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SUBMITTER: Usharani D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3326604 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Usharani Dandamudi D Zazza Costantino C Lai Wenzhen W Chourasia Mukesh M Waskell Lucy L Shaik Sason S
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20120222 9
The intriguing deactivation of the cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2B4 enzyme induced by mutation of a single residue, Phe429 to His, is explored by quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical calculations of the O-OH bond activation of the (Fe(3+)OOH)(-) intermediate. It is found that the F429H mutant of CYP 2B4 undergoes homolytic instead of heterolytic O-OH bond cleavage. Thus, the mutant acquires the following characteristics of a heme oxygenase enzyme: (a) donation by His429 of an additional NH---S H-bon ...[more]