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Thermodynamic and kinetic studies on the binding of nitric oxide to a new enzyme mimic of cytochrome p450.

Franke A, Hessenauer-Ilicheva N, Meyer D, Stochel G, Woggon WD, van Eldik R

Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.

A new model for the P450 enzyme carrying a SO(3)(-) ligand coordinated to iron(III) (complex 2) reversibly binds NO to yield the nitrosyl adduct. The rate constant for NO binding to 2 in toluene is of the same order of magnitude as that found for the nitrosylation of the native, substrate-bound form of P450(cam) (E.S-P450(cam)). Large and negative activation entropy and activation volume values for the binding of NO to complex 2 support a mechanism that is dominated by bond formation with concomitant iron spin change from S = (5)/(2) to S = 0, as proposed for the reaction between NO and E.S-P450(cam). In contrast, the dissociation of NO from 2(NO) was found to be several orders of magnitude faster than the corresponding reaction for the E.S-P450(cam)/NO system. In a coordinating solvent such as methanol, the alcohol coordinates to iron(III) of 2 at the distal position, generating a six-coordinate, high-spin species 5. The reaction of NO with 5 in methanol was found to be much slower in comparison to the nitrosylation reaction of 2 in toluene. This behavior can be explained in terms of a mechanism in which methanol must be displaced during Fe-NO bond formation. The thermodynamic and kinetic data for NO binding to the new model complexes of P450 (2 and 5) are discussed in reference to earlier results obtained for closely related nitrosylation reactions of cytochrome P450(cam) (in the presence and in the absence of the substrate) and a thiolate-ligated iron(III) model complex.

Published 11 October 2006 in J Am Chem Soc, 128(41): 13611-24.
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