The Azotobacter vinelandii nifW gene, under control of the nifH promoter, was subcloned into the broad host range multicopy plasmid pKT230 for overexpression in both wild-type and delta nifW strains of A. vinelandii. Unlike the parent delta nifW strain, which grows slowly relative to wild-type under N2-fixing conditions, both overproduction strains grow at the same rate, showing that the overexpressed nifW product is functional in vivo. The approximately 40-fold overexpressed protein was purified, and sequence analysis confirmed its identity. During purification it was observed that NifW in crude extracts ran above the predicted molecular weight on denaturing gels and that as the purification proceeded lower molecular weight forms appeared. Mass spectrometry and studies with protease inhibitors revealed that this abnormal behavior was due to proteolysis. Native molecular weight determinations demonstrate that NifW is a homomultimer, most likely a trimer. Native gel electrophoresis analysis shows that the behavior of wild-type and overexpressed NifW are identical and that when extracts are prepared anaerobically only the homomultimeric forms of NifW are observed. When extracts are exposed to oxygen, however, NifW becomes part of a very high molecular weight complex. Immunoprecipitation with NifW antibodies demonstrate that under those conditions NifW specifically associates with the MoFe protein. These data are consistent with a model whereby NifW is not involved in the initial assembly of an active MoFe protein but rather is part of a system design to protect the MoFe protein from O2 damage.

Site-directed mutagenesis and gene-replacement procedures were used to isolate mutant strains of Azotobacter vinelandii that produce altered MoFe proteins in which the alpha-subunit residue-195 position, normally occupied by a histidine residue, was individually substituted by a variety of other amino acids. Structural studies have revealed that this histidine residue is associated with the FeMo-cofactor binding domain and probably provides an NH-->S hydrogen bond to a central bridging sulfide located within FeMo-cofactor. Substitution by a glutamine residue results in an altered MoFe protein that binds but does not reduce N2, the physiological substrate. Although N2 is not a substrate for the altered MoFe protein, it is a potent inhibitor of both acetylene and proton reduction, both of which are otherwise effectively reduced by the altered MoFe protein. This result provides evidence that N2 inhibits proton and acetylene reduction by simple occupancy of a common active site. N2 also uncouples MgATP from proton reduction catalyzed by the altered MoFe protein but does so without lowering the overall rate of MgATP hydrolysis. Thus, the quasi-unidirectional flow of electrons from the Fe protein to the MoFe protein that occurs during nitrogenase turnover is controlled, in part, by the substrate serving as an effective electron sink. Substitution of the alpha-histidine-195 residue by glutamine also imparts to the altered MoFe protein hypersensitivity of both its acetylene reduction and N2 binding to inhibition by CO, indicating that the imidazole group of the alpha-histidine-195 residue might protect an Fe contained within the FeMo-cofactor from attack by CO. Finally, comparisons of the catalytic and spectroscopic properties of altered MoFe proteins produced by various mutant strains suggest that the alpha-histidine-195 residue has a structural role, which serves to keep FeMo-cofactor attached to the MoFe protein and to correctly position FeMo-cofactor within the polypeptide matrix, such that N2 binding is accommodated.


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One of the most important functions of metal cofactors in biological systems is electron transfer. This is a function that metal complexes also exert in homogeneous catalysis. The relationship between the electronic structure of metal centers and their electron-transfer properties is relevant for the specificity of redox partners and the reaction pathways in multi-center enzymes. Figure 1 represents an example of the most elaborate biological catalysts, the MoFe nitrogenase. This enzyme is part of a complex machinery which ensures the electron transfer required for nitrogen conversion to ammonia. The dimer of MoFe nitrogenase contains two [8Fe-8S] clusters (P clusters), which exert an electron transfer function, and two [1Mo7Fe-8S] clusters, which are the site of N2 to NH3 conversion. As illustrated in Figure 2, in a mechanism involving the Fe protein, an dimer containing a [4Fe4S] cluster, the MoFe protein converts nitrogen to ammonia by an overall reaction which requires eight electrons. Understanding the elaborate and highly sophisticated mechanism by which the nitrogenase complex of enzymes exerts its function is a long-standing scientific goal to which research efforts have been and continue to be dedicated.

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Eyimofe (This is My Desire), a feature film co-directed and co-written by alumnus Arie Esiri '19 and edited by alumnus Andrew Stephen Lee '18, will screen virtually from May 7 to 12, 2021 as part of the Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films series. The film, which Esiri co-directed with his brother Chuko, previously premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2020.

The defender was a part of the Palace Under-15s side which finished runners up in the U15 Floodlit Cup National final in 2021/22. He has also represented England Under-17s at the UEFA European U17 Championship.

Eyimofe tells the stories of Mofe (Jude Akwudike) and Rosa (newcomer Temi Ami-Williams), two struggling Nigerians living in a busy, lower-class neighbourhood in Lagos and wanting nothing more than to emigrate to Europe, the former to Spain and the latter to Italy. We never see either of these countries, though, with the film wholly set in Nigeria and majorly in Lagos. Perhaps for a closer view and tighter narrative, the Esiri brothers divide the feature into three parts. The first part is dedicated to Mofe and titled Spain; the second follows Rosa and is titled Italy; the last is a short epilogue that restricts itself to Mofe. The only relationship between the two leads is that they live in the same neighbourhood, have the same landlord (played by Toyin Oshinaike) and sometimes happen to be in the same place at the same time. But their story is the same, even with the stark differences.

Eyimofe is a character-based film and while it might sound as if it is all doom and gloom, there are moments of light and at least one of the characters will find some measure of peace in this city where brutal poverty adjoins upscale modernization but the brightest of colors clothe everyone.

To understand how Fe protein binding alters the environment around FeMo-co, we examined the exchange rate of MoFe protein peptides containing residues in the first coordination sphere of FeMo-co (Fig. 3a, b). HDX shows that MgATP-Fe protein binding causes site-specific, time-dependent changes in protein dynamics in the first coordination sphere of the FeMo-co. For example, in the first 10 msec after Fe protein binding, there was a 20-fold decrease in the exchange rate near Arg359, while other regions experienced insignificant changes (Fig. 3c). At 80 msec (consistent with the end of pre-steady-state) after Fe protein addition, HDX near Arg359 increased by 45-fold, while it decreased by 20-fold near Val70. On the minutes time scale, we also observed Fe protein-dependent changes in the dynamics of the residues surrounding FeMo-co. Changes on this time scale cannot directly be associated with catalysis. Instead, they report on changes in stability and dynamics related to equilibrium motions. The most sensitive to the presence of Fe protein on this time scale were Arg96 and His195. As a pair, they highlight changes imparted by Fe protein binding and show the specific nature of changes with the peptide containing Arg96, increasing the rate of exchange 15-fold. In contrast, the peptide containing His195 decreases its exchange rate by over 200-fold. These data are consistent with Fe protein binding triggering signal transduction that changes the protein environment surrounding the FeMo-cofactor. In some cases, dynamics increased, and in others, it decreased. Importantly, we observed a distinct time-dependence of the changes in the FeMo-co environment from as early as 10 msec (pre-steady-state) to minutes (equilibrium motions) upon Fe protein docking.

Coarse-grained modeling of large-amplitude motion can be used to track protein dynamics and to follow the correlation of amino acid displacements12,23,32,33. Our interest in clarifying communication pathways between the two halves of the nitrogenase complex and changes in protein dynamics revealed by our HDX analysis inspired us to investigate if Fe protein controls the amplitude of motion across the MoFe protein and how the nucleotide state of Fe protein influences that motion in two distinct conformations. Therefore, we completed normal mode analysis (NMA) based on two MoFe protein-Fe protein structural models with different nucleotides bound (4WZB having ,-methylene MgATP and 2AFl bound by MgADP tetrafluoroaluminate). Motions within the MoFe protein tetramer and motion within and between Fe protein dimers are predominantly correlated (see Supplementary Fig. 1). However, the movement between MoFe protein and Fe protein dimers is almost exclusively anti-correlated. Nucleotide binding has a clear impact on protein motion. For example, the ,-methylene MgATP-bound form has greater anti-correlation within MoFe protein (darker shade of blue in specific regions of 2 subunits, dark red box) and more significant correlation between MoFe protein and Fe protein (darker shade of red in the regions of Fe protein, purple boxes). Additionally, the amino acid displacement is not identical when the two halves of the complex are compared (11-A1B1 vs. 22-A2B2). This is most obvious between the corresponding regions of 1 (green box) and 2 subunits (dark red box), independently of Fe protein nucleotide status. Protein regions marked by the green/dark red boxes include the coordination sphere of the FeMo-co binding site, parts of the P-cluster environment, and the Fe protein binding interface. 17dc91bb1f

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