Abstract
In order to identify the most readily deformable portion of the heme pocket in myoglobin, equine myoglobin was reconstituted with a meso-n-butyl substituent on centrosymmetric etiohemin-I. Solution 1H NMR data for the low-spin iron(III) cyanide complex of oxidized myoglobin that include 2D nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy contacts, paramagnetic relaxation, and dipolar shifts resulting from magnetic anisotropy show that the heme binds uniquely to the iron in a manner that arranges the methyl and ethyl substituents on a given pyrrole in a clockwise manner when viewed from the proximal side, and with the n-butyl group seated at the canonical α-meso position of native protohemin-IX. The butyl group is oriented sharply toward the proximal side and its protein contacts demonstrate that it is oriented largely into the “xenon hole” in myoglobin. The location of the n-butyl group on the proximal side near the vacancies places it within the region found to be most flexible in molecular dynamics simulation. A small, counterclockwise rotation of the pyrrole N–Fe–N vector of n-butyl-etiohemin-I relative to that for native protohemin, indicated by both the prosthetic group methyl contact shift pattern and the prosthetic group contacts to heme pocket residues, is proposed to allow the xenon hole to accommodate better the n-butyl group. In contrast to previous work, which showed that a bulky polar substituent on etiohemin-I preferentially seats at the canonical γ-meso position, the nonpolar n-butyl group selects the α-meso position.
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Abbreviations
- DSS:
-
2,2-Dimethyl-2-silapentane-5-sulfonate
- Mb:
-
Myoglobin
- MetMbCN:
-
Cyanide complex of oxidized myoglobin
- NOESY:
-
Nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy
- TOCSY:
-
Total correlation spectroscopy
- WEFT:
-
Water-elimination Fourier transform
- WT:
-
Wild type
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This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, GM 62830 (G.N.L.), GM 26226 (A.L.B.), and HL 16087 (G.N.L.).
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Bondarenko, V., Wang, J., Kalish, H. et al. Solution 1H NMR study of the accommodation of the side chain of n-butyl-etiohemin-I incorporated into the active site of cyano-metmyoglobin. J Biol Inorg Chem 10, 283–293 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00775-005-0640-x
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