Article
Electronic control of discrimination between O2 and CO in myoglobin lacking the distal histidine residue.
Inorganic chemistry - 21 Jan 2014
Nishimura Ryu, Shibata Tomokazu, Ishigami Izumi, Ogura Takashi, Tai Hulin, Nagao Satoshi, Matsuo Takashi, Hirota Shun, Shoji Osami, Watanabe Yoshihito, Imai Kiyohiro, Neya Saburo, Suzuki Akihiro, Yamamoto Yasuhiko
Abstract excerpt
We analyzed the oxygen (O2) and carbon monoxide (CO) binding properties of the H64L mutant of myoglobin reconstituted with chemically modified heme cofactors possessing a heme Fe atom with a variety of electron densities, in order to elucidate the effect of the removal of the distal His64 on the control of both the O2 affinity and discrimination between O2 and CO of the protein by the intrinsic heme Fe reactivity...
Topics
- Animals
- Carbon Monoxide
- Electrons
- Heme
- Histidine
- Mutant Proteins
- Mutation
- Myoglobin
- Oxygen
- Substrate Specificity
- Vibration
