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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
20
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-5-10
pubmed:abstractText
CooA is a CO-dependent transcription factor of the bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum that contains a six-coordinate heme. It has as its heme axial ligands Pro(2) and Cys(75) in the ferric state and Pro(2) and His(77) in the ferrous state. To probe the regulation of CO binding and the ligand switching mechanism in CooA, we have prepared site-directed mutants in which the residues contributing the axial ligands are substituted. The properties of these mutants were investigated by resonance Raman and CO titration methods. Wild-type CooA binds CO with a modest dissociation constant (K(d)) of 11 microm, this value being typical for gas-sensing heme proteins. The K(d) value was greatly decreased in the P2H mutant, indicating that Pro(2) coordination fine tunes CO sensing in CooA. The bound CO in P2H gives rise to a nu(Fe-CO) stretching Raman line at 490 cm(-1), which is similar to that in wild-type CooA. Thus, Pro(2) is the ligand that is replaced by exogenous CO. In the H77A mutant, equilibrium CO binding is biphasic, and at high CO pressures two CO molecules occupy both axial sites. The nu(Fe-CO) stretching Raman line for the first CO molecule was observed at 497 cm(-1). Some of the His(77) mutants showed an additional nu(Fe-CO) line at 525 cm(-1). The binding affinity of the second CO molecule correlates with the five-coordinate component in the ferrous His(77) mutants and also with the acidity of the side chain at position 77. Thus, we propose the Cys(75)-His(77) ligand switch is controlled by His(77) acting as a proton reservoir.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
14
pubmed:volume
279
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
21394-400
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Amino Acid Substitution, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Carbon Monoxide, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Heme, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Hemeproteins, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Ligands, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Restriction Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Rhodospirillum rubrum, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Spectrum Analysis, Raman, pubmed-meshheading:15026411-Trans-Activators
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Roles of heme axial ligands in the regulation of CO binding to CooA.
pubmed:affiliation
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Oehonmachi, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't