Cage escape competes with geminate recombination during alkane hydroxylation by the diiron oxygenase AlkB
Cage escape competes with geminate recombination during alkane hydroxylation by the diiron oxygenase AlkB
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200801184
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发表时间:
2008-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Groves, John T.
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作者:
Austin, Rachel N.;Luddy, Kate;Groves, John T.
The alkane hydroxylase AlkB of Pseudomonas putida GPo1 is typical of a large class of membrane-spanning diiron oxygenases that catalyze hydroxylation, epoxidation, and desaturation reactions.[1, 2] These enzymes are of considerable interest due to their impact on global hydrocarbon metabolism,[3] their potential for practical biocatalytic application, and the resulting inspiration for the design of synthetic biomimetic catalysts.[4] Although the three-dimensional structures of AlkB or any closely related proteins are unknown, topology modeling has predicted a structure comprised of six membrane-spanning helices with the catalytic iron diad appended to the cytoplasmic termini of the helix bundle.[5] Mössbauer data and alanine scanning have suggested that the diiron binding site is histidine-rich,[6] as found in hemerythrin, and in contrast to the predominantly carboxylate binding motifs found in the diiron hydroxylases sMMO [7] and T4MOh.[8] Through protein side-chain mutations, a long, hydrophobic substrate-binding channel within the bundle has been identified that is tuned to accept medium-length alkanes.[5] AlkB was the first alkane hydroxylase shown to generate a longlived substrate carbon radical during catalysis, as revealed by diagnostic skeletal rearrangements of the hydrocarbon probe norcarane.[9]Herein we report results for the AlkB hydroxylation reaction using a panel of radical-clock substrates that display intrinsic rearrangement rates spanning five orders of magnitude, from a moderately slow 2.8 107 sÀ1 for bicyclo-[3.1. 0] hexane [11] to an ultrafast 1011 sÀ1 for trans-1-methyl-2-