1GDJ

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF FERRIC COMPLEXES OF THE YELLOW LUPIN LEGHEMOGLOBIN WITH ISOQUINOLINE AT 1.8 ANGSTROMS RESOLUTION (RUSSIAN)

Replaces:  1LH4Replaces:  2LH4

Summary for 1GDJ

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb1gdj/pdb
• Descriptor: LEGHEMOGLOBIN (DEOXY), PROTOPORPHYRIN IX CONTAINING FE (3 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: oxygen transport
• Biological source: Lupinus luteus (yellow lupine)
• Total number of polymer chains: 1
• Total formula weight: 17290.56

Authors

Harutyunyan, E.,Safonova, T.,Kuranova, I. (deposition date: 1994-09-14, release date: 1995-02-27, Last modification date: 2024-02-07)

Primary citation

Harutyunyan, H.E.,Safonova, T.N.,Kuranova, I.P.,Popov, A.N.,Teplyakov, A.V.,Obmolova, G.V.,Rusakov, A.A.,Vainshtein, B.K.,Dodson, G.G.,Wilson, J.C.,Perutz, M.F.
The Structure of Deoxy- and Oxy-Leghaemoglobin from Lupin
J.Mol.Biol., 251:104-115, 1995

PubMed Abstract: The leghaemoglobins have oxygen affinities 11 to 24 times higher than that of sperm whale myoglobin, due mainly to higher rates of association. To find out why, we have determined the structures of deoxy- and oxy-leghaemoglobin II of the lupin at 1.7 A resolution. Results confirm the general features found in previous X-ray analyses of this protein. The unique feature that has now emerged is the rotational freedom of the proximal histidine. In deoxy-leghaemoglobin the imidazole oscillates between two alternative orientations, eclipsing either the lines N1-N3 or N2-N4 of the porphyrin; in oxy-leghaemoglobin it is fixed in a staggered orientation. The iron atom moves from a position 0.30 A from the plane of the pyrrole nitrogen atoms in deoxy- to a position in the plane in oxy-leghaemoglobin while the Fe- bond distance remains constant at 2.02 A. The Fe-O-O angle is 152 degrees, as in human haemoglobin. The oxygen is hydrogen-bonded to the distal histidine at N epsilon 2-O1 and N epsilon 2-O2 distance of 2.95 A and 2.68 A, respectively. The porphyrin is ruffled equally in deoxy- and oxy-leghaemoglobins, due to rotations of the pyrrols about the N-Fe-N bonds, causing the methine bridges to deviate by up to 0.32 A from the mean porphyrin plane. The only feature capable of accounting for the high on-rate of the reaction with oxygen are the mobilities of the proximal histidine and distal histidine residues in deoxy-leghaemoglobin. The eclipsed positions of the proximal histidine in deoxy-leghaemoglobin maximize steric hindrance with the porphyrin nitrogen atoms and minimize pi-->p electron donation, while its staggered position in oxy-leghaemoglobin reverses both these effects. Together with the oscillation of the imidazole between the two orientations, these two factors may reduce the activation energy for the reaction of leghaemoglobin with oxygen. The distal histidine is in a fixed position in the haem pocket in the crystal, but must be swinging in and out of the pocket at a high rate in solution to allow the oxygen to enter.

PubMed: 7643380
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1995.0419

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (1.7 Å)