X-RAY ABSORPTION-EDGE DETERMINATION OF THE OXIDATION-STATE AND COORDINATION-NUMBER OF COPPER - APPLICATION TO THE TYPE-3 SITE IN RHUS-VERNICIFERA LACCASE AND ITS REACTION WITH OXYGEN
X-RAY ABSORPTION-EDGE DETERMINATION OF THE OXIDATION-STATE AND COORDINATION-NUMBER OF COPPER - APPLICATION TO THE TYPE-3 SITE IN RHUS-VERNICIFERA LACCASE AND ITS REACTION WITH OXYGEN
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00255a032
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发表时间:
1987-10-14
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
SOLOMON, EI
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作者:
KAU, LS;SPIRASOLOMON, DJ;SOLOMON, EI
Cu X-ray absorption edge features of 19 Cu(I) and 40 Cu(II) model complexes have been systemically studied and correlated with oxidation state and geometry. Studies of Cu(I) model complexes with different coordination number reveal that an 8983-8984-eV peak (assigned as the Cu 1s.fwdarw.4p transition) can be correlated in energy, shape, and intensity with ligation and site geometry of the cuprous ion. These Cu(I) edge features have been qualitatively interpreted with ligand field concepts. Alternatively, no Cu(II) complex exhibits a peak below 8985.0eV. The limited intensity observed in the 8983-8985-eV region for some Cu(II) complexes is associated with the tail of an absorption peak at .apprx. 8996 eV which is affected by the covalency of the equatorial ligands. These model studies allow accurate calibration of a normalized difference edge procedure which is used for the quantitative determination of Cu(I) content in copper complexes of mixed oxidation state composition. This normalized difference edge analysis is then used to quantitatively determine the oxidation states of the copper sites in type 2 copper-depleted (T2D) and native forms of the multicopper oxidase, Rhus vernicifera laccase. The type 3 site of the T2D laccase is found to be fully reduced and stable to oxidation by O2 or by 25-fold protein equivalents of ferricyanide, but it can be oxidized by reaction with peroxide. The increase in intensity of the 330-nm absorption feature which results from peroxide titration of T2D laccase is found to correlate linearly with the percent of oxidation of the binuclear copper site. This correlation indicates that peroxide oxidizes but does not bind to the T3 site. We have used this correlation to determine that native laccase, as isolated, contains 22 .+-. 3% reduced T3 sites and that all spectral changes observed upon peroxide addition to native laccase can be accounted for by oxidation of these reduced sites. In the presence of azide and peroxide, further reduction occurs and as much as 40% of the binuclear copper pairs are stabilized in the reduced state. The importance of these results to previous reports of peroxide binding at the laccase active site is discussed.