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Enzyme Substrate Complex of the H200C Variant of Homoprotocatechuate 2,3-Dioxygenase: Mossbauer and Computational Studies.

ABSTRACT: The extradiol, aromatic ring-cleaving enzyme homoprotocatechuate 2,3-dioxygenase (HPCD) catalyzes a complex chain of reactions that involve second sphere residues of the active site. The importance of the second-sphere residue His200 was demonstrated in studies of HPCD variants, such as His200Cys (H200C), which revealed significant retardations of certain steps in the catalytic process as a result of the substitution, allowing novel reaction cycle intermediates to be trapped for spectroscopic characterization. As the H200C variant largely retains the wild-type active site structure and produces the correct ring-cleaved product, this variant presents a valuable target for mechanistic HPCD studies. Here, the high-spin Fe(II) states of resting H200C and the H200C-homoprotocatechuate enzyme-substrate (ES) complex have been characterized with Mössbauer spectroscopy to assess the electronic structures of the active site in these states. The analysis reveals a high-spin Fe(II) center in a low symmetry environment that is reflected in the values of the zero-field splitting (ZFS) (D ? - 8 cm(-1), E/D ? 1/3 in ES), as well as the relative orientations of the principal axes of the (57)Fe magnetic hyperfine (A) and electric field gradient (EFG) tensors relative to the ZFS tensor axes. A spin Hamiltonian analysis of the spectra for the ES complex indicates that the magnetization axis of the integer-spin S = 2 Fe(II) system is nearly parallel to the symmetry axis, z, of the doubly occupied dxy ground orbital deduced from the EFG and A-values, an observation, which cannot be rationalized by DFT assisted crystal-field theory. In contrast, ORCA/CASSCF calculations for the ZFS tensor in combination with DFT calculations for the EFG- and A-tensors describe the experimental data remarkably well.

SUBMITTER: Meier KK

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4924929 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Enzyme Substrate Complex of the H200C Variant of Homoprotocatechuate 2,3-Dioxygenase: Mössbauer and Computational Studies.

Meier Katlyn K KK Rogers Melanie S MS Kovaleva Elena G EG Lipscomb John D JD Bominaar Emile L EL Münck Eckard E

Inorganic chemistry 20160608 12

The extradiol, aromatic ring-cleaving enzyme homoprotocatechuate 2,3-dioxygenase (HPCD) catalyzes a complex chain of reactions that involve second sphere residues of the active site. The importance of the second-sphere residue His200 was demonstrated in studies of HPCD variants, such as His200Cys (H200C), which revealed significant retardations of certain steps in the catalytic process as a result of the substitution, allowing novel reaction cycle intermediates to be trapped for spectroscopic ch ...[more]

PMID: 27275865

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Project description:Homoprotocatechuate (HPCA; 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetate or 4-carboxymethyl catechol) and O(2) bind in adjacent ligand sites of the active site Fe(II) of homoprotocatechuate 2,3-dioxygenase (FeHPCD). We have proposed that electron transfer from the chelated aromatic substrate through the Fe(II) to O(2) gives both substrates radical character. This would promote reaction between the substrates to form an alkylperoxo intermediate as the first step in aromatic ring cleavage. Several active site amino acids are thought to promote these reactions through acid/base chemistry, hydrogen bonding, and electrostatic interactions. Here the role of Tyr257 is explored by using the Tyr257Phe (Y257F) variant, which decreases k(cat) by about 75%. The crystal structure of the FeHPCD-HPCA complex has shown that Tyr257 hydrogen bonds to the deprotonated C2-hydroxyl of HPCA. Stopped-flow studies show that at least two reaction intermediates, termed Y257F(Int1)(HPCA) and Y257F(Int2)(HPCA), accumulate during the Y257F-HPCA + O(2) reaction prior to formation of the ring-cleaved product. Y257F(Int1)(HPCA) is colorless and is formed as O(2) binds reversibly to the HPCA?enzyme complex. Y257F(Int2)(HPCA) forms spontaneously from Y257F(Int1)(HPCA) and displays a chromophore at 425 nm (?(425) = 10 500 M(?1) cm(?1)). Mo?ssbauer spectra of the intermediates trapped by rapid freeze quench show that both intermediates contain Fe(II). The lack of a chromophore characteristic of a quinone or semiquinone form of HPCA, the presence of Fe(II), and the low O(2) affinity suggest that Y257F(Int1)(HPCA) is an HPCA-Fe(II)-O(2) complex with little electron delocalization onto the O(2). In contrast, the intense spectrum of Y257F(Int2)(HPCA) suggests the intermediate is most likely an HPCA quinone-Fe(II)-(hydro)peroxo species. Steady-state and transient kinetic analyses show that steps of the catalytic cycle are slowed by as much as 100-fold by the mutation. These effects can be rationalized by a failure of Y257F to facilitate the observed distortion of the bound HPCA that is proposed to promote transfer of one electron to O(2).

Project description:Homoprotocatechuate 2,3-dioxygenase (FeHPCD) utilizes an active site Fe(II) to activate O(2) in a reaction cycle that ultimately results in aromatic ring cleavage. Here, the roles of the conserved active site residue Tyr257 are investigated by solving the X-ray crystal structures of the Tyr257-to-Phe variant (Y257F) in complex with the substrate homoprotocatechuate (HPCA) and the alternative substrate 4-nitrocatechol (4NC). These are compared with structures of the analogous wild type enzyme complexes. In addition, the oxy intermediate of the reaction cycle of Y257F-4NC + O(2) is formed in crystallo and structurally characterized. It is shown that both substrates adopt a previously unrecognized, slightly nonplanar, strained conformation affecting the geometries of all aromatic ring carbons when bound in the FeHPCD active site. This global deviation from planarity is not observed for the Y257F variant. In the Y257F-4NC-oxy complex, the O(2) is bound side-on to the Fe(II), while the 4NC is chelated in two adjacent sites. The ring of the 4NC in this complex is planar, in contrast to the equivalent FeHPCD intermediate, which exhibits substantial local distortion of the substrate hydroxyl moiety (C2-O(-)) that is hydrogen bonded to Tyr257. We propose that Tyr257 induces the global and local distortions of the substrate ring in two different ways. First, van der Waals conflict between the Tyr257-OH substituent and the substrate C2 carbon is relieved by adopting the globally strained structure. Second, Tyr257 stabilizes the localized out-of-plane position of the C2-O(-) by forming a stronger hydrogen bond as the distortion increases. Both types of distortions favor transfer of one electron out of the substrate to form a reactive semiquinone radical. Then, the localized distortion at substrate C2 promotes formation of the key alkylperoxo intermediate of the cycle resulting from oxygen attack on the activated substrate at C2, which becomes sp(3) hybridized. The inability of Y257F to promote the distorted substrate structure may explain the observed 100-fold decrease in the rates of the O(2) activation and insertion steps of the reaction.

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Enzyme Substrate Complex of the H200C Variant of Homoprotocatechuate 2,3-Dioxygenase: Mossbauer and Computational Studies.

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Enzyme Substrate Complex of the H200C Variant of Homoprotocatechuate 2,3-Dioxygenase: Mössbauer and Computational Studies.

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