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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 266, Issue 6, 3554-3564, Feb, 1991

Reductive activation of the coenzyme A/acetyl-CoA isotopic exchange reaction catalyzed by carbon monoxide dehydrogenase from Clostridium thermoaceticum and its inhibition by nitrous oxide and carbon monoxide

WP Lu and SW Ragsdale
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53201.

The final steps in the synthesis of acetyl-CoA by CO dehydrogenase (CODH) have been studied by following the exchange reaction between CoA and the CoA moiety of acetyl-CoA. This reaction had been studied earlier (Pezacka, E., and Wood, H. G. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 1609- 1615 and Ramer, W. E., Raybuck, S. A., Orme-Johnson, W. H., and Walsh, C. T. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 4675-4680). The CoA/acetyl-CoA exchange activity was determined at various controlled redox potentials and was found to be activated by a one-electron reduction with half-maximum activity occurring at -486 mV. There is approximately 2000-fold stimulation of the exchange by performing the reaction at -575 mV relative to the rate at -80 mV. Binding of CoA to CODH is not sensitive to the redox potential; therefore, the reductive activation affects some step other than association/dissociation of CoA. We propose that a metal center on CODH with a midpoint reduction potential of less than or equal to -486 mV is activated by a one-electron reduction to cleave the carbonyl-sulfur bond and/or bind the acetyl group of acetyl-CoA. Based on a comparison of the redox dependence of this reaction with that for methylation of CODH (Lu, W-P., Harder, S. R., and Ragsdale, S. W. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 3124-3133) and CO2 reduction and formation of the Ni-Fe-C EPR signal (Lindahl, P. A., Munck, E., and Ragsdale, S. W. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 3873-3879), we propose that the assembly of the acetyl group of acetyl-CoA, i.e. binding the methyl group of the methylated corrinoid/iron-sulfur protein, binding CO, and methyl migration to form the acetyl-CODH intermediate, occur at the novel Ni-Fe3-4-containing site in CODH. CO has two effects on the CoA/acetyl-CoA exchange: it activates the reaction due to its reductive capacity and its acts as a noncompetitive inhibitor. We also discovered that the CoA/acetyl-CoA exchange was inhibited by nitrous oxide via an oxidative mechanism. In the presence of a low-potential electron donor, CODH becomes a nitrous oxide reductase which catalytically converts N2O to N2. This study combined with earlier results (Lu, W-P., Harder, S. R., and Ragsdale, S. W. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 3124-3133) establishes that the two-subunit form of CODH is completely active in all reactions known to be catalyzed by CODH.
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