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 …

Nanodiscs in membrane biochemistry and biophysics

IG Denisov, SG Sligar - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Membrane proteins play a most important part in metabolism, signaling, cell motility,
transport, development, and many other biochemical and biophysical processes which …

Mechanisms of cytochrome P450-catalyzed oxidations

FP Guengerich - ACS catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Enzymes are complex biological catalysts and are critical to life. Most oxidations of
chemicals are catalyzed by cytochrome P450 (P450, CYP) enzymes, which generally utilize …

[HTML][HTML] Nanodiscs for structural and functional studies of membrane proteins

IG Denisov, SG Sligar - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2016 - nature.com
Membrane proteins have long presented a challenge to biochemical and functional studies.
In the absence of a bilayer environment, individual proteins and critical macromolecular …

Nanodiscs: A toolkit for membrane protein science

SG Sligar, IG Denisov - Protein Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Membrane proteins are involved in numerous vital biological processes, including transport,
signal transduction and the enzymes in a variety of metabolic pathways. Integral membrane …

Formation and cleavage of C–C bonds by enzymatic oxidation–reduction reactions

FP Guengerich, FK Yoshimoto - Chemical Reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Many oxidation–reduction (redox) enzymes, particularly oxygenases, have roles in reactions
that make and break C–C bonds. The list includes cytochrome P450 and other heme-based …

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 …

In situ structural observation of a substrate-and peroxide-bound high-spin ferric-hydroperoxo intermediate in the P450 enzyme CYP121

RC Nguyen, I Davis, M Dasgupta, Y Wang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The P450 enzyme CYP121 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis catalyzes a carbon–carbon (C–
C) bond coupling cyclization of the dityrosine substrate containing a diketopiperazine ring …

Engineering C–C bond cleavage activity into a P450 monooxygenase enzyme

JC Miller, JHZ Lee, MA Mclean, RR Chao… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The cytochrome P450 (CYP) superfamily of heme monooxygenases has demonstrated
ability to facilitate hydroxylation, desaturation, sulfoxidation, epoxidation, heteroatom …

Oxygen‐18 Labeling Reveals a Mixed Fe− O Mechanism in the Last Step of Cytochrome P450 51 Sterol 14α‐Demethylation

KD McCarty, Y Tateishi, TY Hargrove… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The 14α‐demethylation step is critical in eukaryotic sterol biosynthesis, catalyzed by
cytochrome P450 (P450) Family 51 enzymes, for example, with lanosterol in mammals. This …