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NATURE CHEMISTRY
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages 555-560Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-018-0026-7
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- National Institute of Health [GM104543]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R35GM126961] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Biosynthesis of the [FeFe] hydrogenase active site (the 'H-cluster') requires the interplay of multiple proteins and small molecules. Among them, the radical S-adenosylmethionine enzyme HydG, a tyrosine lyase, has been proposed to generate a complex that contains an Fe(CO)(2)(CN) moiety that is eventually incorporated into the H-cluster. Here we describe the characterization of an intermediate in the HydG reaction: a [4Fe-4S][(Cys)Fe(CO)(CN)] species, 'Complex A', in which a CO, a CN- and a cysteine (Cys) molecule bind to the unique 'dangler' Fe site of the auxiliary [5Fe-4S] cluster of HydG. The identification of this intermediate-the first organometallic precursor to the H-cluster-validates the previously hypothesized HydG reaction cycle and provides a basis for elucidating the biosynthetic origin of other moieties of the H-cluster.
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