Chemistry Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA.
J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Oct 13;132(40):14015-7. doi: 10.1021/ja106432h.
The formaldehyde-inhibited Mo(V) state of xanthine oxidase (I) has been studied for four decades, yet it has not proven possible to distinguish unequivocally among the several structures proposed for this form. The uniquely large isotropic hyperfine coupling for (13)C from CH(2)O led to the intriguing suggestion of a direct Mo-C bond for the active site of I. This suggestion was supported by the recent crystal structures of glycol- and glycerol-inhibited forms of aldehyde oxidoreductase, a member of the xanthine oxidase family. (1)H and (2)H ENDOR spectra of I(C(1,2)H(2)O) in H(2)O/D(2)O buffer now have unambiguously revealed that the active-site structure of I contains a CH(2)O adduct of Mo(V) in the form of a four-membered ring with S and O linking the C to Mo and have ruled out a direct Mo-C bond. Density functional theory computations are consistent with this conclusion. We interpret the large (13)C coupling as resulting from a "transannular hyperfine interaction".
黄嘌呤氧化酶(I)的甲醛抑制态已被研究了四十年,但仍未能明确区分为此种形式提出的几种结构。(13)C 与 CH2O 之间独特的各向同性超精细耦合导致了一个有趣的假设,即活性位点的 Mo-C 键。这一假设得到了醛氧化还原酶(黄嘌呤氧化酶家族的一个成员)的乙二醇和甘油抑制形式的最近晶体结构的支持。I(C1,2H2O)在 H2O/D2O 缓冲液中的(1)H 和(2)H ENDOR 光谱现在已经明确揭示,I 的活性位点结构包含 Mo(V)的 CH2O 加合物,形式为具有 S 和 O 连接 C 到 Mo 的四元环,并排除了直接的 Mo-C 键。密度泛函理论计算与这一结论一致。我们将大(13)C 耦合解释为“跨环超精细相互作用”的结果。