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Structural comparison of apomyoglobin and metaquomyoglobin: pH titration of histidines by NMR spectroscopy.

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:Proton NMR spectroscopy was applied to myoglobin in the ferric, water-liganded form (metMbH2O) and the apo form (apoMb) to probe the structure and stability of the latter. Proteins from sperm whale and horse skeletal muscles were studied to simplify the spectral assignment task. Nuclear Overhauser effects and the response of chemical shifts to variations of pH were used as indicators of residual native holoprotein structure in the apoprotein. The investigation was focused in the histidine side chains and their environment. In metMbH2O, the resonances of all imidazole rings not interacting with the heme were assigned by applying standard two-dimensional methods. These assignments were found to differ from those reported elsewhere [Carver, J. A., & Bradbury, J. H. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 4890-4905] except for His-12, -113, and -116. Only one histidine (His-36) has a pK(a) higher than 7, two (His-48 and His-113) have a pK(a) lower than 5.5, and two (His-24 and His-82) appear not to titrate between pH 5.5 and pH 10. In the apoproteins, the signals of His-113 and His-116, as well as those of His-24, -36, -48, and -119 previously assigned in the horse globin [Cocco, M. J.. & Lecomte, J. T. J. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 11067-11072], could be followed between pH 5 and pH 10. A comparison to the holoprotein data indicated that heme removal has limited effect on the pK(a) and the surroundings of these residues. Five additional histidines which occur in the two helices and connecting loops forming the heme binding site were identified in the horse apoprotein. Four of these were found to have pK(a) values lower than that expected of an exposed residue. The NOE and titration data were proposed to reflect the fact that several holoprotein structural elements, in particular outside the heme binding site, are maintained in the apoprotein. In the heme binding region of the apoprotein structure, the low pK(a)'s suggest local environments which are resistant to protonation.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Cocco MJ,Kao YH,Phillips AT,Lecomte JT

doi

10.1021/bi00143a018

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1992-07-21 00:00:00

pages

6481-91

issue

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

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Structural comparison of apomyoglobin and metaquomyoglobin: pH titration of histidines by NMR spectroscopy.