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Yamanaka M, Nakayama R, Fujii S, Wakai S, Sambongi Y, Hirota S. Conferment of CO-Controlled Dimer–Monomer Transition Property to Thermostable Cytochromec′ by Mutation in the Subunit–Subunit Interface. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2019. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20180311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Masaru Yamanaka
- Division of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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- Division of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, 1-4-4 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, 1-4-4 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan
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- Division of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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Conformational control of the binding of diatomic gases to cytochrome c'. J Biol Inorg Chem 2015; 20:675-86. [PMID: 25792378 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-015-1253-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2014] [Accepted: 03/06/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The cytochromes c' (CYTcp) are found in denitrifying, methanotrophic and photosynthetic bacteria. These proteins are able to form stable adducts with CO and NO but not with O2. The binding of NO to CYTcp currently provides the best structural model for the NO activation mechanism of soluble guanylate cyclase. Ligand binding in CYTcps has been shown to be highly dependent on residues in both the proximal and distal heme pockets. Group 1 CYTcps typically have a phenylalanine residue positioned close to the distal face of heme, while for group 2, this residue is typically leucine. We have structurally, spectroscopically and kinetically characterised the CYTcp from Shewanella frigidimarina (SFCP), a protein that has a distal phenylalanine residue and a lysine in the proximal pocket in place of the more common arginine. Each monomer of the SFCP dimer folds as a 4-alpha-helical bundle in a similar manner to CYTcps previously characterised. SFCP exhibits biphasic binding kinetics for both NO and CO as a result of the high level of steric hindrance from the aromatic side chain of residue Phe 16. The binding of distal ligands is thus controlled by the conformation of the phenylalanine ring. Only a proximal 5-coordinate NO adduct, confirmed by structural data, is observed with no detectable hexacoordinate distal NO adduct.
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Hough MA, Andrew CR. Cytochromes c': Structure, Reactivity and Relevance to Haem-Based Gas Sensing. Adv Microb Physiol 2015; 67:1-84. [PMID: 26616515 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2015.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Cytochromes c' are a group of class IIa cytochromes with pentacoordinate haem centres and are found in photosynthetic, denitrifying and methanotrophic bacteria. Their function remains unclear, although roles in nitric oxide (NO) trafficking during denitrification or in cellular defence against nitrosoative stress have been proposed. Cytochromes c' are typically dimeric with each c-type haem-containing monomer folding as a four-α-helix bundle. Their hydrophobic and crowded distal sites impose severe restrictions on the binding of distal ligands, including diatomic gases. By contrast, NO binds to the proximal haem face in a similar manner to that of the eukaryotic NO sensor, soluble guanylate cyclase and bacterial analogues. In this review, we focus on how structural features of cytochromes c' influence haem spectroscopy and reactivity with NO, CO and O2. We also discuss the relevance of cytochrome c' to understanding the mechanisms of gas binding to haem-based sensor proteins.
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Hirano Y, Kimura Y, Suzuki H, Miki K, Wang ZY. Structure Analysis and Comparative Characterization of the Cytochrome c′ and Flavocytochrome c from Thermophilic Purple Photosynthetic Bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Biochemistry 2012; 51:6556-67. [DOI: 10.1021/bi3005522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Yu Hirano
- Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito 310-8512, Japan
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku,
Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Organization
of Advanced Science
and Technology, Kobe University, Nada,
Kobe 657-8501, Japan
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- Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito 310-8512, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku,
Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito 310-8512, Japan
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Benini S, Rypniewski WR, Wilson KS, Ciurli S. High resolution crystal structure of Rubrivivax gelatinosus cytochrome c′. J Inorg Biochem 2008; 102:1322-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2008.01.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2007] [Revised: 01/06/2008] [Accepted: 01/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Elmore BO, Bergmann DJ, Klotz MG, Hooper AB. Cytochromes P460 andc′-beta; A new family of high-spin cytochromesc. FEBS Lett 2007; 581:911-6. [PMID: 17292891 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.01.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2007] [Revised: 01/24/2007] [Accepted: 01/25/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Cytochromes-P460 of Nitrosomonas europaea and Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath), and the cytochrome c' of M. capsulatus, believed to be involved in binding or transformation of N-oxides, are shown to represent an evolutionarily related new family of monoheme, approximately 17kDa, cytochromes c found in the genomes of diverse Proteobacteria. All members of this family have a predicted secondary structure predominantly of beta-sheets in contrast to the predominantly alpha-helical cytochromes c' found in photoheterotrophic and denitrifying Proteobacteria.
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- Bradley O Elmore
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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Weiss R, Gold A, Terner J. Cytochromes c‘: Biological Models for the S = 3/2,5/2 Spin-State Admixture? Chem Rev 2006; 106:2550-79. [PMID: 16771459 DOI: 10.1021/cr040416l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Raymond Weiss
- Laboratoire de Chimie Supramoléculaires, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, 8 Allée Gaspard Monge, B.P.70028, F-67083 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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Usov OM, Choi PST, Shapleigh JP, Scholes CP. ENDOR Investigation of the Liganding Environment of Mixed-Spin Ferric Cytochrome c‘. J Am Chem Soc 2005; 127:9485-94. [PMID: 15984875 DOI: 10.1021/ja043994s] [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: 11/29/2022]
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The electronic structure of the 5-coordinate quantum-mechanically mixed-spin (sextet-quartet) heme center in cytochrome c' was investigated by electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR), a technique not previously applied to this mixed-spin system. Cytochrome c' was obtained from overexpressing variants of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.3. ENDOR for this study was done at the g(//) = 2.00 extremum where single-crystal-like, well-resolved spectra prevail. The heme meso protons of cytochrome c' showed a contact interaction that implied spin delocalization arising from the heme (d(z)(2)) orbital enhanced by iron out-of-planarity. An exchangeable proton ENDOR feature appeared from the proximal His123 Ndelta hydrogen. This Ndelta hydrogen, which crystallographically has no hydrogen-bonding partner and thus belongs to a neutral imidazole, showed a larger hyperfine coupling than the corresponding hydrogen-bonded Ndelta proton from metmyoglobin. The unique residue Phe14 occludes binding of a sixth ligand in cytochrome c', and ENDOR from a proton of the functionally important Phe14 ring, approximately 3.3 A away from the heme iron, was detected. ENDOR of the nitrogen ligand hyperfine structure is a direct probe into the sigma-antibonding (d(z)(2)) and (d(x)(2)-d(y)(2)) orbitals whose energies alter the relative stability and admixture of sextet and quartet states and whose electronic details were thus elucidated. ENDOR frequencies showed for cytochrome c' larger hyperfine couplings to the histidine nitrogen and smaller hyperfine couplings to the heme nitrogens than for high-spin ferric hemes. Both of these findings followed from the mixed-spin ground state, which has less (d(x)(2)-d(y)(2)) character than have fully high-spin ferric heme systems.
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- Oleg M Usov
- Department of Chemistry, Center for Biochemistry and Biophysics, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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Ikezaki A, Nakamura M. Models for cytochromes c': spin states of mono(imidazole)-ligated (meso-tetramesitylporphyrinato)iron(III) complexes as studied by UV-Vis, 13C NMR, 1H NMR, and EPR spectroscopy. Inorg Chem 2002; 41:6225-36. [PMID: 12444764 DOI: 10.1021/ic020378t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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A number of mono(imidazole)-ligated complexes of perchloro(meso-tetramesitylporphyrinato)iron(III), [Fe(TMP)L]ClO(4), have been prepared, and their spin states have been examined by (1)H NMR, (13)C NMR, and EPR spectroscopy as well as solution magnetic moments. All the complexes examined have shown a quantum mechanical spin admixed state of high and intermediate-spin (S = 5/2 and 3/2) states though the contribution of the S = 3/2 state varies depending on the nature of axial ligands. While the complex with extremely bulky 2-tert-butylimidazole (2-(t)()BuIm) has exhibited an essentially pure S = 5/2 state, the complex with electron-deficient 4,5-dichloroimidazole (4,5-Cl(2)Im) adopts an S = 3/2 state with 30% of the S = 5/2 spin admixture. On the basis of the (1)H and (13)C NMR results, we have concluded that the S = 3/2 contribution at ambient temperature increases according to the following order: 2-(t)BuIm < 2-(1-EtPr)Im < 2-MeIm <or= 2-EtIm <or= 2-(i)PrIm < 4,5-Cl(2)Im. The effective magnetic moments determined by the Evans method in CH(2)Cl(2) solution are 5.9 and 5.0 mu(B) at 25 degrees C for [Fe(TMP)(2-(t)BuIm)]ClO(4) and [Fe(TMP)(2-MeIm)]ClO(4), respectively, which further verify the order given above. Comparison of the NMR and EPR data has revealed that the S = 3/2 contribution changes sensitively by the temperature; the S = 3/2 contribution decreases as the temperature is lowered for all the mono(imidazole) complexes examined in this study. The solvent polarity also affects the spin state; polar solvents such as methanol and acetonitrile increase the S = 3/2 contribution while nonpolar solvents such as benzene decrease it. These results are explained in terms of the structurally flexible nature of the mono(imidazole) complexes; structural parameters such as the Fe(III)-N(axial) bond length, displacement of the iron from the N4 core, tilting of the Fe(III)-N(axial) bond to the heme normal, orientation of the coordinated imidazole ligand, etc., could be altered by the nature of the axial ligands as well as by the solvent polarity and temperature. Some mysteries on the spin states of cytochromes c' isolated from various bacterial sources are possibly explained in terms of the flexible nature of the mono(imidazole)-ligated structure.
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- Akira Ikezaki
- Department of Chemistry, School of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo 143-8540, Japan
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Tsan P, Caffrey M, Daku ML, Cusanovich M, Marion D, Gans P. Magnetic susceptibility tensor and heme contact shifts determinations in the Rhodobacter capsulatus ferricytochrome c': NMR and magnetic susceptibility studies. J Am Chem Soc 2001; 123:2231-42. [PMID: 11456869 DOI: 10.1021/ja0011663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The 1H and 15N resonances of the carbon monoxide complex of ferrocytochrome c' of Rhodobacter capsulatus, a ferrous diamagnetic heme protein, have been extensively assigned by TOCSY-HSQC, NOESY-HSQC, and HSQC-NOESY-HSQC 3D heteronuclear experiments performed on a 7 mM sample labeled with 15N. Based on short-range and medium-range NOEs and H(N) exchange rates, the secondary structure consists of four helices: helix 1 (3-29), helix 2 (33-48), helix 3 (78-101), and helix 4 (103-125). The 15N, 1HN, and 1H(alpha) chemical shifts of the CO complex form are compared to those of the previously assigned oxidized (or ferric) state. From the chemical shift differences between these redox states, the orientation and the anisotropy of the paramagnetic susceptibility tensor have been determined using the crystallographic coordinates of the ferric state. The chi-tensor is axial, and the orientation of the z-axis is approximately perpendicular to the heme plane. The paramagnetic chemical shifts of the protons of the heme ligand have been determined and decomposed into the Fermi shift and dipolar shift contributions. Magnetic susceptibility studies in frozen solutions have been performed. Fits of the susceptibility data using the model of Maltempo (Maltempo, M. M. J. Chem. Phys. 1974, 61, 2540-2547) are consistent with a rather low contribution of the S = 3/2 spin state over the range of temperatures and confirm the value of the axial anisotropy. Values in the range 10.4-12.5 cm(-1) have been inferred for the axial zero-field splitting parameter (D). Analysis of the contact shift and the susceptibility data suggests that cytochrome c' of Rb. capsulatus exhibits a predominant high-spin character of the iron in the oxidized state at room temperature.
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- P Tsan
- Contribution from the Institut de Biologie Structurale "Jean-Pierre Ebel" (CEA-CNRS), 41 Avenue Jules Horowitz, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France
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Lawson DM, Stevenson CE, Andrew CR, Eady RR. Unprecedented proximal binding of nitric oxide to heme: implications for guanylate cyclase. EMBO J 2000; 19:5661-71. [PMID: 11060017 PMCID: PMC305806 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.21.5661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Microbial cytochromes c' contain a 5-coordinate His-ligated heme that forms stable adducts with nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO), but not with dioxygen. We report the 1.95 and 1.35 A resolution crystal structures of the CO- and NO-bound forms of the reduced protein from Alcaligenes xylosoxidans. NO disrupts the His-Fe bond and binds in a novel mode to the proximal face of the heme, giving a 5-coordinate species. In contrast, CO binds 6-coordinate on the distal side. A second CO molecule, not bound to the heme, is located in the proximal pocket. Since the unusual spectroscopic properties of cytochromes c' are shared by soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC), our findings have potential implications for the activation of sGC induced by the binding of NO or CO to the heme domain.
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- D M Lawson
- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
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Tsan P, Hus JC, Caffrey M, Marion D, Blackledge M. Rotational Diffusion Anisotropy and Local Backbone Dynamics of Carbon Monoxide-Bound Rhodobacter capsulatus Cytochrome c‘. J Am Chem Soc 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/ja993654k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Pascale Tsan
- Contribution from the Institut de Biologie Structurale, Jean-Pierre Ebel C.N.R.S.−C.E.A., 41, Rue Jules Horowitz, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- Contribution from the Institut de Biologie Structurale, Jean-Pierre Ebel C.N.R.S.−C.E.A., 41, Rue Jules Horowitz, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- Contribution from the Institut de Biologie Structurale, Jean-Pierre Ebel C.N.R.S.−C.E.A., 41, Rue Jules Horowitz, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- Contribution from the Institut de Biologie Structurale, Jean-Pierre Ebel C.N.R.S.−C.E.A., 41, Rue Jules Horowitz, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- Contribution from the Institut de Biologie Structurale, Jean-Pierre Ebel C.N.R.S.−C.E.A., 41, Rue Jules Horowitz, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France
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Brennan L, Turner DL, Messias AC, Teodoro ML, LeGall J, Santos H, Xavier AV. Structural basis for the network of functional cooperativities in cytochrome c(3) from Desulfovibrio gigas: solution structures of the oxidised and reduced states. J Mol Biol 2000; 298:61-82. [PMID: 10756105 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cytochrome c(3) is a 14 kDa tetrahaem protein that plays a central role in the bioenergetic metabolism of Desulfovibrio spp. This involves an energy transduction mechanism made possible by a complex network of functional cooperativities between redox and redox/protolytic centres (the redox-Bohr effect), which enables cytochrome c(3) to work as a proton activator. The three-dimensional structures of the oxidised and reduced Desulfovibrio gigas cytochrome c(3) in solution were solved using 2D (1)H-NMR data. The reduced protein structures were calculated using INDYANA, an extended version of DYANA that allows automatic calibration of NOE data. The oxidised protein structure, which includes four paramagnetic centres, was solved using the program PARADYANA, which also includes the structural paramagnetic parameters. In this case, initial structures were used to correct the upper and lower volume restraints for paramagnetic leakage, and angle restraints derived from (13)C Fermi contact shifts of haem moiety substituents were used for the axial histidine ligands. Despite the reduction of the NOE intensities by paramagnetic relaxation, the final family of structures is of similar precision and accuracy to that obtained for the reduced form. Comparison of the two structures shows that, although the global folds of the two families of structures are similar, significant localised differences occur upon change of redox state, some of which could not be detected by comparison with the X-ray structure of the oxidised state: (1) there is a redox-linked concerted rearrangement of Lys80 and Lys90 that results in the stabilisation of haem moieties II and III when both molecules are oxidised or both are reduced, in agreement with the previously measured positive redox cooperativity between these two haem moieties. This cooperativity regulates electron transfer, enabling a two-electron step adapted to the function of cytochromes c(3) as the coupling partner of hydrogenase; and (2) the movement of haem I propionate 13 towards the interior of the protein upon reduction explains the positive redox-Bohr effect, establishing the structural basis for the redox-linked proton activation mechanism necessary for energy conservation, driving ATP synthesis.
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- L Brennan
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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Boisbouvier J, Gans P, Blackledge M, Brutscher B, Marion D. Long-Range Structural Information in NMR Studies of Paramagnetic Molecules from Electron Spin−Nuclear Spin Cross-Correlated Relaxation. J Am Chem Soc 1999. [DOI: 10.1021/ja991228t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Jérôme Boisbouvier
- Institut de Biologie Structurale-Jean-Pierre Ebel C.N.R.S.-C.E.A., 41, rue Jules Horowitz 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale-Jean-Pierre Ebel C.N.R.S.-C.E.A., 41, rue Jules Horowitz 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale-Jean-Pierre Ebel C.N.R.S.-C.E.A., 41, rue Jules Horowitz 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale-Jean-Pierre Ebel C.N.R.S.-C.E.A., 41, rue Jules Horowitz 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale-Jean-Pierre Ebel C.N.R.S.-C.E.A., 41, rue Jules Horowitz 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France
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Tsan P, Caffrey M, Daku ML, Cusanovich M, Marion D, Gans P. Unusual Contact Shifts and Magnetic Tensor Orientation in Rhodobacter capsulatus Ferrocytochrome c‘: NMR, Magnetic Susceptibility, and EPR Studies. J Am Chem Soc 1999. [DOI: 10.1021/ja9820745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Pascale Tsan
- Contribution from the Institut de Biologie Structurale “Jean-Pierre Ebel” (CEA-CNRS), 41 Avenue des Martyrs, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France, DRFMC-SCIB-SCPM, 85X, CEN-Grenoble, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France, and Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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- Contribution from the Institut de Biologie Structurale “Jean-Pierre Ebel” (CEA-CNRS), 41 Avenue des Martyrs, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France, DRFMC-SCIB-SCPM, 85X, CEN-Grenoble, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France, and Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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- Contribution from the Institut de Biologie Structurale “Jean-Pierre Ebel” (CEA-CNRS), 41 Avenue des Martyrs, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France, DRFMC-SCIB-SCPM, 85X, CEN-Grenoble, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France, and Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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- Contribution from the Institut de Biologie Structurale “Jean-Pierre Ebel” (CEA-CNRS), 41 Avenue des Martyrs, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France, DRFMC-SCIB-SCPM, 85X, CEN-Grenoble, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France, and Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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- Contribution from the Institut de Biologie Structurale “Jean-Pierre Ebel” (CEA-CNRS), 41 Avenue des Martyrs, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France, DRFMC-SCIB-SCPM, 85X, CEN-Grenoble, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France, and Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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- Contribution from the Institut de Biologie Structurale “Jean-Pierre Ebel” (CEA-CNRS), 41 Avenue des Martyrs, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France, DRFMC-SCIB-SCPM, 85X, CEN-Grenoble, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France, and Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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Shibata N, Iba S, Misaki S, Meyer TE, Bartsch RG, Cusanovich MA, Morimoto Y, Higuchi Y, Yasuoka N. Basis for monomer stabilization in Rhodopseudomonas palustris cytochrome c' derived from the crystal structure. J Mol Biol 1998; 284:751-60. [PMID: 9826513 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The crystal structure of an unusual monomeric cytochrome c' from Rhodopseudomonas palustris (RPCP) has been determined at 2.3 A resolution. RPCP has the four-helix (helices A, B, C and D) bundle structure similar to dimeric cytochromes c'. However the amino acid composition of the surface of helices A and B in RPCP is remarkably different from that of the dimeric cytochromes c'. This surface forms the dimer interface in the latter proteins. RPCP has seven charged residues on this surface contrary to the dimeric cytochromes c', which have only two or three charged groups on the corresponding surface. Moreover, hydrophobic residues on this surface of RPCP are two to three times fewer than in dimeric cytochromes c'. As a result of the difference in amino acid composition, the A-B surface of RPCP is rather hydrophilic compared with dimeric cytochromes c'. We thus suggest that RPCP is monomeric in solution because of the hydrophilic nature of the A-B surface. The amino acid composition of the A-B surface is similar to that of Rhodobacter capsulatus cytochrome c' (RCCP), which is an equilibrium admixture of monomer and dimer. The charge distribution of the A-B surface in RCCP, however, is considerably different from that of RPCP. Due to the difference, RCCP can form dimers by both ionic and hydrophobic interactions. These dimers are quite different from those in proteins which form strong dimers such as in Chromatium vinosum, Rhodospirillum rubrum, Rhodospirillum molischianum and Alcaligenes. Cytochrome c' can be classified into two types. Type 1 cytochromes c' have hydrophobic A-B surfaces and they are globular. The A-B surface of type 2 cytochromes c' is hydrophilic and they take a monomeric or flattened dimeric form.
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- N Shibata
- Faculty of Science, Himeji Institute of Technology, Hyogo, 678-1297, Japan
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Aono S, Ohkubo K, Matsuo T, Nakajima H. Redox-controlled ligand exchange of the heme in the CO-sensing transcriptional activator CooA. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:25757-64. [PMID: 9748246 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.40.25757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The transcriptional activator CooA from Rhodospirillum rubrum contains a b-type heme that acts as a CO sensor in vivo. CooA is the first example of a transcriptional regulator containing a heme as a prosthetic group and of a hemeprotein in which CO plays a physiological role. In this study, we constructed an in vivo reporter system to measure the transcriptional activator activity of CooA and prepared some CooA mutants in which a mutation was introduced at Cys, His, Met, Lys, or Tyr. Only the mutations of Cys75 and His77 affected the electronic absorption spectra of the heme in CooA. The electronic absorption spectra, EPR spectra, and the transcriptional activator activity of the wild-type and mutant CooA proteins indicate that 1) the thiolate derived from Cys75 is the axial ligand in the ferric heme, but it is not coordinated to the CO-bound ferrous heme; 2) Cys75 is protonated or displaced in the ferrous heme; and 3) His77 is the proximal ligand in the CO-bound ferrous heme and probably also in the ferrous heme, but it is not coordinated to the ferric heme. NMR spectra reveal that the conformational change around the heme, which will trigger the activation of CooA by CO, takes place upon the binding of CO to the heme.
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- S Aono
- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi, Nomi-gun, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan.
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Higuchi Y, Yagi T, Yasuoka N. Unusual ligand structure in Ni-Fe active center and an additional Mg site in hydrogenase revealed by high resolution X-ray structure analysis. Structure 1997; 5:1671-80. [PMID: 9438867 DOI: 10.1016/s0969-2126(97)00313-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 260] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND The hydrogenase of Desulfovibrio sp. catalyzes the reversible oxidoreduction of molecular hydrogen, in conjunction with a specific electron acceptor, cytochrome c3. The Ni-Fe active center of Desulfovibrio hydrogenase has an unusual ligand structure with non-protein ligands. An atomic model at high resolution is required to make concrete assignment of the ligands which coordinate the Ni-Fe center. These in turn will provide insight into the mechanism of electron transfer, during the reaction catalysed by hydrogenase. RESULTS The X-ray structure of the hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki has been solved at 1.8 A resolution and refined to a crystallographic R factor of 0.229. The overall folding pattern and the spatial arrangement of the metal centers are very similar to those found in Desulfovibrio gigas hydrogenase. This high resolution crystal structure enabled us to assign the non-protein ligands to the Fe atom in the Ni-Fe site and revealed the presence of a Mg center, located approximately 13 A from the Ni-Fe active center. CONCLUSIONS From the nature of the electron-density map, stereochemical geometry and atomic parameters of the refined structure, the most probable candidates for the four ligands, coordinating the Ni-Fe center, have been proposed to be diatomic S=O, C triple bond O and C triple bond N molecules and one sulfur atom. The assignment was supported by pyrolysis mass spectrometry measurements. These ligands may have a role as an electron sink during the electron transfer reaction between the hydrogenase and its biological counterparts, and they could stabilize the redox state of Fe(II), which may not change during the catalytic cycle and is independent of the redox transition of the Ni. The hydrogen-bonding system between the Ni-Fe and the Mg centers suggests the possible.
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- Y Higuchi
- Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.
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