Synthesis of diiron (I) dithiolato carbonyl complexes

Y Li, TB Rauchfuss - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Virtually all organosulfur compounds react with Fe (0) carbonyls to give the title complexes.
These reactions are reviewed in light of major advances over the past few decades, spurred …

Mechanism of Radical Initiation in the Radical S-Adenosyl-l-methionine Superfamily

WE Broderick, BM Hoffman… - Accounts of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The seeds for recognition of the vast superfamily of radical S-adenosyl-l-
methionine (SAM) enzymes were sown in the 1960s, when Joachim Knappe found that the …

Bioassembly of complex iron–sulfur enzymes: hydrogenases and nitrogenases

RD Britt, G Rao, L Tao - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Nature uses multinuclear metal clusters to catalyse a number of important multielectron
redox reactions. Examples that employ complex Fe–S clusters in catalysis include the Fe …

Biosynthesis of the catalytic H-cluster of [FeFe] hydrogenase: the roles of the Fe–S maturase proteins HydE, HydF, and HydG

RD Britt, G Rao, L Tao - Chemical science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
[FeFe] hydrogenases carry out the redox interconversion of protons and molecular hydrogen
(2H++ 2e−⇌ H2) at a complex Fe–S active site known as the H-cluster. The H-cluster …

Fully Refined Semisynthesis of the [FeFe] Hydrogenase H-Cluster

G Rao, X Yu, Y Zhang, TB Rauchfuss, RD Britt - Biochemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
[FeFe] hydrogenases contain a 6-Fe cofactor that serves as the active site for efficient redox
interconversion between H2 and protons. The biosynthesis of the so-called H-cluster …

The H-cluster of [FeFe] Hydrogenases: Its Enzymatic Synthesis and Parallel Inorganic Semisynthesis

RD Britt, TB Rauchfuss, G Rao - Accounts of chemical research, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Nature's prototypical hydrogen-forming catalysts─ hydrogenases─ have
attracted much attention because they catalyze hydrogen evolution at near zero …

Investigation of the Unusual Ability of the [FeFe] Hydrogenase from Clostridium beijerinckii to Access an O2-Protected State

PS Corrigan, JL Tirsch, A Silakov - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
[FeFe] hydrogenases are enzymes capable of producing and oxidizing H2 at staggering
submillisecond time scales. A major limitation in applying these enzymes for industrial …

Semisynthetic maturation of [FeFe]-hydrogenase using [Fe 2 (μ-SH) 2 (CN) 2 (CO) 4] 2−: key roles for HydF and GTP

B Balci, RD O'Neill, EM Shepard, A Pagnier… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Here we describe maturation of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase from its [4Fe–4S]-bound precursor
state by using the synthetic complex [Fe2 (μ-SH) 2 (CN) 2 (CO) 4] 2− together with HydF and …

Biochemical and Spectroscopic Characterization of a Radical S-Adenosyl-l-methionine Enzyme Involved in the Formation of a Peptide Thioether Cross-Link

NA Bruender, J Wilcoxen, RD Britt, V Bandarian - Biochemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Peptide-derived natural products are a class of metabolites that afford the producing
organism a selective advantage over other organisms in their biological niche. While the …

Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a Radical SAM Enzyme Generates an S-Adenosylmethionine Derived Methyl Radical

H Yang, S Impano, EM Shepard… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Radical SAM (RS) enzymes use S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) and a [4Fe–4S] cluster to
initiate a broad spectrum of radical transformations throughout all kingdoms of life. We report …