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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2013

Organophosphonate-degrading PhnZ reveals an emerging family of HD domain mixed-valent diiron oxygenases.

Bigna Wörsdörfer, Mahesh Lingaraju, Neela H Yennawar, Amie K Boal, Carsten Krebs, J Martin Bollinger, Maria-Eirini Pandelia

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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7 authors.

Bigna WörsdörferDepartments of Chemistry, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
Mahesh Lingaraju
Neela H Yennawar
Amie K Boal
Carsten Krebs
J Martin Bollinger
Maria-Eirini Pandelia

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The founding members of the HD-domain protein superfamily are phosphohydrolases, and newly discovered members are generally annotated as such. However, myo-inositol oxygenase (MIOX) exemplifies a second, very different function that has evolved within the common scaffold of this superfamily. A recently discovered HD protein, PhnZ, catalyzes conversion of 2-amino-1-hydroxyethylphosphonate to glycine and phosphate, culminating a bacterial pathway for the utilization of environmentally abundant 2-aminoethylphosphonate. Using Mössbauer and EPR spectroscopies, X-ray crystallography, and activity measurements, we show here that, like MIOX, PhnZ employs a mixed-valent Fe(II)/Fe(III) cofactor for the O2-dependent oxidative cleavage of its substrate. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that many more HD proteins may catalyze yet-unknown oxygenation reactions using this hitherto exceptional Fe(II)/Fe(III) cofactor. The results demonstrate that the catalytic repertoire of the HD superfamily extends well beyond phosphohydrolysis and suggest that the mechanism used by MIOX and PhnZ may be a common strategy for oxidative C-X bond cleavage.

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Models, MolecularProtein ConformationBacteriaCatalysisCrystallography, X-RayEscherichia coliInositol OxygenaseMolecular StructureOrganophosphonatesPhylogenySpectroscopy, MossbauerInositol OxygenaseOrganophosphonatesC-H activationnonheme diiron enzymesPhnYstructural genomicssuperoxo intermediate

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PMID24198335
PMCPMC3839769

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