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Yuming Xiao1, Karl Fisher, Matt C Smith, William E Newton, David A Case, Simon J George, Hongxin Wang, Wolfgang Sturhahn, Ercan E Alp, Jiyong Zhao, Yoshitaka Yoda, Stephen P Cramer.
Abstract
Nitrogenase catalyzes a reaction critical for life, the reduction of N(2) to 2NH(3), yet we still know relatively little about its catalytic mechanism. We have used the synchrotron technique of (57)Fe nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy (NRVS) to study the dynamics of the Fe-S clusters in this enzyme. The catalytic site FeMo-cofactor exhibits a strong signal near 190 cm(-)(1), where conventional Fe-S clusters have weak NRVS. This intensity is ascribed to cluster breathing modes whose frequency is raised by an interstitial atom. A variety of Fe-S stretching modes are also observed between 250 and 400 cm(-)(1). This work is the first spectroscopic information about the vibrational modes of the intact nitrogenase FeMo-cofactor and P-cluster.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16756317 PMCID: PMC3174779 DOI: 10.1021/ja0603655
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Am Chem Soc ISSN: 0002-7863 Impact factor: 15.419