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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 47, Issue 34, Pages 8874-8884Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi800248c
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- Special Education and Research Expenses from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
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The catalytic activity of heme-regulated phosphodiesterase from Escherichia coli (Ec DOS) on cyclic di-GMP is markedly enhanced upon binding of gas molecules, such as O(2) and CO, to the heme iron complex in the sensor domain. Arg97 interacts directly with O(2) bound to Fe(II) heme in the crystal structure of the isolated heme-bound sensor domain with the PAS structure (Ec DOS-PAS) and may thus be critical in ligand recognition. To establish the specific role of Arg97, we generated Arg97Ala, Arg97Glu, and Arg97Ile mutant Ec DOS-PAS proteins and examined binding to O(2), CO, and cyanide, as well as redox potentials. The autoxidation rates of the Arg97Ala and Arg97Glu mutant proteins were up to 2000fold higher, while the O(2) dissociation rate constant for dissociation from the Fe(Il)-O(2)) heme complex of the Arg97Ile mutant was 100-fold higher than that of the wild-type protein. In contrast, the redox potential values of the mutant proteins were only slightly different from that of the wild type (within 10 mV). Accordingly, we propose that Arg97 plays critical roles in recognition of the O(2) molecule and redox switching by stabilizing the Fe(II)-O(2) complex, thereby anchoring O(2) to the heme iron and lowering the autoxidation rate to prevent formation of Fe(111) hemin species not regulated by gas molecules. Arg97 mutations significantly influenced interactions with the internal ligand Met95, during CO binding to the Fe(II) complex. Moreover, the binding behavior of cyanide to the Fe(III) complexes of the Arg mutant proteins was similar to that Of O(2), which is evident from the K(d) values, suggestive of electrostatic interactions between cyanide and Arg97.
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