▪ Abstract Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) is an important mechanism for charge transfer in a wide variety of systems including biology- and materials-oriented venues. We review several are...

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Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer

Two decades have passed since the discovery in liver microsomes of a haemprotein that forms a reduced-CO complex with the absorptive maximum of the Soret at 450 nm (Klingenberg, 1958; Garfinkel, 1958) and the identification of this protein as a new cytochrome: pigment cytochrome, P-450 (Omura and Sato, 1962, 1964a). In the intervening years, the study of cytochrome P-450 dependent monoxygenases has expanded exponentially. From the first crude attempts to solubilise a P-450 (Omura and Sato, 1963, 1964b) to the determination of the primary, secondary, and tertiary structure of cytochrome P-450cam by amino acid sequencing (Haniu et al., 1982a,b) and x-ray crystallography (Poulos et al., 1984) our understanding of this unique family of proteins has been advancing on all fronts. Since, perhaps, the greatest understanding of the structure and mechanism of P-450s has come from concentrated study of P-450cam of the Pseudomonas putida camphor-5-exo-hydroxylase, this review will concentrate on findings with P-450cam; attention will be drawn to parallel and contrasting examples from other P-450s as appropriate.

Structure and Chemistry of Cytochrome P450

Because of the high catalytic activities and substrate specificity, natural enzymes have been widely used in industrial, medical, and biological fields, etc. Although promising, they often suffer from intrinsic shortcomings such as high cost, low operational stability, and difficulties of recycling. To overcome these shortcomings, researchers have been devoted to the exploration of artificial enzyme mimics for a long time. Since the discovery of ferromagnetic nanoparticles with intrinsic horseradish peroxidase-like activity in 2007, a large amount of studies on nanozymes have been constantly emerging in the next decade. Nanozymes are one kind of nanomaterials with enzymatic catalytic properties. Compared with natural enzymes, nanozymes have the advantages such as low cost, high stability and durability, which have been widely used in industrial, medical, and biological fields. A thorough understanding of the possible catalytic mechanisms will contribute to the development of novel and high-efficient nanozymes, and the rational regulations of the activities of nanozymes are of great significance. In this review, we systematically introduce the classification, catalytic mechanism, activity regulation as well as recent research progress of nanozymes in the field of biosensing, environmental protection, and disease treatments, etc. in the past years. We also propose the current challenges of nanozymes as well as their future research focus. We anticipate this review may be of significance for the field to understand the properties of nanozymes and the development of novel nanomaterials with enzyme mimicking activities.

Nanozymes: Classification, Catalytic Mechanisms, Activity Regulation, and Applications

Life on earth is almost entirely solar-powered. We can get some idea of the enormous quantity of energy received from the sun by noting that during daylight hours, the sun provides several thousand times more power to the surface of the U.S.A. than is produced by all of the nation’s electrical power stations. 1,2 Around 50% of the radiation that reaches the earth’s surface, roughly the visible region, is of a frequency useful to photosynthetic organisms. Oxygenic photosynthetic organisms convert this radiation into chemical energy, in the form of carbohydrate and dioxygen, at an optimal efficiency of something like 25%. 3 These products together sustain the rest of aerobic life, with carbohydrate acting as a source of high-energy electrons and dioxygen providing a lower-energy destination for these electrons. The overall equation of oxygenic photosynthesis is given in eq 1, where (CH2O) represents carbohydrate:

Water-splitting chemistry of photosystem II.

Protein Radicals in Enzyme Catalysis.

The crystal structure and reactivity with hydrogen peroxide are reported for a mutant of a cloned cytochrome c peroxidase [CcP(MI)], in which the conserved distal His (His-52) is replaced with Leu. The reaction of the H52L enzyme with peroxide was examined as a function of pH in 0.1 M phosphate buffers and buffers in which nitrate was used to adjust the ionic strength. The pH-independent bimolecular rate constant for the reaction of H52L with peroxide was 731 +/- 44 and 236 +/- 14 M-1 s-1 in phosphate and nitrate-containing buffers, respectively. This represents a 10(5)-fold decrease in rate relative to the CcP(MI) parent under comparable conditions. Single-crystal diffraction studies showed that no dramatic changes in the structure or in the accessibility of the heme binding site were caused by the mutation. Rather, the mutation caused significant structural changes only at residue 52 and the nearby active-site water molecules. The residual reactivity of the H52L enzyme with peroxide was pH- and buffer-dependent. In nitrate-containing buffer, the apparent bimolecular rate constant for the reaction with peroxide decreased with decreasing pH; the loss of reactivity correlated with protonation of a group with an apparent pKA = 4.5. Protonation of the group caused a loss of reactivity with peroxide. This is in contrast to the CcP(MI) parent enzyme, as well as all other mutants that have been examined, where the loss of reactivity correlates with protonation of an enzyme group with an apparent pKA = 5.4.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Histidine 52 is a critical residue for rapid formation of cytochrome c peroxidase compound I.

Peroxide oxidation of a mutant cytochrome c peroxidase, in which Trp-191 has been replaced by Phe through site-directed mutagenesis, produces an oxidized intermediate whose stable UV/visible absorption spectrum is very similar to that of compound I of the native yeast enzyme. This spectrum is characteristic of an oxyferryl, Fe(IV), heme. Stopped-flow studies reveal that the reaction between the mutant enzyme and hydrogen peroxide is biphasic with the transient formation of an intermediate whose absorption spectrum is quite distinct from that of either the native ferric enzyme or the final product. Rapid spectral scanning of the intermediate provides a spectrum characteristic of an oxyferryl porphyrin pi-cation-radical species. At pH 6, 100 mM ionic strength, and 25 degrees C, the rate constant for formation of the oxyferryl pi-cation radical has a lower limit of 6 X 10(7) M-1 s-1 and the rate of conversion of the transient intermediate to the final oxidized product is 51 +/- 4 s-1. Evidence is presented indicating that Trp-191 either is the site of the radical in CcP compound I or is intimately involved in formation of the radical.

Detection of an oxyferryl porphyrin pi-cation-radical intermediate in the reaction between hydrogen peroxide and a mutant yeast cytochrome c peroxidase. Evidence for tryptophan-191 involvement in the radical site of compound I.

The crystallographic structures of two cytochrome c peroxidase (CcP) mutants, CcP(R48L) and CcP(R48K), have been determined. In addition, the electronic absorption spectrum and the hydrogen peroxide reactivity of these two mutants have been determined between pH 4 and 8. Both the crystallographic structure and the electronic absorption spectrum of CcP(R48L) are consistent with exclusive pentacoordination of the heme iron between pH 4 and 6.5. At higher pH, CcP(R48L) forms an alkaline bis-imidazole form of CcP with the distal histidine coordinated to the heme iron. The apparent pKA for this transition is 7.5 in CcP(R48L). The observed pseudo-first-order rate constant for the reaction between CcP(R48L) and hydrogen peroxide saturates at high peroxide concentrations. The data are consistent with a rate-limiting oxygen-oxygen bond scission at high peroxide concentrations. The observed rate of the bond scission step ranges between 1000 and 1950 s-1, an estimated 2 orders of magnitude slower than for wild-type enzyme. The data suggest that the protonated form of His-52 increases the bond scission step by a factor of 2. The properties of the CcP(R48K) mutant are significantly different from those of CcP(R48L). The crystal structure of CcP(R48K) shows Lys-48 occupying the putative peroxide binding site. The electronic absorption spectrum indicates that CcP(R48K) is predominantly pentacoordinate at neutral pH but with detectable amounts of hexacoordinate forms. Two ionizable groups affect the electronic absorption spectrum of CcP(R48K). An apparent ionization near pH 4 produces an enzyme with increased hexacoordination, while an apparent pKA of 6.9 generates the alkaline bis-imidazole form. The peroxide reaction saturates at high peroxide concentrations for CcP(R48K) and is attributed to a conformational-gating mechanism. The maximum rate for the reaction between CcP(R48K) and hydrogen peroxide is probably limited by the movement of either Lys-48 or His-52. This rate is 200 and 290 s-1 in nitrate-containing buffers and phosphate buffers, respectively. Evidence is provided that Arg-48 in wild-type enzyme is responsible for nitrate binding in the heme pocket and for stabilizing CcP Compound I.

Lidia B. Vitello

Papers

Histidine 52 is a critical residue for rapid formation of cytochrome c peroxidase compound I.

Detection of an oxyferryl porphyrin pi-cation-radical intermediate in the reaction between hydrogen peroxide and a mutant yeast cytochrome c peroxidase. Evidence for tryptophan-191 involvement in the radical site of compound I.

Effect of arginine-48 replacement on the reaction between cytochrome c peroxidase and hydrogen peroxide

Yeast cytochrome c peroxidase: mechanistic studies via protein engineering.

Active-site mutations in cytochrome c peroxidase: a critical role for histidine-52 in the rate of formation of compound I