Assignment of the ferriheme resonances of the high-spin forms of nitrophorins 1 and 4 by 1H NMR spectroscopy: comparison to structural data obtained from X-ray crystallography.

Autor: Shokhireva TKh; Department of Chemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0041, USA., Smith KM, Berry RE, Shokhirev NV, Balfour CA, Zhang H, Walker FA
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Inorganic chemistry [Inorg Chem] 2007 Jan 08; Vol. 46 (1), pp. 170-8.
DOI: 10.1021/ic061407t
Abstrakt: In this work, we report the assignment of the majority of the ferriheme resonances of high-spin nitrophorins (NPs) 1 and 4 and compare them to those of NP2, published previously. It is found that the structures of the ferriheme complexes of NP1 and NP4, in terms of the orientation of the histidine imidazole ligand, can be described with good accuracy by NMR techniques and that the angle plot proposed previously for the high-spin form of the NPs (Shokhireva, T. Kh.; Shokhirev, N. V.; Walker, F. A. Biochemistry 2003, 42, 679-693) describes the angle of the effective nodal plane of the axial histidine imidazole in solution. There is an equilibrium between the two heme orientations (A and B), which depends on the heme cavity shape, which can be altered by mutation of amino acids with side chains (phenyl vs tyrosyl) near the potential position where a heme vinyl group would be in one of the isomers. The A:B ratio can be much more accurately measured by NMR spectroscopy than by X-ray crystallography.
Databáze: MEDLINE