Structural Characterization of the Peroxodiiron(III) Intermediate Generated during Oxygen Activation by the W48A/D84E Variant of Ribonucleotide Reductase Protein R2 from Escherichia coli
- 25 October 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 42 (45) , 13269-13279
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi035198p
Abstract
The diiron(II) cluster in the R2 subunit of Escherichia coli ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) activates oxygen to generate a μ-oxodiiron(III) cluster and the stable tyrosyl radical that is critical for the conversion of ribonucleotides to deoxyribonucleotides. Like those in other diiron carboxylate proteins, such as methane monooxygenase (MMO), the R2 diiron cluster is proposed to activate oxygen by formation of a peroxodiiron(III) intermediate followed by an oxidizing high-valent cluster. Substitution of key active site residues results in perturbations of the normal oxygen activation pathway. Variants in which the active site ligand, aspartate (D) 84, is changed to glutamate (E) are capable of accumulating a μ-peroxodiiron(III) complex in the reaction pathway. Using rapid freeze−quench techniques, this intermediate in a double variant, R2-W48A/D84E, was trapped for characterization by Mössbauer and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. These samples contained 70% peroxodiiron(III) intermediate and 30% diferrous R2. An Fe−Fe distance of 2.5 Å was found to be associated with the peroxo intermediate. As has been proposed for the structures of the higher valent intermediates in both R2 and MMO, carboxylate shifts to a μ-(η1,η2) or a μ-1,1 conformation would most likely be required to accommodate the short 2.5 Å Fe−Fe distance. In addition, the diferrous form of the enzyme present in the reacted sample has a longer Fe−Fe distance (3.5 Å) than does a sample of anaerobically prepared diferrous R2 (3.4 Å). Possible explanations for this difference in detected Fe−Fe distance include an O2-induced conformational change prior to covalent chemistry or differing O2 reactivity among multiple diiron(II) forms of the cluster.Keywords
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