Sulfide Binding Properties of Truncated Hemoglobins
- 18 February 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 49 (10), 2269-2278
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi901671d
Abstract
The truncated hemoglobins from Bacillus subtilis (Bs-trHb) and Thermobifida fusca (Tf-trHb) have been shown to form high-affinity complexes with hydrogen sulfide in their Ferric state. The recombinant proteins, as extracted from Escherichia coli cells after overexpression, are indeed partially Saturated with sulfide, and even highly purified samples still contain a small but significant amount of iron-bound sulfide. Thus, a complete thermodynamic and kinetic Study has been undertaken by means of equilibrium and kinetic displacement experiments to assess the relevant sulfide binding parameters. The body of experimental data indicates that both proteins possess a high affinity for hydrogen Sulfide (K = 5.0 x 10(6) and 2.8 x 10(6) M(-1) for Bs-trHb and Tf-trHb, respectively, at pH 7.0), though lower with respect to that reported previously for the sulfide avid Lucina pectinata 1 hemoglobins (2.9 x 10(8) M(-1)). From the kinetic point of view, the overall high affinity resides in the slow rate of sulfide release, attributed to hydrogen bonding stabilization of the bound ligand by distal residue WG8. A set of point mutants in which these residues have been replaced with Phe indicates that the WG8 residue represents the major kinetic barrier to the escape of the bound Sulfide species. Accordingly, classical Molecular dynamics simulations of SH(-)-bound ferric Tf-trHb show that WG8 plays a key role in the stabilization of coordinated SH(-) whereas the YCD1 and YB10 contributions are negligible. Interestingly, the triple Tf-trHb mutant bearing only Phe residues in the relevant B10, G8, and CD1 positions is endowed with a higher overall affinity for sulfide characterized by a very fast second-order rate constant and 2 order of magnitude Faster kinetics of sulfide release with respect to the wild-type protein. Resonance Raman spectroscopy data indicate that the sulfide adducts are typical of a ferric iron low-spin derivative. In analogy with other low-spin Ferric sulfide adducts, the strong band at 375 cm(-1) is tentatively assigned to a Fe-S stretching band. The high affinity for hydrogen sulfide IS thought to have a possible physiological significance as H(2)S is produced in bacteria at metabolic steps Involved ill cysteine biosynthesis and hence in thiol redox homeostasisKeywords
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