Journal
JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 99, Issue 1, Pages 34-44Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2004.09.026
Keywords
carbon monoxide; heme; protein; vibration; Raman
Funding
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM033576] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 33576] Funding Source: Medline
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Carbon monoxide is a useful vibrational probe of heme binding sites in proteins, because FeCO backbonding is modulated by polar interactions with protein residues, and by variations in the donor strength of the trans ligand. This modulation is sensitively monitored by the CO and FeC stretching frequencies, which are readily detectable in infrared and resonance Raman spectra. The two frequencies are anticorrelated, and the vFeC/vCO position along the correlation line reflects the type and strength of distal polar interactions. Changes in the trans ligand donor strength shift the correlation to higher or lower positions. Illustrative applications of the vFeC/vCO diagram are reviewed for proteins bearing histidine and thiolate axial ligands. Steric crowding has not been found to affect the vFeC/vCO correlations significantly, except in the special case of cytochrome oxidase, where the heme-bound CO may interact with the nearby Cu-B center. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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