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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
31
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-8-4
pubmed:abstractText
The formation of Compound I (Cpd I), the active species of the enzyme chloroperoxidase (CPO), was studied using QM/MM calculation. Starting from the substrate complex with hydrogen peroxide, FeIII-HOOH, we examined two alternative mechanisms on the three lowest spin-state surfaces. The calculations showed that the preferred pathway involves heterolytic O-O cleavage that proceeds via the iron hydroperoxide species, i.e., Compound 0 (Cpd 0), on the doublet-state surface. This process is effectively concerted, with a barrier of 12.4 kcal/mol, and is catalyzed by protonation of the distal OH group of Cpd 0. By comparison, the path that involves a direct O-O cleavage from FeIII-HOOH is less favored. A proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) feature was found to play an important role in the mechanism nascent from Cpd 0. Initially, the O-O cleavage progresses in a homolytic sense, but as soon as the proton is transferred to the distal OH, it triggers an electron transfer from the heme-oxo moiety to form water and Cpd I. This study enables us to generalize the mechanisms of O-O activation, elucidated so far by QM/MM calculations, for other heme enzymes, e.g., cytochrome P450cam, horseradish peroxidase (HRP), nitric oxide synthase (NOS), and heme oxygenase (HO). Much like for CPO, in the cases of P450 and HRP, the PCET lowers the barrier below the purely homolytic cleavage alternative (in our case, the homolytic mechanism is calculated directly from FeIII-HOOH). By contrast, the absence of PCET in HO, along with the robust water cluster, prefers a homolytic cleavage mechanism.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1520-6106
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
7
pubmed:volume
112
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
9490-500
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical study on the mechanisms of compound I formation in the catalytic cycle of chloroperoxidase: an overview on heme enzymes.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Chemistry and The Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't