Copper–Oxygen Dynamics in the Tyrosinase Mechanism

Autor: Shinobu Itoh, Sachiko Yanagisawa, Nobutaka Fujieda, Kyohei Umakoshi, Yuta Ochi, Yosuke Nishikawa, Genji Kurisu, Minoru Kubo
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59:13385-13390
ISSN: 1521-3773
1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202004733
Popis: The dinuclear copper enzyme, tyrosinase, activates O2 to form a (μ-η2 :η2 -peroxido)dicopper(II) species, which hydroxylates phenols to catechols. However, the exact mechanism of phenolase reaction in the catalytic site of tyrosinase is still under debate. We herein report the near atomic resolution X-ray crystal structures of the active tyrosinases with substrate l-tyrosine. At their catalytic sites, CuA moved toward l-tyrosine (CuA1 → CuA2), whose phenol oxygen directly coordinates to CuA2, involving the movement of CuB (CuB1 → CuB2). The crystal structures and spectroscopic analyses of the dioxygen-bound tyrosinases demonstrated that the peroxide ligand rotated, spontaneously weakening its O-O bond. Thus, the copper migration induced by the substrate-binding is accompanied by rearrangement of the bound peroxide species so as to provide one of the peroxide oxygen atoms with access to the phenol substrate's ϵ carbon atom.
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