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The first direct characterization of a high-valent iron intermediate in the reaction of an alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase: A high-spin Fe(IV) complex in taurine/alpha-ketoglutarate dioxygenase (TauD) from Escherichia coli
Author(s): Price JC, Barr EW, Tirupati B, Bollinger JM, Krebs C
Source: BIOCHEMISTRY    Volume: 42    Issue: 24    Pages: 7497-7508    Published: JUN 24 2003  
Times Cited: 176     References: 47     
Abstract: The Fe(II)- and alpha-ketoglutarate(alphaKG)-dependent dioxygenases have roles in synthesis of collagen and sensing of oxygen in mammals, in acquisition of nutrients and synthesis of antibiotics in microbes, and in repair of alkylated DNA in both. A consensus mechanism for these enzymes, involving (1) addition of O-2 to a five-coordinate, (His)(2)(Asp)-facially coordinated Fe(II) center to which alphaKG is also bound via its C-1 carboxylate and ketone oxygen; (ii) attack of the uncoordinated oxygen of the bound O-2 on the ketone carbonyl of alphaKG to form a bicyclic Fe(IV)-peroxyhemiketal complex; (iii) decarboxylation of this complex concomitantly with formation of an oxo-ferryl (Fe(IV)=O2-) intermediate; and (iv) hydroxylation of the substrate by the Fe(IV)=O2- complex via a substrate radical intermediate, has repeatedly been proposed, but none of the postulated intermediates occurring after addition of O-2 has ever been detected. In this work, an oxidized Fe intermediate in the reaction of one of these enzymes, taurine/alpha-ketoglutarate dioxygenase (TauD) from Escherichia coli, has been directly demonstrated by rapid kinetic and spectroscopic methods. Characterization of the intermediate and its one-electron-reduced form (obtained by low-temperature gamma-radiolysis of the trapped intermediate) by Mossbauer and electron paramaonetic resonance spectroscopies establishes that it is a high-spin, formally Fe(IV) complex. Its Mossbauer isomer shift is, however, significantly greater than those of other known Fe(IV) complexes, suggesting that the iron ligands in the TauD intermediate confer significant Fe(III) character to the high valent site by strong electron donation. The properties of the complex and previous results on related alphaKG-dependent dioxygenases and other non-heme-Fe(II)-dependent, O-2-activating enzymes suggest that the TauD intermediate is most probably either the Fe(IV)-peroxyhemiketal complex or the taurine-hydroxylating Fe(IV)=O2- species. The detection of this intermediate sets the stage for a more detailed dissection of the TauD reaction mechanism than has previously been reported for any other member of this important enzyme family.
Document Type: Article
Language: English
Reprint Address: Bollinger, JM (reprint author), Penn State Univ, Dept Biochem & Mol Biol, Althouse Lab 208, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
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1. Penn State Univ, Dept Biochem & Mol Biol, Althouse Lab 208, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
Publisher: AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 1155 16TH ST, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA
Subject Category: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
IDS Number: 691UT
ISSN: 0006-2960
DOI: 10.1021/bi030011f
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