Direct detection of the proton-containing group coordinated to Mo(V) in the high pH form of chicken liver sulfite oxidase by refocused primary ESEEM spectroscopy: Structural and mechanistic implications
Av. Astashkin et al., Direct detection of the proton-containing group coordinated to Mo(V) in the high pH form of chicken liver sulfite oxidase by refocused primary ESEEM spectroscopy: Structural and mechanistic implications, J AM CHEM S, 122(22), 2000, pp. 5294-5302
A refocused primary electron spin-echo envelope modulation (RP ESEEM) techn
ique and an adjustable frequency S/C-band pulsed EPR spectrometer have been
used to produce ESEEM spectra with the lines due to nearby protons being g
reatly enhanced relative to those due to distant matrix protons. Applicatio
n of this technique to the high pH (hpH) form of the Mo(V) center of sulfit
e oxidase has enabled nearby protons to be directly detected for the first
time. Simulation of the RP ESEEM spectrum of the hpH form, suggests the pre
sence of two nearby protons that have distributed hyperfine interactions (h
fi); these protons are ascribed to a Mo-V-OH group with strong H-bonding in
teractions to other nearby proton donors or to the presence of a coordinate
d H2O ligand. The RP ESEEM technique promises to be widely applicable to th
e investigation of mutant forms of SO with altered Mo centers and paramagne
tic centers in other metalloproteins where a nearby proton of interest is o
ften masked by much more numerous distant protons and where high spectral r
esolution is not required. The distinctive differences in the CW and pulsed
EPR spectra of the lpH and hpH forms are proposed to result from differenc
es of the Mo-V-OH torsional angle and variations in the H-bonding interacti
ons, which control the orientation of the Mo-V-OH proton(s) relative to the
half-filled 4d(xy) orbital. The large isotropic hfi for the lpH form is su
ggested to result from an intramolecular MoV-OH ... S-cys hydrogen bonding
interaction that places the proton of the Mo-V-OH group in the equatorial p
lane of the square pyramidal oxo-Mo(V) center of SO.