Publications (12)55.17 Total impact
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Dataset: ChemPhysChem 12 2011 2221 SI
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Article: Kineococcus radiotolerans Dps forms a heteronuclear Mn-Fe ferroxidase center that may explain the Mn-dependent protection against oxidative stress.
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ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The ferroxidase center of DNA-binding proteins from starved cells (Dps) is a major player in the iron oxidation/detoxification process that leads to a decreased reactive oxygen species production. The possible Mn(II) participation in this process has been studied in Dps from Kineococcus radiotolerans, a radiation-resistant bacterium with a high cytosolic Mn/Fe ratio and a high capacity to survive ionizing and stress conditions. METHODS: The X-ray structure of recombinant K. radiotolerans Dps loaded with Mn(II) has been solved at 2.0 Å resolution. Mn(II) binding to K. radiotolerans Dps and its effect on Fe(II) oxidation have been characterized in spectroscopic measurements. RESULTS: In K. radiotolerans Dps, the Fe-Fe ferroxidase center can have also a Mn-Fe composition. Mn(II) binds only at the high affinity, so-called A site, whereas Fe(II) binds also at the low affinity, so-called B site. The Mn-Fe and Fe-Fe centers behave distinctly upon iron oxidation by O(2). A site-bound Mn(II) or Fe(II) play a catalytic role, while B site-bound Fe(II) behaves like a substrate and can be replaced by another Fe(II) after oxidation. When H(2)O(2) is the Fe(II) oxidant, single electrons are transferred to aromatic residues near the ferroxidase center and give rise to intra-protein radicals thereby limiting OH(•) release in solution. The presence of the Mn-Fe center results in significant differences in the development of such intra-protein radicals. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE: The results provide a likely molecular mechanism for the protective role of Mn(II) under oxidative stress conditions as it participates in redox cycling in the hetero-binuclear ferroxidase center.Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 02/2013; · 4.66 Impact Factor -
Article: Exploring the no-man's land between molecular nanomagnets and magnetic nanoparticles.
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ABSTRACT: The comparison of the structural and magnetic properties of molecular nanomagnets (MNM) and magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) can be instructive to get a deeper understanding of the magnetic behavior on the intermediate scale between molecular and bulk objects. In this respect iron oxo based clusters are particularly interesting, since they provide an increasing number of molecular systems with sizes close to that of iron oxide MNP. In this Minireview we report a survey of literature data aimed at improving our understanding of the emergence of MNP properties from MNM ones.Angewandte Chemie International Edition 04/2012; 51(20):4792-800. · 13.45 Impact Factor -
Article: Synergistic role of B and F dopants in promoting the photocatalytic activity of rutile TiO2.
ChemPhysChem 06/2011; 12(12):2221-4. · 3.41 Impact Factor -
Article: Synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles in Listeria innocua Dps (DNA-binding protein from starved cells): a study with the wild-type protein and a catalytic centre mutant.
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ABSTRACT: A comparative analysis of the magnetic properties of iron oxide nanoparticles grown in the cavity of the DNA-binding protein from starved cells of the bacterium Listeria innocua, LiDps, and of its triple-mutant lacking the catalytic ferroxidase centre, LiDps-tm, is presented. TEM images and static and dynamic magnetic and electron magnetic resonance (EMR) measurements reveal that, under the applied preparation conditions, namely alkaline pH, high temperature (65 degrees C), exclusion of oxygen, and the presence of hydrogen peroxide, maghemite and/or magnetite nanoparticles with an average diameter of about 3 nm are mineralised inside the cavities of both LiDps and LiDps-tm. The magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) thus formed show similar magnetic properties, with superparamagnetic behaviour above 4.5 K and a large magnetic anisotropy. Interestingly, in the EMR spectra an absorption at half-field is observed, which can be considered as a manifestation of the quantum behaviour of the MNPs. These results indicate that Dps proteins can be advantageously used for the production of nanomagnets at the interface between molecular clusters and traditional MNPs and that the presence of the ferroxidase centre, though increasing the efficiency of nanoparticle formation, does not affect the nature and fine structure of the MNPs. Importantly, the self-organisation of MNP-containing Dps on HRTEM grids suggests that Dps-enclosed MNPs can be deposited on surfaces in an ordered fashion.Chemistry 10/2009; 16(2):709-17. · 5.93 Impact Factor -
Article: A multifrequency HYSCORE study of weakly coupled nuclei in frozen solutions of high-spin aquometmyoglobin.
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ABSTRACT: In this work, we show the extreme power of multifrequency HYSCORE (hyperfine sublevel correlation spectroscopy) techniques to unravel the hyperfine interactions of the electron spin with the remote nuclei in the heme site of high-spin ferric heme proteins. Horse heart aquo-metmyoglobin was used as a model system to demonstrate the power of these techniques. Experimental evidence was collected and assigned to protons of the proximal histidine ligand, to the mesoprotons of the heme ligand, and to two different protons of the distal water ligand. The latter difference relates to the stabilization of the water ligand by the E7His residue. Furthermore, HYSCORE signals of the remote N(delta) of the proximal (F8) and N(epsilon) of the distal (E7) histidine were detected. Finally, correlation peaks from the lesser-abundant (13)C nuclei of the heme ligand could be detected. These novel results allow dissection of the hyperfine couplings into individual contributions and calculation of the spin density in the pi and sigma orbitals, thus completing earlier electron paramagnetic resonance and liquid-state NMR data.Inorganic Chemistry 01/2009; 47(23):11294-304. · 4.60 Impact Factor -
Article: Electron paramagnetic resonance and density-functional theory studies of Cu(II)-bis(oxamato) complexes.
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ABSTRACT: In this work we present the investigation of the influence of electronic and structural variations induced by varying the N,N'-bridge on the magnetic properties of Cu(II)- bis(oxamato) complexes. For this study the complexes [Cu(opba)] (2-) ( 1, opba = o-phenylene- bis(oxamato)), [Cu(nabo)] (2-) ( 2, nabo = 2,3-naphthalene- bis(oxamato)), [Cu(acbo)] (2-) ( 3, acbo = 2,3-anthrachinone- bis(oxamato)), [Cu(pba)] (2-) ( 4, pba = propylene- bis(oxamato)), [Cu(obbo)] (2-) ( 5, obbo = o-benzyl- bis(oxamato)), and [Cu(npbo)] (2-) ( 6, npbo = 1,8-naphthalene- bis(oxamato)), and the respective structurally isomorphic Ni(II) complexes ( 8- 13) have been prepared as ( (n)Bu 4N) (+) salts. The new complex ( (n)Bu 4N) 2[Cu(R-bnbo)].2H 2O ( 7, R-bnbo = (R)-1,1'-binaphthalene-2,2'- bis(oxamato)) was synthesized and is the first chiral complex in the series of Cu(II)-bis(oxamato) complexes. The molecular structure of 7 has been determined by single crystal X-ray analysis. The Cu(II) ions of the complexes 1- 7 are eta (4)(kappa (2) N, kappa (2) O) coordinated with a more or less distorted square planar geometry for 1- 6 and a distorted tetrahedral geometry for 7. Using pulsed Electron Nuclear Double Resonance on complex 6, detailed information about the relative orientation of the hyperfine ( A) and nuclear quadrupole tensors ( Q) of the coordinating nitrogens with respect to the g tensor were obtained. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance studies in the X, Q, and W-band at variable temperatures were carried out to extract g and A values of N ligands and Cu ion for 1- 7. The hyperfine values were interpreted in terms of spin population on the corresponding atoms. The obtained trends of the spin population for the monomeric building blocks were shown to correlate to the trends obtained in the dependence of the exchange interaction of the corresponding trinuclear complexes on their geometry.Inorganic Chemistry 08/2008; 47(15):6633-44. · 4.60 Impact Factor -
Article: Spin-density distribution in the copper site of azurin.
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ABSTRACT: A 95 GHz pulsed deuterium ENDOR study has been performed on single crystals of azurin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa selectively deuterated at the C(beta) position of the copper-coordinating cysteine 112. Complete hyperfine tensors of the two deuterium atoms have been obtained, which reveal identical isotropic parts. Analysis of the hyperfine tensors provides insight into the spin-density delocalization over the cysteine ligand. Approximately 45 % of the spin density in the paramagnetic site can be attributed to copper and 30 % to sulfur.ChemPhysChem 07/2006; 7(6):1286-93. · 3.41 Impact Factor -
Article: The substrate-bound type 2 copper site of nitrite reductase: the nitrogen hyperfine coupling of nitrite revealed by pulsed EPR.
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ABSTRACT: A pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance study has been performed on the type 2 copper site of nitrite reductase (NiR) from Alcaligenes faecalis. The H145A mutant, in which histidine 145 is replaced by alanine, was studied by ESEEM and HYSCORE experiments at 9 GHz on frozen solutions. This mutant contains a reduced type 1 copper site which allowed a selective investigation of the type 2 site of H145A and of its nitrite-bound form H145A (NO2(-)). The experiments yielded hyperfine and quadrupole parameters of the remote nitrogens of two of the histidines in the type 2 copper site of the protein and revealed the changes of these values induced by substrate binding (14NO2(-) and 15NO2(-)). The HYSCORE experiments displayed a signal of 15NO2(-) bound to H145A, from which hyperfine parameters of the nitrite nitrogen were estimated. The small isotropic hyperfine coupling, 0.36 MHz, of the nitrite nitrogen (14N) suggests that the substrate binds in an axial position to the copper in the type 2 site and that the molecular orbital containing the unpaired electron extends onto the substrate. This and other changes in the EPR parameters occurring after nitrite binding suggest a change in electronic structure of the site, which most likely prepares the site for the catalytic reaction. We propose that this change is essential for the reaction to occur.Biochemistry 12/2005; 44(46):15193-202. · 3.42 Impact Factor -
Article: Single-crystal EPR study at 95 GHz of the type 2 copper site of the inhibitor-bound quercetin 2,3-dioxygenase.
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ABSTRACT: An electron-spin-echo-detected, electron-paramagnetic-resonance study has been performed on the type 2 copper site of quercetin 2,3-dioxygenase from Aspergillus japonicus. In the protein, copper is coordinated by three histidine nitrogens and two sulfurs from the inhibitor diethyldithiocarbamate. A single crystal of the protein was studied at 95 GHz and the complete g-tensor determined. The electron-paramagnetic-resonance data are compatible with two orientations of the principal g-axes in the copper center, one of which is preferred on the basis of an analysis of the copper coordination and the d-orbitals that are involved in the unpaired-electron orbital. For this orientation, the principal z-axis of the g-tensor makes an angle of 19 degrees with the Cu-N(His112) bond and the N of His112 may be considered the axial ligand. The singly occupied molecular orbital contains a linear combination of copper dxy and dyz-orbitals, which are antibonding with atomic orbitals of histidine nitrogens and diethyldithiocarbamate sulfurs. The orientation of the g-tensor for the quercetin 2,3-dioxygenase is compared with that for type 1 copper sites.Biophysical Journal 01/2004; 85(6):4047-54. · 3.65 Impact Factor -
Article: Kinetic stability of the peroxidase activity of unfolded cytochrome c: heme degradation and catalyst inactivation by hydrogen peroxide.
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ABSTRACT: Unfolding converts Paracoccus versutus cytochrome c-550 into a potent peroxidase (Diederix, R. E. M.; Ubbink, M.; Canters, G. W. ChemBioChem 2002, 3, 110-112). The catalytic activity is accompanied by peroxide-driven inactivation that is prevented, in part, by reducing substrate. Here, the kinetics of inactivation are described, and evidence is presented for the occurrence of a labile intermediate on the catalytic peroxidase pathway of unfolded cytochrome c-550. This intermediate represents a branching point, whereby the protein proceeds along either the productive pathway or self-inactivates. Reducing substrate suppresses inactivation by decreasing the steady-state concentration of the labile intermediate. Inactivation is accompanied by heme degradation. Its chemical reactivity, UV-vis, and EPR properties identify the first intermediate as hydroxyheme-cytochrome c-550, i.e. with heme hydroxylated at one of the heme meso positions. The occurrence of this species argues for the peroxo-iron species in the peroxidase mechanism as the labile intermediate leading to inactivated cytochrome c-550.Inorganic Chemistry 11/2003; 42(22):7249-57. · 4.60 Impact Factor -
Article: Reconstitution of the type-1 active site of the H145G/A variants of nitrite reductase by ligand insertion.
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ABSTRACT: Variants of the copper-containing nitrite reductase (NiR) of Alcaligenes faecalis S6 were constructed by site-directed mutagenesis, by which the C-terminal histidine ligand (His145) of the Cu in the type-1 site was replaced by an alanine or a glycine. The type-1 sites in the NiR variants as isolated, are in the reduced form, but can be oxidized in the presence of external ligands, like (substituted) imidazoles and chloride. The reduction potential of the type-1 site of NiR-H145A reconstituted with imidazole amounts to 505 mV vs NHE (20 degrees C, pH 7, 10 mM imidazole), while for the native type-1 site it amounts to 260 mV. XRD data on crystals of the reduced and oxidized NiR-H145A variant show that in the reduced type-1 site the metal is 3-coordinated, but in the oxidized form takes up a ligand from the solution. With the fourth (exogenous) ligand in place the type-1 site is able to accept electrons at about the same rate as the wt NiR, but it is unable to pass the electron onto the type-2 site, leading to loss of enzymatic activity. It is argued that the uptake of an electron by the mutated type-1 site is accompanied by a loss of the exogenous ligand and a concomitant rise of the redox potential. This rise effectively traps the electron in the type-1 site.Biochemistry 05/2003; 42(14):4075-83. · 3.42 Impact Factor
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Universiteit Leiden
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