The biologically relevant coordination chemistry of iron and nitric oxide: electronic structure and reactivity

N Lehnert, E Kim, HT Dong, JB Harland… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is involved in a wide range of
physiological and pathological events in biology. Metal coordination chemistry, especially …

Synthetic Fe/Cu complexes: toward understanding heme-copper oxidase structure and function

SM Adam, GB Wijeratne, PJ Rogler, DE Diaz… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Heme-copper oxidases (HCOs) are terminal enzymes on the mitochondrial or bacterial
respiratory electron transport chain, which utilize a unique heterobinuclear active site to …

Mono-and dinuclear non-heme iron–nitrosyl complexes: Models for key intermediates in bacterial nitric oxide reductases

TC Berto, AL Speelman, S Zheng, N Lehnert - Coordination Chemistry …, 2013 - Elsevier
High-spin non-heme iron–nitrosyls are of direct interest to both the chemical and biological
communities as these species exhibit interesting chemical properties and act as direct …

Electronic structure of heme-nitrosyls and its significance for nitric oxide reactivity, sensing, transport, and toxicity in biological systems

LE Goodrich, F Paulat, VKK Praneeth… - Inorganic …, 2010 - ACS Publications
This review summarizes recent developments in the investigation of the electronic
structures, spectroscopic properties, and reactivities of ferrous and ferric heme-nitrosyls and …

Biological and bioinspired inorganic N–N bond-forming reactions

C Ferousi, SH Majer, IM DiMucci… - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The metallobiochemistry underlying the formation of the inorganic N–N-bond-containing
molecules nitrous oxide (N2O), dinitrogen (N2), and hydrazine (N2H4) is essential to the …

Molecular understanding of heteronuclear active sites in heme–copper oxidases, nitric oxide reductases, and sulfite reductases through biomimetic modelling

CJ Reed, QN Lam, EN Mirts, Y Lu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Heme–copper oxidases (HCO), nitric oxide reductases (NOR), and sulfite reductases (SiR)
catalyze the multi-electron and multi-proton reductions of O2, NO, and SO32−, respectively …

Nano-apples and orange-zymes

S Scott, H Zhao, A Dey, TB Gunnoe - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
The journal Social Text had published an article consisting largely of quotes from other
published papers. It was a parody of postmodern literary theory and cultural studies, written …

NO Disproportionation at a Mononuclear Site-Isolated Fe2+ Center in Fe2+-MOF-5

CK Brozek, JT Miller, SA Stoian… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The weak-field ligand environments at the metal nodes of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)
mimic the electronic environment of metalloenzyme active sites, but little is known about the …

New light on NO bonding in Fe (III) heme proteins from resonance Raman spectroscopy and DFT modeling

AV Soldatova, M Ibrahim, JS Olson… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Visible and ultraviolet resonance Raman (RR) spectra are reported for FeIII (NO) adducts of
myoglobin variants with altered polarity in the distal heme pockets. The stretching …

Roles of glutamates and metal ions in a rationally designed nitric oxide reductase based on myoglobin

YW Lin, N Yeung, YG Gao, KD Miner… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
A structural and functional model of bacterial nitric oxide reductase (NOR) has been
designed by introducing two glutamates (Glu) and three histidines (His) in sperm whale …