Chloroperoxidase compound I: Electron paramagnetic resonance and Mössbauer studies.

The green primary compound of chloroperoxidase was prepared by freeze-quenching the enzyme after rapid mixing with a 5-fold excess of peracetic acid. The electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra of these preparations consisted of at least three distinct signals that could be assigned to native enzyme, a free radical, and the green compound I as reported earlier. The absorption spectrum of compound I was obtained through subtraction of EPR signals measured under passage conditions. The signal is well approximated by an effective spin Seff = 1/2 model with g = 1.64, 1.73, 2.00 and a highly anisotropic line width. Mössbauer difference spectra of compound I samples minus native enzyme showed well-resolved magnetic splitting at 4.2 K, an isomer shift delta Fe = 0.15 mm/s, and quadrupole splitting delta EQ = 1.02 mm/s. All data are consistent with the model of an exchange-coupled spin S = 1 ferryl iron and a spin S' = 1/2 porphyrin radical. As a result of the large zero field splitting, D, of the ferryl iron and of intermediate antiferromagnetic exchange, S.J.S'.J approximately 1.02 D, the system consists of three Kramers doublets that are widely separated in energy. The model relates the EPR and Mössbauer spectra of the ground doublet to the intrinsic parameters of the ferryl iron, D/k = 52 K, E/D congruent to 0.035, and A perpendicular (gn beta n) = 20 T, and the porphyrin radical.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)