Direct assessment of the reduction potential of the [4Fe-4S](1+/0) couple of the Fe protein from Azotobacter vinelandii. 2002

Maolin Guo, and Filip Sulc, and Markus W Ribbe, and Patrick J Farmer, and Barbara K Burgess
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, USA.

Recently, it has been demonstrated that the [4Fe-4S] cluster of the Fe protein of nitrogenase from Azotobacter vinelandii can be reduced to an unprecedented all-ferrous state. In this work, the reduction potential for the formation of the all-ferrous state is measured by the reactions of the reduced and oxidized Fe protein with a variety of chemical redox active agents, and by mediated spectroelectrochemical titration. Redox titrations obtain a potential ca. -790 mV/NHE for the formation of the all-ferrous state, a value consistent with the chemical reactivity experiments and with recent theoretical calculations. At present, no known redox protein in A. vinelandii is capable of generating the all-ferrous Fe protein.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D010084 Oxidation-Reduction A chemical reaction in which an electron is transferred from one molecule to another. The electron-donating molecule is the reducing agent or reductant; the electron-accepting molecule is the oxidizing agent or oxidant. Reducing and oxidizing agents function as conjugate reductant-oxidant pairs or redox pairs (Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, 1982, p471). Redox,Oxidation Reduction
D010088 Oxidoreductases The class of all enzymes catalyzing oxidoreduction reactions. The substrate that is oxidized is regarded as a hydrogen donor. The systematic name is based on donor:acceptor oxidoreductase. The recommended name will be dehydrogenase, wherever this is possible; as an alternative, reductase can be used. Oxidase is only used in cases where O2 is the acceptor. (Enzyme Nomenclature, 1992, p9) Dehydrogenases,Oxidases,Oxidoreductase,Reductases,Dehydrogenase,Oxidase,Reductase
D004572 Electrolysis Destruction by passage of a galvanic electric current, as in disintegration of a chemical compound in solution. Electrolyses
D013056 Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet Determination of the spectra of ultraviolet absorption by specific molecules in gases or liquids, for example Cl2, SO2, NO2, CS2, ozone, mercury vapor, and various unsaturated compounds. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed) Ultraviolet Spectrophotometry
D016948 Azotobacter vinelandii A species of gram-negative, aerobic bacteria first isolated from soil in Vineland, New Jersey. Ammonium and nitrate are used as nitrogen sources by this bacterium. It is distinguished from other members of its genus by the ability to use rhamnose as a carbon source. (From Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th ed) Azotobacter miscellum

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