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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 52, Issue 7, Pages 1221-1226Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi3016235
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Grant [MCB-0575412]
- NSF [MCB-1121695]
- Molecular Basis of Disease Graduate Fellowship from Georgia State University
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1121695] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The oxidation of the reduced flavin in choline oxidase was investigated with pH, solvent viscosity, and kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) in steady-state kinetics and time-resolved absorbance spectroscopy of the oxidative half-reaction in a stopped-flow spectrophotometer. Both the effects of isotopic substitution on the KIEs and the multiple KIEs suggest a mechanism for flavin oxidation in which the H atom from the reduced flavin and a H+ from the solvent or a solvent exchangeable site are transferred in the same kinetic step. Stopped-flow kinetic data demonstrate flavin oxidation without stabilization of flavin-derived species. Solvent viscosity effects establish an isomerization of the reduced enzyme. These results allow us to rule out mechanisms for flavin oxidation in which C4a-peroxy and -hydroperoxy flavin intermediates accumulate to detectable levels in the reaction of flavin oxidation catalyzed by choline oxidase. A mechanism of Flavin oxidation that directly results in the formation of oxidized flavin and hydrogen peroxide without stabilization of reaction intermediates is consistent with the data presented.
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