The biologically relevant coordination chemistry of iron and nitric oxide: electronic structure and reactivity

N Lehnert, E Kim, HT Dong, JB Harland… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is involved in a wide range of
physiological and pathological events in biology. Metal coordination chemistry, especially …

Tuning metal–metal interactions for cooperative small molecule activation

Q Wang, SH Brooks, T Liu, NC Tomson - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Cluster complexes have attracted interest for decades due to their promise of drawing
analogies to metallic surfaces and metalloenzyme active sites, but only recently have …

Mono-and dinuclear non-heme iron–nitrosyl complexes: Models for key intermediates in bacterial nitric oxide reductases

TC Berto, AL Speelman, S Zheng, N Lehnert - Coordination Chemistry …, 2013 - Elsevier
High-spin non-heme iron–nitrosyls are of direct interest to both the chemical and biological
communities as these species exhibit interesting chemical properties and act as direct …

Computational Exploration of Enzyme Promiscuity: Mechanisms of O2 and NO Reduction Activities of the Desulfovibrio gigas Flavodiiron Protein

WH Deng, TP Zhou, RZ Liao - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Flavodiiron proteins possess reductive scavenging properties toward dioxygen and/or nitric
oxide in various microorganisms. Among them, the Desulfovibrio gigas flavodiiron protein …

Biological and bioinspired inorganic N–N bond-forming reactions

C Ferousi, SH Majer, IM DiMucci… - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The metallobiochemistry underlying the formation of the inorganic N–N-bond-containing
molecules nitrous oxide (N2O), dinitrogen (N2), and hydrazine (N2H4) is essential to the …

Distortion of the [FeNO]2 Core in Flavodiiron Nitric Oxide Reductase Models Inhibits N–N Bond Formation and Promotes Formation of Unusual Dinitrosyl Iron …

CJ White, MO Lengel, AJ Bracken… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Flavodiiron nitric oxide reductases (FNORs) carry out the reduction of nitric oxide (NO) to
nitrous oxide (N2O), allowing infectious pathogens to mitigate toxic levels of NO generated …

What Is the Right Level of Activation of a High-Spin {FeNO}7 Complex to Enable Direct N–N Coupling? Mechanistic Insight into Flavodiiron NO Reductases

HT Dong, S Camarena, D Sil, MO Lengel… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Flavodiiron nitric oxide reductases (FNORs), found in pathogenic bacteria, are capable of
reducing nitric oxide (NO) to nitrous oxide (N2O) to detoxify NO released by the human …

The semireduced mechanism for nitric oxide reduction by non-heme diiron complexes: modeling flavodiiron nitric oxide reductases

CJ White, AL Speelman, C Kupper… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Flavodiiron nitric oxide reductases (FNORs) are a subclass of flavodiiron proteins (FDPs)
capable of preferential binding and subsequent reduction of NO to N2O. FNORs are found in …

Mechanism of N–N Bond Formation by Transition Metal–Nitrosyl Complexes: Modeling Flavodiiron Nitric Oxide Reductases

C Van Stappen, N Lehnert - Inorganic Chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nitric oxide (NO) has a number of important biological functions, including nerve signaling
transduction, blood pressure control, and, at higher concentrations, immune defense. A …

The nitric oxide reductase mechanism of a flavo-diiron protein: identification of active-site intermediates and products

JD Caranto, A Weitz, MP Hendrich… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The unique active site of flavo-diiron proteins (FDPs) consists of a nonheme diiron-
carboxylate site proximal to a flavin mononucleotide (FMN) cofactor. FDPs serve as the …