Ultrafast dynamics of diatomic ligand binding to nitrophorin 4.
Ultrafast dynamics of diatomic ligand binding to nitrophorin 4.
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DOI:
10.1021/ja910005b
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发表时间:
2010-03-03
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
Champion, Paul M.
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Benabbas, Abdelkrim;Ye, Xiong;Kubo, Minoru;Zhang, Zhenyu;Maes, Estelle M.;Montfort, William R.;Champion, Paul M.
Nitrophorin 4 (NP4) is a heme protein that stores and delivers nitric oxide (NO) through pH sensitive conformational change. This protein uses the ferric state of a highly ruffled heme to bind NO tightly at low pH and release it at high pH. In this work, the rebinding kinetics of NO and CO to NP4 are investigated as a function of iron oxidation state and the acidity of the environment. The geminate recombination process of NO to ferrous NP4 at both pH 5 and pH 7 is dominated by a single ~7 ps kinetic phase that we attribute to the rebinding of NO directly from the distal pocket. The lack of pH dependence explains in part why NP4 cannot use the ferrous state to fulfill its function. The kinetic response of ferric NP4NO shows two distinct phases. The relative geminate amplitude of the slower phase increases dramatically as the pH is raised from 5 to 8. We assign the fast phase of NO rebinding to a conformation of the ferric protein with a closed hydrophobic pocket. The slow phase is assigned to the protein in an open conformation with a more hydrophilic heme pocket environment. Analysis of the ultrafast kinetics finds the equilibrium off-rate of NO to be proportional to the open state population as well as the pH-dependent amplitude of escape from the open pocket. When both factors are considered, the off-rate increases by more than an order of magnitude as the pH changes from 5 to 8. The recombination of CO to ferrous NP4 is observed to have a large non-exponential geminate amplitude with rebinding timescales of ~10−11–10−9 s at pH 5 and ~10−10–10−8 s at pH 7. The non-exponential CO rebinding kinetics at both pH 5 and pH 7 are accounted for using a simple model that has proven effective for understanding CO binding in a variety of other heme systems.
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通讯作者:
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