Effect of magnesium adenosine 5'-triphosphate on the accessibility of the iron of clostridial azoferredoxin, a component of nitrogenase.
Effect of magnesium adenosine 5'-triphosphate on the accessibility of the iron of clostridial azoferredoxin, a component of nitrogenase.
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5-三磷酸腺苷镁对梭菌偶氮铁氧化还原蛋白(固氮酶的一种成分)的铁可及性的影响。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00708a023
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发表时间:
1974
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
L. Mortenson
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作者:
G. Walker;L. Mortenson
Gustavus A. Walker and Leonard E. Mortenson* abstract: Azoferredoxin has been shown to have a minimum of three different interconvertible states: an oxidized state (one in which its activity is not destroyed), a reduced state, and a reduced state in the presence of magnesium ATP. Each of these states could function in the reductions catalyzed by nitrogenase. The rapid removal of iron from azoferredoxin by,'-dipyridyl, only when azoferredoxin is complexed with magnesium ATP, is directly correlated with a loss in the electron paramagnetic resonance spectrum of the reduced azo-ferredoxin-magnesium ATP state. In the absence of a, a'-dipyridyl, the effect of magnesium ATP is reversible. The magnesium ATP effect is highly specific since no other magnesium nucleotide examined catalyzed the rapid transfer of iron from azoferredoxinto a, o:'-dipyridyl. In addition, the iron of molybdoferredoxin, the other nitrogenase component, is not made accessible to,'-dipyridyl upon addition ofL JLTP hydrolysis is required in the catalytic transfer of electrons by nitrogenase from a reductant to dinitrogen (Mc-Nary and Burris, 1962; Mortenson, 1964; Hardy and D’Eustachio, 1964). Neither component of theenzyme, azoferredoxin (iron-protein) or molybdoferredoxin (molybdenum-iron protein), is enzymatically active in the absence of the other (Mortenson et al., 1967). It is not understood how ATP functions in the reduction of substrates by nitrogenase, although several hypotheses have been advanced. Among these postu-lates are:(1) electron activation by ATP (Mortenson, 1964; Hardy et al., 1965),(2) ATP mediated electron transfer (Mortenson, 1964; Hardy and Burns, 1968),(3) ATP sup-ported substrate binding (Kelly and Lang, 1970), and (4) ATP induced changes in the conformation of one or both