Incorporation of Iron and Sulfur from NifB Cofactor into the Iron-Molybdenum Cofactor of Dinitrogenase
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- 1 November 1995
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV
- Vol. 270 (45), 26890-26896
- https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.270.45.26890
Abstract
NifB-co is an iron- and sulfur-containing precursor to the iron-molybdenum cofactor (FeMo-co) of dinitrogenase. The synthesis of NifB-co requires at least the product of the nifB gene. Incorporation of 55Fe and 35S from NifB-co into FeMo-co was observed only when all components of the in vitro FeMo-co synthesis system were present. Incorporation of iron and sulfur from NifB-co into dinitrogenase was not observed in control experiments in which the apodinitrogenase (lacking FeMo-co) was initially activated with purified, unlabeled FeMo-co or in assays where NifB-co was oxygen-inactivated prior to addition to the synthesis system. These data clearly demonstrate that iron and sulfur from active NifB-co are specifically incorporated into FeMo-co of dinitrogenase and provide direct biochemical identification of an iron-sulfur precursor of FeMo-co. Under different in vitro FeMo-co synthesis conditions, iron and sulfur from NifB-co were associated with at least two other proteins (NIFNE and gamma) that are involved in the formation of active dinitrogenase. The results presented here suggest that multiple FeMo-co processing steps might occur on NIFNE and that FeMo-co synthesis is most likely completed prior to the association of FeMo-co with gamma.Keywords
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