EPR-Derived Structure of a Paramagnetic Intermediate Generated by Biotin Synthase BioB

Journal of the American Chemical Society
Lizhi TaoR David Britt

Abstract

Biotin (vitamin B7) is an enzyme cofactor required by organisms from all branches of life but synthesized only in microbes and plants. In the final step of biotin biosynthesis, a radical S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) enzyme, biotin synthase (BioB), converts the substrate dethiobiotin to biotin through the stepwise formation of two C-S bonds. Previous electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopic studies identified a semistable intermediate in the formation of the first C-S bond as 9-mercaptodethiobiotin linked to a paramagnetic [2Fe-2S] cluster through one of its bridging sulfides. Herein, we report orientation-selected pulse EPR spectroscopic results that reveal hyperfine interactions between the [2Fe-2S] cluster and a number of magnetic nuclei (e.g., 57Fe, 15N, 13C, and 2H) introduced in a site-specific manner via biosynthetic methods. Combining these results with quantum chemical modeling gives a structural model of the intermediate showing that C6, the target of the second hydrogen-atom abstraction, is now in close proximity to the nascent thioether sulfur and is ideally positioned for the second C-S bond forming event.

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