Jackson, Colin J. and Carr, Paul D. and Kim, Hye-Kyung and Liu, Jian-Wei and Herrald, Paul and Mitic, Natasa and Schenk, Gerhard and Smith, Clyde A. and Ollis, David L. (2006) Anomalous scattering analysis of Agrobacterium radiobacter phosphotriesterase: the prominent role of iron in the heterobinuclear active site. Biochemical Journal, 397. pp. 501-508. ISSN 0264-6021

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Abstract

Bacterial phosphotriesterases are binuclear metalloproteins from which the catalytic mechanism has been studied with a variety of techniques, principally using active sites reconstituted in vitro from apo-enzymes. Here, atomic absorption spectroscopy and anomalous X-ray scattering and have been used to determine the identity of the metals incorporated into the active site in vivo. We have recombinantly expressed the phosphotriesterase from Agrobacterium radiobacter (OpdA) in Escherichia coli grown in medium supplemented with 1 mM CoCl2, and in unsupplemented medium. Anomalous scattering data, collected from a single crystal at the Fe-K, Co-K and Zn-K edges, indicate that iron and cobalt are the primary constituents of the two metal binding sites in the catalytic centre ( and ), in protein expressed in E. coli grown in supplemented medium. Comparison to OpdA expressed in unsupplemented medium demonstrates that the cobalt present in the supplemented medium replaced zinc at the -position of the active site, which results in an increase in the catalytic efficiency of the enzyme. These results suggest an essential role for iron in the catalytic mechanism of bacterial phosphotriesterases, and that they are natively heterobinuclear iron-zinc enzymes.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Postprint version of original published article. The final version of this article is available at http://www.biochemj.org/bj/397/0501/3970501.pdf
Keywords:	Agrobacterium radiobacter; anomalous scattering; heterobinuclear; iron–zinc; metallophosphoesterase; phosphotriesterase;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Chemistry
Item ID:	3666
Depositing User:	Gary Schenk
Date Deposited:	16 May 2012 15:43
Journal or Publication Title:	Biochemical Journal
Publisher:	Portland Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://www.biochemj.org/bj/default.htm
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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