Field, Sarah J., Prior, Louise, Roldán, M. Dolores, Cheesman, Myles, Thomson, Andrew J., Spiro, Stephen, Butt, Julea ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9624-5226, Watmough, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5901-6750 and Richardson, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6847-1832
(2002)
Spectral Properties of Bacterial Nitric-oxide Reductase. RESOLUTION OF pH-DEPENDENT FORMS OF THE ACTIVE SITE HEME b3.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277 (23).
pp. 20146-20150.
ISSN 1083-351X
Abstract
Bacterial nitric-oxide reductase catalyzes the two electron reduction of nitric oxide to nitrous oxide. In the oxidized form the active site non-heme FeB and high spin heme b 3 are µ-oxo bridged. The hemeb 3 has a ligand-to-metal charge transfer band centered at 595 nm, which is insensitive to pH over the range of 6.0–8.5. Partial reduction of nitric-oxide reductase yields a three electron-reduced state where only the hemeb 3 remains oxidized. This results in a shift of the heme b 3 charge transfer band ?max to longer wavelengths. At pH 6.0 the charge transfer band ?max is 605 nm, whereas at pH 8.5 it is 635 nm. At pH 6.5 and 7.5 the nitric-oxide reductase ferric hemeb 3 population is a mixture of both 605- and 635-nm forms. Magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy suggests that at all pH values examined the proximal ligand to the ferric hemeb 3 in the three electron-reduced form is histidine. At pH 8.5 the distal ligand is hydroxide, whereas at pH 6.0, when the enzyme is most active, it is water.
Item Type: | Article |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
Depositing User: | Rachel Smith |
Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2011 16:50 |
Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2022 03:08 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/21419 |
DOI: | 10.1074/jbc.M112202200 |
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