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. 1980 Feb 1;185(2):397–403. doi: 10.1042/bj1850397

Electron-paramagnetic-resonance parameters of molybdenum(V) in sulphite oxidase from chicken liver.

M T Lamy, S Gutteridge, R C Bary
PMCID: PMC1161366  PMID: 6249254

Abstract

A study has been made of e.p.r. signals due to Mo(V) in reduced sulphite oxidase (EC 1.8.3.1) from chicken liver. Reduction by SO3(2-), or photochemically in the presence of a deazaflavin derivative, produces spectra indistinguishable from one another. Three types of spectra from the enzyme were distingusihed and shown to correspond to single chemical species, since they could be simulated at both 9 and 35 GHz by using the same parameters. These were the low-pH form of the enzyme, with gav. 1.9805, the high-pH form, with gav. 1.9681 and a phosphate complex, with gav. 1.9741. The low-H form shows interaction with a single exchangeable proton, with A(1H)av. (hyperfine coupling constant) = 0.98 mT, probably in the form of an MoOH group. Parameters of the signals are compared with those for signals from xanthine oxidase and nitrate reductase. The signal from the phosphate complex of sulphite oxidase in unique among anion complexes of Mo-containing enzymes in showing no hyperfine coupling to protons. There is no evidence for additional weakly coupled protons or nitrogen nuclei in the sulphite oxidase signals. The possibility is considered that the enzymic mechanism involves abstraction of a proton and two electrons from HSO3- by a Mo = O group in the enzyme.

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