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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 12, Issue 7, Pages 1063-1071Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00775-007-0276-0
Keywords
XH/pi interactions; weak interactions; porphyrin; protein stability; conservation score
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Searching structures of porphyrin-containing proteins from the Protein Data Bank revealed that the pi system of every porphyrin ring is involved in XH/pi interactions, with most of the porphyrins having several interactions. Both five-membered pyrrole rings and six-membered chelate rings are involved in XH/pi interactions; the number of interactions with five-membered rings is larger than the number of interactions with six-membered rings. We found interactions with C-H and N-H groups as hydrogen-atom donors; however, the number of CH/pi interactions is much larger than the number of NH/pi interactions. The amino acids involved in the interactions show a high conservation score. Our results that every porphyrin is involved in XH/pi interactions and that amino acids involved in these interactions are highly conserved demonstrate that XH/pi interactions play an important role in porphyrin-protein stability.
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