Second and outer coordination sphere effects in nitrogenase, hydrogenase, formate dehydrogenase, and CO dehydrogenase

ST Stripp, BR Duffus, V Fourmond, C Léger… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Gases like H2, N2, CO2, and CO are increasingly recognized as critical feedstock in “green”
energy conversion and as sources of nitrogen and carbon for the agricultural and chemical …

On the evolution of coenzyme biosynthesis

A Kirschning - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2022 The report provides a broad approach to deciphering the evolution of
coenzyme biosynthetic pathways. Here, these various pathways are analyzed with respect …

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 …

Radical SAM enzyme HydE generates adenosylated Fe (I) intermediates en route to the [FeFe]-hydrogenase catalytic H-cluster

L Tao, SA Pattenaude, S Joshi, TP Begley… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The H-cluster of [FeFe]-hydrogenase consists of a [4Fe–4S] H-subcluster linked by a
cysteinyl bridge to a unique organometallic [2Fe] H-subcluster assigned as the site of …

Crystal Structure of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase maturase HydE bound to complex-B

R Rohac, L Martin, L Liu, D Basu, L Tao… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
[FeFe]-hydrogenases use a unique organometallic complex, termed the H cluster, to
reversibly convert H2 into protons and low-potential electrons. It can be best described as a …

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 …

A personal account on 25 years of scientific literature on [FeFe]-hydrogenase

JW Sidabras, ST Stripp - JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2023 - Springer
Abstract [FeFe]-hydrogenases are gas-processing metalloenzymes that catalyze H2
oxidation and proton reduction (H2 release) in microorganisms. Their high turnover …

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 …