Quaternary structure of carbonmonoxyhemoglobins in solution: structural changes induced by the allosteric effector inositol hexaphosphate

Biochemistry
Qingguo GongC Ho

Abstract

We have applied the residual dipolar coupling (RDC) method to investigate the solution quaternary structures of (2)H- and (15)N-labeled human normal adult recombinant hemoglobin (rHb A) and a low-oxygen-affinity mutant recombinant hemoglobin, rHb(alpha96Val-->Trp), both in the carbonmonoxy form, in the absence and presence of an allosteric effector, inositol hexaphosphate (IHP), using a stretched polyacrylamide gel as the alignment medium. Our recent RDC results [Lukin, J. A., Kontaxis, G., Simplaceanu, V., Yuan, Y., Bax, A., and Ho, C. (2003) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100, 517-520] indicate that the quaternary structure of HbCO A in solution is a dynamic ensemble between two previously determined crystal structures, R (crystals grown under high-salt conditions) and R2 (crystals grown under low-salt conditions). On the basis of a comparison of the geometric coordinates of the T, R, and R2 structures, it has been suggested that the oxygenation of Hb A follows the transition pathway from T to R and then to R2, with R being the intermediate structure [Srinivasan, R., and Rose, G. D. (1994) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91, 11113-11117]. The results presented here suggest that IHP can shift the solution quaternary structure of ...Continue Reading

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