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O. Nwamba C, C. Chilaka F, Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi A. Cation modulation of hemoglobin interaction with sodium n-dodecyl sulphate (SDS) iv: magnesium modulation at pH 7.20. AIMS BIOPHYSICS 2016. [DOI: 10.3934/biophy.2016.1.146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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- Yue Yuan
- Department of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- Department of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- Department of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- Department of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Gaucher C, Domingues-Hamdi É, Prin-Mathieu C, Menu P, Baudin-Creuza V. Interaction of recombinant octameric hemoglobin with endothelial cells. C R Biol 2015; 338:95-102. [DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2014.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2014] [Revised: 11/12/2014] [Accepted: 11/12/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Styslinger TJ, Zhang N, Bhatt VS, Pettit N, Palmer AF, Wang PG. Site-selective glycosylation of hemoglobin with variable molecular weight oligosaccharides: potential alternative to PEGylation. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:7507-15. [PMID: 22489605 PMCID: PMC3353419 DOI: 10.1021/ja300893t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) conjugation (i.e., PEGylation) is a commonly used strategy to increase the circulatory half-life of therapeutic proteins and colloids; however, few viable alternatives exist to replicate its functions. Herein, we report a method for the rapid site-selective glycosylation of proteins with variously sized carbohydrates, up to a molecular weight (MW) of 10,000, thus serving as a potential alternative for PEGylation. More importantly, the method developed has two unique features. First, traditional protecting group strategies that typically accompany the modification of the carbohydrate fragments are circumvented, allowing for the facile site-selective glycosylation of a desired protein with variously sized glycans. Second, the methodology employed is not limited by oligosaccharide size; consequently, glycans of MW similar to that of PEG, used in the PEGylation of therapeutic proteins, can be employed. To demonstrate the usefulness of this technology, hemoglobin (Hb) was site-selectively glycosylated with a series of carbohydrates of increasing MW (from 504 to ∼10,000). Hb was selected on the basis of the vast wealth of biochemical and biophysical knowledge present in the literature and because of its use as a precursor in the synthesis/formulation of artificial red blood cell substitutes. Following the successful site-selective glycosylation of Hb, the impact of increasing the glycan MW on Hb's biophysical properties was investigated in vitro.
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- Thomas J Styslinger
- Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Bhatt VS, Zaldívar-López S, Harris DR, Couto CG, Wang PG, Palmer AF. Structure of Greyhound hemoglobin: origin of high oxygen affinity. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D: BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2011; 67:395-402. [PMID: 21543841 DOI: 10.1107/s0907444911006044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2010] [Accepted: 02/17/2011] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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This study presents the crystal structure of Greyhound hemoglobin (GrHb) determined to 1.9 Å resolution. GrHb was found to crystallize with an α₁β₁ dimer in the asymmetric unit and belongs to the R2 state. Oxygen-affinity measurements combined with the fact that GrHb crystallizes in the R2 state despite the high-salt conditions used for crystallization strongly indicate that GrHb can serve as a model high-oxygen-affinity hemoglobin (Hb) for higher mammals, especially humans. Structural analysis of GrHb and its comparison with the R2-state of human Hb revealed several regions that can potentially contribute to the high oxygen affinity of GrHb and serve to rationalize the additional stability of the R2-state of GrHb. A previously well studied hydrophobic cluster of bar-headed goose Hb near α119 was also incorporated in the comparison between GrHb and human Hb. Finally, a structural comparison with generic dog Hb and maned wolf Hb was conducted, revealing that in contrast to GrHb these structures belong to the R state of Hb and raising the intriguing possibility of an additional allosteric factor co-purifying with GrHb that can modulate its quaternary structure.
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- Veer S Bhatt
- Biophysics Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Fronticelli C, Koehler RC. Design of recombinant hemoglobins for use in transfusion fluids. Crit Care Clin 2009; 25:357-71, Table of Contents. [PMID: 19341913 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2008.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Molecular biology has been applied to the development of hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier (HBOC) proteins that can be expressed in bacteria or yeast. The transformation of the hemoglobin molecule into an HBOC requires a variety of modifications for rendering the acellular molecule of hemoglobin physiologically acceptable when transfused in circulation. Hemoglobins with different oxygen affinities can be obtained by introducing mutations at the heme pocket, the site of oxygen binding, or by introducing surface mutations that stabilize the hemoglobin molecule in the low-oxygen-affinity state. Modification of the size of the heme pocket is also used to hinder nitric oxide depletion and associated vasoconstriction. Introduction of cysteine residues on the hemoglobin surface allows formation of intermolecular bonds and formation of polymeric HBOCs. These polymers of recombinant hemoglobin have the characteristics of molecular size, molecular stability, and oxygen delivery to hypoxic tissue suitable for an HBOC.
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- Clara Fronticelli
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Blalock, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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Maillett DH, Simplaceanu V, Shen TJ, Ho NT, Olson JS, Ho C. Interfacial and distal-heme pocket mutations exhibit additive effects on the structure and function of hemoglobin. Biochemistry 2008; 47:10551-63. [PMID: 18788751 DOI: 10.1021/bi800816v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Protein engineering strategies seek to develop a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier with optimized functional properties, including (i) an appropriate O 2 affinity, (ii) high cooperativity, (iii) limited NO reactivity, and (iv) a diminished rate of auto-oxidation. The mutations alphaL29F, alphaL29W, alphaV96W and betaN108K individually impart some of these traits and in combinations produce hemoglobin molecules with interesting ligand-binding and allosteric properties. Studies of the ligand-binding properties and solution structures of single and multiple mutants have been performed. The aromatic side chains placed in the distal-heme pocket environment affect the intrinsic ligand-binding properties of the mutated subunit itself, beyond what can be explained by allostery, and these changes are accompanied by local structural perturbations. In contrast, hemoglobins with mutations in the alpha 1beta 1 and alpha 1beta 2 interfaces display functional properties of both "R"- and "T"-state tetramers because the equilibrium between quaternary states is altered. These mutations are accompanied by global structural perturbations, suggesting an indirect, allostery-driven cause for their effects. Combinations of the distal-heme pocket and interfacial mutations exhibit additive effects in both structural and functional properties, contribute to our understanding of allostery, and advance protein-engineering methods for manipulating the O 2 binding properties of the hemoglobin molecule.
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- David H Maillett
- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Kwon M, Strobel SA. Chemical basis of glycine riboswitch cooperativity. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2008; 14:25-34. [PMID: 18042658 PMCID: PMC2151043 DOI: 10.1261/rna.771608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2007] [Accepted: 10/05/2007] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The glycine binding riboswitch forms a unique tandem aptamer structure that binds glycine cooperatively. We employed nucleotide analog interference mapping (NAIM) and mutagenesis to explore the chemical basis of glycine riboswitch cooperativity. Based on the interference pattern, at least two sites appear to facilitate cooperative tertiary interactions, namely, the minor groove of the P1 helix from aptamer 1 and the major groove of the P3a helix from both aptamers. Mutation of these residues altered both the cooperativity and binding affinity of the riboswitch. The data support a model in which the P1 helix of the first aptamer participates in a tertiary interaction important for cooperativity, while nucleotides in the P1 helix of the second aptamer interface with the expression platform. These data have direct analogy to well-characterized mutations in hemoglobin, which provides a framework for considering cooperativity in this RNA-based system.
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- Miyun Kwon
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8114, USA
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Lippi G, Franchini M, Salvagno GL, Guidi GC. Biochemistry, physiology, and complications of blood doping: facts and speculation. Crit Rev Clin Lab Sci 2006; 43:349-91. [PMID: 16769597 DOI: 10.1080/10408360600755313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Competition is a natural part of human nature. Techniques and substances employed to enhance athletic performance and to achieve unfair success in sport have a long history, and there has been little knowledge or acceptance of potential harmful effects. Among doping practices, blood doping has become an integral part of endurance sport disciplines over the past decade. The definition of blood doping includes methods or substances administered for non-medical reasons to healthy athletes for improving aerobic performance. It includes all means aimed at producing an increased or more efficient mechanism of oxygen transport and delivery to peripheral tissues and muscles. The aim of this review is to discuss the biochemistry, physiology, and complications of blood doping and to provide an update on current antidoping policies.
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- Giuseppe Lippi
- Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologico-Biomediche, Istituto di Chimica e Microscopia Clinica, Università Degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy
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Jia Y, Ramasamy S, Wood F, Alayash A, Rifkind J. Cross-linking with O-raffinose lowers oxygen affinity and stabilizes haemoglobin in a non-cooperative T-state conformation. Biochem J 2005; 384:367-75. [PMID: 15303971 PMCID: PMC1134120 DOI: 10.1042/bj20040612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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O-R-polyHbA(0) is an intra- and intermolecularly O-raffinose cross-linked derivative of deoxygenated human haemoglobin developed as an oxygen therapeutic. When compared with its native protein (HbA(0)), O-R-polyHbA(0) was found to be locked in the T (tense) quaternary conformation with a lower oxygen affinity, a reduced Bohr effect (50% of HbA(0)) and no measurable cooperativity (h=1). The kinetics of oxygen and CO binding to the protein indicate lower 'on' rates and faster 'off' rates than HbA(0) and the absence of effects of inositol hexaphosphate (IHP) on the kinetics. Other properties consistent with a T-like conformation are inaccessibility of the betaCys-93 thiol group of O-R-polyHbA(0), the hyperfine splitting from nitrogen in the EPR spectrum of the Fe(II)NO complex of O-R-polyHbA(0) and decreased flexibility in the distal haem pocket, as indicated by low-spin bis-histidine complexes detected by EPR of oxidized chains. A comparison of the properties of O-R-polyHbA(0) with those of HbA(0) with and without IHP, as well as the reaction of nitrite with deoxygenated haemoglobin, provide additional insights into the variations in the conformation of T-state haemoglobin in solution (modifications of the T state produced by adding organic phosphates, like IHP and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate). Although the physiological ramifications of locking HbA(0) in the T conformation with the O-raffinose are still unknown, valuable insights into haemoglobin function are provided by these studies of O-R-polyHbA(0).
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- Yiping Jia
- *Laboratory of Biochemistry and Vascular Biology, Division of Hematology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Bethesda, Maryland 20892, U.S.A
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- †Molecular Dynamics Section, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH), 5600 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21224-6823, U.S.A
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- *Laboratory of Biochemistry and Vascular Biology, Division of Hematology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Bethesda, Maryland 20892, U.S.A
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- †Molecular Dynamics Section, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH), 5600 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21224-6823, U.S.A
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Tsuneshige A, Kanaori K, Samuni U, Danstker D, Friedman JM, Neya S, Giangiacomo L, Yonetani T. Semihemoglobins, high oxygen affinity dimeric forms of human hemoglobin respond efficiently to allosteric effectors without forming tetramers. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:48959-67. [PMID: 15361521 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m405909200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Significant reduction in oxygen affinity resulting from interactions between heterotropic allosteric effectors and hemoglobin in not only the unligated derivative but also the fully ligated form has been reported (Tsuneshige, A., Park, S. I., and Yonetani, T. (2002) Biophys. Chem. 98, 49-63; Yonetani, T., Park, S. I., Tsuneshige, A., Imai, K., and Kanaori, K. (2002) J. Biol. Chem. 277, 34508-34520). To further investigate this effect in more detail, alpha- and beta-semihemoglobins, namely, alpha(heme)beta(apo) and alpha(apo)beta(heme), respectively, were prepared and characterized with respect to the impact of allosteric effectors on both conformation and ligand binding properties. Semihemoglobins are dimers characterized by a high affinity for oxygen and lack of cooperativity. We found that, compared with stripped conditions, semihemoglobins responded to effectors (inositol hexaphosphate and L35) by decreasing the affinity for oxygen by 60- and 130-fold for alpha- and beta-semihemoglobins, respectively. 1H NMR and sedimentation velocity experiments carried out with their ligated and unligated forms in the absence and presence of effectors revealed that semihemoglobins always remain as single-heme-carrying dimers. Recombination kinetics of their photolyzed CO derivatives showed that effectors did indeed interact with their ligated forms. Measurements of the Fe-His stretching mode show that the semihemoglobins undergo a large ligand binding-induced conformational shift and that both ligand-free and ligand derivatives respond to the presence of effectors. Contradictions to the Monod-Wyman-Changeaux/Perutz allosteric model arise since 1) the modulation of ligand affinity is not achieved in semihemoglobins by the formation of a low affinity T conformation (quaternary effect) but by direct interaction with effectors, 2) effectors do interact significantly with ligated forms of high affinity semihemoglobins, and 3) modulation of the ligand affinity and the cooperativity are not necessarily linked but instead can be separated into two distinct phenomena that can be isolated.
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- Antonio Tsuneshige
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Johnson Research Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6059, USA.
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