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  • Title: The catalytic role of the copper ligand H172 of peptidylglycine alpha-hydroxylating monooxygenase: a kinetic study of the H172A mutant.
    Author: Evans JP, Blackburn NJ, Klinman JP.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 2006 Dec 26; 45(51):15419-29. PubMed ID: 17176064.
    Abstract:
    An essential histidine ligand to the electron transfer copper (CuH) of peptidylglycine alpha-hydroxylating monooxygenase (PHMcc) was mutated to an alanine and found to retain copper binding and hydroxylase activity [Jaron, S., et al. (2002) Biochemistry 41, 13274-13282]. An extensive kinetic and deuterium isotope effect study finds this mutant to maintain full coupling of O2 consumed to product formed despite a 3 order-of-magnitude decrease in kcat and a 300-fold decrease in kcat/Km(O2). Unexpectedly, electron transfer is not rate-limiting in H172A. Rather, the increased kinetic isotope effect (KIE) on kcat of 3.27 +/- 0.39 suggests that C-H bond cleavage has become more rate-limiting, implicating a role for His172 that goes beyond that of a simple ligand to CuH. The mechanistic implications are discussed.
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