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Agustinus B, Gillam EMJ. Solar-powered P450 catalysis: Engineering electron transfer pathways from photosynthesis to P450s. J Inorg Biochem 2023; 245:112242. [PMID: 37187017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2023.112242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Revised: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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With the increasing focus on green chemistry, biocatalysis is becoming more widely used in the pharmaceutical and other chemical industries for sustainable production of high value and structurally complex chemicals. Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) are attractive biocatalysts for industrial application due to their ability to transform a huge range of substrates in a stereo- and regiospecific manner. However, despite their appeal, the industrial application of P450s is limited by their dependence on costly reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) and one or more auxiliary redox partner proteins. Coupling P450s to the photosynthetic machinery of a plant allows photosynthetically-generated electrons to be used to drive catalysis, overcoming this cofactor dependency. Thus, photosynthetic organisms could serve as photobioreactors with the capability to produce value-added chemicals using only light, water, CO2 and an appropriate chemical as substrate for the reaction/s of choice, yielding new opportunities for producing commodity and high-value chemicals in a carbon-negative and sustainable manner. This review will discuss recent progress in using photosynthesis for light-driven P450 biocatalysis and explore the potential for further development of such systems.
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- Bernadius Agustinus
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane 4072, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane 4072, Australia.
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Nakayoshi T, Ohnishi Y, Tanaka H, Kurisu G, Kondo HX, Takano Y. Effects of Active-Center Reduction of Plant-Type Ferredoxin on Its Structure and Dynamics: Computational Analysis Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23. [PMID: 36555561 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232415913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 12/05/2022] [Accepted: 12/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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"Plant-type" ferredoxins (Fds) in the thylakoid membranes of plants, algae, and cyanobacteria possess a single [2Fe-2S] cluster in active sites and mediate light-induced electron transfer from Photosystem I reaction centers to various Fd-dependent enzymes. Structural knowledge of plant-type Fds is relatively limited to static structures, and the detailed behavior of oxidized and reduced Fds has not been fully elucidated. It is important that the investigations of the effects of active-center reduction on the structures and dynamics for elucidating electron-transfer mechanisms. In this study, model systems of oxidized and reduced Fds were constructed from the high-resolution crystal structure of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Fd1, and three 200 ns molecular dynamics simulations were performed for each system. The force field parameters of the oxidized and reduced active centers were independently obtained using quantum chemical calculations. There were no substantial differences in the global conformations of the oxidized and reduced forms. In contrast, active-center reduction affected the hydrogen-bond network and compactness of the surrounding residues, leading to the increased flexibility of the side chain of Phe61, which is essential for the interaction between Fd and the target protein. These computational results will provide insight into the electron-transfer mechanisms in the Fds.
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Srivastava AP, Mishra N, Prasad RLA, Rajesh P, Knaff DB. Thermodynamics of ferredoxin binding to cyanobacterial nitrate reductase. Photosynth Res 2020; 144:73-84. [PMID: 32222887 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-020-00738-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 03/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The role of the seven negatively charged amino acids of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 ferredoxin (Fd), i.e., Glu29, Glu30, Asp60, Asp65, Asp66, Glu92, and Glu93, predicted to form complex with nitrate reductase (NR), was investigated using site-directed mutagenesis and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). These experiments identified four Fd amino acids, i.e., Glu29, Asp60, Glu92, and Glu93, that are essential for the Fd binding and efficient electron transfer to the NR. ITC measurements showed that the most likely stoichiometry for the wild-type NR/wild-type Fd complex is 1:1, a Kd value 4.7 μM for the complex at low ionic strength residues and both the enthalpic and entropic components are associated with complex formation. ITC titrations of wild-type NR with four Fd variants, E29N, D60N, E92Q, and E93N demonstrated that the complex formation, although favorable, was less energetically favorable when compared to complex formation between the two wild-type proteins, suggesting that these negatively charged Fd residues at these positions are important for the effective and productive interaction with wild-type enzyme.
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- Anurag P Srivastava
- Department of Life Sciences, Garden City University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA.
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- Department of Botany, St. Joseph's College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Life Sciences, Garden City University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
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Motomura T, Zuccarello L, Sétif P, Boussac A, Umena Y, Lemaire D, Tripathy JN, Sugiura M, Hienerwadel R, Shen J, Berthomieu C. An alternative plant-like cyanobacterial ferredoxin with unprecedented structural and functional properties. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 2019; 1860:148084. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2019.148084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Revised: 09/02/2019] [Accepted: 09/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Mulo P, Medina M. Interaction and electron transfer between ferredoxin-NADP + oxidoreductase and its partners: structural, functional, and physiological implications. Photosynth Res 2017; 134:265-280. [PMID: 28361449 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-017-0372-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2016] [Accepted: 03/20/2017] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase (FNR) catalyzes the last step of linear electron transfer in photosynthetic light reactions. The FAD cofactor of FNR accepts two electrons from two independent reduced ferredoxin molecules (Fd) in two sequential steps, first producing neutral semiquinone and then the fully anionic reduced, or hydroquinone, form of the enzyme (FNRhq). FNRhq transfers then both electrons in a single hydride transfer step to NADP+. We are presenting the recent progress in studies focusing on Fd:FNR interaction and subsequent electron transfer processes as well as on interaction of FNR with NADP+/H followed by hydride transfer, both from the structural and functional point of views. We also present the current knowledge about the physiological role(s) of various FNR isoforms present in the chloroplasts of higher plants and the functional impact of subchloroplastic location of FNR. Moreover, open questions and current challenges about the structure, function, and physiology of FNR are discussed.
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- Paula Mulo
- Molecular Plant Biology, University of Turku, 20520, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Sciences, and Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (Joint Units: BIFI-IQFR and GBsC-CSIC), University of Zaragoza, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain.
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Srivastava AP, Hardy EP, Allen JP, Vaccaro BJ, Johnson MK, Knaff DB. Identification of the Ferredoxin-Binding Site of a Ferredoxin-Dependent Cyanobacterial Nitrate Reductase. Biochemistry 2017; 56:5582-5592. [PMID: 28520412 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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An in silico model for the 1:1 ferredoxin (Fd)/nitrate reductase (NR) complex, using the known structure of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Fd and the in silico model of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 NR, is used to map the interaction sites that define the interface between Fd and NR. To test the electrostatic interactions predicted by the model complex, five positively charged NR amino acids (Arg43, Arg46, Arg197, Lys201, and Lys614) and a negatively charged amino acid (Glu219) were altered using site-directed mutagenesis and characterized by activity measurements, metal analysis, and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) studies. All of the charge replacement variants retained wild-type levels of activity with reduced methyl viologen (MV), but a significant decrease in activity was observed for the R43Q, R46Q, K201Q, and K614Q variants when reduced Fd served as the electron donor. EPR analysis as well as the Fe and Mo analyses showed that loss of activity observed with these variants was not the consequence of perturbation of the Mo center or [4Fe-4S] cluster. Therefore, the loss of the Fd-linked specific activity observed with these variants can be explained only by invoking a role for Arg43, Arg46, Lys201, and Lys614 in Fd binding. The R43Q, R46Q, K201Q, and K614Q NR variants also showed a decreased binding affinity for Fd, compared to that of wild-type NR, supporting a key role of these four positively charged residues in the productive binding of Fd.
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- Anurag P Srivastava
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University , Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University , Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University , Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Metalloenzyme Studies, University of Georgia , Athens, Georgia 30602-2556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Metalloenzyme Studies, University of Georgia , Athens, Georgia 30602-2556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University , Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061, United States.,Center for Biotechnology and Genomics, Texas Tech University , Lubbock, Texas 79409-3132, United States
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Quaranta A, Lagoutte B, Frey J, Sétif P. Photoreduction of the ferredoxin/ferredoxin-NADP(+)-reductase complex by a linked ruthenium polypyridyl chromophore. J Photochem Photobiol B 2016; 160:347-54. [PMID: 27180037 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2016.04.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2015] [Revised: 04/26/2016] [Accepted: 04/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Photosynthetic ferredoxin and its main partner ferredoxin-NADP(+)-reductase (FNR) are key proteins during the photoproduction of reductive power involved in photosynthetic growth. In this work, we used covalent attachment of ruthenium derivatives to different cysteine mutants of ferredoxin to trigger by laser-flash excitation both ferredoxin reduction and subsequent electron transfer from reduced ferredoxin to FNR. Rates and yields of reduction of the ferredoxin [2Fe-2S] cluster by reductively quenched Ru* could be measured for the first time for such a low redox potential protein whereas ferredoxin-FNR electron transfer was characterized in detail for one particular Ru-ferredoxin covalent adduct. For this adduct, the efficiency of FNR single reduction by reduced ferredoxin was close to 100% under both first-order and diffusion-limited second-order conditions. Interprotein intracomplex electron transfer was measured unambiguously for the first time with a fast rate of c. 6500s(-1). Our measurements point out that Ru photosensitizing is a powerful approach to study the functional interactions of ferredoxin with its numerous partners besides FNR.
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- Annamaria Quaranta
- CEA, iBiTec-S/SB2SM, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France; Université Paris-Saclay, I2BC, UMR 9198, 91190 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- CEA, iBiTec-S/SB2SM, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- CEA, iBiTec-S/SB2SM, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France; Université Paris-Saclay, I2BC, UMR 9198, 91190 Gif sur Yvette, France.
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Boehm M, Alahuhta M, Mulder DW, Peden EA, Long H, Brunecky R, Lunin VV, King PW, Ghirardi ML, Dubini A. Crystal structure and biochemical characterization of Chlamydomonas FDX2 reveal two residues that, when mutated, partially confer FDX2 the redox potential and catalytic properties of FDX1. Photosynth Res 2016; 128:45-57. [PMID: 26526668 PMCID: PMC4791469 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-015-0198-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2015] [Accepted: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii contains six plastidic [2Fe2S]-cluster ferredoxins (FDXs), with FDX1 as the predominant isoform under photoautotrophic growth. FDX2 is highly similar to FDX1 and has been shown to interact with specific enzymes (such as nitrite reductase), as well as to share interactors with FDX1, such as the hydrogenases (HYDA), ferredoxin:NAD(P) reductase I (FNR1), and pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (PFR1), albeit performing at low catalytic rates. Here we report the FDX2 crystal structure solved at 1.18 Å resolution. Based on differences between the Chlorella fusca FDX1 and C. reinhardtii FDX2 structures, we generated and purified point-mutated versions of the FDX2 protein and assayed them in vitro for their ability to catalyze hydrogen and NADPH photo-production. The data show that structural differences at two amino acid positions contribute to functional differences between FDX1 and FDX2, suggesting that FDX2 might have evolved from FDX1 toward a different physiological role in the cell. Moreover, we demonstrate that the mutations affect both the midpoint potentials of the FDX and kinetics of the FNR reaction, possibly due to altered binding between FDX and FNR. An effect on H2 photo-production rates was also observed, although the kinetics of the reaction were not further characterized.
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- Marko Boehm
- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Mail Stop: 3313, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Mail Stop: 3313, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Mail Stop: 3313, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Mail Stop: 3313, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
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- Computational Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Mail Stop: 3313, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Mail Stop: 3313, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Mail Stop: 3313, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Mail Stop: 3313, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
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- Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Mail Stop: 3313, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO, 80401, USA.
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Magnuson A, Cardona T. Thylakoid membrane function in heterocysts. Biochim Biophys Acta 2015; 1857:309-19. [PMID: 26545609 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2015.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2015] [Revised: 09/30/2015] [Accepted: 10/29/2015] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Multicellular cyanobacteria form different cell types in response to environmental stimuli. Under nitrogen limiting conditions a fraction of the vegetative cells in the filament differentiate into heterocysts. Heterocysts are specialized in atmospheric nitrogen fixation and differentiation involves drastic morphological changes on the cellular level, such as reorganization of the thylakoid membranes and differential expression of thylakoid membrane proteins. Heterocysts uphold a microoxic environment to avoid inactivation of nitrogenase by developing an extra polysaccharide layer that limits air diffusion into the heterocyst and by upregulating heterocyst-specific respiratory enzymes. In this review article, we summarize what is known about the thylakoid membrane in heterocysts and compare its function with that of the vegetative cells. We emphasize the role of photosynthetic electron transport in providing the required amounts of ATP and reductants to the nitrogenase enzyme. In the light of recent high-throughput proteomic and transcriptomic data, as well as recently discovered electron transfer pathways in cyanobacteria, our aim is to broaden current views of the bioenergetics of heterocysts. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Organization and dynamics of bioenergetic systems in bacteria, edited by Conrad Mullineaux.
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- Ann Magnuson
- Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 523, SE-75120, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, England, UK
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Mutoh R, Muraki N, Shinmura K, Kubota-Kawai H, Lee YH, Nowaczyk MM, Rögner M, Hase T, Ikegami T, Kurisu G. X-ray Structure and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Analysis of the Interaction Sites of the Ga-Substituted Cyanobacterial Ferredoxin. Biochemistry 2015; 54:6052-61. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Risa Mutoh
- Institute
for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka,
Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Institute
for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka,
Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute
for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka,
Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute
for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka,
Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Core
Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Institute
for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka,
Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Plant
Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Plant
Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Institute
for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka,
Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department
of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, 1-7-29 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Institute
for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka,
Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Core
Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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Saen-Oon S, Cabeza de Vaca I, Masone D, Medina M, Guallar V. A theoretical multiscale treatment of protein-protein electron transfer: The ferredoxin/ferredoxin-NADP(+) reductase and flavodoxin/ferredoxin-NADP(+) reductase systems. Biochim Biophys Acta 2015; 1847:1530-8. [PMID: 26385068 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2015.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2015] [Revised: 09/10/2015] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In the photosynthetic electron transfer (ET) chain, two electrons transfer from photosystem I to the flavin-dependent ferredoxin-NADP(+) reductase (FNR) via two sequential independent ferredoxin (Fd) electron carriers. In some algae and cyanobacteria (as Anabaena), under low iron conditions, flavodoxin (Fld) replaces Fd as single electron carrier. Extensive mutational studies have characterized the protein-protein interaction in FNR/Fd and FNR/Fld complexes. Interestingly, even though Fd and Fld share the interaction site on FNR, individual residues on FNR do not participate to the same extent in the interaction with each of the protein partners, pointing to different electron transfer mechanisms. Despite of extensive mutational studies, only FNR/Fd X-ray structures from Anabaena and maize have been solved; structural data for FNR/Fld remains elusive. Here, we present a multiscale modelling approach including coarse-grained and all-atom protein-protein docking, the QM/MM e-Pathway analysis and electronic coupling calculations, allowing for a molecular and electronic comprehensive analysis of the ET process in both complexes. Our results, consistent with experimental mutational data, reveal the ET in FNR/Fd proceeding through a bridge-mediated mechanism in a dominant protein-protein complex, where transfer of the electron is facilitated by Fd loop-residues 40-49. In FNR/Fld, however, we observe a direct transfer between redox cofactors and less complex specificity than in Fd; more than one orientation in the encounter complex can be efficient in ET.
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Lehtimäki N, Koskela MM, Dahlström KM, Pakula E, Lintala M, Scholz M, Hippler M, Hanke GT, Rokka A, Battchikova N, Salminen TA, Mulo P. Posttranslational modifications of FERREDOXIN-NADP+ OXIDOREDUCTASE in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. Plant Physiol 2014; 166:1764-76. [PMID: 25301888 PMCID: PMC4256869 DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.249094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Rapid responses of chloroplast metabolism and adjustments to photosynthetic machinery are of utmost importance for plants' survival in a fluctuating environment. These changes may be achieved through posttranslational modifications of proteins, which are known to affect the activity, interactions, and localization of proteins. Recent studies have accumulated evidence about the crucial role of a multitude of modifications, including acetylation, methylation, and glycosylation, in the regulation of chloroplast proteins. Both of the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) leaf-type FERREDOXIN-NADP(+) OXIDOREDUCTASE (FNR) isoforms, the key enzymes linking the light reactions of photosynthesis to carbon assimilation, exist as two distinct forms with different isoelectric points. We show that both AtFNR isoforms contain multiple alternative amino termini and undergo light-responsive addition of an acetyl group to the α-amino group of the amino-terminal amino acid of proteins, which causes the change in isoelectric point. Both isoforms were also found to contain acetylation of a conserved lysine residue near the active site, while no evidence for in vivo phosphorylation or glycosylation was detected. The dynamic, multilayer regulation of AtFNR exemplifies the complex regulatory network systems controlling chloroplast proteins by a range of posttranslational modifications, which continues to emerge as a novel area within photosynthesis research.
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- Nina Lehtimäki
- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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Zanello P. The competition between chemistry and biology in assembling iron–sulfur derivatives. Molecular structures and electrochemistry. Part II. {[Fe2S2](SγCys)4} proteins. Coord Chem Rev 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2014.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Liu J, Chakraborty S, Hosseinzadeh P, Yu Y, Tian S, Petrik I, Bhagi A, Lu Y. Metalloproteins containing cytochrome, iron-sulfur, or copper redox centers. Chem Rev 2014; 114:4366-469. [PMID: 24758379 PMCID: PMC4002152 DOI: 10.1021/cr400479b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 540] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Jing Liu
- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Winkler M, Kawelke S, Happe T. Light driven hydrogen production in protein based semi-artificial systems. Bioresour Technol 2011; 102:8493-8500. [PMID: 21696949 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2010] [Revised: 05/04/2011] [Accepted: 05/08/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Photobiological hydrogen production has recently attracted interest in terms of being a potential source for an alternative energy carrier. Especially the natural light driven hydrogen metabolism of unicellular green algae appears as an attractive blueprint for a clean and potentially unlimited dihydrogen source. However, the efficiency of in vivo systems is limited by physiological and evolutionary constraints and scientists only begin to understand the regulatory networks influencing cellular hydrogen production. A growing number of projects aim at circumventing these limitations by focusing on semi-artificial systems. They reconstitute parts of the native electron transfer chains in vitro, combining photosystem I as a photoactive element with a proton reducing catalytic element such as hydrogenase enzymes or noble metal nanoparticles. This review summarizes various approaches and discusses limitations that have to be overcome in order to establish economically applicable systems.
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- Martin Winkler
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Biologie und Biotechnologie, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie der Pflanzen, AG Photobiotechnologie, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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Ceccoli RD, Blanco NE, Medina M, Carrillo N. Stress response of transgenic tobacco plants expressing a cyanobacterial ferredoxin in chloroplasts. Plant Mol Biol 2011; 76:535-44. [PMID: 21584860 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-011-9786-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2010] [Accepted: 05/05/2011] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Expression of the chloroplast electron shuttle ferredoxin is induced by light through mechanisms that partially depend on sequences lying in the coding region of the gene, complicating its manipulation by promoter engineering. Ferredoxin expression is also down-regulated under virtually all stress situations, and it is unclear if light-dependent induction and stress-dependent repression proceed through the same or similar mechanisms. Previous reports have shown that expression of a cyanobacterial flavodoxin in tobacco plastids results in plants with enhanced tolerance to adverse environmental conditions such as drought, chilling and xenobiotics (Tognetti et al. in Plant Cell 18:2035-2050, 2006). The protective effect of flavodoxin was linked to functional replacement of ferredoxin, suggesting the possibility that tolerant phenotypes might be obtained by simply increasing ferredoxin contents. To bypass endogenous regulatory constraints, we transformed tobacco plants with a ferredoxin gene from Anabaena sp. PCC7120, which has only 53% identity with plant orthologs. The cyanobacterial protein was able to interact in vitro with ferredoxin-dependent plant enzymes and to mediate NADP(+) photoreduction by tobacco thylakoids. Expression of Anabaena ferredoxin was constitutive and light-independent. However, homozygous lines accumulating threefold higher ferredoxin levels than the wild-type failed to show enhanced tolerance to oxidative stress and chilling temperatures. Under these adverse conditions, Anabaena ferredoxin was down-regulated even faster than the endogenous counterparts. The results indicate that: (1) light- and stress-dependent regulations of ferredoxin expression proceed through different pathways, and (2) overexpression of ferredoxin is not an alternative to flavodoxin expression for the development of increased stress tolerance in plants.
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- Romina D Ceccoli
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR, CONICET), División Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, S2002LRK, Rosario, Argentina
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Xu X, Scanu S, Chung JS, Hirasawa M, Knaff DB, Ubbink M. Structural and functional characterization of the ga-substituted ferredoxin from Synechocystis sp. PCC6803, a mimic of the native protein. Biochemistry 2010; 49:7790-7. [PMID: 20690702 DOI: 10.1021/bi100712g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In photosynthetic organisms, ferredoxin (Fd) interacts with many proteins, acting as a shuttle for electrons from Photosystem I to a group of enzymes involved in NADP(+) reduction, sulfur and nitrogen assimilation, and the regulation of carbon assimilation. The study of the dynamic interactions between ferredoxin and these enzymes by nuclear magnetic resonance is severely hindered by the paramagnetic [2Fe-2S] cluster of a ferredoxin. To establish whether ferredoxin in which the cluster has been replaced by Ga is a suitable diamagnetic mimic, the solution structure of Synechocystis Ga-substituted ferredoxin has been determined and compared with the structure of the native protein. The ensemble of 10 structures with the lowest energies has an average root-mean-square deviation of 0.30 +/- 0.05 A for backbone atoms and 0.65 +/- 0.04 A for all heavy atoms. Comparison of the NMR structure of GaFd with the crystal structure of the native Fd indicates that the general structural fold found for the native, iron-containing ferredoxin is conserved in GaFd. The ferredoxin contains a single gallium and no inorganic sulfide. The distortion of the metal binding loop caused by the single gallium substitution is small. The binding site on Fd for binding ferredoxin:NADP(+) reductase in solution, determined using GaFd, includes the metal binding loop and its surroundings, consistent with the crystal structures of related complexes. The results provide a structural justification for the use of the gallium-substituted analogue in interaction studies.
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- Xingfu Xu
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Gorlaeus Laboratories, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Laursen T, Jensen K, Møller BL. Conformational changes of the NADPH-dependent cytochrome P450 reductase in the course of electron transfer to cytochromes P450. Biochim Biophys Acta 2010; 1814:132-8. [PMID: 20624491 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2010.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2010] [Revised: 06/09/2010] [Accepted: 07/01/2010] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The NADPH-dependent cytochrome P450 reductase (CPR) is a key electron donor to eucaryotic cytochromes P450 (CYPs). CPR shuttles electrons from NADPH through the FAD and FMN-coenzymes into the iron of the prosthetic heme-group of the CYP. In the course of these electron transfer reactions, CPR undergoes large conformational changes. This mini-review discusses the new evidence provided for such conformational changes involving a combination of a "swinging" and "rotating" model and highlights the molecular mechanisms by which formation of these conformations are controlled and thereby enables CPR to serve as an effective electron transferring "nano-machine".
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- Tomas Laursen
- Plant Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Copenhagen, 40 Thorvaldsensvej, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen, Denmark
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This minireview covers the research carried out in recent years into different aspects of the function of the flavoproteins involved in cyanobacterial photosynthetic electron transfer from photosystem I to NADP(+), flavodoxin and ferredoxin-NADP(+) reductase. Interactions that stabilize protein-flavin complexes and tailor the midpoint potentials in these proteins, as well as many details of the binding and electron transfer to protein and ligand partners, have been revealed. In addition to their role in photosynthesis, flavodoxin and ferredoxin-NADP(+) reductase are ubiquitous flavoenzymes that deliver NAD(P)H or low midpoint potential one-electron donors to redox-based metabolisms in plastids, mitochondria and bacteria. They are also the basic prototypes for a large family of diflavin electron transferases with common functional and structural properties. Understanding their mechanisms should enable greater comprehension of the many physiological roles played by flavodoxin and ferredoxin-NADP(+) reductase, either free or as modules in multidomain proteins. Many aspects of their biochemistry have been extensively characterized using a combination of site-directed mutagenesis, steady-state and transient kinetics, spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Despite these considerable advances, various key features of the structural-function relationship are yet to be explained in molecular terms. Better knowledge of these systems and their particular properties may allow us to envisage several interesting applications of these proteins beyond their physiological functions.
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- Milagros Medina
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular and BFIF, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.
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Paladini DH, Musumeci MA, Carrillo N, Ceccarelli EA. Induced fit and equilibrium dynamics for high catalytic efficiency in ferredoxin-NADP(H) reductases. Biochemistry 2009; 48:5760-8. [PMID: 19435322 DOI: 10.1021/bi9004232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ferredoxin-NADP(H) reductase (FNR) is a FAD-containing protein that catalyzes the reversible transfer of electrons between NADP(H) and ferredoxin or flavodoxin. This enzyme participates in the redox-based metabolism of plastids, mitochondria, and bacteria. Plastidic plant-type FNRs are very efficient reductases in supporting photosynthesis. They have a strong preference for NADP(H) over NAD(H), consistent with the main physiological role of NADP(+) photoreduction. In contrast, FNRs from organisms with heterotrophic metabolisms or anoxygenic photosynthesis display turnover rates that are up to 100-fold lower than those of their plastidic and cyanobacterial counterparts. With the aim of elucidating the mechanisms by which plastidic enzymes achieve such high catalytic efficiencies and NADP(H) specificity, we investigated the manner in which the NADP(H) nicotinamide enters and properly binds to the catalytic site. Analyzing the interaction of different nucleotides, substrate analogues, and aromatic compounds with the wild type and the mutant Y308S-FNR from pea, we found that the interaction of the 2'-P-AMP moiety from NADP(+) induces a change that favors the interaction of the nicotinamide, thereby facilitating the catalytic process. Furthermore, the main role of the terminal tyrosine, Y308, is to destabilize the interaction of the nicotinamide with the enzyme, inducing product release and favoring discrimination of the nucleotide substrate. We determined that this function can be replaced by the addition of aromatic compounds that freely diffuse in solution and establish a dynamic equilibrium, reversing the effect of the mutation in the Y308S-FNR mutant.
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- Darío H Paladini
- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR), CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, S2002LRK Rosario, Argentina
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Hirasawa M, Tripathy JN, Somasundaram R, Johnson MK, Bhalla M, Allen JP, Knaff DB. The interaction of spinach nitrite reductase with ferredoxin: a site-directed mutation study. Mol Plant 2009; 2:407-15. [PMID: 19825625 PMCID: PMC2902899 DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssn098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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A series of site-directed mutants of the ferredoxin-dependent spinach nitrite reductase has been characterized and several amino acids have been identified that appear to be involved in the interaction of the enzyme with ferredoxin. In a complementary study, binding constants to nitrite reductase and steady-state kinetic parameters of site-directed mutants of ferredoxin were determined in an attempt to identify ferredoxin amino acids involved in the interaction with nitrite reductase. The results have been interpreted in terms of an in-silico docking model for the 1:1 complex of ferredoxin with nitrite reductase.
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- Masakazu Hirasawa
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1604, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, USA
- Institute for Biotechnology and Genomics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, USA
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail
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Medina M, Abagyan R, Gómez-Moreno C, Fernandez-Recio J. Docking analysis of transient complexes: interaction of ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase with ferredoxin and flavodoxin. Proteins 2008; 72:848-62. [PMID: 18260112 DOI: 10.1002/prot.21979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Ferredoxin (Fd) interacts with ferredoxin-NADP(+) reductase (FNR) to transfer two electrons to the latter, one by one, which will finally be used to reduce NADP(+) to NADPH. The formation of a transient complex between Fd and FNR is required for the electron transfer (ET), and extensive mutational and crystallographic studies have been reported to characterize such protein-protein interaction. However, some aspects of the association mechanism still remain unclear. Moreover, in spite of their structural differences, flavodoxin (Fld) can replace Fd in its function and interact with FNR to transfer electrons with only slightly lower efficiency. Although crystallographic structures for the FNR:Fd association have been reported, experimental structural data for the FNR:Fld interaction are highly elusive. We have modeled here the interactions between FNR and both of its protein partners, Fd and Fld, using surface energy analysis, computational rigid-body docking simulations, and interface side-chain refinement. The results, consistent with previous experimental data, suggest the existence of alternative binding modes in these ET proteins.
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- Milagros Medina
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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Musumeci MA, Arakaki AK, Rial DV, Catalano-Dupuy DL, Ceccarelli EA. Modulation of the enzymatic efficiency of ferredoxin-NADP(H) reductase by the amino acid volume around the catalytic site. FEBS J 2008; 275:1350-66. [PMID: 18279389 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06298.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Ferredoxin (flavodoxin)-NADP(H) reductases (FNRs) are ubiquitous flavoenzymes that deliver NADPH or low-potential one-electron donors (ferredoxin, flavodoxin, adrenodoxin) to redox-based metabolic reactions in plastids, mitochondria and bacteria. Plastidic FNRs are quite efficient reductases. In contrast, FNRs from organisms possessing a heterotrophic metabolism or anoxygenic photosynthesis display turnover numbers 20- to 100-fold lower than those of their plastidic and cyanobacterial counterparts. Several structural features of these enzymes have yet to be explained. The residue Y308 in pea FNR is stacked nearly parallel to the re-face of the flavin and is highly conserved amongst members of the family. By computing the relative free energy for the lumiflavin-phenol pair at different angles with the relative position found for Y308 in pea FNR, it can be concluded that this amino acid is constrained against the isoalloxazine. This effect is probably caused by amino acids C266 and L268, which face the other side of this tyrosine. Simple and double FNR mutants of these amino acids were obtained and characterized. It was observed that a decrease or increase in the amino acid volume resulted in a decrease in the catalytic efficiency of the enzyme without altering the protein structure. Our results provide experimental evidence that the volume of these amino acids participates in the fine-tuning of the catalytic efficiency of the enzyme.
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- Matías A Musumeci
- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR), Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
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Mayoral T, Martínez-Júlvez M, Pérez-Dorado I, Sanz-Aparicio J, Gómez-Moreno C, Medina M, Hermoso JA. Structural analysis of interactions for complex formation between Ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase and its protein partners. Proteins 2006; 59:592-602. [PMID: 15789405 DOI: 10.1002/prot.20450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The three-dimensional structures of K72E, K75R, K75S, K75Q, and K75E Anabaena Ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase (FNR) mutants have been solved, and particular structural details of these mutants have been used to assess the role played by residues 72 and 75 in optimal complex formation and electron transfer (ET) between FNR and its protein redox partners Ferredoxin (Fd) and Flavodoxin (Fld). Additionally, because there is no structural information available on the interaction between FNR and Fld, a model for the FNR:Fld complex has also been produced based on the previously reported crystal structures and on that of the rat Cytochrome P450 reductase (CPR), onto which FNR and Fld have been structurally aligned, and those reported for the Anabaena and maize FNR:Fd complexes. The model suggests putative electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions between residues on the FNR and Fld surfaces at the complex interface and provides an adequate orientation and distance between the FAD and FMN redox centers for efficient ET without the presence of any other molecule as electron carrier. Thus, the models now available for the FNR:Fd and FNR:Fld interactions and the structures presented here for the mutants at K72 and K75 in Anabaena FNR have been evaluated in light of previous biochemical data. These structures confirm the key participation of residue K75 and K72 in complex formation with both Fd and Fld. The drastic effect in FNR activity produced by replacement of K75 by Glu in the K75E FNR variant is explained not only by the observed changes in the charge distribution on the surface of the K75E FNR mutant, but also by the formation of a salt bridge interaction between E75 and K72 that simultaneously "neutralizes" two essential positive charged side chains for Fld/Fd recognition.
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- Tomás Mayoral
- Grupo de Cristalografía Macromolecular y Biología Estructural, Instituto Química-Física Rocasolano, C.S.I.C. Serrano 119, 28006-Madrid, Spain
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Cassan N, Lagoutte B, Sétif P. Ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase. Kinetics of electron transfer, transient intermediates, and catalytic activities studied by flash-absorption spectroscopy with isolated photosystem I and ferredoxin. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:25960-72. [PMID: 15894798 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m503742200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The electron transfer cascade from photosystem I to NADP+ was studied at physiological pH by flash-absorption spectroscopy in a Synechocystis PCC6803 reconstituted system comprised of purified photosystem I, ferredoxin, and ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase. Experiments were conducted with a 34-kDa ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase homologous to the chloroplast enzyme and a 38-kDa N-terminal extended form. Small differences in kinetic and catalytic properties were found for these two forms, although the largest one has a 3-fold decreased affinity for ferredoxin. The dissociation rate of reduced ferredoxin from photosystem I (800 s(-1)) and the redox potential of the first reduction of ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase (-380 mV) were determined. In the absence of NADP+, differential absorption spectra support the existence of a high affinity complex between oxidized ferredoxin and semireduced ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase. An effective rate of 140-170 s(-1) was also measured for the second reduction of ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase, this process having a rate constant similar to that of the first reduction. In the presence of NADP+, the second-order rate constant for the first reduction of ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase was 20% slower than in its absence, in line with the existence of ternary complexes (ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase)-NADP+-ferredoxin. A single catalytic turnover was monitored, with 50% NADP+ being reduced in 8-10 ms using 1.6 microM photosystem I. In conditions of multiple turnover, we determined initial rates of 360-410 electrons per s and per ferredox-in-NADP+ reductase for the reoxidation of 3.5 microM photoreduced ferredoxin. Identical rates were found with photosystem I lacking the PsaE subunit and wild type photosystem I. This suggests that, in contrast with previous proposals, the PsaE subunit is not involved in NADP+ photoreduction.
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- Nicolas Cassan
- Service de Bioénergétique and CNRS URA 2096, Département de Biologie Joliot Curie, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
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Ferredoxin-NADP(H) reductases (FNRs) represent a prototype of enzymes involved in numerous metabolic pathways. We found that pea FNR ferricyanide diaphorase activity was inhibited by Zn2+ (Ki 1.57 microM). Dichlorophenolindophenol diaphorase activity was also inhibited by Zn2+ (Ki 1.80 microM), but the addition of ferrocyanide was required, indicating that the inhibitor is an arrangement of both ions. Escherichia coli FNR was also inhibited by Zn-ferrocyanide, suggesting that inhibition is a consequence of common structural features of these flavoenzymes. The inhibitor behaves in a noncompetitive manner for NADPH and for artificial electron acceptors. Analysis of the oxidation state of the flavin during catalysis in the presence of the inhibitor suggests that the electron-transfer process between NADPH and the flavin is not significantly altered, and that the transfer between the flavin and the second substrate is mainly affected. Zn-ferrocyanide interacts with the reductase, probably increasing the accessibility of the prosthetic group to the solvent. Ferredoxin reduction was also inhibited by Zn-ferrocyanide in a noncompetitive manner, but the observed Ki was about nine times higher than those for the diaphorase reactions. The electron transfer to Anabaena flavodoxin was not affected by Zn-ferrocyanide. Binding of the apoflavodoxin to the reductase was sufficient to overcome the inhibition by Zn-ferrocyanide, suggesting that the interaction of FNRs with their proteinaceous electron partners may induce a conformational change in the reductase that alters or completely prevents the inhibitory effect.
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- Daniela L Catalano Dupuy
- Molecular Biology Division, IBR (Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
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Hirasawa M, Rubio LM, Griffin JL, Flores E, Herrero A, Li J, Kim SK, Hurley JK, Tollin G, Knaff DB. Complex formation between ferredoxin and Synechococcus ferredoxin:nitrate oxidoreductase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 2004; 1608:155-62. [PMID: 14871493 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2003.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2003] [Revised: 11/07/2003] [Accepted: 11/20/2003] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The ferredoxin-dependent nitrate reductase from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 has been shown to form a high-affinity complex with ferredoxin at low ionic strength. This complex, detected by changes in both the absorbance and circular dichroism (CD) spectra, did not form at high ionic strength. When reduced ferredoxin served as the electron donor for the reduction of nitrate to nitrite, the activity of the enzyme declined markedly as the ionic strength increased. In contrast, the activity of the enzyme with reduced methyl viologen (a non-physiological electron donor) was independent of ionic strength. These results suggest that an electrostatically stabilized complex between Synechococcus nitrate reductase and ferredoxin plays an important role in the mechanism of nitrate reduction catalyzed by this enzyme. Treatment of Synechococcus nitrate reductase with either an arginine-modifying reagent or a lysine-modifying reagent inhibited the ferredoxin-dependent activity of the enzyme but did not affect the methyl viologen-dependent activity. Treatment with these reagents also resulted in a large decrease in the affinity of the enzyme for ferredoxin. Formation of a nitrate reductase complex with ferredoxin prior to treatment with either reagent protected the enzyme against loss of ferredoxin-dependent activity. These results suggest that lysine and arginine residues are present at the ferredoxin-binding site of Synechococcus nitrate reductase. Results of experiments using site-specific, charge reversal variants of the ferredoxin from the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7119 as an electron donor to nitrate reductase were consistent with a role for negatively charged residues on ferredoxin in the interaction with Synechococcus nitrate reductase.
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- Masakazu Hirasawa
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, USA
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Tejero J, Martínez-Julvez M, Mayoral T, Luquita A, Sanz-Aparicio J, Hermoso JA, Hurley JK, Tollin G, Gómez-Moreno C, Medina M. Involvement of the pyrophosphate and the 2'-phosphate binding regions of ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase in coenzyme specificity. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:49203-14. [PMID: 14500716 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m307934200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Previous studies indicated that the determinants of coenzyme specificity in ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase (FNR) from Anabaena are situated in the 2'-phosphate (2'-P) NADP+ binding region, and also suggested that other regions must undergo structural rearrangements of the protein backbone during coenzyme binding. Among the residues involved in such specificity could be those located in regions where interaction with the pyrophosphate group of the coenzyme takes place, namely loops 155-160 and 261-268 in Anabaena FNR. In order to learn more about the coenzyme specificity determinants, and to better define the structural basis of coenzyme binding, mutations in the pyrophosphate and 2'-P binding regions of FNR have been introduced. Modification of the pyrophosphate binding region, involving residues Thr-155, Ala-160, and Leu-263, indicates that this region is involved in determining coenzyme specificity and that selected alterations of these positions produce FNR enzymes that are able to bind NAD+. Thus, our results suggest that slightly different structural rearrangements of the backbone chain in the pyrophosphate binding region might determine FNR specificity for the coenzyme. Combined mutations at the 2'-P binding region, involving residues Ser-223, Arg-224, Arg-233, and Tyr-235, in combination with the residues mentioned above in the pyrophosphate binding region have also been carried out in an attempt to increase the FNR affinity for NAD+/H. However, in most cases the analyzed mutants lost the ability for NADP+/H binding and electron transfer, and no major improvements were observed with regard to the efficiency of the reactions with NAD+/H. Therefore, our results confirm that determinants for coenzyme specificity in FNR are also situated in the pyrophosphate binding region and not only in the 2'-P binding region. Such observations also suggest that other regions of the protein, yet to be identified, might also be involved in this process.
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- Jesús Tejero
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Madrid, Spain
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Teshima K, Fujita S, Hirose S, Nishiyama D, Kurisu G, Kusunoki M, Kimata-Ariga Y, Hase T. A ferredoxin Arg-Glu pair important for efficient electron transfer between ferredoxin and ferredoxin-NADP(+) reductase. FEBS Lett 2003; 546:189-94. [PMID: 12832038 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00559-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In order to elucidate the importance of a ferredoxin (Fd) Arg-Glu pair involved in dynamic exchange from intra- to intermolecular salt bridges upon complex formation with ferredoxin-NADP(+) oxidoreductase (FNR), Equisetum arvense FdI and FdII were investigated as normal and the pair-lacking Fd, respectively. The FdI mutant lacking this pair was unstable and rapidly lost the [2Fe-2S] cluster. The catalytic constant (k(cat)) of the electron transfer for FdI is 5.5 times that for FdII and the introduction of this pair into FdII resulted in the increase of k(cat) to a level comparable to that for FdI, demonstrating directly that the Arg-Glu pair is important for efficient electron transfer between Fd and FNR.
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- Keizo Teshima
- Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan.
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Faro M, Frago S, Mayoral T, Hermoso JA, Sanz-Aparicio J, Gómez-Moreno C, Medina M. Probing the role of glutamic acid 139 of Anabaena ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase in the interaction with substrates. Eur J Biochem 2002; 269:4938-47. [PMID: 12383252 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.03194.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The role of the negative charge of the E139 side-chain of Anabaena Ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase (FNR) in steering appropriate docking with its substrates ferredoxin, flavodoxin and NADP+/H, that leads to efficient electron transfer (ET) is analysed by characterization of several E139 FNR mutants. Replacement of E139 affects the interaction with the different FNR substrates in very different ways. Thus, while E139 does not appear to be involved in the processes of binding and ET between FNR and NADP+/H, the nature and the conformation of the residue at position 139 of Anabaena FNR modulates the precise enzyme interaction with the protein carriers ferredoxin (Fd) and flavodoxin (Fld). Introduction of the shorter aspartic acid side-chain at position 139 produces an enzyme that interacts more weakly with both ET proteins. Moreover, the removal of the charge, as in the E139Q mutant, or the charge-reversal mutation, as in E139K FNR, apparently enhances additional interaction modes of the enzyme with Fd, and reduces the possible orientations with Fld to more productive and stronger ones. Hence, removal of the negative charge at position 139 of Anabaena FNR produces a deleterious effect in its ET reactions with Fd whereas it appears to enhance the ET processes with Fld. Significantly, a large structural variation is observed for the E139 side-chain conformer in different FNR structures, including the E139K mutant. In this case, a positive potential region replaces a negative one in the wild-type enzyme. Our observations further confirm the contribution of both attractive and repulsive interactions in achieving the optimal orientation for efficient ET between FNR and its protein carriers.
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- Merche Faro
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
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Reduced flavodoxin I (Fld1) is required in Escherichia coli for reductive radical generation in AdoMet-dependent radical enzymes and reductive activation of cobalamin-dependent methionine synthase. Ferredoxin (Fd) and flavodoxin II (Fld2) are also present, although their precise roles have not been ascertained. Ferredoxin (flavodoxin):NADP+ oxidoreductase (FNR) was discovered in E. coli as an NADPH-dependent reductant of Fld1 that facilitated generation of active methionine synthase in vitro; FNR and Fld1 will also supply electrons for the reductive cleavage of AdoMet essential for generating protein or substrate radicals in pyruvate formate-lyase, class III ribonucleotide reductase, biotin synthase, and, potentially, lipoyl synthase. As part of ongoing efforts to understand the various redox pathways that will support AdoMet-dependent radical enzymes in E. coli, we have examined the relative specificity of E. coli FNR for Fd, Fld1, and Fld2. While FNR will reduce all three proteins, Fd is the kinetically and thermodynamically preferred partner. Fd binds to FNR with high affinity (K(d)<or=0.5 microM) and is reduced under single-turnover conditions with k(obs)=2.3s(-1) and under steady state conditions with k(cat)=0.15s(-1). Fld1 and Fld2 behave similarly with respect to FNR, with affinities approximately 4- to 7-fold weaker and reduction rates that are 10- to 100-fold slower than those for Fd. Surprisingly we find that Fld1 and Fld2 can obtain electrons from reduced Fd at rates that are comparable to those obtained with reduced FNR. Thus we propose that the primary electron acceptor for E. coli FNR is Fd, while Fld1 can obtain electrons slowly either from FNR or via Fd as a mediator.
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- Jason T Wan
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Johnson Research Foundation, 905B Stellar-Chance Laboratories, 422 Curie Boulevard, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Morales R, Frey M, Mouesca JM. An approach based on quantum chemistry calculations and structural analysis of a [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin that reveal a redox-linked switch in the electron-transfer process to the Fd-NADP+ reductase. J Am Chem Soc 2002; 124:6714-22. [PMID: 12047191 DOI: 10.1021/ja011680o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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[2Fe-2S] ferredoxins act as electron carriers in photosynthesis by mediating the transfer of electrons from photosystem I to various enzymes such as ferredoxin:NADP(+):reductase (FNR). We have analyzed by density functional theory the possible variations of the electronic properties of the [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin, from the cyanobacterium Anabaena, depending on the redox-linked structural changes observed by X-ray diffraction at atomic resolution (Morales, R.; et al. Biochemistry 1999, 38, 15764-15773). The present results point out a specific and concerted role of Ser47, Phe65, and Glu94 located at the molecule surface, close to the iron-sulfur cluster. These residues were already known to be crucial for efficient electron transfer to FNR (e.g., Hurley, J. K.; et al. Biochemistry 1997, 36, 11100-11117). Our calculations suggest that the Glu94 carboxylate negative charge regulates the electron charge delocalization between the Ser47 CO group and the Phe65 aromatic ring, depending on the redox state. The Glu94 carboxylate is stabilized by a strong hydrogen bond implicating a hydroxyl-containing side chain (i.e., Ser or Thr) at location 47. We propose that the Phe65 ring acts as an intermediary carrier receiving the reducing electron prior to its transfer from the reduced Fd to FNR, in view of its central role in the Fd-FNR interaction.
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- Renaud Morales
- Service de Chimie Inorganique et Biologique, UMR 5046, DRFMC/CEA-Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38041 Grenoble, France
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Hurley JK, Morales R, Martínez-Júlvez M, Brodie TB, Medina M, Gómez-Moreno C, Tollin G. Structure-function relationships in Anabaena ferredoxin/ferredoxin:NADP(+) reductase electron transfer: insights from site-directed mutagenesis, transient absorption spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Biochim Biophys Acta 2002; 1554:5-21. [PMID: 12034466 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(02)00188-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The interaction between reduced Anabaena ferredoxin and oxidized ferredoxin:NADP(+) reductase (FNR), which occurs during photosynthetic electron transfer (ET), has been investigated extensively in the authors' laboratories using transient and steady-state kinetic measurements and X-ray crystallography. The effect of a large number of site-specific mutations in both proteins has been assessed. Many of the mutations had little or no effect on ET kinetics. However, non-conservative mutations at three highly conserved surface sites in ferredoxin (F65, E94 and S47) caused ET rate constants to decrease by four orders of magnitude, and non-conservative mutations at three highly conserved surface sites in FNR (L76, K75 and E301) caused ET rate constants to decrease by factors of 25-150. These residues were deemed to be critical for ET. Similar mutations at several other conserved sites in the two proteins (D67 in Fd; E139, L78, K72, and R16 in FNR) caused smaller but still appreciable effects on ET rate constants. A strong correlation exists between these results and the X-ray crystal structure of an Anabaena ferredoxin/FNR complex. Thus, mutations at sites that are within the protein-protein interface or are directly involved in interprotein contacts generally show the largest kinetic effects. The implications of these results for the ET mechanism are discussed.
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- John K Hurley
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona, 1041 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721-0088, USA
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Bertini I, Luchinat C, Provenzani A, Rosato A, Vasos PR. Browsing gene banks for Fe2S2 ferredoxins and structural modeling of 88 plant-type sequences: an analysis of fold and function. Proteins 2002; 46:110-27. [PMID: 11746708 DOI: 10.1002/prot.10009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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One-hundred-and-seventy-nine sequences of Fe2S2 ferredoxins and ferredoxin precursors were identified in and retrieved from currently available protein and cDNA databases. On the basis of their cluster-binding patterns, these sequences were divided into three groups: those containing the CX4CX2CXnC pattern (plant-type ferredoxins), those with the CX5CX2CXnC pattern (adrenodoxins), and those with a different pattern. These three groups contain, respectively, 139, 36, and 4 sequences. After excluding ferredoxin precursors in the first group, two subgroups were identified, again based on their cluster-binding patterns: 88 sequences had the CX4CX2CX29C pattern, and 29 had the CX4CX2CXmC (m not equal 29) pattern. The structures of the 88 ferredoxins with the CX4CX2CX29C pattern were modeled based on the available experimental structures of nine proteins within this same group. The modeling procedure was tested by building structural models for the ferredoxins with known structures. The models resulted, on average, in being within 1 A of the backbone root-mean-square deviation from the corresponding experimental structures. In addition, these structural models were shown to be of high quality by using assessment procedures based on energetic and stereochemical parameters. Thus, these models formed a reliable structural database for this group of ferredoxins, which is meaningful within the framework of current structural genomics efforts. From the analysis of the structural database generated it was observed that the secondary structural elements and the overall three-dimensional structures are maintained throughout the superfamily. In particular, the residues in the hydrophobic core of the protein were found to be either absolutely conserved or conservatively substituted. In addition, certain solvent-accessible charged groups, as well as hydrophobic groups, were found to be conserved to the same degree as the core residues. The patterns of conservation of exposed residues identified the regions of the protein that are critical for its function in electron transfer. An extensive analysis of protein-protein interactions is now possible. Some conserved interactions between residues have been identified and related to structural and/or functional features. All this information could not be obtained from the analyses of the primary sequences alone. Finally, the analysis of the sequences of the related subgroup featuring the CX4CX2CXmC (m not equal 29) cluster-binding pattern in the light of the structural and functional insights provided by the inspection of the mentioned structural database affords some hints on the functional features of ferredoxins belonging to this subgroup.
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- Ivano Bertini
- Centro di Risonanze Magnetiche, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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Martínez-Júlvez M, Nogués I, Faro M, Hurley JK, Brodie TB, Mayoral T, Sanz-Aparicio J, Hermoso JA, Stankovich MT, Medina M, Tollin G, Gómez-Moreno C. Role of a cluster of hydrophobic residues near the FAD cofactor in Anabaena PCC 7119 ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase for optimal complex formation and electron transfer to ferredoxin. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:27498-510. [PMID: 11342548 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m102112200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In the ferredoxin-NADP(+) reductase (FNR)/ferredoxin (Fd) system, an aromatic amino acid residue on the surface of Anabaena Fd, Phe-65, has been shown to be essential for the electron transfer (ET) reaction. We have investigated further the role of hydrophobic interactions in complex stabilization and ET between these proteins by replacing three hydrophobic residues, Leu-76, Leu-78, and Val-136, situated on the FNR surface in the vicinity of its FAD cofactor. Whereas neither the ability of FNR to accept electrons from NADPH nor its structure appears to be affected by the introduced mutations, different behaviors with Fd are observed. Thus, the ET interaction with Fd is almost completely lost upon introduction of negatively charged side chains. In contrast, only subtle changes are observed upon conservative replacement. Introduction of Ser residues produces relatively sizable alterations of the FAD redox potential, which can explain the modified behavior of these mutants. The introduction of bulky aromatic side chains appears to produce rearrangements of the side chains at the FNR/Fd interaction surface. Thus, subtle changes in the hydrophobic patch influence the rates of ET to and from Fd by altering the binding constants and the FAD redox potentials, indicating that these residues are especially important in the binding and orientation of Fd for efficient ET. These results are consistent with the structure reported for the Anabaena FNR.Fd complex.
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- M Martínez-Júlvez
- Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009-Zaragoza, Spain
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Schultz DJ, Suh MC, Ohlrogge JB. Stearoyl-acyl carrier protein and unusual acyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase activities are differentially influenced by ferredoxin. Plant Physiol 2000; 124:681-92. [PMID: 11027717 PMCID: PMC59173 DOI: 10.1104/pp.124.2.681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2000] [Accepted: 06/20/2000] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Acyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) desaturases function to position a single double bond into an acyl-ACP substrate and are best represented by the ubiquitous Delta9 18:0-ACP desaturase. Several variant acyl-ACP desaturases have also been identified from species that produce unusual monoenoic fatty acids. All known acyl-ACP desaturase enzymes use ferredoxin as the electron-donating cofactor, and in almost all previous studies the photosynthetic form of ferredoxin rather than the non-photosynthetic form has been used to assess activity. We have examined the influence of different forms of ferredoxin on acyl-ACP desaturases. Using combinations of in vitro acyl-ACP desaturase assays and [(14)C]malonyl-coenzyme A labeling studies, we have determined that heterotrophic ferredoxin isoforms support up to 20-fold higher unusual acyl-ACP desaturase activity in coriander (Coriandrum sativum), Thunbergia alata, and garden geranium (Pelargonium x hortorum) when compared with photosynthetic ferredoxin isoforms. Heterotrophic ferredoxin also increases activity of the ubiquitous Delta9 18:0-ACP desaturase 1.5- to 3.0-fold in both seed and leaf extracts. These results suggest that ferredoxin isoforms may specifically interact with acyl-ACP desaturases to achieve optimal enzyme activity and that heterotrophic isoforms of ferredoxin may be the in vivo electron donor for this reaction.
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- D J Schultz
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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Hugo N, Meyer C, Armengaud J, Gaillard J, Timmis KN, Jouanneau Y. Characterization of three XylT-like [2Fe-2S] ferredoxins associated with catabolism of cresols or naphthalene: evidence for their involvement in catechol dioxygenase reactivation. J Bacteriol 2000; 182:5580-5. [PMID: 10986264 PMCID: PMC111004 DOI: 10.1128/jb.182.19.5580-5585.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The xylT gene product, a component of the xylene catabolic pathway of Pseudomonas putida mt2, has been recently characterized as a novel [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin which specifically reactivates oxygen-inactivated catechol 2,3-dioxygenase (XylE). In this study, three XylT-like proteins potentially involved in the catabolism of naphthalene (NahT) or cresols (PhhQ and DmpQ) have been overexpressed in Escherichia coli, purified, and compared with respect to their biochemical properties and interaction with XylE. The three XylT analogues show general spectroscopic characteristics common to plant-type [2Fe-2S] ferredoxins as well as distinctive features that appear to be typical for the XylT subgroup of these proteins. The midpoint redox potentials of the PhhQ and DmpQ proteins were -286 mV and -323 mV, respectively. Interestingly, all purified XylT-like proteins promoted in vitro reactivation of XylE almost as efficiently as XylT. The interaction of XylE with XylT and its analogues was studied by cross-linking experiments using the 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-carbodiimide. A polypeptide band with an M(r) of 46,000, which corresponded to the cross-linked product between one XylE subunit and one molecule of ferredoxin, was obtained in all cases. The formation of the complex was affected by ionic strength, indicating that electrostatic forces are involved in the dioxygenase-ferredoxin interaction. In complementation experiments, plasmids expressing xylT or its analogues were introduced into an XylT-null mutant of P. putida which is unable to grow on p-methylbenzoate. All transconjugants regained the wild-type phenotype, indicating that all analogues can substitute for XylT in the in vivo reactivation of XylE. Our results provide evidence for a subgroup of [2Fe-2S] ferredoxins with distinct biochemical properties whose specific function is to reactivate intrinsically labile extradiol ring cleavage dioxygenases involved in the catabolism of various aromatic hydrocarbons.
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- N Hugo
- Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale/BBSI and CNRS UMR 5092, CEA-Grenoble, F-38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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Guillouard I, Lagoutte B, Moal G, Bottin H. Importance of the region including aspartates 57 and 60 of ferredoxin on the electron transfer complex with photosystem I in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 271:647-53. [PMID: 10814516 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.2687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Ferredoxin reduction by photosystem I has been studied by flash-absorption spectroscopy. Aspartate residues 20, 57, and 60 of ferredoxin were changed to alanine, cysteine, arginine, or lysine. On the one hand, electron transfer from photosystem I to all mutated ferredoxins still occurs on a microsecond time scale, with half-times of ferredoxin reduction mostly conserved compared to wild-type ferredoxin. On the other hand, the total amplitude of the fast first-order reduction varies largely when residues 57 or 60 are modified, in apparent relation to the charge modification (neutralized or inverted). Substituting these two residues for lysine or arginine induce strong effects on ferredoxin binding (up to sixfold increase in K(D)), whereas the same substitution on aspartate 20, a spatially related residue, results in moderate effects (maximum twofold increase in K(D)). In addition, double mutations to arginine or lysine were performed on both aspartates 57 and 60. The mutated proteins have a 15- to 20-fold increased K(D) and show strong modifications in the amplitudes of the fast reduction kinetics. These results indicate that the acidic area of ferredoxin including aspartates 57 and 60, located opposite to the C-terminus, is crucial for high affinity interactions with photosystem I.
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- I Guillouard
- CEA, Département de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Section de Bioénergétique, CNRS URA 2096, CE de Saclay, Gif sur Yvette Cedex, 91191, France
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Ullmann GM, Hauswald M, Jensen A, Knapp EW. Structural alignment of ferredoxin and flavodoxin based on electrostatic potentials: Implications for their interactions with photosystem I and ferredoxin-NADP reductase. Proteins 2000. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0134(20000215)38:3<301::aid-prot6>3.0.co;2-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Akashi T, Matsumura T, Ideguchi T, Iwakiri K, Kawakatsu T, Taniguchi I, Hase T. Comparison of the electrostatic binding sites on the surface of ferredoxin for two ferredoxin-dependent enzymes, ferredoxin-NADP(+) reductase and sulfite reductase. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:29399-405. [PMID: 10506201 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.41.29399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Plant-type ferredoxin (Fd), a [2Fe-2S] iron-sulfur protein, functions as an one-electron donor to Fd-NADP(+) reductase (FNR) or sulfite reductase (SiR), interacting electrostatically with them. In order to understand the protein-protein interaction between Fd and these two different enzymes, 10 acidic surface residues in maize Fd (isoform III), Asp-27, Glu-30, Asp-58, Asp-61, Asp-66/Asp-67, Glu-71/Glu-72, Asp-85, and Glu-93, were substituted with the corresponding amide residues by site-directed mutagenesis. The redox potentials of the mutated Fds were not markedly changed, except for E93Q, the redox potential of which was more positive by 67 mV than that of the wild type. Kinetic experiments showed that the mutations at Asp-66/Asp-67 and Glu-93 significantly affected electron transfer to the two enzymes. Interestingly, D66N/D67N was less efficient in the reaction with FNR than E93Q, whereas this relationship was reversed in the reaction with SiR. The static interaction of the mutant Fds with each the two enzymes was analyzed by gel filtration of a mixture of Fd and each enzyme, and by affinity chromatography on Fd-immobilized resins. The contributions of Asp-66/Asp-67 and Glu-93 were found to be most important for the binding to FNR and SiR, respectively, in accordance with the kinetic data. These results allowed us to map the acidic regions of Fd required for electron transfer and for binding to FNR and SiR and demonstrate that the interaction sites for the two enzymes are at least partly distinct.
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- T Akashi
- Division of Enzymology, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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Hurley JK, Hazzard JT, Martínez-Júlvez M, Medina M, Gómez-Moreno C, Tollin G. Electrostatic forces involved in orienting Anabaena ferredoxin during binding to Anabaena ferredoxin:NADP+ reductase: site-specific mutagenesis, transient kinetic measurements, and electrostatic surface potentials. Protein Sci 1999; 8:1614-22. [PMID: 10452605 PMCID: PMC2144422 DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.8.1614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Transient absorbance measurements following laser flash photolysis have been used to measure the rate constants for electron transfer (et) from reduced Anabaena ferredoxin (Fd) to wild-type and seven site-specific charge-reversal mutants of Anabaena ferredoxin:NADP+ reductase (FNR). These mutations have been designed to probe the importance of specific positively charged amino acid residues on the surface of the FNR molecule near the exposed edge of the FAD cofactor in the protein-protein interaction during et with Fd. The mutant proteins fall into two groups: overall, the K75E, R16E, and K72E mutants are most severely impaired in et, and the K138E, R264E, K290E, and K294E mutants are impaired to a lesser extent, although the degree of impairment varies with ionic strength. Binding constants for complex formation between the oxidized proteins and for the transient et complexes show that the severity of the alterations in et kinetics for the mutants correlate with decreased stabilities of the protein-protein complexes. Those mutated residues, which show the largest effects, are located in a region of the protein in which positive charge predominates, and charge reversals have large effects on the calculated local surface electrostatic potential. In contrast, K138, R264, K290, and K294 are located within or close to regions of intense negative potential, and therefore the introduction of additional negative charges have considerably smaller effects on the calculated surface potential. We attribute the relative changes in et kinetics and complex binding constants for these mutants to these characteristics of the surface charge distribution in FNR and conclude that the positively charged region of the FNR surface located in the vicinity of K75, R16, and K72 is especially important in the binding and orientation of Fd during electron transfer.
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- J K Hurley
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
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Anusevicius Z, Soffers AE, Cenas N, Sarlauskas J, Martinez-Julvez M, Rietjens IM. Quantitative structure activity relationships for the electron transfer reactions of Anabaena PCC 7119 ferredoxin-NADP+ oxidoreductase with nitrobenzene and nitrobenzimidazolone derivatives: mechanistic implications. FEBS Lett 1999; 450:44-8. [PMID: 10350054 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00464-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The steady state single electron reduction of polynitroaromatics by ferredoxin-NADP+ oxidoreductase (EC 1.18.1.2) from cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7119 has been studied and quantitative structure activity relationships are described. The solubility of the polynitroaromatics as well as their reactivity towards ferredoxin-NADP+ oxidoreductase are markedly higher than those for previously studied mononitroaromatics and this enabled the independent measurement of the kinetic parameters-k(cat) and Km. Interestingly, the natural logarithm of the bimolecular rate constant, k(cat)/Km, and also the natural logarithm of k(cat) correlate with the calculated energy of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital of the polynitroaromatic substrates. The minimal kinetic model in line with these quantitative structure activity relationships is a ping-pong mechanism which includes substrate binding equilibria in the second half reaction.
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- Z Anusevicius
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands
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Brereton PS, Maher MJ, Tregloan PA, Wedd AG. Investigation of the role of surface residues in the ferredoxin from Clostridium pasteurianum. Biochim Biophys Acta 1999; 1429:307-16. [PMID: 9989216 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(98)00197-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Eleven mutant forms of the ferredoxin from Clostridium pasteurianum (CpFd; 2 Fe4S4; 6200 Da) have been isolated in which six surface carboxylates are changed systematically to their uncharged but stereochemically equivalent carboxamide analogues. Such changes provide molecules which vary in overall charge and its surface distribution but vary minimally in structure and reduction potential. Glu-17 and Asp-6, -27, -33, -35, and -39 were converted providing six single mutants, four double mutants and one triple mutant. The proteins were characterised by UV-visible spectroscopy, square-wave voltammetry and 1H NMR. Their ability to mediate electron transfer between spinach NADH:ferredoxin oxidoreductase and horse heart cytochrome c was assessed. Each mutant is 30-100% as active as the recombinant protein with the triple mutant D33,35,39N being least active. Second-order rate constants k2 for the oxidation of reduced mutant ferredoxins by [Co(NH3)6]3+ were measured at 25 degrees C and I = 0.1 M by stopped-flow techniques. Each mutant displayed saturation kinetics with k2 being 30-100% of that for the recombinant protein. The rates were moderately sensitive to ionic strength. Variation in association constant K could not be detected within the confidence limits of the data. Overall the effects of the mutations were minor. In contrast to human and Anabaena 7120 [Fe2S2]-ferredoxins, electron transfer does not appear to rely on the presence of one or two specific surface carboxylate residues. It may occur from multiple sites on the surface of CpFd with recognition processes for its many physiological redox partners being controlled by relative reduction potentials, in addition to unidentified criteria. The conclusions are consistent with previous results for another series of mutant CpFd proteins interacting with physiological redox partners pyruvate: Fd oxidoreductase and hydrogenase (J.M. Moulis, V. Davasse (1995) Biochemistry 34, 16781-16788).
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- P S Brereton
- School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Ferredoxins are a group of iron-sulfur proteins for which a wealth of structural and mutational data have recently become available. Previously unknown structures of ferredoxins which are adapted to halophilic, acidophilic or hyperthermophilic environments and new cysteine patterns for cluster ligation and non-cysteine cluster ligation have been described. Site-directed mutagenesis experiments have given insight into factors that influence the geometry, stability, redox potential, electronic properties and electron-transfer reactivity of iron-sulfur clusters.
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- H Sticht
- Lehrstuhl für Struktur und Chemie der Biopolymere, Universität Bayreuth, Germany.
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Gómez-Moreno C, Martínez-Júlvez M, Medina M, Hurley JK, Tollin G. Protein-protein interaction in electron transfer reactions: the ferredoxin/flavodoxin/ferredoxin:NADP+ reductase system from Anabaena. Biochimie 1998; 80:837-46. [PMID: 9893942 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-9084(00)88878-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Electron transfer reactions involving protein-protein interactions require the formation of a transient complex which brings together the two redox centres exchanging electrons. This is the case for the flavoprotein ferredoxin:NADP+ reductase (FNR) from the cyanobacterium Anabaena, an enzyme which interacts with ferredoxin in the photosynthetic pathway to receive the electrons required for NADP+ reduction. The reductase shows a concave cavity in its structure into which small proteins such as ferredoxin can fit. Flavodoxin, an FMN-containing protein that is synthesised in cyanobacteria under iron-deficient conditions, plays the same role as ferredoxin in its interaction with FNR in spite of its different structure, size and redox cofactor. There are a number of negatively charged amino acid residues on the surface of ferredoxin and flavodoxin that play a role in the electron transfer reaction with the reductase. Thus far, in only one case has charge replacement of one of the acidic residues produced an increase in the rate of electron transfer, whereas in several other cases a decrease in the rate is observed. In the most dramatic example, replacement of Glu at position 94 of Anabaena ferredoxin results in virtually the complete loss of ability to transfer electrons. Charge-reversal of positively charged amino acid residues in the reductase also produces strong effects on the rate of electron transfer. Several degrees of impairment have been observed, the most significant involving a positively charged Lys at position 75 which appears to be essential for the stability of the complex between the reductase and ferredoxin. The results presented in this paper provide a clear demonstration of the importance of electrostatic interactions on the stability of the transient complex formed during electron transfer by the proteins presently under study.
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- C Gómez-Moreno
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
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Wilkens SJ, Xia B, Volkman BF, Weinhold F, Markley JL, Westler WM. Inadequacies of the Point-Dipole Approximation for Describing Electron−Nuclear Interactions in Paramagnetic Proteins: Hybrid Density Functional Calculations and the Analysis of NMR Relaxation of High-Spin Iron(III) Rubredoxin. J Phys Chem B 1998. [DOI: 10.1021/jp982018q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Steven J. Wilkens
- National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison, Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Chemistry, University of WisconsinMadison, 420 Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison, Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Chemistry, University of WisconsinMadison, 420 Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison, Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Chemistry, University of WisconsinMadison, 420 Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison, Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Chemistry, University of WisconsinMadison, 420 Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison, Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Chemistry, University of WisconsinMadison, 420 Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison, Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Chemistry, University of WisconsinMadison, 420 Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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Li J, Nelson MR, Peng CY, Bashford D, Noodleman L. Incorporating Protein Environments in Density Functional Theory: A Self-Consistent Reaction Field Calculation of Redox Potentials of [2Fe2S] Clusters in Ferredoxin and Phthalate Dioxygenase Reductase. J Phys Chem A 1998. [DOI: 10.1021/jp980753w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jian Li
- Department of Molecular Biology, TPC-15, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Department of Molecular Biology, TPC-15, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Department of Molecular Biology, TPC-15, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Department of Molecular Biology, TPC-15, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Department of Molecular Biology, TPC-15, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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Aoki M, Ishimori K, Fukada H, Takahashi K, Morishima I. Isothermal titration calorimetric studies on the associations of putidaredoxin to NADH-putidaredoxin reductase and P450cam. Biochim Biophys Acta 1998; 1384:180-8. [PMID: 9602119 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(98)00017-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Putidaredoxin (Pdx), an iron-sulfur protein containing a 2Fe-2S cluster, serves as a physiological electron mediator from NADH-putidaredoxin reductase (PdR) to P450cam in the P450cam monooxygenation reaction cycle. Previous studies have revealed that the associations of Pdx with P450cam and PdR are not strongly dominated by electrostatic interactions, although such interactions stabilize most electron-transfer complexes [A.R. De Pascalis, I. Jelesarov, F. Ackermann, W.H. Koppenol, M. Hiroasawa, D.B. Knaff, H.R. Bosshard, Protein Sci. 2 (1993) 1126-1135]. In the present study, to elucidate the interactions dominating the specific associations in the electron-transfer reaction mediated by Pdx, the thermodynamic properties--entropy (delta S), enthalpy (delta H), and heat capacity changes (delta Cp)--for PdR/Pdx and P450cam/Pdx association reactions have been examined by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). Although the binding enthalpy change, delta Hbind, for the PdR/Pdx association is positive at 10 degrees C, it declines linearly with temperature in the range 10-22 degrees C and becomes negative above 11 degrees C. On the other hand, the binding entropy change, delta Sbind, is positive at all temperatures examined in this study, indicating that the association of Pdx to PdR is entropically driven. On the basis of the temperature dependence of delta Hbind, delta Cpbind for the association of Pdx to PdR was estimated as -1.24 kJ mol-1 K-1. This value is larger than those reported for other electron-transfer protein systems (e.g., -0.68 kJ mol-1 K-1 for ferredoxin/ferredoxin: NADP+ reductase), suggesting that the PdR/Pdx association may be dominated by hydrophobic rather than electrostatic components. For the P450cam/Pdx association, the negative delta Sbind and highly favorable delta Hbind were observed, behavior that stands in sharp contrast to the association reactions in other electron-transfer proteins. The energetics of the P450cam/Pdx association are similar to those of binding reaction of antibody to antigen in which van der Waals and hydrogen bonding interactions are dominant, resulting in high specificity in the association of Pdx with P450cam.
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- M Aoki
- Department of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan
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Hirasawa M, Hurley JK, Salamon Z, Tollin G, Markley JL, Cheng H, Xia B, Knaff DB. The role of aromatic and acidic amino acids in the electron transfer reaction catalyzed by spinach ferredoxin-dependent glutamate synthase. Biochim Biophys Acta 1998; 1363:134-46. [PMID: 9507092 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(97)00098-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Treatment of the ferredoxin-dependent, spinach glutamate synthase with N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) modifies 2 mol of tryptophan residues per mol of enzyme, without detectable modification of other amino acids, and inhibits enzyme activity by 85% with either reduced ferredoxin or reduced methyl viologen serving as the source of electrons. The inhibition of ferredoxin-dependent activity resulting from NBS treatment arises entirely from a decrease in the turnover number. Complex formation of glutamate synthase with ferredoxin prevented both the modification of tryptophan residues by NBS and inhibition of the enzyme. NBS treatment had no effect on the secondary structure of the enzyme, did not affect the Kms for 2-oxoglutarate and glutamine, did not affect the midpoint potentials of the enzyme's prosthetic groups and did not decrease the ability of the enzyme to bind ferredoxin. It thus appears that the ferredoxin-binding site(s) of glutamate synthase contains at least one, and possibly two, tryptophans. Replacement of either phenylalanine at position 65, in the ferredoxin from the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120, with a non-aromatic amino acid, or replacement of the glutamate at ferredoxin position 94, decreased the turnover number compared to that observed with wild-type Anabaena ferredoxin. The effect of the change at position 65 was quite modest compared to that at position 94, suggesting that an aromatic amino acid is not absolutely essential at position 65, but that glutamate 94 is essential for optimal electron transfer.
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- M Hirasawa
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech. University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, USA
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Schmitz S, Martínez-Júlvez M, Gómez-Moreno C, Böhme H. Interaction of positively charged amino acid residues of recombinant, cyanobacterial ferredoxin:NADP+ reductase with ferredoxin probed by site directed mutagenesis. Biochim Biophys Acta 1998; 1363:85-93. [PMID: 9511808 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(97)00085-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The petH genes encoding ferredoxin:NADP+ reductase (FNR) from two Anabaena species (PCC 7119 and ATCC 29413) were cloned and overexpressed in E. coli. Several positively charged residues (Arg, Lys) have been implicated to be involved in ferredoxin binding and electron transfer by cross-linking, chemical modification and protection experiments, and crystallographic studies. The following substitutions were introduced by site-directed mutagenesis: R153Q, K209Q, K212Q, R214Q, K275N, K430Q and K431Q in Anabaena 29413 FNR, and R153E, K209E, K212E, R214E, K275E, R401E, K427E, and K431E in Anabaena 7119 FNR. Comparison of the diaphorase activities, the specific rates of ferredoxin dependent NADP(+)-photoreduction and cytochrome c reduction catalyzed by FNR showed that all these amino acid residues were required for efficient electron transfer between FNR and ferredoxin. Replacement of any one of these basic residues produced a much more pronounced effect on the cytochrome c reductase activity, where FNR, reduced by NADPH, acted as electron donor, than in the reduction of NADP+ by photosystem I via FNR. A mutation involving the replacement of positive charge by a neutral amide produced in all cases a smaller inhibitory effect on the activity than a charge reversal mutation. In addition, it has been found that R214 was necessary for stable integration of the non covalently bound FAD-cofactor.
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- S Schmitz
- Botanisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Germany
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