Abstract
Formate dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa contains molybdenum, a [4Fe-4S] cluster and cytochrome b. This paper reports the detection of molybdenum as Mo(V) by e.p.r. spectroscopy. In order to generate Mo(V) signals, addition of amounts of excess formate varying between 10- and 50-fold over enzyme, followed by 200-fold excess of sodium dithionite, were used. Two Mo(V) species were observed. One, the major component, has g1 = 2.012, g2 = 1.985 and g3 = 1.968, appeared at low concentrations of formate and increased linearly in intensity with increasing concentrations of formate up to 25-fold excess over the enzyme. At higher formate concentration this signal disappeared. The appearance and disappearance of this Mo(V) signal seems to parallel the state of reduction of the [4Fe-4S] clusters. A second, minor, Mo(V) species with g-values g1 = 1.996, g2 = 1.981 and g3 = 1.941 appears at a constant level during the formate-dithionite titration. No evidence has been obtained for nuclear hyperfine coupling to protons. The major Mo(V) species has unusual e.p.r. signals compared with other molybdenum-containing enzymes, except for that observed in the formate dehydrogenase from Methanobacterium formicicum [Barber, Siegel, Schauer, May & Ferry (1983) J. Biol. Chem. 258, 10839-10845]. The present work suggests that the enzyme is acting as a CO2 reductase, with dithionite as an electron donor to a [4Fe-4S] cluster, which in turn donates electrons to molybdenum, producing a Mo(V) species with CO2 bound to the metal.
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