%0 Journal Article %A Kumar, Devesh %A Hirao, Hajime %A Shaik, Sason %A Kozlowski, Pawel M. %D 2006 %T Proton-Shuffle Mechanism of O−O Activation for Formation of a High-Valent Oxo−Iron Species of Bleomycin %U https://acs.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Proton_Shuffle_Mechanism_of_O_O_Activation_for_Formation_of_a_High_Valent_Oxo_Iron_Species_of_Bleomycin/3040489 %R 10.1021/ja064611o.s001 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/4743979 %K alternative %K 2O %K OH %K bond %K heterolytic cleavage %K cytochrome c peroxidase %K barrier %K Cpd %K BLM %K DNA %K DFT %K ABLM %K species %K mechanism %X Bleomycins (BLMs) can utilize H2O2 to cleave DNA in the presence of ferric ions. DFT calculations were used to study the mechanism of O−O bond cleavage in the low-spin FeIII−hydroperoxo complex of BLM. The following alternative hypotheses were investigated using realistic structural models:  (a) heterolytic cleavage of the O−O bond, generating a Compound I (Cpd I) like intermediate, formally BLM−FeVO; (b) homolytic O−O cleavage, leading to a BLM−FeIVO species and an OH radical; and (c) a direct O−O cleavage/H-abstraction mechanism by ABLM. The calculations showed that (a) is a facile and viable mechanism; it involves acid−base proton reshuffle mediated by the side-chain linkers of BLM, causing thereby heterolytic cleavage of the O−O bond and generation of Cpd I. Formation of Cpd I is found to involve a barrier of 13.3 kcal/mol, which is lower than the barriers in the alternative mechanisms (b and c) that possess respective barriers of 31 and 17 kcal/mol. The so-formed Cpd I species with a radical on the side-chain linker, methylvalerate (V), adjacent to the BLM−FeIVO complex, resembles the formation of the active species of cytochrome c peroxidase in the Poulos−Kraut proton-shuffle mechanism in heme peroxidases (Poulos, T. L.; Kraut, J. J. Biol. Chem. 1980, 255, 8199−8205). Experimental data are discussed and shown to be in accord with this proposal. It suggests that the high-valence Cpd I species of BLM participates in the DNA cleavage. This is an alternative mechanistic hypothesis to the exclusive reactivity scenario based on ABLM (FeIII−OOH). %I ACS Publications