A Unified Electrocatalytic Description of the Action of Inhibitors of Nickel Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase

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Abstract

Several small molecules and ions, notably carbon monoxide, cyanide, cyanate, and hydrogen sulfide, are potent inhibitors of Ni-containing carbon monoxide dehydrogenases (Ni-CODH) that catalyze very rapid, efficient redox interconversions of CO(2) and CO. Protein film electrochemistry, which probes the dependence of steady-state catalytic rate over a wide potential range, reveals how these inhibitors target particular oxidation levels of Ni-CODH relating to intermediates (C(ox), C(red1), and C(red2)) that have been established for the active site. The following properties are thus established: (1) CO suppresses CO(2) reduction (CO is a product inhibitor), but its binding affinity decreases as the potential becomes more negative. (2) Cyanide totally inhibits CO oxidation, but its effect on CO(2) reduction is limited to a narrow potential region (between -0.5 and -0.6 V), below which CO(2) reduction activity is restored. (3) Cyanate is a strong inhibitor of CO(2) reduction but inhibits CO oxidation only within a narrow potential range just above the CO(2)/CO thermodynamic potential--EPR spectra confirm that cyanate binds selectively to C(red2). (4) Hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S/HS(-)) inhibits CO oxidation but not CO(2) reduction--the complex on/off characteristics are consistent with it binding at the same oxidation level as C(ox) and forming a modified version of this inactive state rather than reacting directly with C(red1). The results provide a new perspective on the properties of different catalytic intermediates of Ni-CODH--uniting and clarifying many previous investigations.

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