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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 139, Issue 46, Pages 16894-16902Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b09751
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- NIH [GM-65440, GM-GM-61153]
- Cluster of Excellence Unifying Concepts in Catalysis initiative of DFG
- Max Planck Society
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H04172] Funding Source: KAKEN
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[FeFe]-hydrogenases are metalloenzymes that reversibly reduce protons to molecular hydrogen at exceptionally high rates. We have characterized the catalytically competent hydride state (H-hyd) in the [FeFe]-hydrogenases from both Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Desulfovibrio desulfuricans using Fe-57 nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy (NRVS) and density functional theory (DFT). H/D exchange identified two Fe-H bending modes originating from the binuclear iron cofactor. DFT calculations show that these spectral features result from an iron-bound terminal hydride, and the Fe-H vibrational frequencies being highly dependent on interactions between the amine base of the catalytic cofactor with both hydride and the conserved cysteine terminating the proton transfer chain to the active site. The results indicate that H-hyd is the catalytic state one step prior to H-2 formation. The observed vibrational spectrum, therefore, provides mechanistic insight into the reaction coordinate for H-2 bond formation by [FeFe]-hydrogenases.
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