Estudos da reatividade de espécies oxidantes e a interação destas espécies com estruturas sensíveis a oxidação e antioxidantes em condições biológicassão de grande importância no entendimento dos processos redox em alimentos e no corpo humano. A mioglobina é a ferro heme proteína majoritária do músculo esquelético de mamíferos e a sua ativação por peróxido de hidrogênio dá origem às espécies reativas de ferro heme hipervalentes,perferrilmioglobina e ferrilmioglobina, que podem induzir a condição de estresse oxidativo. A reação das espécies de ferro heme hipervalentes com constituintes do meio biológico ou alimentos como proteínas ou membranas podem tanto afetar a qualidade de produtos cárneos quanto causar danos celulares no trato gastrointestinal durante sua digestão.Pequenas moléculas tais como o NO, H2S e CO são produzidas endogenamente em sistemas biológicos e, além de desempenharem importantes funções na manutenção dometabolismo celular,podem apresentar atividade antioxidante.A presente Tese procurou investigara cinética e o mecanismo para a redução das espécies perferrilmioglobina e ferrilmioglobina pelo monóxido de carbono, reação esta que apresentaconstante de velocidade de segunda ordem de k2 =(3,3 ± 0,6) 102 mol L-1, a 25 oC, para a redução da espécie perferrilmioglobina. Posteriormente,foi investigada a cinética e mecanismo de redução da ferrilmioglobinapelo H2S levando à formação da espécie sulfomioglobina-Fe(II). A constante de segunda ordem obtida para a reação entre a espécie protonada da ferrilmioglobina e o H2Sfoide k2 = (2,5 ± 0,1) 106 L mol-1 s-1, duas ordens de magnitude superior a constante de velocidade paraa reação entre a espécie ferrilmioglobina e o íonHS-, k2 = (1,0 ± 0,7)104L mol-1 s-1a 25 oC.Para a redução da espécie ferrilmioglobina pelo H2S/HS- e a formação da espécie sulfomioglobina-Fe(II) observa-se um efeito de compensação de temperatura (?H? = (2,1 ± 0,9) kJ mol-1) o que é um fator determinante na ocorrência do processo de greening em produtos cárneos condimentados durante estocagem a baixa temperatura. A formação da espécie sulfomioglobina foi também investigada na reação de redução da ferrilmioglobina pela L-cisteína. Para esta reação foi observada dependência do mecanismo da reação com o pH. A formação da espécie sulfomioglobina foi observada para a reação conduzia em meio ácido a neutro, enquanto que para a reação em condições alcalinas, observa-se a formação majoritária da espécie oximioglobina. Areação da cisteína com a espécie protonada da ferrilmioglobina apresentou constante de segunda ordem de k2 = (5,1 ± 0,4)L mol-1 s-1, e a reação entre a cisteína diânion e a ferrilmioglobina,em meio alcalino,apresentou constante de velocidade de segunda ordem com k2 =(0,12 ± 0,01) L mol-1s-1.A diferença de reatividade e no produto da reação é um indicativo da mudança de mecanismo de transferência de elétrons seguida de adição do radical HSo, em meio ácido, para um mecanismo sequencial detransferência de elétrons do dianion da cisteína para as espécies ferrilmioglina e metamioglobina levando a formação de oximioglobina em condições alcalinas. / Studies on the reactivity and interaction of oxidant species with oxidizable sensitive structures and antioxidants in biological settings are of great importance for understanding the redox process in food and in the human body. Myoglobin is the major heme-iron protein in the mammal skeletal muscle and its activation by hydrogen peroxide generate reactive hypervalent heme-iron species, perferrylmyoglobin and ferrylmyoglobin, which may induce oxidative stress conditions. The reaction of hypervalent heme-iron species with biological medium or food constituents like proteins or membranes may affect the quality of meat products or could lead to cellular damage in the gastrointestinal tract during digestion. Small molecules like NO, H2S, and CO are produced endogenously in biological systems and, despite playing relevant function in the maintenance of cell metabolism, may present antioxidant activity. The present Thesis aimed to investigate the kinetics and mechanism for the reduction of perferrylmyoglobin and ferrylmyoglobin species by carbon monoxide, reaction that shows a second-order reaction constant with k2 = (3.3 ± 0.6) 102L mol-1 s-1at 25 oC for the reduction of the perferrylmyoglobin species. Furthermore, the kinetics and mechanism for the reduction of the ferrylmyoglobin by H2S leading to the formation of the sulfmyoglobin-Fe(II) species has been investigated. The obtained second-order rate constant for the reaction between the protonated ferrylmyoglobin species and H2S was k2 = (2.5 ± 0.1) 106 L mol-1 s-1, two-orders of magnitude higher than the second-order rate constant for the reaction between the ferrylmyoglobin species and the HS- ion, k2 = (1.0 ± 0.7) 104L mol-1 s-1at 25 oC. For the ferrylmyoglobin species reduction by H2S/HS- and the formation of sulfmyoglobin-Fe(II) it is observed an temperature compensation effect (?H? = (2.1 ± 0.9) kJ mol-1) which is the determination factor for the occurrence of the greening process in condiment meat products during storage at low temperature. The formation of the sulfmyoglobin species has been further investigated during the reduction reaction of ferrylmyoglobin by L-cysteine. For this reaction it was observed a dependence of the reaction mechanism on the pH. The formation of sulfmyoglobin was observed for the reaction conducted in acidic and neutral medium, meanwhile for the reaction in alkaline conditions, it is mainly observed the formation of oxymyoglobin. The reaction between cysteine and the protonated ferrylmyoglobin species shown second-order rate constant with k2 = (5.1 ± 0.4) L mol-1 s-1, and the reaction between the cysteine dianion and ferrylmyoglobin, in alkaline medium, shows second order rate constant with k2 = (0.12 ± 0.01) L mol-1s-1.The difference in reactivity and in the reaction product is an indicative of change of the electron transfer-radical addition mechanism to a sequential electron transfer mechanism from the cysteine dianion to the ferrylmyoglobin and metmyoglobin species leading to the formation of oxymyoglobin under alkaline conditions.

The transfer of a hydrogen atom is a crucial step in a wide variety of chemical and biological processes and modus operandi of many metalloenzymes. While several factors that govern the reactivity and selectivity were already clarified in the past century, a growing body of experimental and theoretical studies also revealed numerous gaps in our unified understanding. As a consequence, the direct functionalization of non-activated C-H bonds by synthetic catalysts is still very limited. In the thesis, the hydrogen-atom-abstraction (HAA) reactions are broken down into the elementary proton- and electron-transfer steps and the reactivity/selectivity of oxidants is analyzed with respect to their physico-chemical properties, acidity constants and reduction potentials. First, a quantum chemical (QM)-based computational protocol for calculation of reduction potentials of iron complexes is introduced and validated over a large series of experimental data, including a set of challenging mononuclear FeIV O species that provide direct connection to biomimetic non-heme iron catalysis. Next, the methodology is extended to deal with reduction potentials of transition-metal complexes possessing higher total molecular charges, experimentally measured in polar solvents. In such cases, the accurate description of solvation...

博士(工学) / Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University

Oxygen and nitric oxide reductases are enzymes found in aerobic and anaerobic respiration, respectively. Both enzyme groups belong to the superfamily of Heme-Copper Oxidases, which is further divided into several subgroups: oxygen-reducing enzymes into A-, B- and C-type and nitric oxide reductases into qNORs and cNORs. Oxygen reducing enzymes use the energy released from oxygen reduction to take up electrons and protons from different sides of the membrane. Additionally, protons are pumped. These processes produce a membrane potential, which is used by the ATP-synthase to produce ATP, the universal energy currency of the cell. Nitric oxide reductases are not known to conserve the energy from nitric oxide reduction, although the reaction is highly exergonic. Here, the detailed mechanism of a B-type oxidase is studied with special interest in an element involved in proton pumping (proton loading site, PLS). The study supports the hypothesis that the PLS is protonated in one and deprotonated in the consecutive step of the oxidative catalytic cycle, and that a proton is pumped during the final oxidation phase. It further strengthens the previous suggestion that the PLS is a cluster instead of a single residue or heme propionate. Additionally, it is proposed that the residue Asp372, which is in vicinity of the heme a3 propionates previously suggested as PLS, is part of this cluster. In another study, we show that the Glu15II at the entry of the proton pathway in the B-type oxidase is the only crucial residue for proton uptake, while Tyr248 is or is close to the internal proton donor responsible for coupling proton pumping to oxygen reduction. The thesis also includes studies on the mechanism and electrogenicity of qNOR. We show that there is a difference in the proton-uptake reaction between qNOR and the non-electrogenic homolog cNOR, hinting at a different reaction mechanism. Further, studies on a qNOR from a different host showed that qNOR is indeed electrogenic. This surprising result opens up new discussions on the evolution of oxygen and nitric oxide reductases, and about how energy conservation can be achieved. / <p>At the time of the doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 4: Manuscript.</p>

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In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden unter Verwendung von Hydrotris(pyrazolyl)-boraten (Tp) als tripodale Zuschauerliganden Modellsysteme für unterschiedliche Nicht-Häm-Eisenenzyme entwickelt und untersucht. Dabei steht im ersten Schritt die Syntheseoptimierung und Implementierung der noch nicht für biomimetische Studien verwendeten TpMes und TpMes* Liganden im Vordergrund. Darauffolgend werden geeignete Metall-Chloro-Vorläuferkomplexe [TpMesMCl] synthetisiert. Das Koordinationsverhalten des TpMes*-Liganden gegenüber zweiwertigen Übergangsmetallionen wird systematisch untersucht und eine Reihe von heteroleptischen [TpMes*MCl] und homoleptischen [(TpMes*)2M] Komplexen synthetisiert und charakterisiert. Die Modellverbindungen [TpMesFeCysOEt] und [TpMesFeCysAm], welche Cysteinatethylester und Cysteaminat als Substratliganden tragen, dienen jeweils als strukturelles sowie funktionelles Modell für die Cystein- und die Cysteamindioxygenase. Die Mesitylreste des TpMes-Liganden bilden eine schützende, becherartige Struktur um das Eisenzentrum. Die Reaktionsprodukte können so unter anderem erstmalig kristallografisch charakterisiert werden. Zudem wird ein Intermediat in der Reaktion von [TpMes*FeCysAm] mit O2 beobachtet und eingehend untersucht. Die Eisen(II)komplexe [TpMesFeOBzR], die neben dem Tp-Liganden unterschiedlich substituierte Benzoate tragen, zeigen bemerkenswerte Ähnlichkeit zum Ruhezustand von Lipoxygenasen. Mit tert-Butylhydroperoxid (tBuOOH) können temperaturempfindliche Spezies beobachtet werden, die den mononuklearen [TpMesFe(OOtBu)(OBzR)] Alkylperoxiden zugeordnet werden. Im letzten Teil dieser Arbeit wird [TpMesFeACC] als Modell für die 1-Aminocyclopropansäureoxidase dargestellt. Es ist möglich, reaktive Spezies mit tBuOOH und meta-Chlorperbenzoesäure (mCPBA) zu beobachten. Zudem liefert die elektrochemische in-situ-Aktivierung von Sauerstoff in Folge Hinweise auf (Hydro-)-peroxidkomplexe bei der Reaktion von [TpMesFeACC] mit dem Superoxidradikalanion. / In the present work model systems for different non-heme iron enzymes are developed and investigated with the help of hydrotris(pyrazolyl) borates (Tp) as tripodal spectator ligands. The first part focusses on the optimization of the synthesis and implementation of the TpMes and TpMes* ligands for biomimetic studies. Following this, suitable precursor complexes [TpMesMCl] are prepared. The coordination behavior of the so far rarely used TpMes* ligand towards divalent transition metal ions is systematically investigated and several heteroleptic [TpMes*MCl] and homoleptic [(TpMes*)2M] complexes are synthesized and characterized. The model complexes [TpMesFeCysOEt] and [TpMesFeCysAm], which carry cysteinate ethylester and cysteaminate as substrate ligands, serve as structural and functional models for the cysteine and cysteamine dioxygenase, respectively. The mesityl residues of the TpMes ligand form a protective, cup-like structure around the iron center. The reaction products could be characterized crystallographically for the first time. An intermediate in the reaction of [TpMes*FeCysAm] with O2 is intensively studied. The iron(II) complexes [TpMesFeOBzR], which in addition to the Tp ligand carry substituted benzoates, show remarkable similarities to the resting state of lipoxygenases. With tert-butyl hydroperoxide (tBuOOH) temperature-sensitive species are observed, which are assigned to the mononuclear [TpMesFe(OOtBu)(OBzR)] alkylperoxides. In the last part of this work, [TpMesFeACC] is presented as a model for 1-aminocyclopropan-1-carboxylic acid oxidase. It is possible to observe reactive species with tBuOOH and meta-chloroperbenzoic acid (mCPBA). In addition, the electrochemical in-situ activation of oxygen provides evidence for (hydro-)peroxide complexes in the reaction of [TpMesFeACC] with the superoxide radical anion.