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Occurrence of two architectural types of hexagonal bilayer hemoglobin in annelids: comparison of 3D reconstruction volumes of Arenicola marina and Lumbricus terrestris hemoglobins.

Abstract：

:A 3D reconstruction at 25 A resolution of native hemoglobin of the polychaete worm Arenicola marina was carried out from frozen-hydrated specimens examined in the electron microscope. The reconstruction volume of this large extracellular multimeric respiratory pigment appears as a hexagonal bilayer structure with eclipsed vertices in its upper and lower hexagonal layers. Conversely, in hemoglobins of oligochaetes, achaetes, and vestimentiferans and in chlorocruorins of the Sabellidae (polychaete) family, the vertices of the upper layer are 16 degrees clockwise rotated with respect to those of the lower layer. The fact that two other polychaete hemoglobins (Alvinella pompejana and Tylorrhynchus heterochaetus) have the same architecture as Arenicola led us to define two types of hexagonal bilayer hemoglobins/chlorocruorins: (i) type-I present in oligochaete, achaete, and vestimentiferan hemoglobins and in Sabellidae chlorocruorins; and (ii) type-II present in polychaete hemoglobins. A comparative study of the hemoglobins of Lumbricus terrestris (type-I) and Arenicola marina (type-II) showed that only two small differences located in the c4 and c5 linking units are responsible of the important architectural difference present in oligomers. A likely scheme proposed to explain the phylogenic distribution of the two types suggests that Clitellata, Sabellida (polychaete), and vestimentiferan hemoglobins and chlorocruorins derive from a type-I ancestral molecule, while Terebellida (Alvinella), Phyllodocida (Tylorrhynchus), and Scolecida (Arenicola) and possibly other polychaetes derive from an ancestor molecule with type-II hemoglobin. The architectures of the hollow globular substructures are highly similar in Arenicola and Lumbricus hemoglobins, with 12 globin chains and three linking units (c3a, c3b, and c4). The central piece of Arenicola hemoglobin is an ellipsoid while that of Lumbricus is a toroid. No phylogenic correlation could be found between the structure of the central pieces and the architecture type.

journal_name

J Mol Biol

journal_title

Journal of molecular biology

authors

Jouan L,Taveau JC,Marco S,Lallier FH,Lamy JN

doi

10.1006/jmbi.2000.4344

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-01-26 00:00:00

pages

757-71

issue

eissn

0022-2836

issn

1089-8638

pii

S0022-2836(00)94344-4

journal_volume

305

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Occurrence of two architectural types of hexagonal bilayer hemoglobin in annelids: comparison of 3D reconstruction volumes of Arenicola marina and Lumbricus terrestris hemoglobins.