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Zhong F, Alden SL, Hughes RP, Pletneva EV. Comparing Properties of Common Bioinorganic Ligands with Switchable Variants of Cytochrome c. Inorg Chem 2021; 61:1207-1227. [PMID: 34699724 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Ligand substitution at the metal center is common in catalysis and signal transduction of metalloproteins. Understanding the effects of particular ligands, as well as the polypeptide surrounding, is critical for uncovering mechanisms of these biological processes and exploiting them in the design of bioinspired catalysts and molecular devices. A series of switchable K79G/M80X/F82C (X = Met, His, or Lys) variants of cytochrome (cyt) c was employed to directly compare the stability of differently ligated proteins and activation barriers for Met, His, and Lys replacement at the ferric heme iron. Studies of these variants and their nonswitchable counterparts K79G/M80X have revealed stability trends Met < Lys < His and Lys < His < Met for the protein FeIII-X and FeII-X species, respectively. The differences in the hydrogen-bonding interactions in folded proteins and in solvation of unbound X in the unfolded proteins explain these trends. Calculations of free energy of ligand dissociation in small heme model complexes reveal that the ease of the FeIII-X bond breaking increases in the series amine < imidazole < thioether, mirroring trends in hardness of these ligands. Experimental rate constants for X dissociation in differently ligated cyt c variants are consistent with this sequence, but the differences between Met and His dissociation rates are attenuated because the former process is limited by the heme crevice opening. Analyses of activation parameters and comparisons to those for the Lys-to-Met ligand switch in the alkaline transition suggest that ligand dissociation is entropically driven in all the variants and accompanied by Lys protonation at neutral pH. The described thiolate redox-linked switches have offered a wealth of new information about interactions of different protein-derived ligands with the heme iron in cyt c model proteins, and we anticipate that the strategy of employing these switches could benefit studies of other redox metalloproteins and model complexes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Fangfang Zhong
- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
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Tebo AG, Pinter TBJ, García-Serres R, Speelman AL, Tard C, Sénéque O, Blondin G, Latour JM, Penner-Hahn J, Lehnert N, Pecoraro VL. Development of a Rubredoxin-Type Center Embedded in a de Dovo-Designed Three-Helix Bundle. Biochemistry 2018; 57:2308-2316. [PMID: 29561598 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Protein design is a powerful tool for interrogating the basic requirements for the function of a metal site in a way that allows for the selective incorporation of elements that are important for function. Rubredoxins are small electron transfer proteins with a reduction potential centered near 0 mV (vs normal hydrogen electrode). All previous attempts to design a rubredoxin site have focused on incorporating the canonical CXXC motifs in addition to reproducing the peptide fold or using flexible loop regions to define the morphology of the site. We have produced a rubredoxin site in an utterly different fold, a three-helix bundle. The spectra of this construct mimic the ultraviolet-visible, Mössbauer, electron paramagnetic resonance, and magnetic circular dichroism spectra of native rubredoxin. Furthermore, the measured reduction potential suggests that this rubredoxin analogue could function similarly. Thus, we have shown that an α-helical scaffold sustains a rubredoxin site that can cycle with the desired potential between the Fe(II) and Fe(III) states and reproduces the spectroscopic characteristics of this electron transport protein without requiring the classic rubredoxin protein fold.
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- Alison G Tebo
- Program in Chemical Biology , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biophysics , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, BIG, LCBM (UMR 5249), F-38054 Grenoble , France
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- Department of Chemistry and Biophysics , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- LCM, CNRS, École Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, BIG, LCBM (UMR 5249), F-38054 Grenoble , France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, BIG, LCBM (UMR 5249), F-38054 Grenoble , France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, BIG, LCBM (UMR 5249), F-38054 Grenoble , France
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- Department of Chemistry and Biophysics , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biophysics , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Program in Chemical Biology , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States.,Department of Chemistry and Biophysics , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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Nye DB, Preimesberger MR, Majumdar A, Lecomte JTJ. Histidine-Lysine Axial Ligand Switching in a Hemoglobin: A Role for Heme Propionates. Biochemistry 2018; 57:631-644. [PMID: 29271191 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b01155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The hemoglobin of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002, GlbN, is a monomeric group I truncated protein (TrHb1) that coordinates the heme iron with two histidine ligands at neutral pH. One of these is the distal histidine (His46), a residue that can be displaced by dioxygen and other small molecules. Here, we show with mutagenesis, electronic absorption spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy that at high pH and exclusively in the ferrous state, Lys42 competes with His46 for the iron coordination site. When b heme is originally present, the population of the lysine-bound species remains too small for detailed characterization; however, the population can be increased significantly by using dimethyl-esterified heme. Electronic absorption and NMR spectroscopies showed that the reversible ligand switching process occurs with an apparent pKa of 9.3 and a Lys-ligated population of ∼60% at the basic pH limit in the modified holoprotein. The switching rate, which is slow on the chemical shift time scale, was estimated to be 20-30 s-1 by NMR exchange spectroscopy. Lys42-His46 competition and attendant conformational rearrangement appeared to be related to weakened bis-histidine ligation and enhanced backbone dynamics in the ferrous protein. The pH- and redox-dependent ligand exchange process observed in GlbN illustrates the structural plasticity allowed by the TrHb1 fold and demonstrates the importance of electrostatic interactions at the heme periphery for achieving axial ligand selection. An analogy is drawn to the alkaline transition of cytochrome c, in which Lys-Met competition is detected at alkaline pH, but, in contrast to GlbN, in the ferric state only.
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- Dillon B Nye
- T. C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- T. C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Biomolecular NMR Center, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- T. C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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