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SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF THE WATER-SOLUBLE FRAGMENT OF RAT HEPATIC APOCYTOCHROME B5
Structural highlights
FunctionCYB5_RAT Cytochrome b5 is a membrane bound hemoprotein which function as an electron carrier for several membrane bound oxygenases. It is also involved in several steps of the sterol biosynthesis pathway, particularly in the C-6 double bond introduction during the C-6 desaturation. Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMedThe water-soluble domain of rat hepatic cytochrome b(5) undergoes marked structural changes upon heme removal. The solution structure of apocytochrome b(5) shows that the protein is partially folded in the absence of the heme group, exhibiting a stable module and a disordered heme-binding loop. The quality of the apoprotein structure in solution was improved with the use of heteronuclear NMR data. Backbone amide hydrogen exchange was studied to characterize cooperative units in the protein. It was found that this criterion distinguished the folded module from the heme-binding loop in the apoprotein, in contrast to the holoprotein. The osmolyte trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) did not affect the structure of the apoprotein in the disordered region. TMAO imparted a small stabilization consistent with an unfolded state effect correlating with the extent of buried surface area in the folded region of the native apoprotein. The failure of the osmolyte to cause large conformational shifts in the disordered loop supported the view that the specificity of the local sequence for the holoprotein fold was best developed with the stabilization of the native state through heme binding. To dissect the role of the heme prosthetic group in forcing the disordered region into the holoprotein conformation, the axial histidine belonging to the flexible loop (His63) was replaced with an alanine, and the structural properties of the protein with carbon-monoxide-ligated reduced iron were studied. The His63Ala substitution resulted in a protein with lower heme affinity but nevertheless capable of complete refolding. This indicated that the coordination bond was not necessary to establish the structural features of the holoprotein. In addition, the weak binding of the heme in this protein resulted in conformational shifts at a location distant from the binding site. The data suggested an uneven distribution of cooperative elements in the structure of the cytochrome. Structural and dynamic perturbations induced by heme binding in cytochrome b5.,Falzone CJ, Wang Y, Vu BC, Scott NL, Bhattacharya S, Lecomte JT Biochemistry. 2001 Apr 17;40(15):4879-91. PMID:11294656[1] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See AlsoReferences | ||||||||||||||||||
