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press and smooth with a heated iron; "press your shirts"; "she stood there ironing" (同)iron_out, press
a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood (同)Fe, atomic number 26
implement used to brand live stock (同)branding iron
home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth (同)smoothing iron
a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head
garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed; "there was a basketful of ironing to do"
the work of using heat to smooth washed clothes in order to remove any wrinkles
a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel (同)Mo, atomic number 42
a substance (as a coenzyme) that must join with another to produce a given result
(of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron

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〈U〉『鉄』 / 〈U〉鉄のように堅い(強い,冷たい)こと / 〈C〉鉄製の器具 / 〈C〉[電気]『アイロン』 / 〈C〉アイアン(球を打つ部分が金属のゴルフクラブ) / 〈C〉《複数形で》手かせ,足かせ / 《名詞の前にのみ用いて》『鉄の』,鉄製の / 鉄のように堅い(強い,冷たい) / …‘に'アイロンをかける / 〈人が〉アイロンをかける
アイロンかけ / アイロンかけをした(をする)衣類
モリブデン(金属元素;化学記号は『Mo』)

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Structure of the FeMo cofactor showing the sites of binding to nitrogenase (the amino acids cys and his).

FeMoco is the primary cofactor of nitrogenase. Nitrogenase is the enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of atmospheric N₂ into ammonia (NH₃), through the process known as nitrogen fixation. Containing iron and molybdenum, the cofactor is called FeMoco. Its stoichiometry is Fe₇MoS₉C.

Structure

The FeMo cofactor is a cluster with composition Fe₇MoS₉C. This large cluster can be viewed as two subunits composed of one Fe₄S₃ cluster and one MoFe₃S₃ cluster. The two clusters are linked by three sulfide ligands. The unique Fe is anchored to the protein by a cysteine. It is also bound to three sulfides, resulting in tetrahedral molecular geometry. The additional six Fe centers in the cluster are each bonded to three sulfides. These six internal Fe centers define a trigonal prismatic arrangement around a central carbide center. The molybdenum is attached to three sulfides and is anchored to the protein by the imidazole group of a histidine residue. Also bound to Mo is a bidentate homocitrate cofactor, leading to octahedral geometry.^[1] Crystallographic analysis of the MoFe protein initially proposed the geometry of FeMoco, which was confirmed by extended X-ray absorption fine-structure (EXAFS) studies.^[2]^[3] Distances for Fe-S, Fe-Fe and Fe-Mo distances were determined to be 2.32, 2.64, and 2.73 Å respectively³.

Electronic properties of FeMoco

According to the analysis by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, the resting state of the FeMo cofactor has a spin state of S=3/2. Upon one-electron reduction, the cofactor becomes EPR silent. Understanding the process in which an electron is transferred in the protein adduct shows a more precise kinetic model of the FeMo cofactor.^[4] The formal oxidation state is Mo^IV-2Fe^II-5Fe^III-C⁴⁻-H⁺, including the cysteine proton.^[5]

Biosynthesis

Biosynthesis of FeMoco is a complicated process that requires nifS, nifQ, nifB, nifE, nifN, nifV, nifH, nifD, and nifK gene products (expressed as the proteins NifS, NifU, etc.). FeMoco assembly is proposed to be initiated by NifS and NifU which mobilize Fe and sulfide into small Fe-S fragments. These fragments are transferred to the NifB scaffold and arranged into a Fe₇MoS₉C cluster before transfer to the NifEN protein (encoded by nifE and nifN) and rearranged before delivery to the MoFe protein.^[6] Several other factors participate in the biosynthesis. For example, NifV is the homocitrate synthase that supplies homocitrate to FeMoco. NifV, a protein factor, is proposed to be involved in the storage and/or mobilization of Mo. Fe protein is the electron donor for MoFe protein⁶. These biosynthetic factors have been elucidated and characterized with the exact functions and sequence confirmed by biochemical, spectroscopic, and structural analyses.

Isolation

Isolation of the FeMo cofactor from nitrogenase is done through centrifugal sedimentation of nitrogenase into the MoFe protein and the Fe protein. The FeMo cofactor is extracted by treating the MoFe protein with acids⁵. The first extraction is done with N,N-dimethylformamide and the second by a mixture of N-methylformamide and Na₂HPO₄ before final sedimentation by centrifugation.^[7]

Identity of the core atom in the cofactor

The three proteins that play a direct role in the M-cluster synthesis are NifH, NifEN, and NifB. The NifB protein is responsible for the assembly of the Fe-S core of the cofactor; a process that involves stitching together two [4Fe-4S] clusters. NifB belongs to the SAM (S-adenosyl-L-methionine) enzyme superfamily. During the biosynthesis of the FeMo cofactor, NifB and its SAM cofactor are directly involved in the insertion of a carbon atom at the center of the Fe-S complex. An equivalent of SAM donates a methyl group, which becomes the interstitial carbide of the M-cluster. The methyl group of SAM is mobilized by radical removal of an H by a 5’-deoxyadenosine radical (5’-dA·). Presumably, a transient –CH2· radical is formed that is subsequently incorporated into the metal cluster forming a Fe₆-carbide species. The interstitial carbon remains associated with the FeMo cofactor after insertion into the nitrogenase,^[8] The central carbon atom has been confirmed by ¹³C labeling with detection by pulsed EPR spectroscopy.^[9] In addition to EPR spectroscopy, X-ray diffractometry was used to verify that there was a central atom in the middle of the FeMo cofactor and x-ray emission spectroscopic studies showed that central atom was carbon due to the 2p→1s carbon-iron transition.^[10] The use of X-ray crystallography showed that while the FeMo cofactor is not in its catalytic form, the carbon keeps the structure rigid which helps describe the reactivity of nitrogenase.

Binding of substrates

The location of substrate attachment to the complex has yet to be elucidated. It is believed that the Fe atoms closest to the interstitial carbon participate in substrate activation, but the terminal molybdenum is also a candidate for nitrogen fixation.^[11]

References

^ G.J. Leigh. Ch. 5 Structure and Spectroscopic Properties of Metallo-sulfur Clusters Nitrogen Fixation at the Millennium. Elsevier Science B. V., Amsterdam, 2002. 209-210. ISBN 9780444509659.
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