scholarly journals Characterization of the Coral Allene Oxide Synthase Active Site with UV−Visible Absorption, Magnetic Circular Dichroism, and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy:  Evidence for Tyrosinate Ligation to the Ferric Enzyme Heme Iron†

Biochemistry ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 2251-2259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biji D. Abraham ◽  
Masanori Sono ◽  
Olivier Boutaud ◽  
Anthony Shriner ◽  
John H. Dawson ◽  
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FEBS Letters ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 281 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 130-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ikuko Ueno ◽  
Satoshi Fujii ◽  
Hiroaki Ohya-Nishiguchi ◽  
Tetsutaro Iizuka ◽  
Shiro Kanegasaki

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 3265-3269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith T. Kuba ◽  
Sandra S. Eaton ◽  
Christine Morales ◽  
Craig M. Jensen

Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra were obtained for samples of Ti-doped NaAlH4 subjected to different numbers of cycles of dehydrogenation/re-hydrogenation. Ti is observed to evolve from its initial Ti(III) state through a series of Ti(0) species during the first 5 cycles. Although the conversion of Ti(III) to Ti(0) occurs much more readily for TiCl3-doped samples than those prepared with TiF3, in both cases the evolution of Ti follows the same sequence that involves 3 distinguishable Ti(0) species and ends in the predominance of the same single Ti(0) species. The spectrum of a sample of NaAlH4 containing 2 mol% of cubic Al3Ti is distinctly different than any of those observed for the Ti(0) species that arise during the hydrogen cycling of the hydride. The major changes in the nature of the predominant Ti species have little if any effect on the dehydrogenation kinetics, which strongly suggests that the profoundly enhanced hydrogen cycling kinetics of Ti-doped NaAlH4 are due to a Ti species present in only a relatively minor amount.


1984 ◽  
Vol 224 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
S J George ◽  
A J M Richards ◽  
A J Thomson ◽  
M G Yates

Ferredoxin from Azotobacter chroococcum has been studied by low-temperature magnetic-circular-dichroism and electron-paramagnetic-resonance spectroscopy. When aerobically isolated ferredoxin contains a [3Fe-4S] and [4Fe-4S] cluster. Anaerobic treatment with dithionite in the presence of ethanediol reduces the [3Fe-4S] cluster to give two spectroscopically distinct forms RI and RII which are reversibly interconvertible with a pKa approximately 7.5. The higher-pH form, RII, has a high affinity for ferrous ion and converts readily to a [4Fe-4S]1+ cluster, scavenging iron from the medium. The presence of the iron chelator EDTA inhibits this conversion.


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