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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Mechanistic Implications of Reductive Co-C Bond Cleavage in B 12 -Dependent Methylmalonyl CoA Mutase.
Journal of Physical Chemistry. B 2019 March 15
Vitamin B12 -dependent enzymes catalyze several difficult radical reactions. There are fundamental open questions that need to be addressed to fully understand the formation of highly reactive radical species, its dynamics, and interaction with the substrate and enzyme. In this work, ab initio molecular dynamics was performed within a QM/MM framework on a reduced AdoCbl cofactor, which was taken as a post proton-coupled electron transfer initial step for the activation of the AdoCbl-dependent methylmalonyl CoA mutase enzyme. The calculated free-energy profile reveals two possible pathways, stepwise (I) and concerted (II) for the reductive Co-C cleavage and subsequent H-abstraction. The computed activation barrier from metadynamics for both the pathways is comparable (78.5 and 76.2 kJ/mol, respectively); however, the concerted pathway may be preferred kinetically because it avoids the formation of a high-energy radical intermediate with possibly a larger recrossing rate. Our results are consistent with the previous conductor hypothesis, indicating the explicit role of cob(II)alamin in stabilizing the radical intermediate involved in the H-atom transfer.
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