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1: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Apr 18;103(16):6130-5. Epub 2006 Apr 10.
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Evidence for C-H cleavage by an iron-superoxide complex in the glycol cleavage reaction catalyzed by myo-inositol oxygenase.

Xing G, Diao Y, Hoffart LM, Barr EW, Prabhu KS, Arner RJ, Reddy CC, Krebs C, Bollinger JM Jr.

Department of Biochemistry,Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

myo-Inositol oxygenase (MIOX) activates O2 at a mixed-valent nonheme diiron(II/III) cluster to effect oxidation of its cyclohexan-(1,2,3,4,5,6-hexa)-ol substrate [myo-inositol (MI)] by four electrons to d-glucuronate. Abstraction of hydrogen from C1 by a formally (superoxo)diiron(III/III) intermediate was previously proposed. Use of deuterium-labeled substrate, 1,2,3,4,5,6-[2H]6-MI (D6-MI), has now permitted initial characterization of the C-H-cleaving intermediate. The MIOX.1,2,3,4,5,6-[2H]6-MI complex reacts rapidly and reversibly with O2 to form an intermediate, G, with a g = (2.05, 1.98, 1.90) EPR signal. The rhombic g-tensor and observed hyperfine coupling to 57Fe are rationalized in terms of a (superoxo)diiron(III/III) structure with coordination of the superoxide to a single iron. G decays to H, the intermediate previously detected in the reaction with unlabeled substrate. This step is associated with a kinetic isotope effect of > or =5, showing that the superoxide-level complex does indeed cleave a C-H(D) bond of MI.

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PMID: 16606846 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC1458843