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Tyson K, Tangtartharakul CB, Zeug M, Findling N, Haddy A, Hvastkovs E, Choe JY, Kim JE, Offenbacher AR. Electrochemical and Structural Study of the Buried Tryptophan in Azurin: Effects of Hydration and Polarity on the Redox Potential of W48. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:133-143. [PMID: 36542812 PMCID: PMC9841983 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Tryptophan serves as an important redox-active amino acid in mediating electron transfer and mitigating oxidative damage in proteins. We previously showed a difference in electrochemical potentials for two tryptophan residues in azurin with distinct hydrogen-bonding environments. Here, we test whether reducing the side chain bulk at position Phe110 to Leu, Ser, or Ala impacts the electrochemical potentials (E°) for tryptophan at position 48. X-ray diffraction confirmed the influx of crystallographically resolved water molecules for both the F110A and F110L tyrosine free azurin mutants. The local environments of W48 in all azurin mutants were further evaluated by UV resonance Raman (UVRR) spectroscopy to probe the impact of mutations on hydrogen bonding and polarity. A correlation between the frequency of the ω17 mode─considered a vibrational marker for hydrogen bonding─and E° is proposed. However, the trend is opposite to the expectation from a previous study on small molecules. Density functional theory calculations suggest that the ω17 mode reflects hydrogen bonding as well as local polarity. Further, the UVRR data reveal different intensity/frequency shifts of the ω9/ω10 vibrational modes that characterize the local H-bonding environments of tryptophan. The cumulative data support that the presence of water increases E° and reveal properties of the protein microenvironment surrounding tryptophan.
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- Kristin Tyson
- Department
of Chemistry, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, East Carolina University, Greenville North Carolina, 27858, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina 27402, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, East Carolina University, Greenville North Carolina, 27858, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, United States
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Cabalo JB, Saikin SK, Emmons ED, Rappoport D, Aspuru-Guzik A. State-by-state investigation of destructive interference in resonance Raman spectra of neutral tyrosine and the tyrosinate anion with the simplified sum-over-states approach. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:9675-86. [PMID: 25233377 DOI: 10.1021/jp506948h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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UV resonance Raman scattering is uniquely sensitive to the molecular electronic structure as well as intermolecular interactions. To better understand the relationship between electronic structure and resonance Raman cross section, we carried out combined experimental and theoretical studies of neutral tyrosine and the tyrosinate anion. We studied the Raman cross sections of four vibrational modes as a function of excitation wavelength, and we analyzed them in terms of the contributions of the individual electronic states as well as of the Albrecht A and B terms. Our model, which is based on time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), reproduced the experimental resonance Raman spectra and Raman excitation profiles for both studied molecules with good agreement. We found that for the studied modes, the contributions of Albrecht's B terms in the Raman cross sections were important across the frequency range spanning the L(a,b) and B(a,b) electronic excitations in tyrosine and the tyrosinate anion. Furthermore, we demonstrated that interference with high-energy states had a significant impact and could not be neglected even when in resonance with a lower-energy state. The symmetry of the vibrational modes served as an indicator of the dominance of the A or B mechanisms. Excitation profiles calculated with a damping constant estimated from line widths of the electronic absorption bands had the best consistency with experimental results.
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- Jerry B Cabalo
- U.S. Army ECBC , RDCB-DRI-I/BLDG E5951, 5183 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Maryland 21010, United States
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Barry BA. Reaction dynamics and proton coupled electron transfer: studies of tyrosine-based charge transfer in natural and biomimetic systems. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1847:46-54. [PMID: 25260243 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2014] [Revised: 08/27/2014] [Accepted: 09/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In bioenergetic reactions, electrons are transferred long distances via a hopping mechanism. In photosynthesis and DNA synthesis, the aromatic amino acid residue, tyrosine, functions as an intermediate that is transiently oxidized and reduced during long distance electron transfer. At physiological pH values, oxidation of tyrosine is associated with a deprotonation of the phenolic oxygen, giving rise to a proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) reaction. Tyrosine-based PCET reactions are important in photosystem II, which carries out the light-induced oxidation of water, and in ribonucleotide reductase, which reduces ribonucleotides to form deoxynucleotides. Photosystem II contains two redox-active tyrosines, YD (Y160 in the D2 polypeptide) and YZ (Y161 in the D1 polypeptide). YD forms a light-induced stable radical, while YZ functions as an essential charge relay, oxidizing the catalytic Mn₄CaO₅ cluster on each of four photo-oxidation reactions. In Escherichia coli class 1a RNR, the β2 subunit contains the radical initiator, Y122O•, which is reversibly reduced and oxidized in long range electron transfer with the α2 subunit. In the isolated E. coli β2 subunit, Y122O• is a stable radical, but Y122O• is activated for rapid PCET in an α2β2 substrate/effector complex. Recent results concerning the structure and function of YD, YZ, and Y122 are reviewed here. Comparison is made to recent results derived from bioengineered proteins and biomimetic compounds, in which tyrosine-based charge transfer mechanisms have been investigated. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Vibrational spectroscopies and bioenergetic systems.
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- Bridgette A Barry
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA; Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
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Offenbacher AR, Pagba CV, Polander BC, Brahmachari U, Barry BA. First site-specific incorporation of a noncanonical amino acid into the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex. ACS Chem Biol 2014; 9:891-6. [PMID: 24437616 DOI: 10.1021/cb400880u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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In photosystem II (PSII), water is oxidized at the oxygen-evolving complex. This process occurs through a light-induced cycle that produces oxygen and protons. While coupled proton and electron transfer reactions play an important role in PSII and other proteins, direct detection of internal proton transfer reactions is challenging. Here, we demonstrate that the unnatural amino acid, 7-azatryptophan (7AW), has unique, pH-sensitive vibrational frequencies, which are sensitive markers of proton transfer. The intrinsically disordered, PSII subunit, PsbO, which contains a single W residue (Trp241), was engineered to contain 7AW at position 241. Fluorescence shows that 7AW-241 is buried in a hydrophobic environment. Reconstitution of 7AW(241)PsbO to PSII had no significant impact on oxygen evolution activity or flash-dependent protein dynamics. We conclude that directed substitution of 7AW into other structural domains is likely to provide a nonperturbative spectroscopic probe, which can be used to define internal proton pathways in PsbO.
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- Adam R. Offenbacher
- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Lee PY, Teng HS, Yeh CS. Preparation of superparamagnetic Mn(x)Fe(1-x)O nanoparticles from low-index-facet cubes to high-index-facet concave structures and their catalytic performance in aqueous solution. NANOSCALE 2013; 5:7558-7563. [PMID: 23836257 DOI: 10.1039/c3nr01865b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We report the synthesis of concave magnetic Mn(x)Fe(1-x)O nanoparticles with high-index facet structures by a thermal decomposition approach. The particle morphology varies from cubic shape under pure Ar, to star-like shapes with exposure to air during the reaction. The oxidative etching in the presence of air (O2) strongly affects the exposed facets on the surface. These concave nanoparticles are transferred from the organic phase to aqueous solution and show distinct catalytic activity toward the degradation of xylenol orange in aqueous solution.
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- Pei-Ying Lee
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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Offenbacher AR, Burns LA, Sherrill CD, Barry BA. Redox-linked conformational control of proton-coupled electron transfer: Y122 in the ribonucleotide reductase β2 subunit. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:8457-68. [PMID: 23822111 DOI: 10.1021/jp404757r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Tyrosyl radicals play essential roles in biological proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions. Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) catalyzes the reduction of ribonucleotides and is vital in DNA replication in all organisms. Class Ia RNRs consist of α2 and β2 homodimeric subunits. In class Ia RNR, such as the E. coli enzyme, an essential tyrosyl radical (Y122O(•))-diferric cofactor is located in β2. Although Y122O(•) is extremely stable in free β2, Y122O(•) is highly reactive in the quaternary substrate-α2β2 complex and serves as a radical initiator in catalytic PCET between β2 and α2. In this report, we investigate the structural interactions that control the reactivity of Y122O(•) in a model system, isolated E. coli β2. Y122O(•) was reduced with hydroxyurea (HU), a radical scavenger that quenches the radical in a clinically relevant reaction. In the difference FT-IR spectrum, associated with this PCET reaction, amide I (CO) and amide II (CN/NH) bands were observed. Specific (13)C-labeling of the tyrosine C1 carbon assigned a component of these bands to the Y122-T123 amide bond. Comparison to density functional calculations on a model dipeptide, tyrosine-threonine, and structural modeling demonstrated that PCET is associated with a Y122 rotation and a 7.2 Å translation of the Y122 phenolic oxygen. To test for the functional consequences of this structural change, a proton inventory defined the origin of the large solvent isotope effect (SIE = 16.7 ± 1.0 at 25 °C) on this reaction. These data suggest that the one-electron, HU-mediated reduction of Y122O(•) is associated with two, rate-limiting (full or partial) proton transfer reactions. One is attributable to HU oxidation (SIE = 11.9, net H atom transfer), and the other is attributable to coupled, hydrogen-bonding changes in the Y122O(•)-diferric cofactor (SIE = 1.4). These results illustrate the importance of redox-linked changes to backbone and ring dihedral angles in high potential PCET and provide evidence for rate-limiting, redox-linked hydrogen-bonding interactions between Y122O(•) and the iron cluster.
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- Adam R Offenbacher
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Kneuttinger AC, Heil K, Kashiwazaki G, Carell T. The radical SAM enzyme spore photoproduct lyase employs a tyrosyl radical for DNA repair. Chem Commun (Camb) 2013; 49:722-4. [PMID: 23228940 DOI: 10.1039/c2cc37735g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The spore photoproduct lyase is a radical SAM enzyme, which repairs 5-(α-thyminyl)-5,6-dihydrothymidine. Here we show that the enzyme establishes a complex radical transfer cascade and creates a cysteine and a tyrosyl radical dyade to establish repair. This allows the enzyme to solve topological and energetic problems associated with the radical based repair reaction.
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- Andrea Christa Kneuttinger
- Center for Integrative Protein Science at the Department for Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Butenandtstr. 5-13, 81377 Munich, Germany
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Pagba CV, Barry BA. Redox-Induced Conformational Switching in Photosystem-II-Inspired Biomimetic Peptides: A UV Resonance Raman Study. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:10590-9. [DOI: 10.1021/jp303607b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Cynthia V. Pagba
- School of Chemistry and
Biochemistry and the Parker
H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332,
United States
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- School of Chemistry and
Biochemistry and the Parker
H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332,
United States
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Barry BA, Chen J, Keough J, Jenson D, Offenbacher A, Pagba C. Proton Coupled Electron Transfer and Redox Active Tyrosines: Structure and Function of the Tyrosyl Radicals in Ribonucleotide Reductase and Photosystem II. J Phys Chem Lett 2012; 3:543-554. [PMID: 22662289 PMCID: PMC3362996 DOI: 10.1021/jz2014117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions are important in many biological processes. Tyrosine oxidation/reduction can play a critical role in facilitating these reactions. Two examples are photosystem II (PSII) and ribonucleotide reductase (RNR). RNR is essential in DNA synthesis in all organisms. In E. coli RNR, a tyrosyl radical, Y122(•), is required as a radical initiator. Photosystem II (PSII) generates molecular oxygen from water. In PSII, an essential tyrosyl radical, YZ(•), oxidizes the oxygen evolving center. However, the mechanisms, by which the extraordinary oxidizing power of the tyrosyl radical is controlled, are not well understood. This is due to the difficulty in acquiring high-resolution structural information about the radical state. Spectroscopic approaches, such as EPR and UV resonance Raman (UVRR), can give new information. Here, we discuss EPR studies of PCET and the PSII YZ radical. We also present UVRR results, which support the conclusion that Y122 undergoes an alteration in ring and backbone dihedral angle when it is oxidized. This conformational change results in a loss of hydrogen bonding to the phenolic oxygen. Our analysis suggests that access of water is an important factor in determining tyrosyl radical lifetime and function. TOC graphic.
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Han WG, Sandala GM, Giammona DA, Bashford D, Noodleman L. Mössbauer properties of the diferric cluster and the differential iron(II)-binding affinity of the iron sites in protein R2 of class Ia Escherichia coli ribonucleotide reductase: a DFT/electrostatics study. Dalton Trans 2011; 40:11164-75. [PMID: 21837345 PMCID: PMC3604995 DOI: 10.1039/c1dt10950b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The R2 subunit of class-Ia ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) from Escherichia coli (E. coli) contains a diiron active site. Starting from the apo-protein and Fe(II) in solution at low Fe(II)/apoR2 ratios, mononuclear Fe(II) binding is observed indicating possible different Fe(II) binding affinities for the two alternative sites. Further, based on their Mössbauer spectroscopy and two-iron-isotope reaction experiments, Bollinger et al. (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1997, 119, 5976-5977) proposed that the site Fe1, which bonds to Asp84, should be associated with the higher observed (57)Fe Mössbauer quadrupole splitting (2.41 mm s(-1)) and lower isomer shift (0.45 mm s(-1)) in the Fe(III)Fe(III) state, site Fe2, which is further from Tyr122, should have a greater affinity for Fe(II) binding than site Fe1, and Fe(IV) in the intermediate X state should reside at site Fe2. In this paper, using density functional theory (DFT) incorporated with the conductor-like screening (COSMO) solvation model and with the finite-difference Poisson-Boltzmann self-consistent reaction field (PB-SCRF) methodologies, we have demonstrated that the observed large quadrupole splitting for the diferric state R2 does come from site Fe1(III) and it is mainly caused by the binding position of the carboxylate group of the Asp84 sidechain. Further, a series of active site clusters with mononuclear Fe(II) binding at either site Fe1 or Fe2 have been studied, which show that with a single dielectric medium outside the active site quantum region, there is no energetic preference for Fe(II) binding at one site over another. However, when including the explicit extended protein environment in the PB-SCRF model, the reaction field favors the Fe(II) binding at site Fe2 rather than at site Fe1 by ~9 kcal mol(-1). Therefore our calculations support the proposal of the previous Mössbauer spectroscopy and two-iron-isotope reaction experiments by Bollinger et al.
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- Wen-Ge Han
- Department of Molecular Biology, TPC15, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037
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- Department of Molecular Biology, TPC15, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037
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- Structural Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105
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- Structural Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105
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- Department of Molecular Biology, TPC15, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037
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