2v1i

Publication Abstract from PubMed

High resolution crystal structures of myoglobin in the pH range 5.2-8.7 have been used as models for the peroxide-derived compound II intermediates in heme peroxidases and oxygenases. The observed Fe-O bond length (1.86-1.90 A) is consistent with that of a single bond. The compound II state of myoglobin in crystals was controlled by single-crystal microspectrophotometry before and after synchrotron data collection. We observe some radiation-induced changes in both compound II (resulting in intermediate H) and in the resting ferric state of myoglobin. These radiation-induced states are quite unstable, and compound II and ferric myoglobin are immediately regenerated through a short heating above the glass transition temperature (<1 s) of the crystals. It is unclear how this influences our compound II structures compared with the unaffected compound II, but some crystallographic data suggest that the influence on the Fe-O bond distance is minimal. Based on our crystallographic and spectroscopic data we suggest that for myoglobin the compound II intermediate consists of an Fe(IV)-O species with a single bond. The presence of Fe(IV) is indicated by a small isomer shift of delta = 0.07 mm/s from Mossbauer spectroscopy. Earlier quantum refinements (crystallographic refinement where the molecular-mechanics potential is replaced by a quantum chemical calculation) and density functional theory calculations suggest that this intermediate H species is protonated.

Crystallographic and spectroscopic studies of peroxide-derived myoglobin compound II and occurrence of protonated FeIV O.,Hersleth HP, Uchida T, Rohr AK, Teschner T, Schunemann V, Kitagawa T, Trautwein AX, Gorbitz CH, Andersson KK J Biol Chem. 2007 Aug 10;282(32):23372-86. Epub 2007 Jun 12. PMID:17565988^[1]

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.