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Biomimetic assembly and activation of [FeFe]-hydrogenases

G. Berggren
  • Fonction : Auteur
A. Adamska
  • Fonction : Auteur
C. Lambertz
  • Fonction : Auteur
T. R. Simmons
  • Fonction : Auteur
J. Esselborn
  • Fonction : Auteur
J.-M. Mouesca
  • Fonction : Auteur
E. Reijerse
  • Fonction : Auteur
W. Lubitz
  • Fonction : Auteur
T. Happe
  • Fonction : Auteur
V. Artero

Résumé

Hydrogenases are the most active molecular catalysts for hydrogen production and uptake1, 2, and could therefore facilitate the development of new types of fuel cell3, 4, 5. In [FeFe]-hydrogenases, catalysis takes place at a unique di-iron centre (the [2Fe] subsite), which contains a bridging dithiolate ligand, three CO ligands and two CN- ligands6, 7. Through a complex multienzymatic biosynthetic process, this [2Fe] subsite is first assembled on a maturation enzyme, HydF, and then delivered to the apo-hydrogenase for activation8. Synthetic chemistry has been used to prepare remarkably similar mimics of that subsite1, but it has failed to reproduce the natural enzymatic activities thus far. Here we show that three synthetic mimics (containing different bridging dithiolate ligands) can be loaded onto bacterial Thermotoga maritima HydF and then transferred to apo-HydA1, one of the hydrogenases of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii algae. Full activation of HydA1 was achieved only when using the HydF hybrid protein containing the mimic with an azadithiolate bridge, confirming the presence of this ligand in the active site of native [FeFe]-hydrogenases9, 10. This is an example of controlled metalloenzyme activation using the combination of a specific protein scaffold and active-site synthetic analogues. This simple methodology provides both new mechanistic and structural insight into hydrogenase maturation and a unique tool for producing recombinant wild-type and variant [FeFe]-hydrogenases, with no requirement for the complete maturation machinery

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hal-00869039 , version 1 (02-10-2013)

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G. Berggren, A. Adamska, C. Lambertz, T. R. Simmons, J. Esselborn, et al.. Biomimetic assembly and activation of [FeFe]-hydrogenases. Nature, 2013, 499, pp.66-69. ⟨10.1038/nature12239⟩. ⟨hal-00869039⟩
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