Hydroxide rather than histidine is coordinated to the heme in five-coordinate ferric Scapharca inaequivalvis hemoglobin

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Das, TK
Boffi, A
Chiancone, E
Rousseau, DL
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[1] Yeshiva Univ Albert Einstein Coll Med, Dept Physiol & Biophys, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
[2] Univ La Sapienza, Dept Biochem Sci, CNR, Ctr Biol Mol, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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10.1074/jbc.274.5.2916
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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The ferric form of the homodimeric Scapharca hemoglobin undergoes a pH-dependent spin transition of the heme iron. The transition can also be modulated by the presence of salt. From our earlier studies it was shown that three distinct species are populated in the pH range 6-9, At acidic pH, a low-spin six-coordinate structure predominates. At neutral and at alkaline pHs, in addition to a small population of a hexacoordinate high-spin species, a pentacoordinate species is significantly populated. Isotope difference spectra clearly show that the heme group in the latter species has a hydroxide ligand and thereby is not coordinated by the proximal histidine, The stretching frequency of the Fe-OH moiety is 578 cm(-1) and shifts to 553 cm(-1) in (H2O)-O-18, as would be expected for a Fe OH unit. On the other hand, the ferrous form of the protein shows substantial stability over a wide pH range. These observations suggest that Scapharca hemoglobin has a unique heme structure that undergoes substantial redox-dependent rearrangements that stabilize the Fe-proximal histidine bond in the functional deoxy form of the protein but not in the ferric form.
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