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Electron-paramagnetic-resonance studies on nitrogenase of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Evidence for acetylene- and ethylene-nitrogenase transient complexes.


ABSTRACT: Klebsiella pneumoniae nitrogenase exhibited four new electron-paramagnetic-resonance signals during turnover at 10 degrees C, pH7.4, which were assigned to intermediates present in low concentrations in the steady state. 57Fe-substituted Mo--Fe protein showed that they arose from Fe--S clusters in the Mo--Fe protein of nitrogenase. The new signals are designated: Ic, g values at 4.67, 3.37 and approx. 2.0; VI, g values at 2.125, 2.000 and 2.000; VII, g values at 5.7 and 5.4; VIII, g values at 2.092, 1.974 and 1.933. The sharp axial signal VI arises from a Fe4S4 cluster at the --1 oxidation level. This signal was only detected in the presence of ethylene and provides the first evidence of an enzyme--product complex for nitrogenase. [13C]Acetylene and [13C]ethylene provided no evidence for direct binding of this substrate and product to the Fe--S clusters giving rise to these signals. The dependence of signal intensities on acetylene concentration indicated two types of binding site, with apparent dissociation constants K less than 16 micron and K approximately 13mM. A single binding site for ethylene (K=1.5mM) was detected. A scheme is proposed for the mechanism of reduction of acetylene to ethylene and inhibition of this reaction by CO.

SUBMITTER: Lowe DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1185772 | biostudies-other | 1978 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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