Structural and functional insights into thermally stable cytochrome c' from a thermophile

Protein Science Volume 26 Issue 4 Page 737-748 published_at 2017-03-06
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Title ( eng )
Structural and functional insights into thermally stable cytochrome c' from a thermophile
Creator
Oki Hiroya
Kawahara Kazuki
Yamane Daisuke
Yamanaka Masaru
Maruno Takahiro
Kobayashi Yuji
Masanari Misa
Wakai Satoshi
Nishihara Hirofumi
Ohkubo Tadayasu
Source Title
Protein Science
Volume 26
Issue 4
Start Page 737
End Page 748
Abstract
Thermophilic Hydrogenophilus thermoluteolus cytochrome c0 (PHCP) exhibits higher thermal stability than a mesophilic counterpart, Allochromatium vinosum cytochrome c0 (AVCP), which has a homo-dimeric structure and ligand-binding ability. To understand the thermal stability mechanism and ligand-binding ability of the thermally stable PHCP protein, the crystal structure of PHCP was first determined. It formed a homo-dimeric structure, the main chain root mean square deviation (rmsd) value between PHCP and AVCP being 0.65 A ° . In the PHCP structure, six specific residues appeared to strengthen the heme-related and subunit–subunit interactions, which were not conserved in the AVCP structure. PHCP variants having altered subunit–subunit interactions were more severely destabilized than ones having altered heme-related interactions. The PHCP structure further revealed a ligand-binding channel and a penta-coordinated heme, as observed in the AVCP protein. A spectroscopic study clearly showed that some ligands were bound to the PHCP protein. It is concluded that the dimeric PHCP from the thermophile is effectively stabilized through heme-related and subunit–subunit interactions with conservation of the ligand-binding ability.
Keywords
protein stability
cytochrome c
thermophile
protein structure
mutagenesis
ligand-binding
Descriptions
This work was performed under the Cooperative Research Program of the “Network Joint Research Center for Materials and Devices”.
Language
eng
Resource Type journal article
Publisher
Wiley
Date of Issued 2017-03-06
Rights
© 2017 The Authors Protein Science published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of The Protein Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publish Type Version of Record
Access Rights open access
Source Identifier
[ISSN] 0961-8368
[ISSN] 1469-896X
[DOI] 10.1002/pro.3120
[PMID] 28097774
[DOI] https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.3120