Lignin peroxidase shares several sctural features with the well-studied horseradish peroxidase and cytochrome c peroxidase but carries a higher redox potential. Here the heme domain of lignin peroxidase and the lignin peroxidase cyanide adduct was exmined by IH NMR spectroscopy, including nuclear Overhauser effect and two-dimensional measurements, and the mdga were compared with those for horseradish peroxidase and cytochrome c peroxidase. Strctural information was obtained on the orientation of the heme vinyl and propionate groups and the proximal and distal histidines. The shifts of the El proton of the proximal histidine were found to be empirically related to the Fe3+/Fe2' redox potentials.Lignin peroxidase (LiP), secreted by the lignin-degrading fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium (1, 2), catalyzes the one-electron oxidation of aromatic rings in lignin (3,4 (8,9), (iv) the ability to oxidize phenols and aromatic amines (10), and (v) substrate oxidation at the heme edge rather than at the iron center (11). Many of these characteristics are also shared by cytochrome c peroxidase (CcP; ref. 12). LiP compound I stores a much higher redox potential than HRP compound I, which allows it to oxidize aromatic substrates that are not substrates for HRP and CcP (13,14). In the only direct measurement ofthe redox potential of LiP, Millis et al. (15) proteins (20-23). The purpose of the present study, therefore, was to examine LiP by 1H NMR spectroscopy and to compare the findings with those described for HRP and CcP to relate structure with reactivity.
MATERIALS AND METHODSLignin Peroxidase. Phanerochaete chrysosporium Burds (ATCC 24725) was grown in a 100-liter fermentor, essentially as described by Bonnarme and Jeffries (24). Isoenzyme LiP 3 (= H1) was isolated from concentrated culture fluid (25).The cyanide adduct (LiP-CN-) was prepared by titrating with KCN in 10 mM sodium acetate (pH 5).'H NMR Spectroscopy. Spectra of LiP and LiP-CN-[-2 mM in 10 mM sodium acetate (pH 5)] were recorded with Bruker MSL 200 and AMX 600 spectrometers. T, experiments were performed at 200 MHz with the modified driven equilibrium Fourier transform pulse sequence (26). All other spectra at 200 MHz were taken by using a super WEFT (water-eliminated Fourier transform) pulse sequence (27) with a recycle delay of 85 and 220 ms for high-and low-spin species, respectively. The nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) difference spectra were collected as described (28).Two-dimensional NOE spectroscopy (NOESY) and twodimensional correlated spectroscopy (COSY) spectra were recorded at 600 MHz using presaturation to eliminate the intense water signal. Phase-sensitive NOESY spectra (29) were recorded at mixing times of 15, 50, and 100 ms, using the time proportional phase incrementation method (30). Magnitude COSY (31) experiments provide one of the best sequences for detecting scalar connectivities between paramagnetically shifted signals (32,54).
RESULTSNative Protein. Fig. 1, spectrum A,
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