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  • Title: Spectroscopic characterization of cytochrome P450 Compound I.
    Author: Jung C, de Vries S, Schünemann V.
    Journal: Arch Biochem Biophys; 2011 Mar 01; 507(1):44-55. PubMed ID: 21195047.
    Abstract:
    The cytochrome P450 protein-bound porphyrin complex with the iron-coordinated active oxygen atom as Fe(IV)O is called Compound I (Cpd I). Cpd I is the intermediate species proposed to hydroxylate directly the inert carbon-hydrogen bonds of P450 substrates. In the natural reaction cycle of cytochrome P450 Cpd I has not yet been detected, presumably because it is very short-lived. A great variety of experimental approaches has been applied to produce Cpd I artificially aiming to characterize its electronic structure with spectroscopic techniques. In spite of these attempts, none of the spectroscopic studies of the last decades proved capable of univocally identifying the electronic state of P450 Cpd I. Very recently, however, Rittle and Green [9] have shown that Cpd I of CYP119, the thermophilic P450 from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, is univocally a Fe(IV)O-porphyrin radical with the ferryl iron spin (S=1) antiferromagnetically coupled to the porphyrin radical spin (S'=1/2) yielding a S(tot)=1/2 ground state very similar to Cpd I of chloroperoxidase from Caldariomyces fumago. In this mini-review the efforts to characterize Cpd I of cytochrome P450 by spectroscopic methods are summarized.
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