血红素
谷氨酰胺
突变
血红蛋白
定点突变
化学
生物化学
氧气
突变
氨基酸
突变体
酶
基因
有机化学
作者
Kanak L. Dikshit,Yutaka Orii,Naveen Kumar Navani,S. M. Patel,Hui‐Yu Huang,Benjamin C. Stark,D. R. Webster
标识
DOI:10.1006/abbi.1997.0432
摘要
The bacterial and yeast hemoglobins have a glutamine instead of histidine in the E7 position of the distal heme pocket. The recently determined crystal structure ofVitreoscillahemoglobin (VHb) indicates that this residue is oriented out of the heme pocket and may not ligand the bound oxygen. This is in contrast to elephant myoglobin which also has a Gln(E7) but which does ligand the bound oxygen. This residue was changed in VHb using site-directed mutagenesis to leucine (VHbL) or to histidine (VHbH). Spectral and kinetic studies of the binding of oxygen and CO to VHbL showed that this substitution had little effect on the ligand-binding properties of this protein, evidence that Gln(E7) does not H-bond the bound ligand, in agreement with the findings of the crystallographic study of VHb. In contrast, the functional properties of VHbH were drastically altered in a way suggesting that the E7His may itself be liganded to the heme iron. These studies are further evidence that the distal heme pocket in VHb and related microbial hemoglobins differs from that in mammalian hemoglobins and may resemble in some ways the heme pocket in cytochromeb5.
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