Book of Abstracts - Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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OP-22<br />
ISBOMC `10 5.7 – 9.7. 2010 <strong>Ruhr</strong>-<strong>Universität</strong> <strong>Bochum</strong><br />
Metalloenzymes in the bacterial life on carbon monoxide:<br />
A view from structural biology<br />
Holger Dobbek,* and Jae-Hun Jeoung<br />
Humboldt-<strong>Universität</strong> zu Berlin, Institute <strong>of</strong> Biology, Structural Biology/Biochemistry, Unter den<br />
Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany. E-mail: holger.dobbek@biologie.hu-berlin.de<br />
The biological conversions <strong>of</strong> small substrates like N2, H2, and CO2 are vital for the biogeochemical<br />
cycle and are typically catalyzed by metalloenzymes with complex iron-sulfur clusters. However, only<br />
little is known about how these metalloclusters activate their substrates.<br />
Carbon monoxide dehydrogenases (CODHases) catalyze the reversible oxidation <strong>of</strong> carbon monoxide<br />
with water, to carbon dioxide, two protons and two electrons. Two principal types <strong>of</strong> CODHases have<br />
been described, which differ in activity, metal composition, amino acid sequence and stability in the<br />
presence <strong>of</strong> oxygen. The Ni, Fe-containing CODHases found in anaerobic microorganisms have a<br />
unique Ni- and Fe-containing metal cluster called cluster C. 1 A Cu- and Mo-containing metal site is<br />
found in CODHases isolated from aerobic microorganisms. 1<br />
We used a crystallographic approach to gain further insights into the reaction mechanism <strong>of</strong> Ni, Fe-<br />
CODHases. Structural analysis <strong>of</strong> CODHII from Carboxydothermus hydrogen<strong>of</strong>ormans in several<br />
different states showed how substrates are activated by cluster C. 2 Water is bound by an<br />
asymmetrically coordinated Fe(II)-ion and carbon dioxide has been shown to act as a bridging ligand<br />
between Ni and the Fe(II)-ion. Amino acids in the direct vicinity <strong>of</strong> the cluster may contribute to<br />
catalysis by fast proton transfers and the stabilization <strong>of</strong> negatively charged intermediates. We further<br />
tested the reactivity <strong>of</strong> cluster C with inhibitors 3 and slow substrates, whose binding mode was<br />
resolved at atomic resolution. The structural analysis <strong>of</strong> ligand binding to cluster C presents a<br />
complementary approach to spectroscopic methods describing the electronic changes <strong>of</strong> cluster C<br />
during catalysis. Both approaches converge to a mechanism in which substrate activation and catalysis<br />
is mediated by a binuclear Ni-Fe sub site <strong>of</strong> cluster C.<br />
References<br />
1. S. W. Ragsdale, Crit. Rev. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 2004, 39, 165-195.<br />
2. J.-H. Jeoung, H. Dobbek, Science 2007, 318, 1461-1464.<br />
3. J.-H. Jeoung, H. Dobbek, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 9922-9923.<br />
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