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. 1978 Feb 1;169(2):361–369. doi: 10.1042/bj1690361

Participation of the iron-sulphur cluster and of the covalently bound coenzyme of trimethylamine dehydrogenase in catalysis.

D J Steenkamp, T P Singer
PMCID: PMC1184175  PMID: 204297

Abstract

Bacterial trimethylamine dehydrogenase contains a novel type of covalently bound flavin mononucleotide and a tetrameric iron-sulphur centre. The dehydrogenase takes up 1.5mol of dithionite/mol of enzyme and is thereby converted into the flavin quinol-reduced (4Fe-4S) form, with the expected bleaching of the visible absorption band of the flavin and the emergence of signals of typical reduced ferredoxin in the electronparamagnetic-resonance spectrum. On reduction with a slight excess of substrate, however, unusual absorption and electron-paramagnetic-resonance spectra appear quite rapidly. The latter is attributed to extensive interaction between the reduced (4Fe-4S) centre and the flavin semiquinone. The species of enzyme arising during the catalytic cycle were studied by a combination of rapid-freeze e.p.r. and stopped-flow spectophotometry. The initial reduction of the flavin to the quinol form is far too rapid to be rate-limiting in catalysis, as is the reoxidation of the substrate-reduced enzyme by phenazine methosulphate. Formation of the spin-spin-interacting species from the dihydroflavin is considerably slower, however, and it may be the rate-limiting step in the catalytic cycle, since its rate of formation agrees reasonably well with the catalytic-centre activity determined in steady-state kinetic assays. In addition to the interacting form, a second form of the enzyme was noted during reduction by trimethylamine, differing in absorption spectrum, the structure of which remains to be determined.

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