Adduct
I (
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max at ~430 nm) form
ed in th
e r
eaction of 2-hydrazinopyridin
e (2HP)
and th
eTPQ cofactor of wild-typ
e Escherichia coli copp
er amin
e oxidas
e (WT-ECAO) is stabl
e at n
eutral pH,25
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verts to anoth
er sp
ectroscopically distinct sp
eci
es with a
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max at ~530 nm (adduct
II) at pH 9.1. Th
e con
version was acc
el
erat
ed
eith
er by incubation of th
e r
eaction mixtur
e at 60
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easing th
e pH (>13). Th
e acti
ve sit
e bas
e mutant forms of ECAO (D383N
and D383E) show
ed sp
ectralchang
es similar to WT wh
en incubat
ed at 60
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e Y369F mutant adduct
I was notstabl
e at pH 7, 25
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and gradually con
vert
ed to adduct
II,
and this rat
e of con
version was fast
er at pH9. To id
entify th
e natur
e of adduct
II, w
e ha
ve studi
ed th
e eff
ects of pH
and di
val
ent cations on th
eUV-
vis
and r
esonanc
e Raman sp
ectroscopic prop
erti
es of th
e mod
el compound of adduct
I (
2). Strikingly,it was found that addition of Cu
2+ to
2 at pH 7 ga
ve a product (
3) that
exhibit
ed almost id
enticalsp
ectroscopic signatur
es to adduct
II. Th
e X-ray crystal structur
e of
3 shows that it is th
e copp
er-coordinat
edform of
2, wh
er
e th
e +2 charg
e of copp
er is n
eutraliz
ed by a doubl
e d
eprotonation of
2. Th
es
e r
esults l
edto th
e proposal that adduct
II in th
e enzym
e is TPQ-2HP that has migrat
ed onto th
e acti
ve sit
e Cu
2+.Th
e X-ray crystal structur
e of Y369F adduct
II confirm
ed this assignm
ent. R
esonanc
e Raman
and EPRsp
ectroscopy show
ed that adduct
II in WT-ECAO is id
entical to that s
een in Y369F. This study cl
earlyd
emonstrat
es that th
e hydrog
en-bonding int
eraction b
etw
een O4 of TPQ
and th
e cons
er
ved Tyr (Y369)is important in controlling th
e position
and ori
entation of TPQ in th
e catalytic cycl
e, including optimalori
entation for r
eacti
vity with substrat
e amin
es.