Differential Protonation at the Catalytic Six-Iron Cofactor of [FeFe]-Hydrogenases Revealed by 57 Fe Nuclear Resonance X-ray Scattering and Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Analyses

Inorganic Chemistry
Stefan MebsMichael Haumann

Abstract

[FeFe]-hydrogenases are efficient biological hydrogen conversion catalysts and blueprints for technological fuel production. The relations between substrate interactions and electron/proton transfer events at their unique six-iron cofactor (H-cluster) need to be elucidated. The H-cluster comprises a four-iron cluster, [4Fe4S], linked to a diiron complex, [FeFe]. We combined 57Fe-specific X-ray nuclear resonance scattering experiments (NFS, nuclear forward scattering; NRVS, nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy) with quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics computations to study the [FeFe]-hydrogenase HYDA1 from a green alga. Selective 57Fe labeling at only [4Fe4S] or [FeFe], or at both subcomplexes was achieved by protein expression with a 57Fe salt and in vitro maturation with a synthetic diiron site precursor containing 57Fe. H-cluster states were populated under infrared spectroscopy control. NRVS spectral analyses facilitated assignment of the vibrational modes of the cofactor species. This approach revealed the H-cluster structure of the oxidized state (Hox) with a bridging carbon monoxide at [FeFe] and ligand rearrangement in the CO-inhibited state (Hox-CO). Protonation at a cysteine ligand of [4Fe4S] in the oxidized st...Continue Reading

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