Spectroscopic studies of cobalt and nickel substituted rubredoxin and desulforedoxin

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Abstract

The single iron site of rubredoxin was replaced by nickel and cobalt. The near-infrared/visible/UV spectra of these metal derivatives show ligand-field transitions and charge-transfer bands which closely resemble those of simple tetrathiolate complexes, indicating a tetrahedral arrangement of the sulfur cysteinyl ligands around the metal core. The 1H NMR spectra of the nickel and cobalt derivatives reveal extremely low-field contact shifted resonances of one proton intensity assigned to β-CH2 and α-CH cysteinyl protons. Other well resolved resonances shifted out of the main protein spectral envelope are also observed and probably arise from contact plus pseudocontact shift mechanisms. Rubredoxins from different sulfate reducers were metal substituted and assignments of aliphatic protons are tentatively proposed, taking advantage of the amino acid sequence homologies. The present data is promising in terms of structural analysis of the coordination sphere of the metal core. It was also shown that replacement of the iron atom of desulforedoxin, a close analogue of rubredoxin, by cobalt and nickel was possible.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)127-139
Number of pages13
JournalJournal of Inorganic Biochemistry
Volume44
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 1991

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