Two-dimensional pulsed electron spin resonance characterization of 15N-labeled archaeal Rieske-type ferredoxin

AbstractTwo-dimensional electron spin-echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) analysis of the uniformly 15N-labeled archaeal Rieske-type [2Fe–2S] ferredoxin (ARF) from Sulfolobus solfataricus P1 has been conducted in comparison with the previously characterized high-potential protein homologs. Major differences among these proteins were found in the hyperfine sublevel correlation (HYSCORE) lineshapes and intensities of the signals in the (++) quadrant, which are contributed from weakly coupled (non-coordinated) peptide nitrogens near the reduced clusters. They are less pronounced in the HYSCORE spectra of ARF than those of the high-potential protein homologs, and may account for the tuning of Rieske-type clusters in various redox systems

Analysis of covalent flavinylation using thermostable succinate dehydrogenase from Thermus thermophilus and Sulfolobus tokodaii lacking SdhE homologs

AbstractRecent studies have indicated that post-translational flavinylation of succinate dehydrogenase subunit A (SdhA) in eukaryotes and bacteria require the chaperone-like proteins Sdh5 and SdhE, respectively. How does covalent flavinylation occur in prokaryotes, which lack SdhE homologs? In this study, I showed that covalent flavinylation in two hyperthermophilic bacteria/archaea lacking SdhE, Thermus thermophilus and Sulfolobus tokodaii, requires heat and dicarboxylic acid. These thermophilic bacteria/archaea inhabit hot environments and are said to be genetically far removed from mesophilic bacteria which possess SdhE. Since mesophilic bacteria have been effective at covalent bonding in temperate environments, they may have caused the evolution of SdhE

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of the prototypal homologue of mitoNEET (Tth-NEET0026) from the extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilus HB8

A thermophilic bacterial homologue of mitoNEET (a mammalian mitochondrial outer membrane protein) from T. thermophilus HB8 (open reading frame TTHA0026; Tth-NEET0026) has been identified as a water-soluble prototypal [2Fe–2S] protein and crystallized. The bipyramidal crystals of the recombinant Tth-NEET0026 diffracted to 1.80 Å resolution using synchrotron radiation

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of hyperthermophilic archaeal Rieske-type ferredoxin (ARF) from Sulfolobus solfataricus P1

A hyperthermophilic archaeal Rieske-type [2Fe–2S] ferredoxin (ARF) from S. solfataricus P1 has been crystallized as a recombinant protein with a vector-derived long N-terminal extension region. The P43212 crystals of recombinant ARF diffracted to 1.85 Å resolution using synchrotron radiation

Resonance Raman characterization of archaeal and bacterial Rieske protein variants with modified hydrogen bond network around the [2Fe-2S] center

The rate of quinol oxidation by cytochrome bc1/b6f complex is in part associated with the redox potential (Em) of its Rieske [2Fe-2S] center, for which an approximate correlation with the number of hydrogen bonds to the cluster has been proposed. Here we report comparative resonance Raman (RR) characterization of bacterial and archaeal high-potential Rieske proteins and their site-directed variants with a modified hydrogen bond network around the cluster. Major differences among their RR spectra appear to be associated in part with the presence or absence of Tyr-156 (in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides numbering) near one of the Cys ligands to the cluster. Elimination of the hydrogen bond between the terminal cysteinyl sulfur ligand (St) and Tyr-Oη (as with the Y156W variant, which has a modified histidine Nɛ pKa,ox) induces a small structural bias of the geometry of the cluster and the surrounding protein in the normal coordinate system, and significantly affects some Fe-Sb/t stretching vibrations. This is not observed in the case of the hydrogen bond between the bridging sulfide ligand (Sb) and Ser-Oγ, which is weak and/or unfavorably oriented for extensive coupling with the Fe-Sb/t stretching vibrations