Publications by authors named "Sarah R Pope"

Nonheme diiron enzymes harness the chemical potential of oxygen to catalyze challenging reactions in biology. In their resting state, these enzymes have a diferrous cofactor that is coordinated by histidine and carboxylate ligands. Upon exposure to oxygen, the cofactor oxidizes to its diferric state forming a peroxo- adduct, capable of catalyzing a wide range of oxidative chemistries such as desaturation and heteroatom oxidation.

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In biosynthesis of the pancreatic cancer drug streptozotocin, the tridomain nonheme-iron oxygenase SznF hydroxylates and ' of -methyl-l-arginine before oxidatively rearranging the triply modified guanidine to the -methyl--nitrosourea pharmacophore. A previously published structure visualized the monoiron cofactor in the enzyme's C-terminal cupin domain, which promotes the final rearrangement, but exhibited disorder and minimal metal occupancy in the site of the proposed diiron cofactor in the hydroxylating heme-oxygenase-like (HO-like) central domain. We leveraged our recent observation that the -oxygenating µ-peroxodiiron(III/III) intermediate can form in the HO-like domain after the apo protein self-assembles its diiron(II/II) cofactor to solve structures of SznF with both of its iron cofactors bound.

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