Oxygen Activation at the Active Site of a Fungal Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenase
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Dept. of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Biochemisty, Cellular and Molecular Biology; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Knoxville and Computatinal Biology Inst., Computer Science, Mathematics Division
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases have attracted vast attention owing to their abilities to disrupt glycosidic bonds via oxidation instead of hydrolysis and to enhance enzymatic digestion of recalcitrant substrates including chitin and cellulose. Here, we determined the high-resolution X-ray crystal structures of an enzyme from Neurospora crassa in the resting state and of a copper(II) dioxo intermediate complex formed in the absence of substrate. X-ray crystal structures also revealed “pre-bound” molecular oxygen adjacent to the active site. An examination of protonation states enabled by neutron crystallography and density functional theory calculations identified a role for a conserved histidine in promoting oxygen activation. Our results provide a new structural description of oxygen activation by substrate free lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases and provide insights that can be extended to reactivity in the enzyme–substrate complex.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; MRI 09229719; IGERT 1069091; GM105978
- OSTI ID:
- 1407721
- Journal Information:
- Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 129, Issue 3; ISSN 0044-8249
- Publisher:
- German Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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