Formation and Reactivity of New Isoporphyrins: Implications for Understanding the Tyr-His Cross-Link Cofactor Biogenesis in Cytochrome c Oxidase

Ehudin MA, Senft L, Franke A, Ivanovic-Burmazovic I, Karlin KD (2019)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Journal

Journal of the American Chemical Society American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b01791

Abstract

Cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) catalyzes the reduction of dioxygen to water utilizing a heterobinuclear active site composed of a heme moiety and a mononuclear copper center coordinated to three histidine residues, one of which is covalently cross-linked to a tyrosine residue via a post-translational modification (PTM). Although this tyrosine-histidine moiety has functional and structural importance, the pathway behind this net oxidative C-N bond coupling is still unknown. A novel route employing an iron(III) meso-substituted isoporphyrin derivative, isoelectronic with Cmpd-I ((Por•+)FeIV=O), is for the first time proposed to be a key intermediate in the Tyr-His cofactor biogenesis. Newly synthesized iron(III) meso-substituted isoporphyrins were prepared with azide, cyanide, and substituted imidazole functionalities, by adding nucleophiles to an iron(III) π-dication species formed via addition of trifluoroacetic acid to F8Cmpd-I (F8 = (tetrakis(2,6-difluorophenyl)porphyrinate)). Isoporphyrin derivatives were characterized at cryogenic temperatures via ESI-MS and UV-vis, 2H NMR, and EPR spectroscopies. Addition of 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene or 4-methoxyphenol to the imidazole-substituted isoporphyrin led to formation of the organic product containing the imidazole coupled to aromatic substrate via a new C-N bond, as detected via cryo-ESI-MS. Experimental evidence for the formation of an imidazole-substituted isoporphyrin and its promising reactivity to form the imidazole-phenol coupled product yields viability to the herein proposed pathway behind the PTM (i.e., biogenesis) leading to the key covalent Tyr-His cross-link in CcO.

Authors with CRIS profile

Laura Senft Lehrstuhl für Bioanorganische Chemie Alicja Franke Lehrstuhl für Bioanorganische Chemie Ivana Ivanovic-Burmazovic Lehrstuhl für Bioanorganische Chemie

Involved external institutions

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) US United States (USA) (US)

How to cite

APA:

Ehudin, M.A., Senft, L., Franke, A., Ivanovic-Burmazovic, I., & Karlin, K.D. (2019). Formation and Reactivity of New Isoporphyrins: Implications for Understanding the Tyr-His Cross-Link Cofactor Biogenesis in Cytochrome c Oxidase. Journal of the American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b01791

MLA:

Ehudin, Melanie A., et al. "Formation and Reactivity of New Isoporphyrins: Implications for Understanding the Tyr-His Cross-Link Cofactor Biogenesis in Cytochrome c Oxidase." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2019).

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