Proton nuclear magnetic resonance study of histidine ionizations in myoglobins of various species. Specific assignment of individual resonances.
Proton nuclear magnetic resonance study of histidine ionizations in myoglobins of various species. Specific assignment of individual resonances.
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不同物种肌红蛋白中组氨酸电离的质子核磁共振研究。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00617a019
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发表时间:
1978
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
F. Gurd
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作者:
L. H. Botelho;F. Gurd
Lynne H. Botelho* and Frank R. N. Gurd* abstract: Individual residues in a series of myoglobins from 16 species, comprising 12 cetaceans, 2 pinnipeds, horse, and man, were examined and assigned in terms of C-2 proton resonances observed at 220 MHz. The cetacean myoglobins ex-amined were isolated from muscles of sperm whale, dwarf sperm whale, sei whale, minke whale, humpback whale, Cal-ifornia grey whale, Pacific common dolphin, pilot whale, Amazon River dolphin, bottlenosed dolphin, common or har-bor porpoise, and Dali porpoise. The pinnipeds were harbor seal and California sea lion. The various myoglobins contained between 9 and 13 histidine residues in their known sequences. Clearly resolvable, titrating histidine Ce proton resonancesProton NMR is capable of yielding direct and detailed in-formation about the smaller, well-characterized proteins (Meadows et al., 1967; Wüthrich et al., 1970; Migchelson and Beintema, 1973; Cohen and Hayes, 1974; Markley, 1975). The present paper and the following one in this issue (Botelho et al., 1978) deal with the determination of histidine pK values and with some conformational changes that can be recognized by observing histidine C-2 proton resonances in myoglobins. A group of myoglobins from 16 animal species was studied in this way (Botelho, 1975). These myoglobins offer a considerable range of variation in homologous polypeptide sequences. Within this range three cetacean families, the sperm whales, the baleen whales, and the dolphins and porpoises, are em-phasized to provide some close structural comparisons (Jones et al, 1977). The majority of the sequences of these myoglobins have been determined since the NMR data were collected and first analyzed (Botelho, 1975). Every amino acid substitution encountered so far has been found to fit qualitatively into the three-dimensional structure of sperm whale ferrimyoglobin (Watson, 1969; Takano, 1977). Between the species studied, numerous spectral and other physical similarities have been noted in the present work and in related studies (Wüthrich et al., 1970; Hartzell et al., 1968a, b; Marks et al., 1971; Friend et al., 1977). The group of myoglobin species, therefore, pro-vides a set of structurally homologous proteins that can be used