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Title: Redox-dependent Structural Changes in Archaeal and Bacterial Rieske-type [2Fe-2S] Clusters

Journal Article · · Protein Science
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1110/ps.0222402· OSTI ID:815847

Proteins containing Rieske-type [2Fe-2S] clusters play important roles in many biological electron transfer reactions. Typically, [2Fe-2S] clusters are not directly involved in the catalytic transformation of substrate, but rather supply electrons to the active site. We report herein X-ray absorption spectroscopic (XAS) data that directly demonstrate an average increase in the iron-histidine bond length of at least 0.1 {angstrom} upon reduction of two distantly related Rieske-type clusters in archaeal Rieske ferredoxin from Sulfolobus solfataricus strain P-1 and bacterial anthranilate dioxygenases from Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1. This 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 between a lower potential Rieske-type cluster and its redox partners, thereby regulating overall oxygenase reactions in the cells.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
815847
Report Number(s):
SLAC-REPRINT-2002-252; TRN: US200319%%551
Journal Information:
Protein Science, Other Information: Protein Sci.11:2969,2002; PBD: 1 Jan 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English