PMID- 29308889 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180320 LR - 20190205 IS - 1520-510X (Electronic) IS - 0020-1669 (Print) IS - 0020-1669 (Linking) VI - 57 IP - 3 DP - 2018 Feb 5 TI - A Water Dimer Shift Activates a Proton Pumping Pathway in the P(R) --> F Transition of ba(3) Cytochrome c Oxidase. PG - 1048-1059 LID - 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02461 [doi] AB - Broken-symmetry density functional calculations have been performed on the [Fe(a3)(4+),Cu(B)(2+)] state of the dinuclear center (DNC) for the P(R) --> F part of the catalytic cycle of ba(3) cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) from Thermus thermophilus (Tt), using the OLYP-D3-BJ functional. The calculations show that the movement of the H(2)O molecules in the DNC affects the pK(a) values of the residue side chains of Tyr237 and His376(+), which are crucial for proton transfer/pumping in ba(3) CcO from Tt. The calculated lowest energy structure of the DNC in the [Fe(a3)(4+),Cu(B)(2+)] state (state F) is of the form Fe(a3)(4+) horizontal lineO(2-)...Cu(B)(2+), in which the H(2)O ligand that resulted from protonation of the OH(-) ligand in the P(R) state is dissociated from the Cu(B)(2+) site. The calculated Fe(a3)(4+) horizontal lineO(2-) distance in F (1.68 A) is 0.03 A longer than that in P(R) (1.65 A), which can explain the different Fe(a3)(4+) horizontal lineO(2-) stretching modes in P (804 cm(-1)) and F (785 cm(-1)) identified by resonance Raman experiments. In this F state, the Cu(B)(2+)...O(2-) (ferryl-oxygen) distance is only around 2.4 A. Hence, the subsequent O(H) state [Fe(a3)(3+)-OH(-)-Cu(B)(2+)] with a mu-hydroxo bridge can be easily formed, as shown by our calculations. FAU - Han Du, Wen-Ge AU - Han Du WG AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5876-1943 AD - Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute , 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, United States. FAU - Gotz, Andreas W AU - Gotz AW AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8048-6906 AD - San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive MC0505, La Jolla, California 92093, United States. FAU - Noodleman, Louis AU - Noodleman L AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8176-4448 AD - Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute , 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, United States. LA - eng GR - R01 GM100934/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180108 PL - United States TA - Inorg Chem JT - Inorganic chemistry JID - 0366543 RN - 0 (Organometallic Compounds) RN - 0 (Proton Pumps) RN - 059QF0KO0R (Water) RN - EC 1.9.3.1 (Electron Transport Complex IV) SB - IM MH - Biocatalysis MH - Dimerization MH - Electron Transport Complex IV/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Models, Molecular MH - Molecular Conformation MH - Organometallic Compounds/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Proton Pumps/*metabolism MH - Thermus thermophilus/enzymology MH - Water/chemistry/*metabolism PMC - PMC5825212 MID - NIHMS942401 EDAT- 2018/01/09 06:00 MHDA- 2018/03/21 06:00 PMCR- 2019/02/05 CRDT- 2018/01/09 06:00 PHST- 2018/01/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/03/21 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/01/09 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/02/05 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02461 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Inorg Chem. 2018 Feb 5;57(3):1048-1059. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02461. Epub 2018 Jan 8.