Abstract
X-ray absorption spectroscopy has been used to probe the frozen solution structure of the metal site in Pyrococcus furiosus rubredoxin in the native, iron-containing protein and in zinc- and mercury-substituted proteins. For all samples studied, the spectra have been interpreted in terms of a single shell of coordinated sulfur, with approximately tetrahedral coordination. For the native protein we obtain Fe-S bond-lengths of 2.29 and 2.33 Å for oxidized and reduced proteins, respectively. These values are in excellent agreement with those previously obtained from X-ray crystallography. The metal-substituted rubredoxins possess metal-sulfur bond lengths of 2.34 and 2.54 Å for the zinc- and mercury-substituted proteins, respectively.
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Received: 1 September 1995 / Accepted: 29 January 1996
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George, G., Pickering, I., Prince, R. et al. X-ray absorption spectroscopy of Pyrococcus furiosus rubredoxin. JBIC 1, 226–230 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007750050047
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