Stereochemistry of carbon monoxide binding to normal human adult and Cowtown haemoglobins.
Stereochemistry of carbon monoxide binding to normal human adult and Cowtown haemoglobins.
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一氧化碳与正常成人和牛城血红蛋白结合的立体化学。
DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(90)90262-k
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发表时间:
1990
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
Reynaud,JP
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作者:
Derewenda,Z;Dodson,G;Emsley,P;Harris,D;Nagai,K;Perutz,M;Renaud,JP;Reynaud,JP
The structures of carbonmonoxyhaemoglobins A and Cowtown (Hisl46J?+ Leu) have been refined at 2.2 A (1 A=@ 1 nm) and 2.3 A resolution, respectively. The least squares fit to the F’e-GO line makes an angle to the haem normal of about 6”. The Fe-CO group is bent from linearity by about 7”. The porphyrins in the CO liganded haemoglobins are ruffled. This deformation of the haem and the distortion of the Fe-GO group may explain the low CO affinity of haemoglobin. The electron density for the C-terminal residues is low but sufficient to distinguish the histidyl and leucyl residues clearly. The similarity between these two structures, apart from 1468, means that the reduced alkaline Bohr effect is due solely to the replacement of histidine by a leucine.Synthetic porphyrins have partition coefficients between oxygen and carbonmonoxide of the order of a few thousand. In human haemoglobin this is reduced to about 250. This reduction is essential for life, since carbonmonoxide is produced endogenously in the breakdown of porphyrin that follows the lysis of red blood cells. The haem pocket is tailored to accommodate oxygen whose bond with iron is bent to the haem normal, but not CO, which binds parallel to the haem normal unless perturbed by steric hindrance. The question is whether steric hindrance by the distal residues lowers the CO affinity of haemoglobin to a physiological tolerable level.