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The 1:1:1 complex of Mn2+, ATP, and 2,2'-dipyridylamine (DPA) crystallizes as Mn-(HATP)2.Mn(H2O)6.(HDPA)2.12H2O in the orthorhombic space group C222(1) with unit cell dimensions a = 10.234 (3) A, b = 22.699 (3) A, and c = 31.351 (4) A. The structure was solved by the multisolution technique and refined by the least-squares method to a final R index of 0.072 using 3516 intensities. The structure is composed of two ATP molecules sharing a common manganese atom. The metal exhibits alpha, beta, gamma coordination to the triphosphate chains of two dyad-related ATP molecules, resulting in a hexacoordinated Mn2+ ion surrounded by six phosphate groups. The metal to oxygen distances are 2.205 (6), 2.156 (4), and 2.144 (5) A for the alpha-, beta-, and gamma-phosphate groups, respectively. No metal-base interactions are observed. There is a second hexaaqua-coordinated Mn2+ ion that is also located on a dyad axis. The hydrated manganese ions sandwich the phosphate-coordinated manganese ions in the crystal with a metal-metal distance of 5.322 A. The ATP molecule is protonated on the N(1) site of the adenine base and exhibits the anti conformation (chi = 66.0 degrees). The ribofuranose ring is in the 2/3 T conformation with pseudorotation parameters P = 179 (1) degrees and tau m = 34.1 (6) degrees. The adenine bases form hydrogen-bonded self-pairs across a crystallographic dyad axis and stack with both DPA molecules to form a column along the dyad. The structure of the metal-ATP complex provides information about the possible metal coordination, conformation, and environment of the nucleoside triphosphate substrate in the enzyme.

Yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase catalyzes the hydrolysis of P1,P2-bidentate Co(NH3)4 pyrophosphate [Co(NH3)4PP] to the cis, bis(phosphate) complex Co(NH3)4(Pi)2, which is not stable at neutral pH and over a period of 24 h converts to HPO4(2-) and a mixture of bidentate Co(NH3)4(PO4) and monodentate Co(NH3)4(H2O)(HPO4). Concurrent with this process is the reduction and subsequent release of Co(H2O)6(2+) from the cobalt tetraammine bis(phosphate) complex and/or the cobalt tetraammine monophosphate complex. Bidentate tetraammine phosphatocobalt (III), hexaaquocobalt(II), orthophosphate, and two free water molecules cocrystallize [Co(NH3)4PO4 . Co(H2O)6(2+) . HPO4(2-) . 2H2O] from the reaction mixture in the triclinic space group Pi (Z = 2) with cell dimensions a = 6.849 (1) A, b = 11.693 (2) A, c = 12.630 (2) A, alpha = 65.60 (1) degree, beta = 88.98 (1) degree, and gamma = 73.04 (1) degree. The structure was solved by the heavy atom technique and refined to an R index of 0.040 by using 3077 intensities measured up to a 2 theta limit of 155 degrees. 31P NMR studies of the equilibrium mixture reveal that the equilibrium constant is a sensitive function of solution pH and temperature. Unlike the Co(NH3)4PP complex, there is evidence indicating that the Mg(H2O)4PP complex is degraded to monodentate Mg(H2-O)5PO4 in the enzyme active site.

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