How heme metabolism occurs in heme oxygenase: computational study of oxygen-donation ability of the oxo and hydroperoxo species |
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Authors: | Kamachi Takashi Shestakov Alexander F Yoshizawa Kazunari |
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Institution: | Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan. |
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Abstract: | We report a density functional theory study on the heme metabolism in heme oxygenase using iron-hydroperoxo and -oxo models. The activation energies for heme oxidation at the alpha-carbon by the iron-hydroperoxo and -oxo species are calculated to be 42.9 and 39.9 kcal/mol, respectively. These high activation barriers lead us to reconsider the catalytic mechanism of heme oxygenase |
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