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Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volume 67, 1998

RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES

Abstract

Ribonucleotide reductases provide the building blocks for DNA replication in all living cells. Three different classes of enzymes use protein free radicals to activate the substrate. Aerobic class I enzymes generate a tyrosyl radical with an iron-oxygen center and dioxygen, class II enzymes employ adenosylcobalamin, and the anaerobic class III enzymes generate a glycyl radical from -adenosylmethionine and an iron-sulfur cluster. The X-ray structure of the class I enzyme, including forms that bind substrate and allosteric effectors, confirms previous models of catalytic and allosteric mechanisms. This structure suggests considerable mobility of the protein during catalysis and, together with experiments involving site-directed mutants, suggests a mechanism for radical transfer from one subunit to the other. Despite large differences between the classes, common catalytic and allosteric mechanisms, as well as retention of critical residues in the protein sequence, suggest a similar tertiary structure and a common origin during evolution. One puzzling aspect is that some organisms contain the genes for several different reductases.

Keyword(s): adenosylcobalamin, allosteric regulation, deoxyribonucleotide synthesis, evolution, iron-sulfur cluster, protein free radicals
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