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1 Center for Metalloenzyme Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nippon Medical School, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan
3 Department of Bioengineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan
Reprint requests to: Nathaniel J. Cosper, Center for Metalloenzyme Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; e-mail: ncosper{at}uga.edu; fax: (706) 542-9454.
(RECEIVED July 2, 2002; FINAL REVISION September 13, 2002; ACCEPTED September 13, 2002)
Article and publication are at http://www.proteinscience.org/cgi/doi/10.1110/ps.0222402.
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Keywords: Anthranilate dioxygenase (AntDO); archaeal Rieske ferredoxin (ARF); iron-sulfur cluster; reduction potential; Rieske-type ferredoxin; X-ray absorption fine structure; X-ray absorption spectroscopy
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Two different types of Rieske clusters have been observed in proteins: one with higher reduction potentials (Em = +150 to +490 mV) in cytochrome bc1/b6f complexes of the aerobic respiratory chain and photosynthesis, and the other with lower reduction potentials (Em = -150 to -50 mV, NHE) in a diverse group of bacterial multicomponent terminal oxygenases and soluble Rieske-type ferredoxins (Kuila and Fee 1986; Link et al. 1992; Mason and Cammack 1992; Riedel et al. 1995; Link et al. 1996; Brugna et al. 1999). The degree to which structural variations in the vicinity of the clusters contribute to the functional properties is still a matter of intense debate, although correlations among reduction potentials, variations of hydrogen-bond networks (Denke et al. 1998; Schröter et al. 1998; Guergova-Kuras et al. 2000), and polypeptide dipoles in the vicinity of the Rieske-type clusters (Colbert et al. 2000) have been proposed. The midpoint reduction potentials of the clusters in archaeal Rieske-type ferredoxin (ARF) from Sulfolobus solfataricus strain P-1, a small, soluble, thermophilic protein of unknown function, and bacterial Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1 anthranilate dioxygenase (AntDO), which catalyzes the conversion of anthranilate to catechol in the ß-ketoadipate pathway for biodegradation of aromatic compounds (Eby et al. 2001), are examples of Rieske-type clusters that belong to the lower reduction potential class. The midpoint redox potentials of the clusters in ARF and AntDO are -155 mV (T. Iwasaki, A. Kounosu, N. Kurosawa, T. Imai, A. Urishiyama, unpubl.) and approximately -125 mV (estimated from redox potential of 2-halobenzoate 1,2-dioxygenase) (Correll et al. 1992; Riedel et al. 1995; Coulter et al. 1999; Eby et al. 2001), respectively. We report herein X-ray absorption spectroscopic (XAS) data that directly demonstrate an increase in the ironhistidine bond length of at least 0.1 Å upon reduction of the Rieske-type cluster, suggesting a functional role in biocatalysis for these clusters.
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s are bound to the cluster (Karlsson et al. 2000).
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Evidence does exist, however, for redox-dependent, protein-based structural changes associated with biological [2Fe-2S] clusters with complete cysteinyl ligation. For example, NMR analysis of human ferredoxin (Xia et al. 1998), and X-ray crystallographic analysis of Anabaena ferredoxin (Morales et al. 1999) indicate significant structural rearrangement between the oxidized and reduced states. Anabaena ferredoxin undergoes a peptide conformational change upon reduction that leads to a [2Fe-2S] cluster environment very similar to that in Burkholderia cepacia phthalate dioxygenase reductase (PDR) (Morales et al. 1999).
In the Rieske domain of NDO, which is homologous to bacterial and archaeal Rieske-type ferredoxins, one of the histidine ligands to the cluster is connected to the neighboring subunit via a hydrogen bond network (Kauppi et al. 1998), implying a specific protein-mediated electron and/or proton transfer pathway between the Rieske-type cluster and the mononuclear active site. This pathway in NDO has been further explored using single turnover studies with an enzyme that contained a Rieske cluster in the oxidized or reduced states (Wolfe et al. 2001). Surprisingly, the oxidation state of the Rieske cluster was a determining factor, along with the presence of substrate, in O2 activation at the mononuclear site. The mechanism for regulation of activation at the mononuclear site might well be the lengthening of the Fe-Nimid bond that is observed upon reduction of the two distantly related Rieske-type clusters of ARF and AntDO. This structural change is most likely to be an inherent property of the Rieske-type cluster, at least for those with the lower reduction potentials. The localized redox-dependent structural change may fine tune the protein protein interaction (in the case of ARF) or the interdomain interaction (in AntDO) to facilitate rapid electron transfer, as well as O2 binding, thereby regulating overall oxygenase activity.
The scale of redox-dependent structural changes of the cluster, ca. 0.17 Å for the Fe-Nimid bond, is such that the changes could easily evade detection by crystallographic techniques, which often have a lower precision in metalligand bond distances (Kauppi et al. 1998). XAS has been used in only two cases to analyze the iron coordination environment of a Rieske cluster (Powers et al. 1989; Tsang et al. 1989), neither of which quantitatively describes the contribution of the histidine ligands to the iron EXAFS for the cluster.
The XAS results presented here provide the first direct evidence that the coordination sphere of a Rieske-type [2Fe-2S] cluster varies significantly between oxidation states. These structural changes may be limited to Rieske-type clusters that play specific catalytic roles in biology and not applicable to the entire class of ironsulfur cluster proteins. Nonetheless, this work provides some of the first structural evidence in support of the hypothesis that oxidation state-mediated structural changes of ironsulfur centers play a critical role in regulating enzymatic catalysis.
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0.60.8 mM), containing 30% (v/v) glycerol, were frozen in a 24 x 1 x 2 mm polycarbonate cuvet with a Mylar-tape front window for XAS studies. Recombinant AntDO was overexpressed and purified to homogeneity (Eby et al. 2001). The removal of mononuclear iron from the catalytic site (to avoid complication of Fe K-edge XAS analysis) and the preparation of oxidized and reduced Rieske cluster in AntDO were performed as described previously (Coulter et al. 1999). Briefly, Fe(II) was removed from the catalytic site by dialysis against three changes of 2 L of buffer containing 25 mM MOPS (pH 7.3), 5 mM EDTA over 12 h. To remove exogenous Fe and EDTA, the mononuclear Fe-removed protein (apoAntDO) was dialyzed against two changes of 2 L buffer containing 25 mM MOPS (pH 7.3) over 12 h. ApoAntDO was then passed through a HiTrap 5-mL desalting column (Pharmacia) equilibrated with 25 mM MOPS, (pH 7.3) for complete removal of Fe and EDTA. Loss of Fe(II) from the catalytic site was confirmed by monitoring absorbance at 340 nm when apoAntDO was added to a spectrophotometric NADH oxidation assay (0.5 mM anthranilate, 0.1 mM NADH, 0.5 µM apoAntDO, 0.18 µM AntC in 50 mM MES, pH 6.3 and 100 mM KCl; Eby et al. 2001). The absence of detectable catalysis of aromatic substrate was also confirmed in the same assay when anthranilate was monitored by HPLC (Eby et al. 2001). The apoAntDO sample was then split into two aliquots. A final concentration of 10% (vol/vol) glycerol was added to one aliquot, placed into XAS cuvets, and frozen in liquid nitrogen (oxidized apoAntDO). The other aliquot was made anaerobic by first mixing the sample with N2 gas for 5 min, then reduced by careful titration with an anaerobic sodium dithionite solution (20 mg/mL) in an anaerobic chamber until the red-brown color faded from apoAntDO, a characteristic of reduced Rieske [2Fe-2S]. Glycerol at 10% (vol/vol) final concentration was added to reduced apoAntDO, placed into XAS cuvets, and frozen in liquid nitrogen. The appearance of reduced Rieske centers was confirmed by presence of the characteristic UV/VIS and EPR spectra (Eby et al. 2001).
XAS data were collected at 10 K at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, beamline 7-3, with the SPEAR storage ring operating at 3.0 GeV. A monochromator containing a Si[220] crystal and a 13-element Ge solid-state X-ray fluorescence detector (provided by the NIH Biotechnology Research Resource) were employed for data collection. No photoreduction was observed in comparisons of the first and last spectra collected for a given sample. The first inflection of the edge of an Fe foil (assumed to be 7111.2 eV) was used for energy calibration. All other data collection parameters were as described previously (Cosper et al. 1999). EXAFS analysis was performed with the EXAFSPAK software (www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/exafspak.html) according to standard procedures (Scott 1985).
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