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  • Title: Active-Site Controlled, Jahn-Teller Enabled Regioselectivity in Reductive S-C Bond Cleavage of S-Adenosylmethionine in Radical SAM Enzymes.
    Author: Impano S, Yang H, Jodts RJ, Pagnier A, Swimley R, McDaniel EC, Shepard EM, Broderick WE, Broderick JB, Hoffman BM.
    Journal: J Am Chem Soc; 2021 Jan 13; 143(1):335-348. PubMed ID: 33372786.
    Abstract:
    Catalysis by canonical radical S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) enzymes involves electron transfer (ET) from [4Fe-4S]+ to SAM, generating an R3S0 radical that undergoes regioselective homolytic reductive cleavage of the S-C5' bond to generate the 5'-dAdo· radical. However, cryogenic photoinduced S-C bond cleavage has regioselectively yielded either 5'-dAdo· or ·CH3, and indeed, each of the three SAM S-C bonds can be regioselectively cleaved in an RS enzyme. This diversity highlights a longstanding central question: what controls regioselective homolytic S-C bond cleavage upon SAM reduction? We here provide an unexpected answer, founded on our observation that photoinduced S-C bond cleavage in multiple canonical RS enzymes reveals two enzyme classes: in one, photolysis forms 5'-dAdo·, and in another it forms ·CH3. The identity of the cleaved S-C bond correlates with SAM ribose conformation but not with positioning and orientation of the sulfonium center relative to the [4Fe-4S] cluster. We have recognized the reduced-SAM R3S0 radical is a (2E) state with its antibonding unpaired electron in an orbital doublet, which renders R3S0 Jahn-Teller (JT)-active and therefore subject to vibronically induced distortion. Active-site forces induce a JT distortion that localizes the odd electron in a single priority S-C antibond, which undergoes regioselective cleavage. In photolytic cleavage those forces act through control of the ribose conformation and are transmitted to the sulfur via the S-C5' bond, but during catalysis thermally induced conformational changes that enable ET from a cluster iron generate dominant additional forces that specifically select S-C5' for cleavage. This motion also can explain how 5'-dAdo· subsequently forms the organometallic intermediate Ω.
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