Physics
Scientific paper
May 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994sci...264..817q&link_type=abstract
Science, Volume 264, Issue 5160, pp. 817-819
Physics
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Scientific paper
Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase catalyzes the synthesis of acetyl-coenzyme A from coenzyme A, a methyl group, and carbon monoxide. The carbon monoxide binds to a mixed metal center of the enzyme, which contains nickel bridged to an iron-sulfur cluster. Resonance Raman spectroscopy has been used to identify both C-O stretching and metal-CO stretching vibrations of the carbon monoxide adduct of the enzyme. This adduct was shown by isotopic exchange to be on the pathway for acetyl-coenzyme A synthesis. The metal to which carbon monoxide is bound was established to be iron, not nickel, by preparation of enzyme from bacteria grown on iron-54 and nickel-64. The Fe-CO frequency is low, 360 wave numbers, implying a weak bond, probably because of electron donation from sulfide and thiolate ligands of the iron. A bimetallic mechanism is proposed, in which carbon monoxide binds to an iron atom and is subsequently attacked by a methyl group on a nearby nickel atom, forming an acetyl ligand, which is then transferred to coenzyme A.
Kumar Manoj
Qiu Di
Ragsdale Stephen W.
Spiro Thomas G.
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