Warelow, TP;
Pushie, MJ;
Cotelesage, JJH;
Santini, JM;
George, GN;
(2017)
The active site structure and catalytic mechanism of arsenite oxidase.
Scientific Reports
, 7
, Article 1757. 10.1038/s41598-017-01840-y.
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Abstract
Arsenite oxidase is thought to be an ancient enzyme, originating before the divergence of the Archaea and the Bacteria. We have investigated the nature of the molybdenum active site of the arsenite oxidase from the Alphaproteobacterium Rhizobium sp. str. NT-26 using a combination of X-ray absorption spectroscopy and computational chemistry. Our analysis indicates an oxidized Mo(VI) active site with a structure that is far from equilibrium. We propose that this is an entatic state imposed by the protein on the active site through relative orientation of the two molybdopterin cofactors, in a variant of the Rây-Dutt twist of classical coordination chemistry, which we call the pterin twist hypothesis. We discuss the implications of this hypothesis for other putatively ancient molybdopterin-based enzymes.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The active site structure and catalytic mechanism of arsenite oxidase |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-017-01840-y |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01840-y |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Structural and Molecular Biology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1547777 |
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