Redox-Dependent Dynamics in Heme-Bound Bacterial Iron Response Regulator (Irr) Protein.
Redox-Dependent Dynamics in Heme-Bound Bacterial Iron Response Regulator (Irr) Protein.
复制标题
血红素结合细菌铁反应调节蛋白 (Irr) 的氧化还原依赖性动力学。
DOI:
10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00512
复制
发表时间:
2016
期刊:
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Ishimori,Koichiro
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Kobayashi,Kazuo;Nakagaki,Megumi;Ishikawa,Haruto;Iwai,Kazuhiro;O'Brian,MarkR;Ishimori,Koichiro
The iron response regulator (Irr) protein fromBradyrhizobium japonicummediates iron-dependent regulation of heme biosynthesis. Irr degrades in response to heme availability through a process that involves the binding of heme to Cys-29 in the heme regulatory motif (HRM) in the presence of molecular oxygen. In this work, we assessed the dynamics of one-electron reduction of heme-bound Irr by monitoring the formation of transient intermediates by pulse radiolysis. Hydrated electrons generated by pulse radiolysis reduced heme iron-bound Irr, facilitating the binding of molecular oxygen to the heme iron in Irr through an initial intermediate with an absorption maximum at 420 nm. This initial intermediate was converted to a secondary intermediate with an absorption maximum at 425 nm, with a first-order rate constant of 1.0 × 104s–1. The Cys-29 → Ala (C29A) mutant of Irr, on the other hand, did not undergo the secondary phase, implying that ligand exchange of Cys-29 for another ligand takes place during the process. Spectral changes during the reduction of the heme-bound Irr revealed that binding of CO to ferrous heme consisted of two phases withkonvalues of 1.3 × 105and 2.5 × 104M–1s–1, a finding consistent with the presence of two distinct hemes in Irr. In aerobic solutions, by contrast, oxidation of the ferrous heme to the ferric form was found to be a two-phase process. The C29A mutant was similarly oxidized, but this occurred as a single-phase process. We speculate that a reactive oxygen species essential for degradation of the protein is generated during the oxidation process.