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Structural insights into the role of iron-histidine bond cleavage in nitric oxide-induced activation of H-NOX gas sensor proteins

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authors

  • Herzik, M. A.
  • Jonnalagadda, R.
  • Kuriyan, J.
  • Marletta, Michael

publication date

  • October 2014

journal

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  Journal

abstract

  • Heme-nitric oxide/oxygen (H-NOX) binding domains are a recently discovered family of heme-based gas sensor proteins that are conserved across eukaryotes and bacteria. Nitric oxide (NO) binding to the heme cofactor of H-NOX proteins has been implicated as a regulatory mechanism for processes ranging from vasodilation in mammals to communal behavior in bacteria. A key molecular event during NO-dependent activation of H-NOX proteins is rupture of the heme-histidine bond and formation of a five-coordinate nitrosyl complex. Although extensive biochemical studies have provided insight into the NO activation mechanism, precise molecular-level details have remained elusive. In the present study, high-resolution crystal structures of the H-NOX protein from Shewanella oneidensis in the unligated, intermediate six-coordinate and activated five-coordinate, NO-bound states are reported. From these structures, it is evident that several structural features in the heme pocket of the unligated protein function to maintain the heme distorted from planarity. NO-induced scission of the iron-histidine bond triggers structural rearrangements in the heme pocket that permit the heme to relax toward planarity, yielding the signaling-competent NO-bound conformation. Here, we also provide characterization of a nonheme metal coordination site occupied by zinc in an H-NOX protein.

subject areas

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Binding Sites
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Heme
  • Hemeproteins
  • Histidine
  • Iron
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Molecular Structure
  • Mutation
  • Nitric Oxide
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • Shewanella
  • Spectrophotometry, Atomic
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Research

keywords

  • gas sensing
  • hemoprotein
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4210026

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0027-8424

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.1416936111

PubMed ID

  • 25253889
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • E4156

end page

  • E4164

volume

  • 111

issue

  • 40

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