric oxide reductases, and sulfite reductases through biomimetic modelling. Chem Soc Rev 2021; 50:2486-2539. [PMID: 33475096 PMCID: PMC7920998 DOI: 10.1039/d0cs01297a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Heme-copper oxidases (HCO), nitric oxide reductases (NOR), and sulfite reductases (SiR) catalyze the multi-electron and multi-proton reductions of O2, NO, and SO32-, respectively. Each of these reactions is important to drive cellular energy production through respiratory metabolism and HCO, NOR, and SiR evolved to contain heteronuclear active sites containing heme/copper, heme/nonheme iron, and heme-[4Fe-4S] centers, respectively. The complexity of the structures and reactions of these native enzymes, along with their large sizes and/or membrane associations, make it challenging to fully understand the crucial structural features responsible for the catalytic properties of these active sites. In this review, we summarize progress that has been made to better understand these heteronuclear metalloenzymes at the molecular level though study of the native enzymes along with insights gained from biomimetic models comprising either small molecules or proteins. Further understanding the reaction selectivity of these enzymes is discussed through comparisons of their similar heteronuclear active sites, and we offer outlook for further investigations.
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- Christopher J Reed
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urban, IL 61801, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urban, IL 61801, USA
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- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urban, IL 61801, USA. and Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urban, IL 61801, USA and Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Klein AS, Zeymer C. Design and engineering of artificial metalloproteins: from de novo metal coordination to catalysis. Protein Eng Des Sel 2021; 34:6150309. [PMID: 33635315 DOI: 10.1093/protein/gzab003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2020] [Revised: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Metalloproteins are essential to sustain life. Natural evolution optimized them for intricate structural, regulatory and catalytic functions that cannot be fulfilled by either a protein or a metal ion alone. In order to understand this synergy and the complex design principles behind the natural systems, simpler mimics were engineered from the bottom up by installing de novo metal sites in either natural or fully designed, artificial protein scaffolds. This review focuses on key challenges associated with this approach. We discuss how proteins can be equipped with binding sites that provide an optimal coordination environment for a metal cofactor of choice, which can be a single metal ion or a complex multinuclear cluster. Furthermore, we highlight recent studies in which artificial metalloproteins were engineered towards new functions, including electron transfer and catalysis. In this context, the powerful combination of de novo protein design and directed evolution is emphasized for metalloenzyme development.
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- Andreas S Klein
- Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München, 85747 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München, 85747 Garching, Germany
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Petrik ID, Davydov R, Kahle M, Sandoval B, Dwaraknath S, Ädelroth P, Hoffman B, Lu Y. An Engineered Glutamate in Biosynthetic Models of Heme-Copper Oxidases Drives Complete Product Selectivity by Tuning the Hydrogen-Bonding Network. Biochemistry 2021; 60:346-355. [PMID: 33464878 PMCID: PMC7888536 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Efficiently carrying out the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is critical for many applications in biology and chemistry, such as bioenergetics and fuel cells, respectively. In biology, this reaction is carried out by large, transmembrane oxidases such as heme-copper oxidases (HCOs) and cytochrome bd oxidases. Common to these oxidases is the presence of a glutamate residue next to the active site, but its precise role in regulating the oxidase activity remains unclear. To gain insight into its role, we herein report that incorporation of glutamate next to a designed heme-copper center in two biosynthetic models of HCOs improves O2 binding affinity, facilitates protonation of reaction intermediates, and eliminates release of reactive oxygen species. High-resolution crystal structures of the models revealed extended, water-mediated hydrogen-bonding networks involving the glutamate. Electron paramagnetic resonance of the cryoreduced oxy-ferrous centers at cryogenic temperature followed by thermal annealing allowed observation of the key hydroperoxo intermediate that can be attributed to the hydrogen-bonding network. By demonstrating these important roles of glutamate in oxygen reduction biochemistry, this work offers deeper insights into its role in native oxidases, which may guide the design of more efficient artificial ORR enzymes or catalysts for applications such as fuel cells.
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- Igor D. Petrik
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- The Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Lopez S, Marchi-Delapierre C, Cavazza C, Ménage S. A Selective Sulfide Oxidation Catalyzed by Heterogeneous Artificial Metalloenzymes Iron@NikA. Chemistry 2020; 26:16633-16638. [PMID: 33079395 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202003746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2020] [Revised: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Performing a heterogeneous catalysis with proteins is still a challenge. Herein, we demonstrate the importance of cross-linked crystals for sulfoxide oxidation by an artificial enzyme. The biohybrid consists of the insertion of an iron complex into a NikA protein crystal. The heterogeneous catalysts displays a better efficiency-with higher reaction kinetics, a better stability and expand the substrate scope compared to its solution counterpart. Designing crystalline artificial enzymes represents a good alternative to soluble or supported enzymes for the future of synthetic biology.
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- Sarah Lopez
- CEA, CNRS, IRIG, CBM, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France.,Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, DCM-SeRCO, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- CEA, CNRS, IRIG, CBM, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France
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Pan T, Liu Y, Sun H, Xu J, Liu J. Reversible Switch of a Selenium-Containing Antioxidant System Regulated by Protein Assembly. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c02638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Tiezheng Pan
- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
- College of Material Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- College of Material Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- College of Material Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- College of Material Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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Zhang P, Yuan H, Xu J, Wang XJ, Gao SQ, Tan X, Lin YW. A Catalytic Binding Site Together with a Distal Tyr in Myoglobin Affords Catalytic Efficiencies Similar to Natural Peroxidases. ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b05080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Ping Zhang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- Department of Chemistry & Institute of Biomedical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Key Lab of Sustainable Development of Polar Fisheries, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- Lab of Protein Structure and Function, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- Department of Chemistry & Institute of Biomedical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
- Lab of Protein Structure and Function, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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Fischer J, Renn D, Quitterer F, Radhakrishnan A, Liu M, Makki A, Ghorpade S, Rueping M, Arold ST, Groll M, Eppinger J. Robust and Versatile Host Protein for the Design and Evaluation of Artificial Metal Centers. ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b02896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Johannes Fischer
- Center for Integrated Protein Science, Department Chemie, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie, Technische Universität München (TUM), D-85747 Garching, Germany
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- Center for Integrated Protein Science, Department Chemie, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie, Technische Universität München (TUM), D-85747 Garching, Germany
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- Center for Integrated Protein Science, Department Chemie, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie, Technische Universität München (TUM), D-85747 Garching, Germany
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- Centre de Biochimie Structurale, CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France
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- Center for Integrated Protein Science, Department Chemie, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie, Technische Universität München (TUM), D-85747 Garching, Germany
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Zhang P, Xu J, Wang XJ, He B, Gao SQ, Lin YW. The Third Generation of Artificial Dye-Decolorizing Peroxidase Rationally Designed in Myoglobin. ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b02226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Ping Zhang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- Key Lab of Sustainable Development of Polar Fisheries, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences; Lab for Marine Drugs and Byproducts of Pilot National Lab for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- Lab of Protein Structure and Function, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
- Lab of Protein Structure and Function, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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Lin YW. Rational Design of Artificial Metalloproteins and Metalloenzymes with Metal Clusters. Molecules 2019; 24:E2743. [PMID: 31362341 PMCID: PMC6696605 DOI: 10.3390/molecules24152743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Revised: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Metalloproteins and metalloenzymes play important roles in biological systems by using the limited metal ions, complexes, and clusters that are associated with the protein matrix. The design of artificial metalloproteins and metalloenzymes not only reveals the structure and function relationship of natural proteins, but also enables the synthesis of artificial proteins and enzymes with improved properties and functions. Acknowledging the progress in rational design from single to multiple active sites, this review focuses on recent achievements in the design of artificial metalloproteins and metalloenzymes with metal clusters, including zinc clusters, cadmium clusters, iron-sulfur clusters, and copper-sulfur clusters, as well as noble metal clusters and others. These metal clusters were designed in both native and de novo protein scaffolds for structural roles, electron transfer, or catalysis. Some synthetic metal clusters as functional models of native enzymes are also discussed. These achievements provide valuable insights for deep understanding of the natural proteins and enzymes, and practical clues for the further design of artificial enzymes with functions comparable or even beyond those of natural counterparts.
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- Ying-Wu Lin
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China.
- Laboratory of Protein Structure and Function, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China.
- Hunan Key Laboratory for the Design and Application of Actinide Complexes, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China.
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Ehudin MA, Senft L, Franke A, Ivanović-Burmazović I, Karlin KD. Formation and Reactivity of New Isoporphyrins: Implications for Understanding the Tyr-His Cross-Link Cofactor Biogenesis in Cytochrome c Oxidase. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:10632-10643. [PMID: 31150209 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b01791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) catalyzes the reduction of dioxygen to water utilizing a heterobinuclear active site composed of a heme moiety and a mononuclear copper center coordinated to three histidine residues, one of which is covalently cross-linked to a tyrosine residue via a post-translational modification (PTM). Although this tyrosine-histidine moiety has functional and structural importance, the pathway behind this net oxidative C-N bond coupling is still unknown. A novel route employing an iron(III) meso-substituted isoporphyrin derivative, isoelectronic with Cmpd-I ((Por•+)FeIV═O), is for the first time proposed to be a key intermediate in the Tyr-His cofactor biogenesis. Newly synthesized iron(III) meso-substituted isoporphyrins were prepared with azide, cyanide, and substituted imidazole functionalities, by adding nucleophiles to an iron(III) π-dication species formed via addition of trifluoroacetic acid to F8Cmpd-I (F8 = (tetrakis(2,6-difluorophenyl)porphyrinate)). Isoporphyrin derivatives were characterized at cryogenic temperatures via ESI-MS and UV-vis, 2H NMR, and EPR spectroscopies. Addition of 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene or 4-methoxyphenol to the imidazole-substituted isoporphyrin led to formation of the organic product containing the imidazole coupled to aromatic substrate via a new C-N bond, as detected via cryo-ESI-MS. Experimental evidence for the formation of an imidazole-substituted isoporphyrin and its promising reactivity to form the imidazole-phenol coupled product yields viability to the herein proposed pathway behind the PTM (i.e., biogenesis) leading to the key covalent Tyr-His cross-link in CcO.
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- Melanie A Ehudin
- Department of Chemistry , Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland 21218 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg , 91058 Erlangen , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg , 91058 Erlangen , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg , 91058 Erlangen , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry , Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland 21218 , United States
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Liu C, Yuan H, Liao F, Wei CW, Du KJ, Gao SQ, Tan X, Lin YW. Unique Tyr-heme double cross-links in F43Y/T67R myoglobin: an artificial enzyme with a peroxidase activity comparable to that of native peroxidases. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:6610-6613. [PMID: 31119219 DOI: 10.1039/c9cc02714a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The X-ray crystal structure of F43Y/T67R myoglobin revealed unique Tyr-heme double cross-links between Tyr43 and the heme 4-vinyl group, which represents a novel post-translational modification of heme proteins. Moreover, with the feature of a distal His-Arg pair, the designed artificial enzyme exhibited a peroxidase activity comparable to that of native peroxidases, such as the most efficient horseradish peroxidase.
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- Can Liu
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China.
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- Department of Chemistry & Institute of Biomedical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China.
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- Laboratory of Protein Structure and Function, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- Department of Chemistry & Institute of Biomedical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China. and Laboratory of Protein Structure and Function, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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Mirts EN, Bhagi-Damodaran A, Lu Y. Understanding and Modulating Metalloenzymes with Unnatural Amino Acids, Non-Native Metal Ions, and Non-Native Metallocofactors. Acc Chem Res 2019; 52:935-944. [PMID: 30912643 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Metalloproteins set the gold standard for performing important functions, including catalyzing demanding reactions under mild conditions. Designing artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) to catalyze abiological reactions has been a major endeavor for many years, but most ArM activities are far below those of native enzymes, making them unsuitable for most pratical applications. A critical step to advance the field is to fundamentally understand what it takes to not only confer but also fine-tune ArM activities so they match those of native enzymes. Indeed, only once we can freely modulate ArM activity to rival (or surpass!) natural enzymes can the potential of ArMs be fully realized. A key to unlocking ArM potential is the observation that one metal primary coordination sphere can display a range of functions and levels of activity, leading to the realization that secondary coordination sphere (SCS) interactions are critically important. However, SCS interactions are numerous, long-range, and weak, making them very difficult to reproduce in ArMs. Furthermore, natural enzymes are tied to a small set of biologically available functional moieties from canonical amino acids and physiologically available metal ions and metallocofactors, severely limiting the chemical space available to probe and tune ArMs. In this Account, we summarize the use of unnatural amino acids (UAAs) and non-native metal ions and metallocofactors by our group and our collaborators to probe and modulate ArM functions. We incorporated isostructural UAAs in a type 1 copper (T1Cu) protein azurin to provide conclusive evidence that axial ligand hydrophobicity is a major determinant of T1Cu redunction potential ( E°'). Closely related work from other groups are also discussed. We also probed the role of protein backbone interactions that cannot be altered by standard mutagenesis by replacing the peptide bond with an ester linkage. We used insight gained from these studies to tune the E°' of azurin across the entire physiological range, the broadest range ever achieved in a single metalloprotein. Introducing UAA analogues of Tyr into ArM models of heme-copper oxidase (HCO) revealed a linear relationship between p Ka, E°', and activity. We also substituted non-native hemes and non-native metal ions for their native equivalents in these models to resolve several issues that were intractable in native HCOs and the closely related nitric oxide reductases, such as their roles in modulating substrate affinity, electron transfer rate, and activity. We incorporated abiological cofactors such as ferrocene and Mn(salen) into azurin and myoglobin, respectively, to stabilize these inorganic and organometallic compounds in water, confer abiological functions, tune their E°' and activity through SCS interactions, and show that the approach to metallocofactor anchoring and orientation can tune enantioselectivity and alter function. Replacing Cu in azurin with non-native Fe or Ni can impart novel activities, such as superoxide reduction and C-C bond formation. While progress was made, we have identified only a small fraction of the interactions that can be generally applied to ArMs to fine-tune their functions. Because SCS interactions are subtle and heavily interconnected, it has been difficult to characterize their effects quantitatively. It is vital to develop spectroscopic and computational techniques to detect and quantify their effects in both resting states and catalytic intermediates.
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- Evan N. Mirts
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Abstract
Many artificial enzymes that catalyze redox reactions have important energy, environmental, and medical applications. Native metalloenzymes use a set of redox-active amino acids and cofactors as redox centers, with a potential range between -700 and +800 mV versus standard hydrogen electrode (SHE, all reduction potentials are versus SHE). The redox potentials and the orientation of redox centers in native metalloproteins are optimal for their redox chemistry. However, the limited number and potential range of native redox centers challenge the design and optimization of novel redox chemistry in metalloenzymes. Artificial metalloenzymes use non-native redox centers and could go far beyond the natural range of redox potentials for novel redox chemistry. In addition to designing protein monomers, strategies for increasing the electron transfer rate in self-assembled protein complexes and protein-electrode or -nanomaterial interfaces will be discussed. Redox reactions in proteins occur on redox active amino acid residues (Tyr, Trp, Met, Cys, etc.) and cofactors (iron sulfur clusters, flavin, heme, etc.). The redox potential of these redox centers cover a ∼1.5 V range and is optimized for their specific functions. Despite recent progress, tuning the redox potential for amino acid residues or cofactors remains challenging. Many redox-active unnatural amino acids (UAAs) can be incorporated into protein via genetic codon expansion. Their redox potentials extend the range of physiologically relevant potentials. Indeed, installing new redox cofactors with fined-tuned redox potentials is essential for designing novel redox enzymes. By combining UAA and redox cofactor incorporation, we harnessed light energy to reduce CO2 in a fluorescent protein, mimicking photosynthetic apparatus in nature. Manipulating the position and reduction potential of redox centers inside proteins is important for optimizing the electron transfer rate and the activity of artificial enzymes. Learning from the native electron transfer complex, protein-protein interactions can be enhanced by increasing the electrostatic interaction between proteins. An artificial oxidase showed close to native enzyme activity with optimized interaction with electron transfer partner and increased electron transfer efficiency. In addition to the de novo design of protein-protein interaction, protein self-assembly methods using scaffolds, such as proliferating cell nuclear antigen, to efficiently anchor enzymes and their redox partners. The self-assembly process enhances electron transfer efficiency and enzyme activity by bringing redox centers into close proximity of each other. In addition to protein self-assembly, protein-electrode or protein-nanomaterial self-assembly can also promote efficient electron transfer from inorganic materials to enzyme active sites. Such hybrid systems combine the efficiency of enzyme reactions and the robustness of electrodes or nanomaterials, often with advantageous catalytic activities. By combining these strategies, we can not only mimic some of nature's most fascinating reactions, such as photosynthesis and aerobic respiration, but also transcend nature toward environmental, energy, and health applications.
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- Yang Yu
- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Institute for Synthetic Biosystem, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 5 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian
District, Beijing 100081, China
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- Laboratory of RNA Biology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
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- Laboratory of RNA Biology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
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Mirts EN, Petrik ID, Hosseinzadeh P, Nilges MJ, Lu Y. A designed heme-[4Fe-4S] metalloenzyme catalyzes sulfite reduction like the native enzyme. Science 2018; 361:1098-1101. [PMID: 30213908 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat8474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
Abstract
Multielectron redox reactions often require multicofactor metalloenzymes to facilitate coupled electron and proton movement, but it is challenging to design artificial enzymes to catalyze these important reactions, owing to their structural and functional complexity. We report a designed heteronuclear heme-[4Fe-4S] cofactor in cytochrome c peroxidase as a structural and functional model of the enzyme sulfite reductase. The initial model exhibits spectroscopic and ligand-binding properties of the native enzyme, and sulfite reduction activity was improved-through rational tuning of the secondary sphere interactions around the [4Fe-4S] and the substrate-binding sites-to be close to that of the native enzyme. By offering insight into the requirements for a demanding six-electron, seven-proton reaction that has so far eluded synthetic catalysts, this study provides strategies for designing highly functional multicofactor artificial enzymes.
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- Evan N Mirts
- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- School of Chemical Sciences Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. .,Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.,Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.,DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.,Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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Zambrano G, Ruggiero E, Malafronte A, Chino M, Maglio O, Pavone V, Nastri F, Lombardi A. Artificial Heme Enzymes for the Construction of Gold-Based Biomaterials. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:E2896. [PMID: 30250002 PMCID: PMC6213134 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19102896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Revised: 09/11/2018] [Accepted: 09/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Many efforts are continuously devoted to the construction of hybrid biomaterials for specific applications, by immobilizing enzymes on different types of surfaces and/or nanomaterials. In addition, advances in computational, molecular and structural biology have led to a variety of strategies for designing and engineering artificial enzymes with defined catalytic properties. Here, we report the conjugation of an artificial heme enzyme (MIMO) with lipoic acid (LA) as a building block for the development of gold-based biomaterials. We show that the artificial MIMO@LA can be successfully conjugated to gold nanoparticles or immobilized onto gold electrode surfaces, displaying quasi-reversible redox properties and peroxidase activity. The results of this work open interesting perspectives toward the development of new totally-synthetic catalytic biomaterials for application in biotechnology and biomedicine, expanding the range of the biomolecular component aside from traditional native enzymes.
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- Gerardo Zambrano
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli "Federico II" Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli "Federico II" Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli "Federico II" Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli "Federico II" Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli "Federico II" Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
- Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini, CNR, Via Mezzocannone 16, 80134 Napoli, Italy.
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli "Federico II" Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli "Federico II" Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli "Federico II" Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
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Yin L, Yuan H, Liu C, He B, Gao SQ, Wen GB, Tan X, Lin YW. A Rationally Designed Myoglobin Exhibits a Catalytic Dehalogenation Efficiency More than 1000-Fold That of a Native Dehaloperoxidase. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b02979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Lu−Lu Yin
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biomedical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- Laboratory of Protein Structure and Function, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- Laboratory of Protein Structure and Function, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biomedical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
- Laboratory of Protein Structure and Function, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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Hemschemeier A, Happe T. The plasticity of redox cofactors: from metalloenzymes to redox-active DNA. Nat Rev Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1038/s41570-018-0029-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Zhang Q, Zhang J, Gavathiotis E. ICBS 2017 in Shanghai-Illuminating Life with Chemical Innovation. ACS Chem Biol 2018; 13:1111-1122. [PMID: 29677443 PMCID: PMC6855916 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.8b00220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Qi Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Department of Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York 10461, United States
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Valdez CE, Morgenstern A, Eberhart ME, Alexandrova AN. Predictive methods for computational metalloenzyme redesign - a test case with carboxypeptidase A. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 18:31744-31756. [PMID: 27841396 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp02247b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Computational metalloenzyme design is a multi-scale problem. It requires treating the metal coordination quantum mechanically, extensive sampling of the protein backbone, and additionally accounting for the polarization of the active site by both the metal cation and the surrounding protein (a phenomenon called electrostatic preorganization). We bring together a combination of theoretical methods that jointly offer these desired qualities: QM/DMD for mixed quantum-classical dynamic sampling, quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) for the assessment of electrostatic preorganization, and Density Functional Theory (DFT) for mechanistic studies. Within this suite of principally different methods, there are both complementarity of capabilities and cross-validation. Using these methods, predictions can be made regarding the relative activities of related enzymes, as we show on the native Zn2+-dependent carboxypeptidase A (CPA), and its mutant proteins, which are hypothesized to hydrolyze modified substrates. For the native CPA, we replicated the catalytic mechanism and the rate in close agreement with the experiment, giving validity to the QM/DMD predicted structure, the DFT mechanism, and the QTAIM assessment of catalytic activity. For most sequences of the modified substrate and tried CPA mutants, substantially worsened activity is predicted. However, for the substrate mutant that contains Asp instead of Phe at the C-terminus, one CPA mutant exhibits a reasonable activity, as predicted across the theoretical methods. CPA is a well-studied system, and here it serves as a testing ground for the offered methods.
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- Crystal E Valdez
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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- Molecular Theory Group, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA.
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- Molecular Theory Group, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. and California NanoSystems Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Chino M, Leone L, Zambrano G, Pirro F, D'Alonzo D, Firpo V, Aref D, Lista L, Maglio O, Nastri F, Lombardi A. Oxidation catalysis by iron and manganese porphyrins within enzyme-like cages. Biopolymers 2018; 109:e23107. [DOI: 10.1002/bip.23107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2017] [Revised: 01/31/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Marco Chino
- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Napoli “Federico II,” Via Cintia; Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Napoli “Federico II,” Via Cintia; Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Napoli “Federico II,” Via Cintia; Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Napoli “Federico II,” Via Cintia; Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Napoli “Federico II,” Via Cintia; Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Napoli “Federico II,” Via Cintia; Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Napoli “Federico II,” Via Cintia; Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Napoli “Federico II,” Via Cintia; Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Napoli “Federico II,” Via Cintia; Napoli 80126 Italy
- Institute of Biostructures and Bioimages-National Research Council, Via Mezzocannone 16; Napoli 80134 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Napoli “Federico II,” Via Cintia; Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Napoli “Federico II,” Via Cintia; Napoli 80126 Italy
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Design of artificial metalloproteins/metalloenzymes by tuning noncovalent interactions. J Biol Inorg Chem 2017; 23:7-25. [DOI: 10.1007/s00775-017-1506-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2017] [Accepted: 09/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Möller F, Piontek S, Miller RG, Apfel UP. From Enzymes to Functional Materials-Towards Activation of Small Molecules. Chemistry 2017; 24:1471-1493. [PMID: 28816379 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201703451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2017] [Revised: 08/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The design of non-noble metal-containing heterogeneous catalysts for the activation of small molecules is of utmost importance for our society. While nature possesses very sophisticated machineries to perform such conversions, rationally designed catalytic materials are rare. Herein, we aim to raise the awareness of the overall common design and working principles of catalysts incorporating aspects of biology, chemistry, and material sciences.
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- Frauke Möller
- Inorganic Chemistry I/ Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstaße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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- Inorganic Chemistry I/ Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstaße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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- Inorganic Chemistry I/ Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstaße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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- Inorganic Chemistry I/ Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstaße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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Reed JH, Shi Y, Zhu Q, Chakraborty S, Mirts EN, Petrik ID, Bhagi-Damodaran A, Ross M, Moënne-Loccoz P, Zhang Y, Lu Y. Manganese and Cobalt in the Nonheme-Metal-Binding Site of a Biosynthetic Model of Heme-Copper Oxidase Superfamily Confer Oxidase Activity through Redox-Inactive Mechanism. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:12209-12218. [PMID: 28768416 PMCID: PMC5673108 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The presence of a nonheme metal, such as copper and iron, in the heme-copper oxidase (HCO) superfamily is critical to the enzymatic activity of reducing O2 to H2O, but the exact mechanism the nonheme metal ion uses to confer and fine-tune the activity remains to be understood. We herein report that manganese and cobalt can bind to the same nonheme site and confer HCO activity in a heme-nonheme biosynthetic model in myoglobin. While the initial rates of O2 reduction by the Mn, Fe, and Co derivatives are similar, the percentages of reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation are 7%, 4%, and 1% and the total turnovers are 5.1 ± 1.1, 13.4 ± 0.7, and 82.5 ± 2.5, respectively. These results correlate with the trends of nonheme-metal-binding dissociation constants (35, 22, and 9 μM) closely, suggesting that tighter metal binding can prevent ROS release from the active site, lessen damage to the protein, and produce higher total turnover numbers. Detailed spectroscopic, electrochemical, and computational studies found no evidence of redox cycling of manganese or cobalt in the enzymatic reactions and suggest that structural and electronic effects related to the presence of different nonheme metals lead to the observed differences in reactivity. This study of the roles of nonheme metal ions beyond the Cu and Fe found in native enzymes has provided deeper insights into nature's choice of metal ion and reaction mechanism and allows for finer control of the enzymatic activity, which is a basis for the design of efficient catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells.
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- Julian H. Reed
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biological
Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA
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- Division of Environmental & Biomolecular Systems, Institute
of Environmental Health, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR,
97239, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of
Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, 38677, USA
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- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California,
San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL,
60208, USA
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- Division of Environmental & Biomolecular Systems, Institute
of Environmental Health, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR,
97239, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biological
Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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Promoting a non-heme manganese complex catalyzed oxygen transfer reaction by both lewis acid and Brønsted acid: Similarities and distinctions. MOLECULAR CATALYSIS 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2017.05.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Chatterjee S, Sengupta K, Mondal B, Dey S, Dey A. Factors Determining the Rate and Selectivity of 4e -/4H + Electrocatalytic Reduction of Dioxygen by Iron Porphyrin Complexes. Acc Chem Res 2017; 50:1744-1753. [PMID: 28686419 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Reactivity as well as selectivity are crucial in the activation and electrocatalytic reduction of molecular oxygen. Recent developments in the understanding of the mechanism of electrocatalytic O2 reduction by iron porphyrin complexes in situ using surface enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy coupled to rotating disc electrochemistry (SERRS-RDE) in conjunction with H/D isotope effects on electrocatalytic current reveals that the rate of O2 reduction, ∼104 to 105 M-1 s-1 for simple iron porphyrins, is limited by the rate of O-O bond cleavage of an intermediate ferric peroxide species (FeIII-OOH). SERRS-RDE probes the system in operando when it is under steady state such that any intermediate species that has a greater rate of formation relative to its rate of decay, including the rate determining species, would accumulate and can be identified. This technique is particularly well suited to investigate iron porphyrin electrocatalysts as the intense symmetric ligand vibrations allow determination of the oxidation and spin states of the bound iron with high fidelity. The rate of O2 reduction could be tuned up by 3 orders of magnitude by incorporating residues in the catalyst design that can exert "push" or "pull" effects, that is, axial phenolate and thiolate ligands and distal arginine residues. Similarly the rate of O-O bond cleavage can be enhanced by several orders of magnitude upon incorporating a distal Cu site and installing the active site in a hydrophobic protein environment in synthetic models and biosynthetic protein scaffolds. The selectivity, however, is solely determined by the site of protonation of a ferric peroxide (FeIII-OOH) intermediate and can be governed by installing preorganized second sphere residues in the distal pocket. The 4e-/4H+ reduction of O2 entails protonation of the distal oxygen of the FeIII-OOH species, while 2e-/2H+ reduction requires the proximal oxygen to be protonated. Mechanistic investigations of CO2 reduction by iron porphyrins reveal that the rate-determining step is the C-O bond cleavage of a FeII-COOH species analogous to the O-O bond cleavage step of a FeIII-OOH species in O2 reduction. The selectivity, resulting in either CO or HCOOH, is determined by the site of protonation of this species. These similarities suggests that the chemical principles governing the rate and selectivity of reduction of small molecules like O2, CO2, NOx, and SOx may be quite similar in nature.
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- Sudipta Chatterjee
- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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Bhagi-Damodaran A, Kahle M, Shi Y, Zhang Y, Ädelroth P, Lu Y. Insights Into How Heme Reduction Potentials Modulate Enzymatic Activities of a Myoglobin-based Functional Oxidase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:6622-6626. [PMID: 28470988 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201701916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Heme-copper oxidase (HCO) is a class of respiratory enzymes that use a heme-copper center to catalyze O2 reduction to H2 O. While heme reduction potential (E°') of different HCO types has been found to vary >500 mV, its impact on HCO activity remains poorly understood. Here, we use a set of myoglobin-based functional HCO models to investigate the mechanism by which heme E°' modulates oxidase activity. Rapid stopped-flow kinetic measurements show that increasing heme E°' by ca. 210 mV results in increases in electron transfer (ET) rates by 30-fold, rate of O2 binding by 12-fold, O2 dissociation by 35-fold, while decreasing O2 affinity by 3-fold. Theoretical calculations reveal that E°' modulation has significant implications on electronic charge of both heme iron and O2 , resulting in increased O2 dissociation and reduced O2 affinity at high E°' values. Overall, this work suggests that fine-tuning E°' in HCOs and other heme enzymes can modulate their substrate affinity, ET rate and enzymatic activity.
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- Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Biological Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, NY, 07030, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Biological Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, NY, 07030, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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Bhagi‐Damodaran A, Kahle M, Shi Y, Zhang Y, Ädelroth P, Lu Y. Insights Into How Heme Reduction Potentials Modulate Enzymatic Activities of a Myoglobin‐based Functional Oxidase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201701916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences Stockholm University SE-10691 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Biological Sciences Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey NY 07030 USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Biological Sciences Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey NY 07030 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences Stockholm University SE-10691 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL 61801 USA
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Hu S, He B, Du KJ, Wang XJ, Gao SQ, Lin YW. Peroxidase Activity of a c-Type Cytochrome b5 in the Non-Native State is Comparable to that of Native Peroxidases. ChemistryOpen 2017. [PMID: 28638761 PMCID: PMC5474653 DOI: 10.1002/open.201700055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The design of artificial metalloenzymes has achieved tremendous progress, although few designs can achieve catalytic performances comparable to that of native enzymes. Moreover, the structure and function of artificial metalloenzymes in non‐native states has rarely been explored. Herein, we found that a c‐type cytochrome b5 (Cyt b5), N57C/S71C Cyt b5, with heme covalently attached to the protein matrix through two Cys–heme linkages, adopts a non‐native state with an open heme site after guanidine hydrochloride (Gdn⋅HCl)‐induced unfolding, which facilitates H2O2 activation and substrate binding. Stopped‐flow kinetic studies further revealed that c‐type Cyt b5 in the non‐native state exhibited impressive peroxidase activity comparable to that of native peroxidases, such as the most efficient horseradish peroxidase. This study presents an alternative approach to the design of functional artificial metalloenzymes by exploring enzymatic functions in non‐native states.
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- Shan Hu
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering University of South China Hengyang 421001 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering University of South China Hengyang 421001 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering University of South China Hengyang 421001 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering University of South China Hengyang 421001 P.R. China
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- Laboratory of Protein Structure and Function University of South China Hengyang 421001 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering University of South China Hengyang 421001 P.R. China.,Laboratory of Protein Structure and Function University of South China Hengyang 421001 P.R. China
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One day in the near future, Molly, an artificially intelligent assistant, will be able to answer almost any questions in chemistry and related disciplines. It will have a major impact on the way we perform research, education, and public outreach.
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- Yi Lu
- Department of Chemistry and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Bhagi-Damodaran A, Michael MA, Zhu Q, Reed J, Sandoval BA, Mirts EN, Chakraborty S, Moënne-Loccoz P, Zhang Y, Lu Y. Why copper is preferred over iron for oxygen activation and reduction in haem-copper oxidases. Nat Chem 2017; 9:257-263. [PMID: 28221360 PMCID: PMC5321616 DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2016] [Accepted: 09/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Haem-copper oxidase (HCO) catalyses the natural reduction of oxygen to water using a haem-copper centre. Despite decades of research on HCOs, the role of non-haem metal and the reason for nature's choice of copper over other metals such as iron remains unclear. Here, we use a biosynthetic model of HCO in myoglobin that selectively binds different non-haem metals to demonstrate 30-fold and 11-fold enhancements in the oxidase activity of Cu- and Fe-bound HCO mimics, respectively, as compared with Zn-bound mimics. Detailed electrochemical, kinetic and vibrational spectroscopic studies, in tandem with theoretical density functional theory calculations, demonstrate that the non-haem metal not only donates electrons to oxygen but also activates it for efficient O-O bond cleavage. Furthermore, the higher redox potential of copper and the enhanced weakening of the O-O bond from the higher electron density in the d orbital of copper are central to its higher oxidase activity over iron. This work resolves a long-standing question in bioenergetics, and renders a chemical-biological basis for the design of future oxygen-reduction catalysts.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and
Biological Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
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- Division of Environmental & Biomolecular Systems, Institute
of Environmental Health, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park
Road, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Division of Environmental & Biomolecular Systems, Institute
of Environmental Health, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park
Road, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and
Biological Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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Hu C, Yu Y, Wang J. Improving artificial metalloenzymes' activity by optimizing electron transfer. Chem Commun (Camb) 2017; 53:4173-4186. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cc09921a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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This feature article discusses the strategies to optimize electron transfer efficiency, towards enhancing the activity of artificial metalloenzymes.
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- Cheng Hu
- Laboratory of RNA Biology
- Institute of Biophysics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chaoyang District
- China
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Tianjin 300308
- China
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- Laboratory of RNA Biology
- Institute of Biophysics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chaoyang District
- China
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