TY - JOUR
T1 - Histidine 20, the crucial proximal axial heme ligand of bacterial heme oxygenase Hmu O from Corynebacterium diphtheriae
AU - Chu, Grace C.
AU - Katakura, Koki
AU - Tomita, Takeshi
AU - Zhang, Xuhong
AU - Sun, Danyu
AU - Sato, Michihiko
AU - Sasahara, Masanao
AU - Kayama, Takamasa
AU - Ikeda-Saito, Masao
AU - Yoshida, Tadashi
PY - 2000/6/9
Y1 - 2000/6/9
N2 - The hemin complex of Hmu O, a 24-kDa soluble heme degradation enzyme in Corynebacterium diphtheriae, is coordinated axially to a neutral imidazole of a proximal histidine residue in Hmu O. To identify which of the eight histidines in Hmu O is the proximal heme ligand, we have constructed and expressed the plasmids for eight His → Ala Hmu O mutants. Reconstituted with hemin, the active site structures and enzymatic activity of these mutants have been examined by EPR, resonance Raman, and optical absorption spectroscopy. EPR of the NO-bound ferrous heme-Hmu O mutant complexes reveals His20 as the proximal heme ligand in Hmu O, and this is confirmed by resonance Raman results from the ligand-free ferrous heme-H20A. All eight His → Ala mutants bind hemin stoichiometrically, proving that none of the histidines is essential for hemin-Hmu O formation. However, His20 is crucial to Hmu O catalysis. Its absence by point mutation has inhibited the conversion of hemin to biliverdin. The ferric heme-H20A complex is pentacoordinate. Resonance Raman of the CO-bound ferrous heme-H20A corroborates this and reveals an Fe-C-O bending mode, δ(Fe-C-O), the first reported for a pentacoordinate CO-bound hemeprotein. The appearance of δ(Fe- C-O) in C. diphtheriae Hmu O H20A but not mammalian HO-1 mutant H25A indicates that the heme environment between the two heme oxygenases is different.
AB - The hemin complex of Hmu O, a 24-kDa soluble heme degradation enzyme in Corynebacterium diphtheriae, is coordinated axially to a neutral imidazole of a proximal histidine residue in Hmu O. To identify which of the eight histidines in Hmu O is the proximal heme ligand, we have constructed and expressed the plasmids for eight His → Ala Hmu O mutants. Reconstituted with hemin, the active site structures and enzymatic activity of these mutants have been examined by EPR, resonance Raman, and optical absorption spectroscopy. EPR of the NO-bound ferrous heme-Hmu O mutant complexes reveals His20 as the proximal heme ligand in Hmu O, and this is confirmed by resonance Raman results from the ligand-free ferrous heme-H20A. All eight His → Ala mutants bind hemin stoichiometrically, proving that none of the histidines is essential for hemin-Hmu O formation. However, His20 is crucial to Hmu O catalysis. Its absence by point mutation has inhibited the conversion of hemin to biliverdin. The ferric heme-H20A complex is pentacoordinate. Resonance Raman of the CO-bound ferrous heme-H20A corroborates this and reveals an Fe-C-O bending mode, δ(Fe-C-O), the first reported for a pentacoordinate CO-bound hemeprotein. The appearance of δ(Fe- C-O) in C. diphtheriae Hmu O H20A but not mammalian HO-1 mutant H25A indicates that the heme environment between the two heme oxygenases is different.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.M000830200
DO - 10.1074/jbc.M000830200
M3 - Article
C2 - 10751393
AN - SCOPUS:0034625444
VL - 275
SP - 17494
EP - 17500
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
SN - 0021-9258
IS - 23
ER -