Artificial hydrogenases based on cobaloximes and heme oxygenase
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble Cedex (France)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
- Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan)
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble Cedex (France); Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France)
The insertion of cobaloxime catalysts in the heme-binding pocket of heme oxygenase (HO) yields artificial hydrogenases active for H2 evolution in neutral aqueous solutions. These novel biohybrids have been purified and characterized by using UV/visible and EPR spectroscopy. These analyses revealed the presence of two distinct binding conformations, thereby providing the cobaloxime with hydrophobic and hydrophilic environments, respectively. Quantum chemical/molecular mechanical docking calculations found open and closed conformations of the binding pocket owing to mobile amino acid residues. HO-based biohybrids incorporating a {Co(dmgH)2} (dmgH2 = dimethylglyoxime) catalytic center displayed up to threefold increased turnover numbers with respect to the cobaloxime alone or to analogous sperm whale myoglobin adducts. Here, this study thus provides a strong basis for further improvement of such biohybrids, using well-designed modifications of the second and outer coordination spheres, through site-directed mutagenesis of the host protein.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1351308
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1401439
- Journal Information:
- ChemPlusChem, Journal Name: ChemPlusChem Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 81; ISSN 2192-6506
- Publisher:
- ChemPubSoc EuropeCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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