Comparing Properties of Common Bioinorganic Ligands with Switchable Variants of Cytochrome c .

Autor: Zhong F; Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States., Alden SL; Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States., Hughes RP; Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States., Pletneva EV; Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Inorganic chemistry [Inorg Chem] 2022 Jan 24; Vol. 61 (3), pp. 1207-1227. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Oct 26.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02322
Abstrakt: Ligand substitution at the metal center is common in catalysis and signal transduction of metalloproteins. Understanding the effects of particular ligands, as well as the polypeptide surrounding, is critical for uncovering mechanisms of these biological processes and exploiting them in the design of bioinspired catalysts and molecular devices. A series of switchable K79G/M80X/F82C (X = Met, His, or Lys) variants of cytochrome (cyt) c was employed to directly compare the stability of differently ligated proteins and activation barriers for Met, His, and Lys replacement at the ferric heme iron. Studies of these variants and their nonswitchable counterparts K79G/M80X have revealed stability trends Met < Lys < His and Lys < His < Met for the protein Fe III -X and Fe II -X species, respectively. The differences in the hydrogen-bonding interactions in folded proteins and in solvation of unbound X in the unfolded proteins explain these trends. Calculations of free energy of ligand dissociation in small heme model complexes reveal that the ease of the Fe III -X bond breaking increases in the series amine < imidazole < thioether, mirroring trends in hardness of these ligands. Experimental rate constants for X dissociation in differently ligated cyt c variants are consistent with this sequence, but the differences between Met and His dissociation rates are attenuated because the former process is limited by the heme crevice opening. Analyses of activation parameters and comparisons to those for the Lys-to-Met ligand switch in the alkaline transition suggest that ligand dissociation is entropically driven in all the variants and accompanied by Lys protonation at neutral pH. The described thiolate redox-linked switches have offered a wealth of new information about interactions of different protein-derived ligands with the heme iron in cyt c model proteins, and we anticipate that the strategy of employing these switches could benefit studies of other redox metalloproteins and model complexes.
Databáze: MEDLINE