Abstract
Heterodisulfide reductase (HDR) catalyzes the formation of coenzyme M (CoM–SH) and coenzyme B (CoB–SH) by the reversible reduction of the heterodisulfide, CoM–S–S–CoB. This reaction recycles the two thiol coenzymes involved in the final step of microbial methanogenesis. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and variable-temperature magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopic experiments on oxidized HDR incubated with CoM–SH revealed a S=1/2 [4Fe–4S]3+ cluster, the EPR spectrum of which is broadened in the presence of CoM–33SH [Duin, E.C., Madadi-Kahkesh, S., Hedderich, R., Clay, M.D. and Johnson, M.K. (2002) Heterodisulfide reductase from Methanothermobacter marburgensis contains an active-site [4Fe–4S] cluster that is directly involved in mediating heterodisulfide reduction. FEBS Lett. 512, 263–268; Duin, E.C., Bauer, C., Jaun, B. and Hedderich, R. (2003) Coenzyme M binds to a [4Fe–4S] cluster in the active site of heterodisulfide reductase as deduced from EPR studies with the [33S]coenzyme M-treated enzyme. FEBS Lett. 538, 81–84]. These results provide indirect evidence that the disulfide binds to the iron–sulfur cluster during reduction. We report here direct structural evidence for this interaction from Se X-ray absorption spectroscopic investigation of HDR treated with the selenium analog of coenzyme M (CoM–SeH). Se K edge extended X-ray absorption fine structure confirms a direct interaction of the Se in CoM–SeH-treated HDR with an Fe atom of the Fe–S cluster at an Fe–Se distance of 2.4Å.
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