Information on EC 1.7.2.2 - nitrite reductase (cytochrome; ammonia-forming) and Organism(s) Thioalkalivibrio nitratireducens and UniProt Accession L0DSL2
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Found as a multiheme cytochrome in many bacteria. The enzyme from Escherichia coli contains five hemes c and requires Ca2+. It also reduces nitric oxide and hydroxylamine to ammonia, and sulfite to sulfide.
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SYSTEMATIC NAME
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ammonia:ferricytochrome-c oxidoreductase
Found as a multiheme cytochrome in many bacteria. The enzyme from Escherichia coli contains five hemes c and requires Ca2+. It also reduces nitric oxide and hydroxylamine to ammonia, and sulfite to sulfide.
the sulfite reductase activity of NiR has a maximum value at neutral pH, the sulfite reductase activity of NiR decreases with increasing pH and is absent at pH 9.0, the activity measured at pH 7.8 is 20% of the activity measured at pH 7.0
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CRYSTALLIZATION (Commentary)
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LITERATURE
alone or in complex with nitrite and cyanide, hanging drop vapor diffusion method, using 0.2 M trisodium citrate dihydrate, 0.1 M Tris-HCl pH 8.5 and 30% (v/v) PEG 400
apoenzyme and its complexes with the substrate nitrite and the inhibitor azide. The subunit of NiR consists of the N-terminal domain which has an unique fold and contains three hemes and the catalytic C-terminal domain which hosts the remaining five hemes. The complete set of eight hemes forms a spatial pattern characteristic of other multiheme proteins, including structurally characterized octaheme cytochromes. The catalytic machinery comprises the lysine residue at the proximal position of the catalytic heme, the catalytic triad of tyrosine, histidine, and arginine at the distal side, channels for the substrate and product transport with a characteristic gradient of electrostatic potential, and, two conserved Ca2+-binding sites. In addition, the enzyme has a covalent bond between the catalytic tyrosine and the adjacent cysteine and an unusual topography of the product channels that open into the void interior space of the protein hexamer
modified form of the enzyme that contains an additional covalent bond between residues Tyr303 and Gln360 in complex with phosphate to 1.45 A resolution, and with sulfite to 1.8 A resolution, structure of unmodified enzyme in complex with nitrite to 1.83 A resolution. Structure reveal the presence of a covalent bond between the CE2 atom of the catalytic Tyr303 and the S atom of Cys305, which might be responsible for the higher nitrite reductase activity. The formation of the second covalent bond by Tyr303 leads to a decrease in both the nitrite and sulfite reductase activities of the enzyme. Tyr303 is located at the exit from the putative proton-transport channel to the active site
diffraction data sets with increasing absorbed doses. The structures reveal gradual changes associated with the reduction of the catalytic hemes by X-rays. The conversion of the nitrite ions bound in the active sites to NO species is observed, which is the beginning of the catalytic reaction. For the free form, an increase in the distance between the oxygen ligand bound to the catalytic heme and the iron ion of the heme takes place. In the sulfite complex no enzymatic reaction is detected
melting of the TvNiR molecule is an irreversible highly cooperative process with the transition temperature of 86°C and the transition enthalpy of about J/mol of hexamer
Molecular and catalytic properties of a novel cytochrome c nitrite reductase from nitrate-reducing haloalkaliphilic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thioalkalivibrio nitratireducens
High-resolution structural analysis of a novel octaheme cytochrome c nitrite reductase from the haloalkaliphilic bacterium Thioalkalivibrio nitratireducens