Structural and Spectroscopic Properties of the Peroxodiferric Intermediate of Ricinus communis Soluble 螖9 Desaturase

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• 作者：Martin Srnec ; Tibor Andr谩s Rokob ; Jennifer K. Schwartz ; Yeonju Kwak ; Lubom铆r Rul铆拧ek ; Edward I. Solomon
• 刊名：Inorganic Chemistry
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：March 5, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：51
• 期：5
• 页码：2806-2820
• 全文大小：706K
• 年卷期：v.51,no.5(March 5, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-510X

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Large-scale quantum and molecular mechanical methods (QM/MM) and QM calculations were carried out on the soluble 螖⁹ desaturase (螖⁹D) to investigate various structural models of the spectroscopically defined peroxodiferric (P) intermediate. This allowed us to formulate a consistent mechanistic picture for the initial stages of the reaction mechanism of 螖⁹D, an important diferrous nonheme iron enzyme that cleaves the C鈥揌 bonds in alkane chains resulting in the highly specific insertion of double bonds. The methods (density functional theory (DFT), time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT), QM(DFT)/MM, and TD-DFT with electrostatic embedding) were benchmarked by demonstrating that the known spectroscopic effects and structural perturbation caused by substrate binding to diferrous 螖⁹D can be qualitatively reproduced. We show that structural models whose spectroscopic (absorption, circular dichroism (CD), vibrational and M枚ssbauer) characteristics correlate best with experimental data for the P intermediate correspond to the 渭-1,2-O₂^{2鈥?/sup> binding mode. Coordination of Glu196 to one of the iron centers (Fe_B) is demonstrated to be flexible, with the monodentate binding providing better agreement with spectroscopic data, and the bidentate structure being slightly favored energetically (1鈥?0 kJ mol鈥?). Further possible structures, containing an additional proton or water molecule are also evaluated in connection with the possible activation of the P intermediate. Specifically, we suggest that protonation of the peroxide moiety, possibly preceded by water binding in the Fe_A coordination sphere, could be responsible for the conversion of the P intermediate in 螖9D into a form capable of hydrogen abstraction. Finally, results are compared with recent findings on the related ribonucleotide reductase and toluene/methane monooxygenase enzymes.}