Electronic structural information from Q-band ENDOR on the type 1 and type 2 copper liganding environment in wild-type and mutant forms of copper-containing nitrite reductase

Biochemistry
A VeselovC P Scholes

Abstract

Q-band ENDOR elucidated proton and nitrogen hyperfine features to provide spin density information at ligands of blue-green Type 1 and catalytic Type 2 copper centers in nitrite reductase. The blue-green Type 1 center of nitrite reductase has a redox, electron-transfer role, and compared to the blue center of plastocyanin, it has the following structural differences: a shortened Cu-Smet bond length, a longer Cu-Scys bond length, and altered ligand-copper-ligand bond angles (Adman, E. T., Godden, J. W., and Turley, S. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 27458-27474). The hyperfine couplings of the two Type 1 histidine (N delta) ligands showed a larger percentage difference from each other in electron spin density than previously reported for other blue Type 1 proteins, while the cysteine beta-proton hyperfine couplings, a measure of unpaired p pi spin density on the liganding cysteine sulfur, showed a smaller electron spin density. A mutation of the Type 1 center, M182T, having the copper-liganding Met182 transformed to Thr182, caused the center to revert to an optically "blue" center, raised its redox potential by approximately 100 mV, and led to the loss of activity (prior paper). Surprisingly, in M182T there was no change from native ...Continue Reading

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