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The Response Of Ω-Loop D Dynamics To Truncation Of Trimethyllysine 72 Of Yeast Iso-1-Cytochrome C Depends On The Nature Of Loop Deformation

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Alkaline conformational transition, Apoptosis, Conformationally gated electron transfer, Cooperative substructure dynamics, Cytochrome c

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry

Volume

20

Issue

5

First Page

805

Last Page

819

Abstract

Trimethyllysine 72 (tmK72) has been suggested to play a role in sterically constraining the heme crevice dynamics of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c mediated by the Ω-loop D cooperative substructure (residues 70-85). A tmK72A mutation causes a gain in peroxidase activity, a function of cytochrome c that is important early in apoptosis. More than one higher energy state is accessible for the Ω-loop D substructure via tier 0 dynamics. Two of these are alkaline conformers mediated by Lys73 and Lys79. In the current work, the effect of the tmK72A mutation on the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of wild-type iso-1-cytochrome c (yWT versus WT∗) and on variants carrying a K73H mutation (yWT/K73H versus WT∗/K73H) is studied. Whereas the tmK72A mutation confers increased peroxidase activity in wild-type yeast iso-1-cytochrome c and increased dynamics for formation of a previously studied His79-heme alkaline conformer, the tmK72A mutation speeds return of the His73-heme alkaline conformer to the native state through destabilization of the His73-heme alkaline conformer relative to the native conformer. These opposing behaviors demonstrate that the response of the dynamics of a protein substructure to mutation depends on the nature of the perturbation to the substructure. For a protein substructure which mediates more than one function of a protein through multiple non-native structures, a mutation could change the partitioning between these functions. The current results suggest that the tier 0 dynamics of Ω-loop D that mediates peroxidase activity has similarities to the tier 0 dynamics required to form the His79-heme alkaline conformer.

Department

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Original Publication Date

7-27-2015

DOI of published version

10.1007/s00775-015-1267-1

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