2aop
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SULFITE REDUCTASE: REDUCED WITH CRII EDTA, SIROHEME FEII, [4FE-4S] +1, PHOSPHATE BOUND
OverviewOverview
The active center of the Escherichia coli sulfite reductase hemoprotein, (SiRHP) is exquisitely designed to catalyze the six-electron reductions of, sulfite to sulfide and nitrite to ammonia. Refined high-resolution, crystallographic structures of oxidized, two-electron reduced, and, intermediately reduced states of SiRHP, monitored by single-crystal, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, reveal that a bridging, cysteine thiolate supplied by the protein always covalently links the, siroheme (iron isobacteriochlorin) to the Fe4S4 cluster, facilitating, their ability to transfer electrons to substrate. The reduction potential, and reactivity of the cluster are tuned by association with the siroheme, accessibility to solvent, and hydrogen bonds supplied by the protein loops, containing the four cluster-ligating cysteines. The distorted conformation, of the siroheme recognized by the protein potentially destabilizes the, electronic conjugation of the isobacteriochlorin ring and produces axial, configurations for some propionate side chains that promote interactions, with exogenous ligands and active-site residues. An extensive, hydrogen-bond network of positively charged side chains, ordered water, molecules, and siroheme carboxylates coordinates, polarizes, and, influences the protonation state of anionic ligands. In the oxidized, (siroheme Fe3+, Fe4S42+) SiRHP crystal structure, the high density of, positive charges in the binding pocket is stabilized by the siroheme's, sixth axial ligand-an exogenous phosphate anion. Binding assays with, H32PO42- demonstrate that oxidized SiRHP binds phosphate in solution with, a dissociation constant of 14 microM at pH 7.7, suggesting that phosphate, anions play an important role in stabilizing and sequestering the, active-site of the oxidized enzyme in vivo. Reduction of the cofactors, couples changes in siroheme iron coordination geometry to changes in, active-site protein conformation, leading to phosphate release both in the, crystal and in solution. An intermediately reduced enzyme, where the, siroheme is mainly ferrous (+2) and the cluster cubane is mainly oxidized, (+2), appears to have the lowest affinity for phosphate in the crystal., Reduction-gated release of phosphate from the substrate-binding site may, explain the 10(5)-fold increase in rates of ligand association that, accompany reduction of SiRHP.
About this StructureAbout this Structure
2AOP is a Single protein structure of sequence from Escherichia coli with PO4, K, SF4 and SRM as ligands. Active as Sulfite reductase (NADPH), with EC number 1.8.1.2 Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
ReferenceReference
Structures of the siroheme- and Fe4S4-containing active center of sulfite reductase in different states of oxidation: heme activation via reduction-gated exogenous ligand exchange., Crane BR, Siegel LM, Getzoff ED, Biochemistry. 1997 Oct 7;36(40):12101-19. PMID:9315848 [[Category: [4fe-4s] +1]]
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