Spectroscopic Evidence for the Two C–H-Cleaving Intermediates of Aspergillus nidulans Isopenicillin N Synthase

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• 作者：Esta Tamanaha ; Bo Zhang ; Yisong Guo ; Wei-chen Chang ; Eric W. Barr ; Gang Xing ; Jennifer St. Clair ; Shengfa Ye ; Frank Neese ; J. Martin Bollinger Jr. ; Carsten Krebs
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 20, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：138
• 期：28
• 页码：8862-8874
• 全文大小：669K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-5126

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The enzyme isopenicillin N synthase (IPNS) installs the β-lactam and thiazolidine rings of the penicillin core into the linear tripeptide l-δ-aminoadipoyl-l-Cys-d-Val (ACV) on the pathways to a number of important antibacterial drugs. A classic set of enzymological and crystallographic studies by Baldwin and co-workers established that this overall four-electron oxidation occurs by a sequence of two oxidative cyclizations, with the β-lactam ring being installed first and the thiazolidine ring second. Each phase requires cleavage of an aliphatic C–H bond of the substrate: the pro-S-C_Cys,β–H bond for closure of the β-lactam ring, and the C_Val,β–H bond for installation of the thiazolidine ring. IPNS uses a mononuclear non-heme-iron(II) cofactor and dioxygen as cosubstrate to cleave these C–H bonds and direct the ring closures. Despite the intense scrutiny to which the enzyme has been subjected, the identities of the oxidized iron intermediates that cleave the C–H bonds have been addressed only computationally; no experimental insight into their geometric or electronic structures has been reported. In this work, we have employed a combination of transient-state-kinetic and spectroscopic methods, together with the specifically deuterium-labeled substrates, A[d₂-C]V and AC[d₈-V], to identify both C–H-cleaving intermediates. The results show that they are high-spin Fe(III)-superoxo and high-spin Fe(IV)-oxo complexes, respectively, in agreement with published mechanistic proposals derived computationally from Baldwin’s founding work.