Escherichia coli ferredoxin-NADP⁺ reductase and oxygen-insensitive nitroreductase are capable of functioning as ferric reductase and of driving the Fenton reaction

• Published in: Biometals Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 727 - 737
• Main Authors: Takeda, Kouji, Sato, Junichi, Goto, Kazuyuki, Fujita, Takanori, Watanabe, Toshihiro, Abo, Mitsuru, Yoshimura, Etsuro, Nakagawa, Junichi, Abe, Akira, Kawasaki, Shinji, Niimura, Youichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 01.08.2010; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biochemistry; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cell Biology; Chemical reactions; E coli; Edetic Acid - metabolism; Enzymes; Escherichia coli - enzymology; Escherichia coli Proteins - chemistry; Escherichia coli Proteins - genetics; Escherichia coli Proteins - metabolism; Fenton reaction; Ferredoxin-NADP Reductase - chemistry; Ferredoxin-NADP Reductase - genetics; Ferredoxin-NADP Reductase - metabolism; Ferredoxin-NADP⁺ reductase; Ferric Compounds - metabolism; Ferric reductase; Flavin reductase; Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide - metabolism; FMN Reductase - chemistry; FMN Reductase - genetics; FMN Reductase - metabolism; Hydrogen Peroxide - chemistry; Hydrogen Peroxide - metabolism; Iron - metabolism; Iron Chelating Agents - metabolism; Life Sciences; Medicine/Public Health; Microbiology; NAD - metabolism; Nitroreductase; Nitroreductases - chemistry; Nitroreductases - genetics; Nitroreductases - metabolism; Oxidants - chemistry; Oxidants - metabolism; Oxidation; Oxidation-Reduction; Oxygen; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Plant Physiology; Recombinant Proteins - chemistry; Recombinant Proteins - genetics; Recombinant Proteins - metabolism; Substrate Specificity; reductase; Ferredoxin-NADP; Fenton reaction; Ferric reductase; Nitroreductase; Flavin reductase
• ISSN: 0966-0844; 1572-8773
• DOI: 10.1007/s10534-010-9339-8

Two free flavin-independent enzymes were purified by detecting the NAD(P)H oxidation in the presence of Fe(III)-EDTA and t-butyl hydroperoxide from E. coli. The enzyme that requires NADH or NADPH as an electron donor was a 28 kDa protein, and N-terminal sequencing revealed it to be oxygen-insensitive nitroreductase (NfnB). The second enzyme that requires NADPH as an electron donor was a 30 kDa protein, and N-terminal sequencing revealed it to be ferredoxin-NADP⁺ reductase (Fpr). The chemical stoichiometry of the Fenton activities of both NfnB and Fpr in the presence of Fe(III)-EDTA, NAD(P)H and hydrogen peroxide was investigated. Both enzymes showed a one-electron reduction in the reaction forming hydroxyl radical from hydrogen peroxide. Also, the observed Fenton activities of both enzymes in the presence of synthetic chelate iron compounds were higher than their activities in the presence of natural chelate iron compounds. When the Fenton reaction occurs, the ferric iron must be reduced to ferrous iron. The ferric reductase activities of both NfnB and Fpr occurred with synthetic chelate iron compounds. Unlike NfnB, Fpr also showed the ferric reductase activity on an iron storage protein, ferritin, and various natural iron chelate compounds including siderophore. The Fenton and ferric reductase reactions of both NfnB and Fpr occurred in the absence of free flavin. Although the k cat/K m value of NfnB for Fe(III)-EDTA was not affected by free flavin, the k cat/K m value of Fpr for Fe(III)-EDTA was 12-times greater in the presence of free FAD than in the absence of free FAD.