Distinct redox behaviour of prosthetic groups in ready and unready hydrogenase from Chromatium vinosum
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Distinct redox behaviour of prosthetic groups in ready and unready hydrogenase from Chromatium vinosum
Abstract
The redox behaviour of the Ni(III)/Ni(II) transition in hydrogenase from Chromatium vinosum is described and compared with the redox behaviour of the nickel ion in the F420-nonreducing hydrogenase from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum. Analogous to the situation in the oxidised hydrogenase of Desulfovibrio gigas (Fernandez, V.M., Hatchikian, E.C., Patil, D.S. and Cammack, R. (1986) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 883, 145-154), the C. vinosum enzyme can also exist in two forms: the 'unready' form (EPR characteristics of Ni(III): gx,y,z = 2.32, 2.24, 2.01) and the 'ready' form (EPR characteristics Ni(III): gx,y,z = 2.34, 2.16, 2.01). Like in the oxidised enzyme of M. thermoautotrophicum the Ni(III)/Ni(II) transition for the unready form titrated completely reversible (both at pH 6.0 and pH 8.0). In contrast, the reversibility of the Ni(III)/Ni(II) transition in the ready enzyme was strongly dependent on pH and temperature. At pH 6.0 and 2 degrees C reduction of Ni(III) in ready enzyme was completely irreversible, whereas at pH 8.0 and 30 degrees C Ni(III) in both ready and unready enzyme titrated with E0' = -115 mV (n = 1). Hampered redox equilibration between the ready enzyme and the mediating dyes is interpreted in terms of an obstruction of the electron transfer from nickel at the active site to the artificial electron acceptors in solution. The origin of this obstruction might be related to possible changes in the protein structure induced by the activation process. The E0'-value of the Ni(III)/Ni(II) equilibrium was pH sensitive (-60 mV/delta pH) indicating that reduction of nickel is coupled to a protonation. A similar pH-dependence was observed for the titration of the spin-spin interaction of Ni(III) and a special form of the [3Fe-4S]+ cluster (E0' = +150 mV, pH 8.0, 30 degrees C). Redox equilibration of this coupling was extremely sensitive to pH and temperature. The uncoupled [3Fe-4S]+ cluster titrated pH-independently with E0' = -10 mV (pH 8.0, 30 degrees C).
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