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  • Title: A coupled dinuclear iron cluster that is perturbed by substrate binding in myo-inositol oxygenase.
    Author: Xing G, Hoffart LM, Diao Y, Prabhu KS, Arner RJ, Reddy CC, Krebs C, Bollinger JM.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 2006 May 02; 45(17):5393-401. PubMed ID: 16634620.
    Abstract:
    myo-Inositol oxygenase (MIOX) uses iron as its cofactor and dioxygen as its cosubstrate to effect the unique, ring-cleaving, four-electron oxidation of its cyclohexan-(1,2,3,4,5,6-hexa)-ol substrate to d-glucuronate. The nature of the iron cofactor and its interaction with the substrate, myo-inositol (MI), have been probed by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and Mössbauer spectroscopies. The data demonstrate the formation of an antiferromagnetically coupled, high-spin diiron(III/III) cluster upon treatment of solutions of Fe(II) and MIOX with excess O(2) or H(2)O(2) and the formation of an antiferromagnetically coupled, valence-localized, high-spin diiron(II/III) cluster upon treatment with either limiting O(2) or excess O(2) in the presence of a mild reductant (e.g., ascorbate). Marked changes to the spectra of both redox forms upon addition of MI and analogy to changes induced by binding of phosphate to the diiron(II/III) cluster of the protein phosphatase, uteroferrin, suggest that MI coordinates directly to the diiron cluster, most likely in a bridging mode. The addition of MIOX to the growing family of non-heme diiron oxygenases expands the catalytic range of the family beyond the two-electron oxidation (hydroxylation and dehydrogenation) reactions catalyzed by its more extensively studied members such as methane monooxygenase and stearoyl acyl carrier protein Delta(9)-desaturase.
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