Type-zero copper proteins
Abstract
Many proteins contain copper in a range of coordination environments, where it has various biological roles, such as transferring electrons or activating dioxygen. These copper sites can be classified by their function or spectroscopic properties. Those with a single copper atom are either type 1, with an intense absorption band near 600 nm, or type 2, with weak absorption in the visible region. We have built a novel copper(ii) binding site within structurally modified Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurins that does not resemble either existing type, which we therefore call 'type zero'. X-ray crystallographic analysis shows that these sites adopt distorted tetrahedral geometries, with an unusually short Cu–O (G45 carbonyl) bond. Relatively weak absorption near 800 nm and narrow parallel hyperfine splittings in electron paramagnetic resonance spectra are the spectroscopic signatures of type zero copper. Cyclic voltammetric experiments demonstrate that the electron transfer reactivities of type-zero azurins are enhanced relative to that of the corresponding type 2 (C112D) protein.
Additional Information
© 2009 Macmillan Publishers Limited. Received 5 May 2009; Accepted 15 September 2009; Published online 1 November 2009. We thank B. Brunschwig for assistance with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Z. Gates and L. Thomas for assistance with X-ray diffraction data collection, and M. Day and J. Kaiser for discussions of crystal structural analyses. We thank E. Solomon for helpful comments on electronic structural formulations, and Y. Sheng for assistance with protein expression and purification. Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource operations are funded by DOE(BES). The Structural Molecular Biology program is supported by NIH (NCRR BMTP) (Grant Number 5 P41 RR001209)N and DOE(BER). This work was supported by NIH DK019038(HBG), Stanford GCEP, and NSF CHE-0802907. The Caltech Molecular Observatory is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Author Contributions: K.M.L. and H.B.G. conceived and designed the experiments; K.M.L., S.D.G., and K.Y. performed the experiments; K.M.L., S.D.G., K.Y., and H.B.G. analysed the data, K.M.L., S.D.G., J.H.R., and H.B.G. co-wrote the paper.Attached Files
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Supplemental Material - Lancaster2009p6499Nat_Chem_supp.pdf
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- PMC2841405
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- 10.1038/NCHEM.412
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- DK019038
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- Stanford Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP)
- CHE-0802907
- NSF
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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