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The Use of Deuterated Camphor as a Substrate in 1H ENDOR Studies of Hydroxylation by Cryoreduced Oxy P450cam Provides New Evidence of the Involvement of Compound I
journal contribution
posted on 2016-02-20, 00:32 authored by Roman Davydov, John H. Dawson, Roshan Perera, Brian M. HoffmanElectron paramagnetic resonance and 1H electron
nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) spectroscopies have been used to
analyze intermediate states formed during the hydroxylation of (1R)-camphor (H2-camphor) and (1R)-5,5-dideuterocamphor (D2-camphor) as induced by cryoreduction
(77 K) and annealing of the ternary ferrous cytochrome P450cam–O2–substrate complex. Hydroxylation of H2-camphor
produced a primary product state in which 5-exo-hydroxycamphor
is coordinated with Fe(III). ENDOR spectra contained signals derived
from two protons [Fe(III)-bound C5-OHexo and C5-Hendo] from camphor. When D2-camphor was hydroxylated under the same condition in H2O or D2O buffer, both ENDOR Hexo and Hendo signals are absent.
For D2-camphor in H2O buffer, H/D exchange causes
the C5-OHexo signal to reappear during
relaxation upon annealing to 230 K; for H2-camphor in D2O, the magnitude of the C5-OHexo signal decreases via H/D exchange. These observations clearly show
that Compound I is the reactive species in the hydroxylation of camphor
in P450cam.