4UE3
The Mechanism of Hydrogen Activation by NiFe-hydrogenases and the Importance of the active site Arginine
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Summary for 4UE3
| Entry DOI | 10.2210/pdb4ue3/pdb |
| Related | 5A4F 5A4I 5A4M 5ADU |
| Descriptor | Hydrogenase-1 small chain, MAGNESIUM ION, LITHIUM ION, ... (12 entities in total) |
| Functional Keywords | membrane-bound hydrogenase, oxidoreductase, ni-fe hydrogenase, hydrogen |
| Biological source | Escherichia coli (strain K12) More |
| Total number of polymer chains | 4 |
| Total formula weight | 190373.89 |
| Authors | Evans, R.M.,Wehlin, S.A.M.,Nomerotskaia, E.,Sargent, F.,Carr, S.B.,Phillips, S.E.V.,Armstrong, F.A. (deposition date: 2014-12-15, release date: 2014-12-24, Last modification date: 2024-11-06) |
| Primary citation | Evans, R.M.,Brooke, E.J.,Wehlin, S.A.,Nomerotskaia, E.,Sargent, F.,Carr, S.B.,Phillips, S.E.,Armstrong, F.A. Mechanism of Hydrogen Activation by [Nife] Hydrogenases. Nat.Chem.Biol., 12:46-, 2016 Cited by PubMed Abstract: The active site of [NiFe] hydrogenases contains a strictly conserved arginine that suspends a guanidine nitrogen atom <4.5 Å above the nickel and iron atoms. The guanidine headgroup interacts with the side chains of two conserved aspartic acid residues to complete an outer-shell canopy that has thus far proved intractable to investigation by site-directed mutagenesis. Using hydrogenase-1 from Escherichia coli, the strictly conserved residues R509 and D574 have been replaced by lysine (R509K) and asparagine (D574N) and the highly conserved D118 has been replaced by alanine (D118A) or asparagine (D118N/D574N). Each enzyme variant is stable, and their [(RS)2Niμ(SR)2Fe(CO)(CN)2] inner coordination shells are virtually unchanged. The R509K variant had >100-fold lower activity than native enzyme. Conversely, the variants D574N, D118A and D118N/D574N, in which the position of the guanidine headgroup is retained, showed 83%, 26% and 20% activity, respectively. The special kinetic requirement for R509 implicates the suspended guanidine group as the general base in H2 activation by [NiFe] hydrogenases. PubMed: 26619250DOI: 10.1038/NCHEMBIO.1976 PDB entries with the same primary citation |
| Experimental method | X-RAY DIFFRACTION (1.4 Å) |
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