OvoAMtht from Methyloversatilis thermotolerans ovothiol biosynthesis is a bifunction enzyme: thiol oxygenase and sulfoxide synthase activities. Issue 12 (8th March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cheng, Ronghai; Weitz, Andrew C.; Paris, Jared; Tang, Yijie; Zhang, Jingyu; Song, Heng; Naowarojna, Nathchar; Li, Kelin; Qiao, Lu; Lopez, Juan; Grinstaff, Mark W.; Zhang, Lixin; Guo, Yisong; Elliott, Sean; Liu, Pinghua
• Is Part Of: Chemical science. Volume 13:Issue 12(2022)
• Page Start: 3589
• Page End: 3598
• Publication Date: 2022-03-08
• Subjects: Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540.5
• DOI: 10.1039/d1sc05479a
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2041-6520

Abstract

Abstract : Modulation of OvoAMtht 's dual activities: sulfoxide synthase and thiol oxygenase. Abstract : Mononuclear non-heme iron enzymes are a large class of enzymes catalyzing a wide-range of reactions. In this work, we report that a non-heme iron enzyme in Methyloversatilis thermotolerans, OvoAMtht, has two different activities, as a thiol oxygenase and a sulfoxide synthase. When cysteine is presented as the only substrate, OvoAMtht is a thiol oxygenase. In the presence of both histidine and cysteine as substrates, OvoAMtht catalyzes the oxidative coupling between histidine and cysteine (a sulfoxide synthase). Additionally, we demonstrate that both substrates and the active site iron's secondary coordination shell residues exert exquisite control over the dual activities of OvoAMtht (sulfoxide synthase vs. thiol oxygenase activities). OvoAMtht is an excellent system for future detailed mechanistic investigation on how metal ligands and secondary coordination shell residues fine-tune the iron-center electronic properties to achieve different reactivities.