A paramagnetic species with unique EPR characteristics in the active site of heterodisulfide reductase from methanogenic archaea

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Heterodisulfide reductase (Hdr) from methanogenic archaea is an iron-sulfur protein that catalyses the reversible reduction of the heterodisulfide (CoM-S-S-CoB) of the methanogenic thiol coenzymes, coenzyme M (H-S-CoM) and coenzyme B (H-S-CoB). In EPR spectroscopic studies with the enzyme from Methanothermobacter marburgensis, we have identified a unique paramagnetic species that is formed upon reaction of the oxidized enzyme with H-S-CoM in the absence of H-S-CoB. This paramagnetic species can be reduced in a one-electron step with a midpoint-potential of -185 mV but not further oxidized. A broadening of the EPR signal in the 57Fe-enriched enzyme indicates that it is at least partially iron based. The g values (gxyz = 2.013, 1.991 and 1.938) and the midpoint potential argue against a conventional [2Fe-2S]+, [3Fe-4S]+, [4Fe-4S]+ or [4Fe-4S]3+ cluster. This species reacts with H-S-CoB to form an EPR silent form. Hence, we propose that only a half reaction is catalysed in the presence of H-S-CoM and that a reaction intermediate is trapped. This reaction intermediate is thought to be a [4Fe-4S]3+ cluster that is coordinated by one of the cysteines of a nearby active-site disulfide or by the sulfur of H-S-CoM. A paramagnetic species with similar EPR properties was also identified in Hdr from Methanosarcina barkeri.

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Madadi-Kahkesh, S., Duin, E. C., Heim, S., Albracht, S. P. J., Johnson, M. K., & Hedderich, R. (2001). A paramagnetic species with unique EPR characteristics in the active site of heterodisulfide reductase from methanogenic archaea. European Journal of Biochemistry, 268(9), 2566–2577. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.02141.x

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