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Electron-paramagnetic-resonance and magnetic-circular-dichroism studies of the binding of cyanide and thiols to the thiols to the iron-molybdenum cofactor from Klebsiella pneumoniae nitrogenase.


ABSTRACT: FeMoco, a low-M(r) metal cluster of probable composition Fe7MoS9 complexed with homocitrate, has been extracted with N-methylformamide from the MoFe protein of the nitrogenase enzyme from Klebsiella pneumoniae. The binding of cyanide and thiols to the FeMoco cluster in its paramagnetic S = 3/2 oxidation level has been studied by low-temperature e.p.r. and magnetic-circular-dichroism (m.c.d.) spectroscopies. Cyanide binds to isolated FeMoco at more than one site, and causes changes in the g values form g = 4.6, 3.2, 2.0 to g = 4.29, 3.82, 2.02 E.p.r. competition studies indicate that one cyanide can be displaced by thiolate from one type of site. The form of the low-temperature m.c.d. spectrum is little changed by ligand binding, thus the basic cluster structure remains intact. However, when benzenethiol is bound, a new intense band (lambda 387 nm) is observed, indicating the generation of an increased ligand-to-cluster charge-transfer interaction.

SUBMITTER: Richards AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1137839 | biostudies-other | 1994 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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