Issue 39, 2017

Exchangeable proton ENDOR as a probe of the redox-active iron center in activated bleomycin and ferric bleomycin

Abstract

Activated bleomycin (ABLM) is a drug-Fe(III)-hydroperoxide complex kinetically competent in DNA attack (via H4′ abstraction). This intermediate is relatively stable, but its spontaneous conversion to ferric bleomycin (Fe(III)·BLM) is poorly characterized because no observable intermediate product accumulates. The Fe(III)·BLM formed cryophotolytically from ABLM and kept at 77 K was remarkably similar by EPR and ENDOR criteria to Fe(III)·BLM formed from Fe(III) + BLM solution. The notable ENDOR criteria were the ENDOR frequencies and features of orientation-selected, strongly hyperfine-coupled, exchangeable protons associated with the environs of the iron within <3.5 Å of paramagnetic Fe(III) in Fe(III)·BLM and ABLM. Cryophotolytic conversion of activated bleomycin to its ferric bleomycin product in the frozen solid is a sign that the reaction requires only constrained local proton rearrangements. We have characterized the metal–proton distances and orientations of the protons in that rearrangement, especially noting that these protons are of mechanistic importance in the ambient temperature conversion of ABLM to Fe(III)·BLM in concert with a directed radical-forming attack on DNA.

Graphical abstract: Exchangeable proton ENDOR as a probe of the redox-active iron center in activated bleomycin and ferric bleomycin

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 apr 2017
Accepted
04 jul 2017
First published
04 jul 2017

Dalton Trans., 2017,46, 13263-13272

Exchangeable proton ENDOR as a probe of the redox-active iron center in activated bleomycin and ferric bleomycin

R. M. Burger, V. M. Grigoryants and C. P. Scholes, Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 13263 DOI: 10.1039/C7DT01354J

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