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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-3-22
pubmed:abstractText
Resonance Raman spectra of the CO-responsive transcription factor CooA from Rhodospirillum rubrum provides evidence on the nature of heme ligation and its CO activation mechanism. The Fe(III) form gives standard low-spin heme spectrum, while the Fe(II) form is low spin for wild-type (WT) CooA and mixed spin for a CooA variant, H77Y, with an His77Tyr substitution. The Fe(II) porphyrin skeletal mode nu11 is at a value (1541 cm-1) indicative of a neutral donor ligand for the H77Y variant but is at an unusually depressed frequency (1529 cm-1) for the WT protein, indicating a strongly donating ligand. This ligand is proposed to be His77 imidazolate, formed by proton transfer to a nearby acceptor. The WT CO adduct has FeCO and CO stretching frequencies that indicate a neutral trans ligand and negative polarity in the CO binding pocket, while the CO adduct of His77Tyr has both 6- and 5-coordinate signals and a nonpolar CO environment. Photolysis of the WT CO adduct by the Raman laser produced a low-spin product at steady state, indicating fast recombination of the displaced ligand. These data suggest a novel YH- - -His- charge relay mechanism for CooA activation by CO. In this mechanism, His77 is reprotonated upon ligand displacement by CO; CO displaces either His77 or the trans ligand, X. The resulting charge on Y- may induce the protein conformation change required for site-selective DNA binding.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0006-2960
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
2
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2679-87
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Resonance Raman evidence for a novel charge relay activation mechanism of the CO-dependent heme protein transcription factor CooA.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.