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Reeder BJ, Svistunenko DA, Wilson MT. Hell's Gate Globin-I from Methylacidiphilum infernorum Displays a Unique Temperature-Independent pH Sensing Mechanism Utililized a Lipid-Induced Conformational Change. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:6794. [PMID: 38928500 PMCID: PMC11203436 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25126794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2024] [Revised: 06/05/2024] [Accepted: 06/14/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024] Open
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Hell's Gate globin-I (HGb-I) is a thermally stable globin from the aerobic methanotroph Methylacidiphilium infernorum. Here we report that HGb-I interacts with lipids stoichiometrically to induce structural changes in the heme pocket, changing the heme iron distal ligation coordination from hexacoordinate to pentacoordinate. Such changes in heme geometry have only been previously reported for cytochrome c and cytoglobin, linked to apoptosis regulation and enhanced lipid peroxidation activity, respectively. However, unlike cytoglobin and cytochrome c, the heme iron of HGb-I is altered by lipids in ferrous as well as ferric oxidation states. The apparent affinity for lipids in this thermally stable globin is highly pH-dependent but essentially temperature-independent within the range of 20-60 °C. We propose a mechanism to explain these observations, in which lipid binding and stability of the distal endogenous ligand are juxtaposed as a function of temperature. Additionally, we propose that these coupled equilibria may constitute a mechanism through which this acidophilic thermophile senses the pH of its environment.
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- Brandon J. Reeder
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK; (D.A.S.); (M.T.W.)
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Stuffle EC, Suzuki T, Orillard E, Watts KJ. The Aer2 chemoreceptor from Vibrio vulnificus is a tri-PAS-heme oxygen sensor. Mol Microbiol 2023; 119:59-73. [PMID: 36420630 PMCID: PMC10107281 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.15007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2022] [Revised: 11/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The marine pathogen Vibrio vulnificus senses and responds to environmental stimuli via two chemosensory systems and 42-53 chemoreceptors. Here, we present an analysis of the V. vulnificus Aer2 chemoreceptor, VvAer2, which is the first V. vulnificus chemoreceptor to be characterized. VvAer2 is related to the Aer2 receptors of other gammaproteobacteria, but uncharacteristically contains three PAS domains (PAS1-3), rather than one or two. Using an E. coli chemotaxis hijack assay, we determined that VvAer2, like other Aer2 receptors, senses and responds to O2 . All three VvAer2 PAS domains bound pentacoordinate b-type heme and exhibited similar O2 affinities. PAS2 and PAS3 both stabilized O2 via conserved Iβ-Trp residues, but PAS1, which was easily oxidized in vitro, was unaffected by Iβ-Trp replacement. Our results support a model in which PAS1 is largely dispensable for O2 -mediated signaling, whereas PAS2 modulates PAS3 signaling, and PAS3 signals to the downstream domains. Each PAS domain appeared to be positionally optimized, because PAS swapping caused altered signaling properties, and neither PAS1 nor PAS2 could replace PAS3. Our findings strengthen previous conclusions that Aer2 receptors are O2 sensors, but with distinct N-terminal domain arrangements that facilitate, modulate and tune responses based on environmental signals.
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- Erwin C Stuffle
- Division of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Loma Linda University, California, Loma Linda, USA
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- Division of Biochemistry, Loma Linda University, California, Loma Linda, USA
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- College of Health Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences, California, Pomona, USA
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- Division of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Loma Linda University, California, Loma Linda, USA
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Olson JS. Kinetic mechanisms for O 2 binding to myoglobins and hemoglobins. Mol Aspects Med 2021; 84:101024. [PMID: 34544605 DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2021.101024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2021] [Revised: 09/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Antonini and Brunori's 1971 book "Hemoglobin and Myoglobin in Their Reactions with Ligands" was a truly remarkable publication that summarized almost 100 years of research on O2 binding to these globins. Over the ensuing 50 years, ultra-fast laser photolysis techniques, high-resolution and time resolved X-ray crystallography, molecular dynamics simulations, and libraries of recombinant myoglobin (Mb) and hemoglobin (Hb) variants have provided structural interpretations of O2 binding to these proteins. The resultant mechanisms provide quantitative descriptions of the stereochemical factors that govern overall affinity, including proximal and distal steric restrictions that affect iron reactivity and favorable positive electrostatic interactions that preferentially stabilize bound O2. The pathway for O2 uptake and release by Mb and subunits of Hb has been mapped by screening libraries of site-directed mutants in laser photolysis experiments. O2 enters mammalian Mb and the α and β subunits of human HbA through a channel created by upward and outward rotation of the distal His at the E7 helical position, is non-covalently captured in the interior of the distal cavity, and then internally forms a bond with the heme Fe(II) atom. O2 dissociation is governed by disruption of hydrogen bonding interactions with His (E7), breakage of the Fe(II)-O2 bond, and then competition between rebinding and escape through the E7-gate. The structural features that govern the rates of both the individual steps and overall reactions have been determined and provide the framework for: (1) defining the physiological functions of specific globins and their evolution; (2) understanding the clinical features of hemoglobinopathies; and (3) designing safer and more efficient acellular hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) for transfusion therapy, organ preservation, and other commercially relevant O2 transport and storage processes.
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- John S Olson
- Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
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Greer-Phillips SE, Sukomon N, Chua TK, Johnson MS, Crane BR, Watts KJ. THE AER2 RECEPTOR FROM VIBRIO CHOLERAE IS A DUAL PAS-HEME OXYGEN SENSOR. Mol Microbiol 2018; 109:209-224. [PMID: 29719085 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2018] [Revised: 04/28/2018] [Accepted: 04/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The diarrheal pathogen Vibrio cholerae navigates complex environments using three chemosensory systems and 44-45 chemoreceptors. Chemosensory cluster II modulates chemotaxis, whereas clusters I and III have unknown functions. Ligands have been identified for only five V. cholerae chemoreceptors. Here we report that the cluster III receptor, VcAer2, binds and responds to O2 . VcAer2 is an ortholog of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Aer2 (PaAer2), but differs in that VcAer2 has two, rather than one, N-terminal PAS domain. We have determined that both PAS1 and PAS2 form homodimers and bind penta-coordinate b-type heme via an Eη-His residue. Heme binding to PAS1 required the entire PAS core, but receptor function also required the N-terminal cap. PAS2 functioned as an O2 -sensor [Kd(O2) , 19 μM], utilizing the same Iβ Trp (W276) as PaAer2 to stabilize O2 . The crystal structure of PAS2-W276L was similar to that of PaAer2-PAS, but resided in an active conformation mimicking the ligand-bound state, consistent with its signal-on phenotype. PAS1 also bound O2 [Kd(O2), 12 μM], although O2 binding was stabilized by either a Trp or Tyr residue. Moreover, PAS1 appeared to function as a signal modulator, regulating O2 -mediated signaling from PAS2, and resulting in activation of the cluster III chemosensory pathway. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Suzanne E Greer-Phillips
- Division of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, 92350, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
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- Division of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, 92350, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
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- Division of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, 92350, USA
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Gas Sensing and Signaling in the PAS-Heme Domain of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Aer2 Receptor. J Bacteriol 2017; 199:JB.00003-17. [PMID: 28167524 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00003-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The Aer2 chemoreceptor from Pseudomonas aeruginosa contains a PAS sensing domain that coordinates b-type heme and signals in response to the binding of O2, CO, or NO. PAS-heme structures suggest that Aer2 uniquely coordinates heme via a His residue on a 310 helix (H234 on Eη), stabilizes O2 binding via a Trp residue (W283), and signals via both W283 and an adjacent Leu residue (L264). Ligand binding may displace L264 and reorient W283 for hydrogen bonding to the ligand. Here, we clarified the mechanisms by which Aer2-PAS binds heme, regulates ligand binding, and initiates conformational signaling. H234 coordinated heme, but additional hydrophobic residues in the heme cleft were also critical for stable heme binding. O2 appeared to be the native Aer2 ligand (dissociation constant [Kd ] of 16 μM). With one exception, mutants that bound O2 could signal, whereas many mutants that bound CO could not. W283 stabilized O2 binding but not CO binding, and it was required for signal initiation; W283 mutants that could not stabilize O2 were rapidly oxidized to Fe(III). W283F was the only Trp mutant that bound O2 with wild-type affinity. The size and nature of residue 264 was important for gas binding and signaling: L264W blocked O2 binding, L264A and L264G caused O2-mediated oxidation, and L264K formed a hexacoordinate heme. Our data suggest that when O2 binds to Aer2, L264 moves concomitantly with W283 to initiate the conformational signal. The signal then propagates from the PAS domain to regulate the C-terminal HAMP and kinase control domains, ultimately modulating a cellular response.IMPORTANCEPseudomonas aeruginosa is a ubiquitous environmental bacterium and opportunistic pathogen that infects multiple body sites, including the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. P. aeruginosa senses and responds to its environment via four chemosensory systems. Three of these systems regulate biofilm formation, twitching motility, and chemotaxis. The role of the fourth system, Che2, is unclear but has been implicated in virulence. The Che2 system contains a chemoreceptor called Aer2, which contains a PAS sensing domain that binds heme and senses oxygen. Here, we show that Aer2 uses unprecedented mechanisms to bind O2 and initiate signaling. These studies provide both the first functional corroboration of the Aer2-PAS signaling mechanism previously proposed from structure as well as a signaling model for Aer2-PAS receptors.
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Cloning, Expression, and Purification of the N-terminal Heme-Binding Domain of Globin-Coupled Sensors. Methods Enzymol 2008; 437:163-72. [DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(07)37009-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Miranda JL. Conservation and diversity of ancient hemoglobins in Bacteria. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 343:924-7. [PMID: 16574075 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.03.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2006] [Accepted: 03/04/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A group of single-domain proteins in Bacteria similar to thermoglobin, an oxygen-avid hemoglobin representative of the ancestral form, reveals the primordial structure, function, and evolvability of the family. Conserved residues at specific positions function to bind ligand or participate in hydrophobic packing of the protein core during protein folding. A potential hydrogen bond network consisting of a tyrosine and glutamine residue in the distal ligand-binding site of most hemoglobins suggests that the ancestral protein bound oxygen avidly. Two divergent hemoglobins with mutations at generally conserved positions contain non-canonical ligand-binding sites, illustrating plasticity of the fold. One binds heme in a manner similar to cytochromes and may represent an evolutionary link to the precursor of the hemoglobin fold. Conservation suggests specific biochemical properties of the ancestral protein; diversity suggests an evolvability of this group of hemoglobins tolerant of mutations that perturb conserved biochemical properties for adaptation to novel functions.
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- Jj L Miranda
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Das TK, Dewilde S, Friedman JM, Moens L, Rousseau DL. Multiple active site conformers in the carbon monoxide complexes of trematode hemoglobins. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:11471-9. [PMID: 16481317 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m512054200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Sequence alignment of hemoglobins of the trematodes Paramphistomum epiclitum and Gastrothylax crumenifer with myoglobin suggests the presence of an unusual active site structure in which two tyrosine residues occupy the E7 and B10 helical positions. In the crystal structure of P. epiclitum hemoglobin, such an E7-B10 tyrosine pair at the putative helical positions has been observed, although the E7 Tyr is displaced toward CD region of the polypeptide. Resonance Raman data on both P. epiclitum and G. crumenifer hemoglobins show that interactions of heme-bound ligands with neighboring amino acid residues are unusual. Multiple conformers in the CO complex, termed the C, O, and N conformers, are observed. The conformers are separated by a large difference (approximately 60 cm(-1)) in the frequencies of their Fe-CO stretching modes. In the C conformer the Fe-CO stretching frequency is very high, 539 and 535 cm(-1), for the P. epiclitum and G. crumenifer hemoglobins, respectively. The Fe-CO stretching of the N conformer appears at an unusually low frequency, 479 and 476 cm(-1), respectively, for the two globins. A population of an O conformer is seen in both hemoglobins, at 496 and 492 cm(-1), respectively. The C conformer is stabilized by a strong polar interaction of the CO with the distal B10 tyrosine residue. The O conformer is similar to the ones typically seen in mutant myoglobins in which there are no strong interactions between the CO and residues in the distal pocket. The N conformer possesses an unusual configuration in which a negatively charged group, assigned as the oxygen atom of the B10 Tyr side chain, interacts with the CO. In this conformer, the B10 Tyr assumes an alternative conformation consistent with one of the conformers seen the crystal structure. Implications of the multiple configurations on the ligand kinetics are discussed.
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- Tapan K Das
- Pfizer Global Biologics, Chesterfield, Missouri 63017, USA
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Miranda JJL, Maillett DH, Soman J, Olson JS. Thermoglobin, Oxygen-avid Hemoglobin in a Bacterial Hyperthermophile. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:36754-61. [PMID: 16135523 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m505918200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The hemoglobin family of proteins, ubiquitous in all domains of life, evolved from an ancestral protein of primordial function to extant hemoglobins that perform a myriad of functions with diverged biochemical properties. Study of homologs in bacterial hyperthermophiles may shed light on both mechanisms of adaptation to extreme conditions and the nature of the ancestral protein. A hemoglobin was identified in Aquifex aeolicus, cloned, recombinantly expressed, purified, and characterized. This hemoglobin is monomeric, resistant to thermal and chemical denaturation, pentacoordinate in the ferrous deoxygenated state, and oxygen-avid. The oxygen equilibrium dissociation constant is approximately 1 nm at room temperature, due in part to a hydrogen bond between the bound ligand and a tyrosine residue in the distal pocket. These biochemical properties of A. aeolicus thermoglobin, AaTgb, may have been shared by the ancestral hemoglobin, thus suggesting possible primordial functions and providing a starting point for consequent evolution of the hemoglobin family.
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- J J L Miranda
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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Gow AJ, Payson AP, Bonaventura J. Invertebrate hemoglobins and nitric oxide: how heme pocket structure controls reactivity. J Inorg Biochem 2005; 99:903-11. [PMID: 15811507 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2004.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2004] [Revised: 11/29/2004] [Accepted: 12/06/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Hemoglobins (Hbs), generally defined as 5 or 6 coordinate heme proteins whose primary function is oxygen transport, are now recognized to occur in virtually all phyla of living organisms. Historically, study of their function focused on oxygen as a reversibly bound ligand of the ferrous form of the protein. Other diatomic ligands like carbon monoxide and nitric oxide were considered "non-physiological" but useful probes of structure-function relationships in Hbs. This investigatory landscape changed dramatically in the 1980s when nitric oxide was discovered to activate a heme protein, cyclic guanylate cyclase. Later, its activation was likened to Perutz' description of Hb's allosteric properties being triggered by a ligand-dependent "out-of-plane/into-plane" movement of the heme iron. In 1996, a functional role for nitric oxide in human and mammalian Hbs was demonstrated and since that time, the interest in NO as a physiologically relevant Hb ligand has greatly increased. Concomitantly, non-oxygen binding properties of Hbs have challenged the view that Hbs arose for their oxygen storage and transport properties. In this focused review we discuss some invertebrate Hbs' functionally significant reactions with nitric oxide and how strategic positioning of a few residues in the heme pocket plays an large role in the interplay of diatomic ligands to ferrous and ferric heme iron in these proteins.
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- Andrew J Gow
- Stokes Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Lamkemeyer T, Paul RJ, Stöcker W, Yiallouros I, Zeis B. Macromolecular isoforms of Daphnia magna haemoglobin. Biol Chem 2005; 386:1087-96. [PMID: 16307474 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2005.125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The haemoglobin (Hb) of Daphnia magna acclimated to different oxygen conditions was sampled, and in its natively assembled state it was separated by chromatofocusing. The Hb isoforms were analysed for their subunit composition under denaturating conditions by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The Hb system is suggested to consist of three predominant Hb aggregates, which are characterised by a specific subunit composition and synthesised in response to different ambient oxygen conditions. In normoxia, a dominant Hb aggregate (DmHbI) with a pI of 4.4-4.6 was composed of subunits B, C, E, F and G. In severe hypoxia, a different dominant Hb isoform (DmHbIII) with a pI of 5.7-5.9 was composed of subunits A, B, C, D, E and F. Further analyses in moderate hypoxia provided evidence for a third Hb isoform (DmHbII) composed of subunits B, C, D, E and F. Sequence alignment and homology modelling of the tertiary structure of the D. magna Hb domains 1 and 2 revealed functionally relevant substitutions of amino acid residues at positions B10, E7 and E11, which determine the functional properties of D. magna haemoglobin in terms of haem contact, oxygen binding and affinity. Both domains are predicted to possess the common haemoglobin fold, but helices C and D are not properly formed, and helix G is interrupted by a short coil.
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- Tobias Lamkemeyer
- Institut für Zoophysiologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Hindenburgplatz 55, D-48143 Münster, Germany
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Kawano K, Uda K, Otsuki R, Suzuki T. Preparation of artificial 2-, 3-, 4- and 8-domain myoglobins and comparison of their autoxidation rates. FEBS Lett 2004; 574:203-7. [PMID: 15358565 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.08.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2004] [Accepted: 08/03/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Although most hemoglobins and myoglobins consist of 15-kDa single-domain subunits, structurally unusual hemoglobins, such as Artemia 9-domain and Barbatia 2-domain hemoglobins, occur naturally in several invertebrates. These hemoglobins appear to be the result of gene duplication and fusion. Using cDNA coding for the open reading frame of Aplysia kurodai myoglobin, artificial cDNA inserts corresponding to contiguous dimer, trimer, tetramer and octamer myoglobins (2-, 3-, 4- and 8-domain myoglobins) were prepared and cloned into pMAL or pQE plasmids. These artificial myoglobins and wild-type single-domain myoglobins were successfully expressed in Escherichia coli in the heme-attached, oxygenated form. Myoglobin was purified partially by ammonium sulfate fractionation and gel filtration, and autoxidation rates were examined. The autoxidation rates of recombinant wild-type myoglobins with MBP or hexameric His tag were comparable to those of native myoglobin, suggesting that the recombinant proteins appear to be properly folded and that the N-terminal MBP or His tag does not have an affect on the rate. On the other hand, the rates were significantly decreased in the 2- and 3-domain myoglobins (50% and 30% of the single-domain myoglobins, respectively). The rates for 4- and 8-domain myoglobins were similar to those for 3-domain myoglobin. These results indicate that the artificial poly-domain structure of myoglobin is more stable than the usual single-domain myoglobin from the viewpoint of storage of bound dioxygen.
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- Kazufumi Kawano
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Kochi University, Kochi 780-8520, Japan
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Pesce A, Nardini M, Ascenzi P, Geuens E, Dewilde S, Moens L, Bolognesi M, Riggs AF, Hale A, Deng P, Nienhaus GU, Olson JS, Nienhaus K. Thr-E11 regulates O2 affinity in Cerebratulus lacteus mini-hemoglobin. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:33662-72. [PMID: 15161908 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m403597200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The mini-hemoglobin from Cerebratulus lacteus (CerHb) belongs to a class of globins containing the polar Tyr-B10/Gln-E7 amino acid pair that normally causes low rates of O2 dissociation and ultra-high O2 affinity, which suggest O2 sensing or NO scavenging functions. CerHb, however, has high rates of O2 dissociation (kO2 = 200-600 s(-1)) and moderate O2 affinity (KO2) approximately 1 microm(-1)) as a result of a third polar amino acid in its active site, Thr-E11. When Thr-E11 is replaced by Val, kO2 decreases 1000-fold and KO2 increases 130-fold at pH 7.0, 20 degrees C. The mutation also shifts the stretching frequencies of both heme-bound and photodissociated CO, indicating marked changes of the electrostatic field at the active site. The crystal structure of Thr-E11 --> Val CerHbO2 at 1.70 A resolution is almost identical to that of the wild-type protein (root mean square deviation of 0.12 A). The dramatic functional and spectral effects of the Thr-E11 --> Val mutation are due exclusively to changes in the hydrogen bonding network in the active site. Replacing Thr-E11 with Val "frees" the Tyr-B10 hydroxyl group to rotate toward and donate a strong hydrogen bond to the heme-bound ligand, causing a selective increase in O2 affinity, a decrease of the rate coefficient for O2 dissociation, a 40 cm(-1) decrease in nuCO of heme-bound CO, and an increase in ligand migration toward more remote intermediate sites.
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- Alessandra Pesce
- Department of Physics-INFM and Center for Excellence in Biomedical Research, University of Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy
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Das TK, Samuni U, Lin Y, Goldberg DE, Rousseau DL, Friedman JM. Distal heme pocket conformers of carbonmonoxy derivatives of Ascaris hemoglobin: evidence of conformational trapping in porous sol-gel matrices. J Biol Chem 2003; 279:10433-41. [PMID: 14688246 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m309590200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We report the ligand dependence of the conformer distribution in the distal heme pocket of Ascaris suum hemoglobin (Hb) studied by resonance Raman spectroscopy. The heme-bound CO is used as a spectroscopic antenna to probe the original distribution of conformers in the dioxygen derivative of Ascaris Hb, by utilizing sol-gel encapsulation. The first step is to encapsulate the dioxygen derivative in the porous sol-gel and let the gel age, thus trapping the equilibrium conformational distribution of Ascaris dioxygen Hb. In the second step, the dioxygen ligand is replaced by CO. The sol-gel environment impedes any large scale movements, drastically slowing down the conformational relaxation triggered by the ligation change, essentially "locking in" the initial quaternary and even tertiary structure of the protein. Studying the Fe-CO frequencies of the latter sample allows evaluation of the distribution of the distal heme pocket conformers that was originally associated with the dioxygen derivative. Extending the study to the Ascaris mutants allows for examination of the effect of specific residues in the distal pocket on the conformational distribution. The choice of mutants was largely based on the anticipated variation in hydrogen bonding patterns. The results show that the sol-gel encapsulation can slow or prevent re-equilibration within the distal heme pocket of Ascaris Hb and that the distribution of distal heme pocket conformers for the CO derivative of Ascaris Hb in the sol-gel is highly dependent on the history of the sample. Additionally, we report a detailed study of the CO complex of the mutants in solution for assignment of the various heme pocket conformers, and we present a comparison of the sol-gel data with solution data. The results support a picture in which the dioxygen derivative biases the population strongly toward a tightly packed configuration that favors the network of strong hydrogen bonding interactions, and suggest that Ascaris Hb is uniquely designed for dioxygen capture.
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- Tapan K Das
- Pfize Global Research and Development, Chesterfield, Missouri 63017, USA
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Ouellet H, Juszczak L, Dantsker D, Samuni U, Ouellet YH, Savard PY, Wittenberg JB, Wittenberg BA, Friedman JM, Guertin M. Reactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis truncated hemoglobin O with ligands reveal a novel ligand-inclusive hydrogen bond network. Biochemistry 2003; 42:5764-74. [PMID: 12741834 DOI: 10.1021/bi0270337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Truncated hemoglobin O (trHbO) is one of two trHbs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Remarkably, trHbO possesses two novel distal residues, in addition to the B10 tyrosine, that may be important in ligand binding. These are the CD1 tyrosine and G8 tryptophan. Here we investigate the reactions of trHbO and mutants using stopped-flow spectrometry, flash photolysis, and UV-enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy. A biphasic kinetic behavior is observed for combination and dissociation of O(2) and CO that is controlled by the B10 and CD1 residues. The rate constants for combination (<1.0 microM(-1) s(-1)) and dissociation (<0.006 s(-1)) of O(2) are among the slowest known, precluding transport or diffusion of O(2) as a major function. Mutation of CD1 tyrosine to phenylalanine shows that this group controls ligand binding, as evidenced by 25- and 77-fold increases in the combination rate constants for O(2) and CO, respectively. In support of a functional role for G8 tryptophan, UV resonance Raman indicates that the chi((2,1)) dihedral angle for the indole ring increases progressively from approximately 93 degrees to at least 100 degrees in going sequentially from the deoxy to CO to O(2) derivative, demonstrating a significant conformational change in the G8 tryptophan with ligation. Remarkably, protein modeling predicts a network of hydrogen bonds between B10 tyrosine, CD1 tyrosine, and G8 tryptophan, with the latter residues being within hydrogen bonding distance of the heme-bound ligand. Such a rigid hydrogen bonding network may thus represent a considerable barrier to ligand entrance and escape. In accord with this model, we found that changing CD1 or B10 tyrosine for phenylalanine causes only small changes in the rate of O(2) dissociation, suggesting that more than one hydrogen bond must be broken at a time to promote ligand escape. Furthermore, trHbO-CO cannot be photodissociated under conditions where the CO derivative of myoglobin is extensively photodissociated, indicating that CO is constrained near the heme by the hydrogen bonding network.
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- Hugues Ouellet
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, Laval University, Quebec, Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada
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Kundu S, Hargrove MS. Distal heme pocket regulation of ligand binding and stability in soybean leghemoglobin. Proteins 2003; 50:239-48. [PMID: 12486718 DOI: 10.1002/prot.10277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Leghemoglobins facilitate diffusion of oxygen through root tissue to a bacterial terminal oxidase in much the same way that myoglobin transports oxygen from blood to muscle cell mitochondria. Leghemoglobin serves an additional role as an oxygen scavenger to prevent inhibition of nitrogen fixation. For this purpose, the oxygen affinity of soybean leghemoglobin is 20-fold greater than myoglobin, resulting from an 8-fold faster association rate constant combined with a 3-fold slower dissociation rate constant. Although the biochemical mechanism used by myoglobin to bind oxygen has been described in elegant detail, an explanation for the difference in affinity between these two structurally similar proteins is not obvious. The present work demonstrates that, despite their similar structures, leghemoglobin uses methods different from myoglobin to regulate ligand affinity. Oxygen and carbon monoxide binding to a comprehensive set of leghemoglobin distal heme pocket mutant proteins in comparison to their myoglobin counterparts has revealed some of these mechanisms. The "distal histidine" provides a crucial hydrogen bond to stabilize oxygen in myoglobin but has little effect on bound oxygen in leghemoglobin and is retained mainly for reasons of protein stability and prevention of heme loss. Furthermore, soybean leghemoglobin uses an unusual combination of HisE7 and TyrB10 to sustain a weak stabilizing interaction with bound oxygen. Thus, the leghemoglobin distal heme pocket provides a much lower barrier to oxygen association than occurs in myoglobin and oxygen dissociation is regulated from the proximal heme pocket.
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- Suman Kundu
- Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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Draghi F, Miele AE, Travaglini-Allocatelli C, Vallone B, Brunori M, Gibson QH, Olson JS. Controlling ligand binding in myoglobin by mutagenesis. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:7509-19. [PMID: 11744723 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109206200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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A quadruple mutant of sperm whale myoglobin was constructed to mimic the structure found in Ascaris suum hemoglobin. The replacements include His(E7)-->Gln, Leu(B10)-->Tyr, Thr(E10)--> Arg, and Ile(G8)-->Phe. Single, double, and triple mutants were characterized to dissect out the effects of the individual substitutions. The crystal structures of the deoxy and oxy forms of the quadruple mutant were determined and compared with that of native Ascaris hemoglobin. Tyr(B10) myoglobin displays low O(2) affinity, high dissociation rate constants, and heterogeneous kinetic behavior, suggesting unfavorable steric interactions between the B10 phenol side chain and His(E7). In contrast, all mutants containing the Tyr(B10)/Gln(E7) pair show high O(2) affinity, low dissociation rate constants, and simple, monophasic kinetic behavior. Replacement of Ile(107) with Phe enhances nanosecond geminate recombination singly and in combination with the Tyr(B10)/Gln(E7)/Arg(E10) mutation by limiting access to the Xe4 site. These kinetic results and comparisons with native Ascaris hemoglobin demonstrate the importance of distal pocket cavities in governing the kinetics of ligand binding. The approximately 150-fold higher O(2) affinity of Ascaris hemoglobin compared with that for Tyr(B10)/Gln(E7)-containing myoglobin mutants appears to be the result of favorable proximal effects in the Ascaris protein, due to a staggered orientation of His(F8), the lack of a hydrogen bonding lattice between the F4, F7, and F8 residues, and the presence of a large polar Trp(G5) residue in the interior portion of the proximal heme pocket.
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- Federica Draghi
- A. Rossi Fanelli Department of Biochemical Sciences, CNR Center of Molecular Biology, University of Rome La Sapienza, P. le. A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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Pesce A, Dewilde S, Kiger L, Milani M, Ascenzi P, Marden MC, Van Hauwaert ML, Vanfleteren J, Moens L, Bolognesi M. Very high resolution structure of a trematode hemoglobin displaying a TyrB10-TyrE7 heme distal residue pair and high oxygen affinity. J Mol Biol 2001; 309:1153-64. [PMID: 11399085 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Monomeric hemoglobin from the trematode Paramphistomum epiclitum displays very high oxygen affinity (P(50)<0.001 mm Hg) and an unusual heme distal site containing tyrosyl residues at the B10 and E7 positions. The crystal structure of aquo-met P. epiclitum hemoglobin, solved at 1.17 A resolution via multiwavelength anomalous dispersion techniques (R-factor=0.121), shows that the heme distal site pocket residue TyrB10 is engaged in hydrogen bonding to the iron-bound ligand. By contrast, residue TyrE7 is unexpectedly locked next to the CD globin region, in a conformation unsuitable for heme-bound ligand stabilisation. Such structural organization of the E7 distal residue differs strikingly from that observed in the nematode Ascaris suum hemoglobin (bearing TyrB10 and GlnE7 residues), which also displays very high oxygen affinity. The oxygenation and carbonylation parameters of wild-type P. epiclitum Hb as well as of single- and double-site mutants, with residue substitutions at positions B10, E7 and E11, have been determined and are discussed here in the light of the protein atomic resolution crystal structure.
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- A Pesce
- Department of Physics-INFM, Advanced Biotechnology Centre, University of Genova, Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, Genova, I-16132, Italy
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Lecomte JT, Scott NL, Vu BC, Falzone CJ. Binding of Ferric Heme by the Recombinant Globin from the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochemistry 2001; 40:6541-52. [PMID: 11371218 DOI: 10.1021/bi010226u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The product of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 gene slr2097 is a 123 amino acid polypeptide chain belonging to the truncated hemoglobin family. Recombinant, ferric heme-reconstituted Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 hemoglobin is a low-spin complex whose endogenous hexacoordination gives rise to optical and NMR characteristics reminiscent of cytochrome b(5) [Scott, N. L., and Lecomte, J. T. J. (2000) Protein Sci. 9, 587-597]. In this work, the sequential assignments using (15)N-(13)C-labeled protein, (1)H nuclear Overhauser effects, and longitudinal relaxation data identified His70 as the proximal histidine and His46 as the sixth ligand to the iron ion. It was also found that one of two possible heme orientations within the protein matrix is highly preferred (>90%) and that this orientation is the same as in vertebrate myoglobins. The rate constant for the 180 degrees rotation of the heme within a protein cage to produce the favored isomer was 0.5 h(-1) at 25 degrees C, approximately 35 times faster than in sperm whale myoglobin. Variable temperature studies revealed an activation energy of 132 +/- 4 kJ mol(-1), similar to the value in metaquomyoglobin at the same pH. The rate constant for heme loss from the major isomer was estimated to be 0.01 h(-1) by optical spectroscopy, close to the value for myoglobin and decades slower than in the related Nostoc commune cyanoglobin. The slow heme loss was attributed in part to the additional coordination bond to His46, whereas the relatively fast rate of heme reorientation suggested that this bond was weaker than the proximal His70-Fe bond. The standard reduction potential of the hexacoordinated protein was measured with and without poly-L-lysine as a mediator and found to be approximately -150 mV vs SHE, indicating a stabilization of the ferric state compared to most hemoglobins and b(5) cytochromes.
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- J T Lecomte
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Structure and Function, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA.
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Hemoglobin (Hb) occurs in all the kingdoms of living organisms. Its distribution is episodic among the nonvertebrate groups in contrast to vertebrates. Nonvertebrate Hbs range from single-chain globins found in bacteria, algae, protozoa, and plants to large, multisubunit, multidomain Hbs found in nematodes, molluscs and crustaceans, and the giant annelid and vestimentiferan Hbs comprised of globin and nonglobin subunits. Chimeric hemoglobins have been found recently in bacteria and fungi. Hb occurs intracellularly in specific tissues and in circulating red blood cells (RBCs) and freely dissolved in various body fluids. In addition to transporting and storing O(2) and facilitating its diffusion, several novel Hb functions have emerged, including control of nitric oxide (NO) levels in microorganisms, use of NO to control the level of O(2) in nematodes, binding and transport of sulfide in endosymbiont-harboring species and protection against sulfide, scavenging of O(2 )in symbiotic leguminous plants, O(2 )sensing in bacteria and archaebacteria, and dehaloperoxidase activity useful in detoxification of chlorinated materials. This review focuses on the extensive variation in the functional properties of nonvertebrate Hbs, their O(2 )binding affinities, their homotropic interactions (cooperativity), and the sensitivities of these parameters to temperature and heterotropic effectors such as protons and cations. Whenever possible, it attempts to relate the ligand binding properties to the known molecular structures. The divergent and convergent evolutionary trends evident in the structures and functions of nonvertebrate Hbs appear to be adaptive in extending the inhabitable environment available to Hb-containing organisms.
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- R E Weber
- Danish Centre for Respiratory Adaptation, Department of Zoophysiology, Institute of Biology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Mukai M, Mills CE, Poole RK, Yeh SR. Flavohemoglobin, a globin with a peroxidase-like catalytic site. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:7272-7. [PMID: 11092893 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m009280200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Biochemical studies of flavohemoglobin (Hmp) from Escherichia coli suggest that instead of aerobic oxygen delivery, a dioxygenase converts NO to NO3(-) and anaerobically, an NO reductase converts NO to N(2)O. To investigate the structural features underlying the chemical reactivity of Hmp, we have measured the resonance Raman spectra of the ligand-free ferric and ferrous protein and the CO derivatives of the ferrous protein. At neutral pH, the ferric protein has a five-coordinate high-spin heme, similar to peroxidases. In the ferrous protein, a strong iron-histidine stretching mode is present at 244 cm(-1). This frequency is much higher than that of any other globin discovered to date, although it is comparable to those of peroxidases, suggesting that the proximal histidine has imidazolate character. In the CO derivative, an open and a closed conformation were detected. The distal environment of the closed conformation is very polar, where the heme-bound CO strongly interacts with the B10 Tyr and/or the E7 Gln. These data demonstrate that the active site structure of Hmp is very similar to that of peroxidases and is tailored to perform oxygen chemistry.
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- M Mukai
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Das TK, Weber RE, Dewilde S, Wittenberg JB, Wittenberg BA, Yamauchi K, Van Hauwaert ML, Moens L, Rousseau DL. Ligand binding in the ferric and ferrous states of Paramecium hemoglobin. Biochemistry 2000; 39:14330-40. [PMID: 11087382 DOI: 10.1021/bi001681d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The unicellular protozoan Paramecium caudatum contains a monomeric hemoglobin (Hb) that has only 116 amino acid residues. This Hb shares the simultaneous presence of a distal E7 glutamine and a B10 tyrosine with several invertebrate Hbs. In the study presented here, we have used ligand binding kinetics and resonance Raman spectroscopy to characterize the effect of the distal pocket residues of Paramecium Hb in stabilizing the heme-bound ligands. In the ferric state, the high-spin to low-spin (aquo-hydroxy) transition takes place with a pK(a) of approximately 9.0. The oxygen affinity (P(50) = 0.45 Torr) is similar to that of myoglobin. The oxygen on- and off-rates are also similar to those of sperm whale myoglobin. Resonance Raman data suggest hydrogen bonding stabilization of bound oxygen, evidenced by a relatively low frequency of Fe-OO stretching (563 cm(-1)). We propose that the oxy complex is an equilibrium mixture of a hydrogen-bonded closed structure and an open structure. Oxygen will dissociate preferentially from the open structure, and therefore, the fraction of open structure population controls the rate of oxygen dissociation. In the CO complex, the Fe-CO stretching frequency at 493 cm(-1) suggests an open heme pocket, which is consistent with the higher on- and off-rates for CO relative to those in myoglobin. A high rate of ligand binding is also consistent with the observation of an Fe-histidine stretching frequency at 220 cm(-1), indicating the absence of significant proximal strain. We postulate that the function of Paramecium Hb is to supply oxygen for cellular oxidative processes.
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- T K Das
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.
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Couture M, Das TK, Savard PY, Ouellet Y, Wittenberg JB, Wittenberg BA, Rousseau DL, Guertin M. Structural investigations of the hemoglobin of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 reveal a unique distal heme pocket. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2000; 267:4770-80. [PMID: 10903511 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01531.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A putative hemoglobin (Hb) gene, related to those previously characterized in the green alga Chlamydomonas eugametos, the ciliated protozoan Paramecium caudatum, the cyanobacterium Nostoc commune and the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was recently discovered in the complete genome sequence of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803. In this paper, we report the purification of Synechocystis Hb and describe some of its salient biochemical and spectroscopic properties. We show that the recombinant protein contains Fe-protoporphyrin IX and forms a very stable complex with oxygen. The oxygen dissociation rate measured, 0.011 s(-1), is among the smallest known and is four orders of magnitude smaller than the rate measured for N. commune Hb, which suggests functional differences between these Hbs. Optical and resonance Raman spectroscopic study of the structure of the heme pocket of Synechocystis Hb reveals that the heme is 6-coordinate and low-spin in both ferric and ferrous forms in the pH range 5.5-10.5. We present evidence that His46, predicted to occupy the helical position E10 based on amino-acid sequence comparison, is involved in the formation of the ferric and ferrous 6-coordinate low-spin structures. The analysis of the His46Ala mutant shows that the ferrous form is 5-coordinate and high-spin and the ferric form contains a 6-coordinate high-spin component in which the sixth ligand is most probably a water molecule. We conclude that the heme pocket of the wild type Synechocystis Hb has a unique structure that requires a histidine residue at the E10 position for the formation of its native structure.
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- M Couture
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
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Gardner AM, Martin LA, Gardner PR, Dou Y, Olson JS. Steady-state and transient kinetics of Escherichia coli nitric-oxide dioxygenase (flavohemoglobin). The B10 tyrosine hydroxyl is essential for dioxygen binding and catalysis. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:12581-9. [PMID: 10777548 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.17.12581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli expresses an inducible flavohemoglobin possessing robust NO dioxygenase activity. At 37 degrees C, the enzyme shows a maximal turnover number (V(max)) of 670 s(-1) and K(m) values for NADH, NO, and O(2) equal to 4.8, 0.28, and approximately 100 microM, respectively. Individual reduction, ligand binding, and NO dioxygenation reactions were examined at 20 degrees C, where V(max) is approximately 94 s(-1). Reduction by NADH occurs in two steps. NADH reduces bound FAD with a rate constant of approximately 15 microM(-1) s(-1), and heme iron is reduced by FADH(2) with a rate constant of 150 s(-1). Dioxygen binds tightly to reduced flavohemoglobin, with association and dissociation rate constants equal to 38 microM(-1) s(-1) and 0.44 s(-1), respectively, and the oxygenated flavohemoglobin dioxygenates NO to form nitrate. NO also binds reversibly to reduced flavohemoglobin in competition with O(2), dissociates slowly, and inhibits NO dioxygenase activity at [NO]/[O(2)] ratios of 1:100. Replacement of the heme pocket B10 tyrosine with phenylalanine increases the O(2) dissociation rate constant approximately 80-fold and reduces NO dioxygenase activity approximately 30-fold, demonstrating the importance of the tyrosine hydroxyl for O(2) affinity and NO scavenging activity. At 37 degrees C, V(max)/K(m)(NO) is 2,400 microM(-1) s(-1), demonstrating that the enzyme is extremely efficient at converting toxic NO into nitrate under physiological conditions.
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- A M Gardner
- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA.
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Burr AH, Hunt P, Wagar DR, Dewilde S, Blaxter ML, Vanfleteren JR, Moens L. A hemoglobin with an optical function. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:4810-5. [PMID: 10671515 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.7.4810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Hemoglobins are best known as oxygen transport proteins. Here we describe a hemoglobin from the parasitic nematode Mermis nigrescens (Mn-GLB-E) that has an optical, light shadowing function. The protein accumulates to high concentration as intracellular crystals in the ocellus of mature phototactic adult females while also being expressed at low concentration in other tissues. It differs in sequence and expression pattern from Mn-GLB-B, a second Mermis globin. It retains the structure and oxygen-binding and light-absorbing properties typical of nematode hemoglobins. As such, recruitment to a shadowing role in the eye appears to have occurred by changes in expression without modification of biochemistry. Both globins are coded by genes interrupted by two introns at the conserved positions B12.2 and G7.0, which is in agreement with the 3exon/2intron pattern model of globin gene evolution.
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- A H Burr
- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
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Das TK, Friedman JM, Kloek AP, Goldberg DE, Rousseau DL. Origin of the anomalous Fe-CO stretching mode in the CO complex of Ascaris hemoglobin. Biochemistry 2000; 39:837-42. [PMID: 10651650 DOI: 10.1021/bi9922087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We report an unusually high frequency (543 cm(-)(1)) for an Fe-CO stretching mode in the CO complex of Ascaris suum hemoglobin as compared to vertebrate hemoglobins in which the frequency of the Fe-CO mode is much lower. A second Fe-CO stretching mode in Ascaris hemoglobin is observed at 515 cm(-1). We propose that these two Fe-CO stretching modes arise from two protein conformers corresponding to interactions of the heme-bound CO with the B10-tyrosine or the E7-glutamine residues. This postulate is supported by spectra from the B10-Tyr --> Phe mutant in which the 543 cm(-1) line is absent. Thus, a strong polar interaction, such as hydrogen bonding, of the CO with the distal B10 tyrosine residue is the dominant factor that causes this anomalously high frequency. Strong hydrogen bonding between O(2) and distal residues in the oxy complex of Ascaris hemoglobin has been shown to result in a rigid structure, rendering an extremely low oxygen off rate [Gibson, Q. H., and Smith, M. H. (1965) Proc. R. Soc. London B 163, 206-214]. In contrast, the CO off rate in Ascaris hemoglobin is very similar to that in sperm whale myoglobin. The high CO off rate relative to that of O(2) in Ascaris hemoglobin is attributed to a rapid equilibrium between the two conformations of the protein in the CO adduct, with the off rate being determined by the conformer with the higher rate.
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- T K Das
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Nguyen BD, Xia Z, Cutruzzolá F, Allocatelli CT, Brunori M, La Mar GN. Solution (1)H NMR study of the influence of distal hydrogen bonding and N terminus acetylation on the active site electronic and molecular structure of Aplysia limacina cyanomet myoglobin. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:742-51. [PMID: 10625603 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.2.742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The sea hare Aplysia limacina possesses a myoglobin in which a distal H-bond is provided by Arg E10 rather than the common His E7. Solution (1)H NMR studies of the cyanomet complexes of true wild-type (WT), recombinant wild-type (rWT), and the V(E7)H/R(E10)T and V(E7)H mutants of Aplysia Mb designed to mimic the mammalian Mb heme pocket reveal that the distal His in the mutants is rotated out of the heme pocket and is unable to provide a stabilizing H-bond to bound ligand and that WT and rWT differ both in the thermodynamics of heme orientational disorder and in heme contact shift pattern. The mean of the four heme methyl shifts is shown to serve as a sensitive indicator of variations in distal H-bonding among a set of mutant cyanomet globins. The heme pocket perturbations in rWT relative to WT were traced to the absence of the N-terminal acetyl group in rWT that participates in an H-bond to the EF corner in WT. Analysis of dipolar contacts between heme and axial His and between heme and the protein matrix reveal a small approximately 2 degrees rotation of the axial His in rWT relative to true WT and a approximately 3 degrees rotation of the heme in the double mutant relative to rWT Mb. It is demonstrated that both the direction and magnitude of the rotation of the axial His relative to the heme can be determined from the change in the pattern of the contact-dominated heme methyl shift and from the dipolar-dominated heme meso-H shift. However, only NOE data can determine whether it is the His or heme that actually rotates in the protein matrix.
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- B D Nguyen
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Daniel E. Goldberg
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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Xia Z, Zhang W, Nguyen BD, Mar GN, Kloek AP, Goldberg DE. 1H NMR investigation of the distal hydrogen bonding network and ligand tilt in the cyanomet complex of oxygen-avid Ascaris suum hemoglobin. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:31819-26. [PMID: 10542205 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.45.31819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The O(2)-avid hemoglobin from the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum exhibits one of the slowest known O(2) off rates. Solution (1)H NMR has been used to investigate the electronic and molecular structural properties of the active site for the cyano-met derivative of the recombinant first domain of this protein. Assignment of the heme, axial His, and majority of the residues in contact with the heme reveals a molecular structure that is the same as reported in the A. suum HbO(2) crystal structure (Yang, J., Kloek, A., Goldberg, D. E., and Mathews, F. S. (1995) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 92, 4224-4228) with the exception that the heme in solution is rotated by 180 degrees about the alpha,gamma-meso axis relative to that in the crystal. The observed dipolar shifts, together with the crystal coordinates of HbO(2), provide the orientation of the magnetic axes in the molecular framework. The major magnetic axis, which correlates with the Fe-CN vector, is found oriented approximately 30 degrees away from the heme normal and indicates significant steric tilt because of interaction with Tyr(30)(B10). The three side chain labile protons for the distal residues Tyr(30)(B10) and Gln(64)(E7) were identified, and their relaxation, dipolar shifts, and nuclear Overhauser effects to adjacent residues used to place them in the distal pocket. It is shown that these two distal residues exhibit the same orientations ideal for H bonding to the ligand and to each other, as found in the A. suum HbO(2) crystal. It is concluded that the ligated cyanide participates in the same distal H bonding network as ligated O(2). The combination of the strong steric tilt of the bound cyanide and slow ring reorientation of the Tyr(30)(B10) side chain supports a crowded and constrained distal pocket.
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- Z Xia
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Minning DM, Gow AJ, Bonaventura J, Braun R, Dewhirst M, Goldberg DE, Stamler JS. Ascaris haemoglobin is a nitric oxide-activated 'deoxygenase'. Nature 1999; 401:497-502. [PMID: 10519555 DOI: 10.1038/46822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The parasitic nematode Ascaris lumbricoides infects one billion people worldwide. Its perienteric fluid contains an octameric haemoglobin that binds oxygen nearly 25,000 times more tightly than does human haemoglobin. Despite numerous investigations, the biological function of this molecule has remained elusive. The distal haem pocket contains a metal, oxygen and thiol, all of which are known to be reactive with nitric oxide. Here we show that Ascaris haemoglobin enzymatically consumes oxygen in a reaction driven by nitric oxide, thus keeping the perienteric fluid hypoxic. The mechanism of this reaction involves unprecedented chemistry of a haem group, a thiol and nitric oxide. We propose that Ascaris haemoglobin functions as a 'deoxygenase', using nitric oxide to detoxify oxygen. The structural and functional adaptations of Ascaris haemoglobin suggest that the molecular evolution of haemoglobin can be rationalized by its nitric oxide related functions.
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- D M Minning
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Alayash AI, Ryan BA, Eich RF, Olson JS, Cashon RE. Reactions of sperm whale myoglobin with hydrogen peroxide. Effects of distal pocket mutations on the formation and stability of the ferryl intermediate. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:2029-37. [PMID: 9890961 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.4.2029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Distal pocket mutants of sperm whale oxymyoglobin (oxy-Mb) were reacted with a 2.5-fold excess of hydrogen peroxide (HOOH) in phosphate buffer at pH 7.0, 37 degreesC. We describe a mechanism composed of three distinct steps: 1) initial oxidation of oxy- to ferryl-Mb, 2) autoreduction of the ferryl intermediate to ferric metmyoglobin (metMb), and 3) reaction of metMb with an additional HOOH molecule to regenerate the ferryl intermediate creating a pseudoperoxidase catalytic cycle. Mutation of Leu-29(B10) to Phe slows the initial oxidation reaction 3-fold but has little effect on the rate of ferryl reduction to ferric met-aquo-myoglobin. In contrast, the Val-68(E11) to Phe mutation causes a small, 60% increase in the initial oxidation reaction and a much larger 2. 5-fold increase in the rate of autoreduction. Double insertion of Phe at both the B10- and E11-positions (L29F/V68F) produces a mutant with oxidation characteristics of both single mutants, slow initial oxidation, and rapid autoreduction, but an extraordinarily high affinity for O2. Replacing His-64(E7) with Gln produces 3-4-fold increases in both processes. Combining the mutation H64Q with L29F results in a myoglobin with enhanced resistance to metMb formation in the absence of antioxidant enzymes (i.e. catalase and superoxide dismutase) due to its own high pseudoperoxidase activity, which rapidly removes any HOOH produced in the initial stages of autoxidation. This double substitution occurs naturally in the myoglobin of Asian elephants, and similar multiple replacements have been used to reduce selectively the rate of nitric oxide (NO)-induced oxidation of both recombinant MbO2 and HbO2 blood substitute prototypes without altering O2 affinity.
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- A I Alayash
- Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Tamburrini M, Romano M, Carratore V, Kunzmann A, Coletta M, di Prisco G. The hemoglobins of the antarctic fishes Atedidraco orianae and Pogonophryne scotti. Amino acid sequence, lack of cooperativity, and ligand binding properties. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:32452-9. [PMID: 9829976 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.49.32452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The oxygen-transport system of two species of Antarctic fishes belonging to the family Artedidraconidae, Artedidraco orianae and Pogonophryne scotti, was thoroughly investigated. The complete amino acid sequence of the alpha and beta chains of the single hemoglobins of the two species was established. The oxygen-binding properties were also investigated, and were found not to differ significantly from those shown by blood, intact erythrocytes, and unstripped hemolysates. Both hemoglobins have unusually high oxygen affinity and display a relatively small Bohr effect; the Root effect is elicited only by organophosphates and is also reduced. Remarkably, the Hill coefficient is close to one in the whole pH range, indicating absence of cooperative oxygen binding which, in A. orianae hemoglobin, could be ascribed to the subunit heterogeneity shown upon oxygen dissociation. In comparison with the other families of the suborder Notothenioidei, the oxygen-transport system of these two species of Artedidraconidae has unique characteristics, which raise interesting questions on the mode of function of a multisubunit molecule and the relationship with cold adaptation.
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- M Tamburrini
- Institute of Protein Biochemistry and Enzymology, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Marconi 10, I-80125 Naples, Italy
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The oxygen-avid, homooctameric hemoglobin of Ascaris (AH) has an unusual structure. Each polypeptide consists of two tandem globin folds followed by a highly charged COOH-terminal tail that contains four direct repeats of His-Lys-Glu-Glu (HKEE). Deletion analysis of the AH tail determined that at least two of the four HKEE repeats are required for efficient octamer formation. Surprisingly, the first four residues of the tail (Glu-His-His-Glu) alone were moderately effective in promoting multimerization. The hemoglobin from Pseudoterranova decipiens (PH) also consists of two globin domains followed by a shorter COOH-terminal extension containing only one HKEE repeat. Interchanging the tails of AH and PH revealed that the PH tail is moderately effective in promoting octamer formation. Dissociation analysis of wild-type and mutant AH and PH revealed that the intact octamers are stabilized by interactions between residues within the globin folds, not the tail. Mutational and biochemical studies revealed that one key interaction is contributed by isoleucine 15, which lies in the unusually long AB loop of AH. We propose that the AH tail plays no role in stabilization of the quaternary structure once formed but rather functions as an intramolecular chaperone, aiding assembly of the nascent AH octamer.
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- D M Minning
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Molecular Microbiology and Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Krzywda S, Murshudov GN, Brzozowski AM, Jaskolski M, Scott EE, Klizas SA, Gibson QH, Olson JS, Wilkinson AJ. Stabilizing bound O2 in myoglobin by valine68 (E11) to asparagine substitution. Biochemistry 1998; 37:15896-907. [PMID: 9843395 DOI: 10.1021/bi9812470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The isopropyl side chain of valine68 in myoglobin has been replaced by the acetamide side chain of asparagine in an attempt to engineer higher oxygen affinity. The asparagine replacement introduces a second hydrogen bond donor group into the distal heme pocket which could further stabilize bound oxygen. The Val68 to Asn substitution leads to approximately 3-fold increases in oxygen affinity and 4-6-fold decreases in CO affinity. As a result, the M-value (KCO/KO2) is lowered 15-20-fold to a value close to unity. An even larger enhancement of O2 affinity is seen when asparagine68 is inserted into H64L sperm whale myoglobin which lacks a distal histidine. The overall rate constants for oxygen and carbon monoxide binding to the single V68N myoglobin mutants are uniformly lower than those for the wild-type protein. In contrast, the overall rate constant for NO association is unchanged. Analyses of time courses monitoring the geminate recombination of ligands following nanosecond and picosecond flash photolysis of MbNO and MbO2 indicate that the barrier to ligand binding from within the heme pocket has been raised with little effect on the barrier to diffusion of the ligand into the pocket from the solvent. The crystal structures of the aquomet, deoxy, oxy, and carbon monoxy forms of the V68N mutant have been determined to resolutions ranging from 1.75 to 2.2 A at 150 K. The overall structures are very similar to those of the wild-type protein with the principal alterations taking place within and around the distal heme pocket. In all four structures the asparagine68 side chain lies almost parallel to the plane of the heme with its amide group directed toward the back of the distal heme pocket. The coordinated water molecule in the aquomet form and the bound oxygen in the oxy form can form hydrogen-bonding interactions with both the Asn68 amide group and the imidazole side chain of His64. Surprisingly, in the carbon monoxy form of the V68N mutant, the histidine64 side chain has swung completely out the distal pocket, its place being taken by two ordered water molecules. Overall, these functional and structural results show that the asparagine68 side chain (i) forms a strong hydrogen bond with bound oxygen through its -NH2 group but (ii) sterically hinders the approach of ligands to the iron from within the distal heme pocket.
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- S Krzywda
- Department of Chemistry, University of York, UK
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Bolognesi M, Bordo D, Rizzi M, Tarricone C, Ascenzi P. Nonvertebrate hemoglobins: structural bases for reactivity. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1998; 68:29-68. [PMID: 9481144 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6107(97)00017-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- M Bolognesi
- Centro Biotecnologie Avanzate, IST, Università di Genova, Italy
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Duff SM, Wittenberg JB, Hill RD. Expression, purification, and properties of recombinant barley (Hordeum sp.) hemoglobin. Optical spectra and reactions with gaseous ligands. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:16746-52. [PMID: 9201978 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.27.16746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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A cDNA encoding barley hemoglobin (Hb) has been cloned into pUC 19 and expressed in Escherichia coli. The resulting fusion protein has five extra amino acids at the N terminus compared with the native protein, resulting in a protein of 168 amino acids (18.5 kDa). The recombinant Hb is expressed constitutively. Extracts made from the bacteria containing the recombinant fusion construct contain a protein with a subunit molecular mass of approximately 18.5 kDa comprising approximately 5% total soluble protein. Recombinant Hb was purified to homogeneity according to SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis by sequential polyethylene glycol precipitation and fast protein liquid chromatography. Its native molecular mass as assessed by fast protein liquid chromatography-size exclusion was 40 kDa suggesting that it is a dimer. Ligand binding experiments demonstrate that 1) barley Hb has a very slow oxygen dissociation rate constant (0.0272 s-1) relative to other Hbs, and 2) the heme of ferrous and ferric forms of the barley Hb is low spin six-coordinate. The subunit structure, optical spectrum, and oxygen dissociation rate of native barley hemoglobin are indistinguishable from those obtained for the recombinant protein. The implications of these kinetic data on the in vivo function of barley Hb are discussed.
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- S M Duff
- Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
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Hargrove MS, Barry JK, Brucker EA, Berry MB, Phillips GN, Olson JS, Arredondo-Peter R, Dean JM, Klucas RV, Sarath G. Characterization of recombinant soybean leghemoglobin a and apolar distal histidine mutants. J Mol Biol 1997; 266:1032-42. [PMID: 9086279 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The cDNA for soybean leghemoglobin a (Lba) was cloned from a root nodule cDNA library and expressed in Escherichia coli. The crystal structure of the ferric acetate complex of recombinant wild-type Lba was determined at a resolution of 2.2 A. Rate constants for O2, CO and NO binding to recombinant Lba are identical with those of native soybean Lba. Rate constants for hemin dissociation and auto-oxidation of wild-type Lba were compared with those of sperm whale myoglobin. At 37 degrees C and pH 7, soybean Lba is much less stable than sperm whale myoglobin due both to a fourfold higher rate of auto-oxidation and to a approximately 600-fold lower affinity for hemin. The role of His61(E7) in regulating oxygen binding was examined by site-directed mutagenesis. Replacement of His(E7) with Ala, Val or Leu causes little change in the equilibrium constant for O2 binding to soybean Lba, whereas the same mutations in sperm whale myoglobin cause 50 to 100-fold decreases in K(O2). These results show that, at neutral pH, hydrogen bonding with His(E7) is much less important in regulating O2 binding to the soybean protein. The His(E7) to Phe mutation does cause a significant decrease in K(O2) for Lba, apparently due to steric hindrance of the bound ligand. The rate constants for O2 dissociation from wild-type and native Lba decrease significantly with decreasing pH. In contrast, the O2 dissociation rate constants for mutants with apolar E7 residues are independent of pH, suggesting that hydrogen bonding to the distal histidine residue in the native protein is enhanced under acid conditions. All of these results support the hypothesis that the high affinity of Lba for oxygen and other ligands is determined primarily by enhanced accessibility and reactivity of the heme group.
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- M S Hargrove
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005-1892, USA
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Zhang W, Rashid KA, Haque M, Siddiqi AH, Vinogradov SN, Moens L, Mar GN. Solution of 1H NMR structure of the heme cavity in the oxygen-avid myoglobin from the trematode Paramphistomum epiclitum. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:3000-6. [PMID: 9006948 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.5.3000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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A two-dimensional 1H NMR study has been carried out on the heme cavity of the extreme oxygen-avid and autoxidation-resistant oxy-myoglobin complex from the trematode Paramphistomum epiclitum, and the residues were identified which potentially provide hydrogen bond stabilization for the bound oxygen. Complete assignment of the heme core resonances allows the identification of 10 key heme pocket residues, 4 Phe, 4 Tyr, and 2 upfield ring current aliphatic side chains. Based solely on the conserved myoglobin folding topology that places the E helix-heme crossover and the completely conserved Phe(CD1)-heme contact at opposing meso positions, the heme orientation in the cavity and the E helix alignment were unambiguously established that place Tyr66 at position E7. Moreover, all eight aromatic and the two aliphatic side chains were shown to occupy the positions in the heme cavity predicted by amino acid sequence alignment with globins of known tertiary structure. The dipolar contacts for the Tyr32(B10) and Tyr66(E7) rings indicate that both residues are oriented into the heme cavity, which is unprecedented in globins. The ring hydroxyl protons for both Tyr are close to each other and in a position to provide hydrogen bonds to the coordinated oxygen, as supported by strong retardation of their exchange rate with bulk solvent. A more crowded and compact structure increases the dynamic stability of the distal pocket and may contribute to the autoxidation resistance of this myoglobin.
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- W Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Kloek AP, McCarter JP, Setterquist RA, Schedl T, Goldberg DE. Caenorhabditis globin genes: rapid intronic divergence contrasts with conservation of silent exonic sites. J Mol Evol 1996; 43:101-8. [PMID: 8660434 DOI: 10.1007/bf02337354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Globin genes from the Caenorhabditis species briggsae and remanei were identified and compared with a previously described C. elegans globin gene. The encoded globins share between 86% and 93% amino acid identity, with most of the changes in or just before the putative B helix. C. remanei was found to have two globin alleles, Crg1-1 and Crg1-2. The coding sequence for each is interrupted by a single intron in the same position. The exons of the two genes are only 1% divergent at the nucleotide level and encode identical polypeptides. In contrast, intron sequence divergence is 16% and numerous insertions and deletions have significantly altered the size and content of both introns. Genetic crosses show that Crg1-1 and Crg1-2 segregate as alleles. Homozygous lines for each allele were constructed and northern analysis confirmed the expression of both alleles. These data reveal an unusual situation wherein two alleles encoding identical proteins have diverged much more rapidly in their introns than the silent sites of their coding sequences, suggesting multiple gene conversion events.
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- A P Kloek
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Huang S, Huang J, Kloek AP, Goldberg DE, Friedman JM. Hydrogen bonding of tyrosine B10 to heme-bound oxygen in Ascaris hemoglobin. Direct evidence from UV resonance Raman spectroscopy. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:958-62. [PMID: 8557711 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.2.958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The hemoglobin from Ascaris suum, a parasitic nematode, has a spontaneous dissociation rate for the dioxygen ligand that is 3 orders of magnitude less than for mammalian myoglobins or hemoglobins. In this hemoglobin, the distal histidine is replaced with a glutamine which is capable of forming a stabilizing hydrogen bond to the bound dioxygen. A single hydrogen bond from a glutamine is, under typical circumstances, not sufficient to account for the low off rate for oxygen. Several studies point to a second hydrogen bond to the heme-bound dioxygen originating from tyrosine B10 as the source of this unusual reactivity. In this study ultraviolet (UV) resonance Raman spectroscopy is used to directly observe the formation of this hydrogen bond upon oxygen binding. The study reveals that both oxygen and carbon monoxide induce similar conformational changes in the globin upon binding to the heme; however, in the case of oxygen, a strong hydrogen bond involving a tyrosine is also observed. Similar studies on the QE7L mutant of this Hb suggest that the glutamine plays a role in stabilizing a rigid tertiary structure associated with the distal heme pocket. This conformation maintains the tyrosine in an orientation conducive to hydrogen bond formation with a heme-bound dioxygen ligand.
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- S Huang
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Minning DM, Kloek AP, Yang J, Mathews FS, Goldberg DE. Subunit interactions in Ascaris hemoglobin octamer formation. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:22248-53. [PMID: 7673204 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.38.22248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The oxygen-avid, perienteric hemoglobin of Ascaris is a homooctamer. Each subunit contains two tandem globin domains that are highly homologous with the exception of a charged COOH-terminal extension. In solution, recombinant domain one (D1) exists as a monomer, whereas recombinant domain two with the COOH-terminal tail (D2) is primarily an octamer. To examine the role of the COOH-terminal extension in Ascaris hemoglobin multimer formation, we attached the tail to the monomeric, heme-containing proteins, myoglobin and D1; neither construct was capable of multimer formation. Additionally, we removed the tail from both full-length Ascaris hemoglobin and D2. This substantially decreased, but did not eliminate, multimerization. We further characterized subunit interactions by disrupting full-length hemoglobin multimers with the chaotropic salt, NaSCN, which yielded intermediate oligomers. In solution, D2 demonstrated a greater propensity to dissociate than full-length hemoglobin, indicating that D1 contributes to octamer stability. D1 formed a weak dimer in its crystal; thus, we analyzed interactions along the subunit interface. Hydrogen bonds as well as hydrophobic and electrostatic forces appeared to contribute to dimer formation. Amino acid substitutions along this interface in D2 are predicted to enhance subunit interactions for that domain. Our studies reveal that the COOH-terminal tail is necessary, but not sufficient, for efficient octamer formation. Other regions, possibly with the E- and F-helices and AB loops of both domains, appear to be important for Ascaris hemoglobin octamer formation.
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- D M Minning
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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The parasitic nematode Ascaris lives in the low-oxygen intestinal folds of over one billion people world-wide. The worm has an octameric hemoglobin that binds oxygen four orders of magnitude more tightly than does human hemoglobin. Our studies have focused on elucidating the molecular mechanism of oxygen avidity, the basis of multimerization and the function of this remarkable molecule. We now believe that we understand a fair amount about the molecular interactions that result in enhanced avidity, have some preliminary ideas on octamer formation, and have some hypotheses about possible function. Along the way we have stumbled into the disciplines of intron evolution, sterol biosynthesis and oxygen-regulated gene expression.
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- D E Goldberg
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
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Blaxter ML, Ingram L, Tweedie S. Sequence, expression and evolution of the globins of the parasitic nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis. Mol Biochem Parasitol 1994; 68:1-14. [PMID: 7891734 DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(94)00127-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The globins of the nematode parasite Nippostrongylus brasiliensis have oxygen affinities 100-fold higher than the rodent host's haemoglobins. Two isoforms are found, one located in the cuticle, and the other in the body of the nematode. Both isoforms have been cloned and analysed for clues as to function and evolution. The body globin isoform is first expressed upon invasion of the mammalian host. The abundant cuticular globin is expressed only by adult nematodes in the gut, and differs significantly from the body globin. Both globins are found as trans-spliced mRNAs: the developmental pattern of expression of the mRNA parallels the protein expression. The pattern of the nematode globin genes is complex. Comparison with other nematode globin sequences suggests that N. brasiliensis is more closely related to Caenorhabditis elegans than to ascarid species. At least two gene duplication events are predicted: gene duplication preceded the radiation of the important vertebrate-parasitic strongylid nematode species. Both N. brasiliensis globins have a central intron the exact position of which suggests that it arose from an independent insertion event in the strongylid-rhabditid line. The globins have been expressed in Escherichia coli as functional holenzymes as a prelude to studies to elucidate the origin of their extraordinary oxygen affinity.
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- M L Blaxter
- Wellcome Research Centre for Parasitic Infections, Department of Biology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
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