- Serrano, Pauline N;
- Wang, Hongxin;
- Crack, Jason C;
- Prior, Christopher;
- Hutchings, Matthew I;
- Thomson, Andrew J;
- Kamali, Saeed;
- Yoda, Yoshitaka;
- Zhao, Jiyong;
- Hu, Michael Y;
- E., Ercan;
- Oganesyan, Vasily S;
- Le Brun, Nick E;
- Cramer, Stephen P
The reaction of protein-bound iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters with nitric oxide (NO) plays key roles in NO-mediated toxicity and signaling. Elucidation of the mechanism of the reaction of NO with DNA regulatory proteins that contain Fe-S clusters has been hampered by a lack of information about the nature of the iron-nitrosyl products formed. Herein, we report nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy (NRVS) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations that identify NO reaction products in WhiD and NsrR, regulatory proteins that use a [4Fe-4S] cluster to sense NO. This work reveals that nitrosylation yields multiple products structurally related to Roussin's Red Ester (RRE, [Fe2 (NO)4 (Cys)2 ]) and Roussin's Black Salt (RBS, [Fe4 (NO)7 S3 ]. In the latter case, the absence of 32 S/34 S shifts in the Fe-S region of the NRVS spectra suggest that a new species, Roussin's Black Ester (RBE), may be formed, in which one or more of the sulfide ligands is replaced by Cys thiolates.