4AOP

SULFITE REDUCTASE HEMOPROTEIN PARTIALLY PHOTOREDUCED WITH PROFLAVINE EDTA, PHOSPHATE PARTIALLY BOUND


Experimental Data Snapshot

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 1.80 Å
  • R-Value Work: 0.175 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.175 

Starting Model: experimental
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Literature

Structures of the siroheme- and Fe4S4-containing active center of sulfite reductase in different states of oxidation: heme activation via reduction-gated exogenous ligand exchange.

Crane, B.R.Siegel, L.M.Getzoff, E.D.

(1997) Biochemistry 36: 12101-12119

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/bi971065q
  • Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
    2AOP, 3AOP, 4AOP, 5AOP

  • PubMed Abstract: 

    The active center of the Escherichia coli sulfite reductase hemoprotein (SiRHP) is exquisitely designed to catalyze the six-electron reductions of sulfite to sulfide and nitrite to ammonia. Refined high-resolution crystallographic structures of oxidized, two-electron reduced, and intermediately reduced states of SiRHP, monitored by single-crystal electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, reveal that a bridging cysteine thiolate supplied by the protein always covalently links the siroheme (iron isobacteriochlorin) to the Fe4S4 cluster, facilitating their ability to transfer electrons to substrate. The reduction potential and reactivity of the cluster are tuned by association with the siroheme, accessibility to solvent, and hydrogen bonds supplied by the protein loops containing the four cluster-ligating cysteines. The distorted conformation of the siroheme recognized by the protein potentially destabilizes the electronic conjugation of the isobacteriochlorin ring and produces axial configurations for some propionate side chains that promote interactions with exogenous ligands and active-site residues. An extensive hydrogen-bond network of positively charged side chains, ordered water molecules, and siroheme carboxylates coordinates, polarizes, and influences the protonation state of anionic ligands. In the oxidized (siroheme Fe3+, Fe4S42+) SiRHP crystal structure, the high density of positive charges in the binding pocket is stabilized by the siroheme's sixth axial ligand-an exogenous phosphate anion. Binding assays with H32PO42- demonstrate that oxidized SiRHP binds phosphate in solution with a dissociation constant of 14 microM at pH 7.7, suggesting that phosphate anions play an important role in stabilizing and sequestering the active-site of the oxidized enzyme in vivo. Reduction of the cofactors couples changes in siroheme iron coordination geometry to changes in active-site protein conformation, leading to phosphate release both in the crystal and in solution. An intermediately reduced enzyme, where the siroheme is mainly ferrous (+2) and the cluster cubane is mainly oxidized (+2), appears to have the lowest affinity for phosphate in the crystal. Reduction-gated release of phosphate from the substrate-binding site may explain the 10(5)-fold increase in rates of ligand association that accompany reduction of SiRHP.


  • Organizational Affiliation

    Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.


Macromolecules
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Entity ID: 1
MoleculeChains Sequence LengthOrganismDetailsImage
SULFITE REDUCTASE HEMOPROTEIN497Escherichia coli BMutation(s): 0 
Gene Names: CYSIJ
EC: 1.8.1.2
UniProt
Find proteins for P17846 (Escherichia coli (strain K12))
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Go to UniProtKB:  P17846
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UniProt GroupP17846
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Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 1.80 Å
  • R-Value Work: 0.175 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.175 
  • Space Group: P 21 21 21
Unit Cell:
Length ( Å )Angle ( ˚ )
a = 69.8α = 90
b = 77.4β = 90
c = 87.8γ = 90
Software Package:
Software NamePurpose
X-PLORrefinement
DENZOdata reduction
SCALEPACKdata scaling

Structure Validation

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Entry History 

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  • Version 1.0: 1998-01-14
    Type: Initial release
  • Version 1.1: 2008-03-25
    Changes: Version format compliance
  • Version 1.2: 2011-07-13
    Changes: Source and taxonomy, Version format compliance
  • Version 1.3: 2017-11-29
    Changes: Derived calculations, Other
  • Version 1.4: 2023-08-09
    Changes: Database references, Derived calculations, Refinement description
  • Version 2.0: 2023-12-27
    Changes: Data collection, Non-polymer description, Structure summary