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Kingsbury CJ, Senge MO. Molecular Symmetry and Art: Visualizing the Near-Symmetry of Molecules in Piet Mondrian's De Stijl. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202403754. [PMID: 38619527 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202403754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2024] [Revised: 04/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
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Symmetry and shape are essential aspects of molecular structure and how we interpret molecules and their properties. We, as chemists, are comfortable with pictorial representations of structure, in which some nuance is lost-investigating molecular shape numerically by looking at how closely it fits a reference, such as a plane, or a set of vectors or coordinates, is informative, though far from engaging. Often relationships between chemical structure and derived values are obscured. Taking our inspiration from Piet Mondrian's Compositions, we have depicted the symmetry information encoded within 3D data as blocks of color, to show clearly how chemical arguments and resultant molecular distortion may contribute to symmetry. Great art gives us a new perspective on the world; as a pastiche, this art may allow us to look at familiar molecules, such as porphyrins, in a new light, understanding how their shape and properties are intertwined.
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- Christopher J Kingsbury
- School of Chemistry, Chair of Organic Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, 152-160 Pearse Street, Dublin, D02R590, Ireland
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- School of Chemistry, Chair of Organic Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, 152-160 Pearse Street, Dublin, D02R590, Ireland
- Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS), Focus Group-Molecular and Interfacial Engineering of Organic Nanosystems, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenberg-Str. 2a, 85748, Garching, Germany
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Zhou X, Su W, Bao Q, Cui Y, Li X, Yang Y, Yang C, Wang C, Jiao L, Chen D, Huang J. Nitric Oxide Ameliorates the Effects of Hypoxia in Mice by Regulating Oxygen Transport by Hemoglobin. High Alt Med Biol 2024. [PMID: 38743636 DOI: 10.1089/ham.2023.0044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2024] Open
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Xiaoying Zhou, Wenting Su, Quanwei Bao, Yu Cui, Xiaoxu Li, Yidong Yang, Chengzhong Yang, Chengyuan Wang, Li Jiao, Dewei Chen, and Jian Huang. Nitric oxide ameliorates the effects of hypoxia in mice by regulating oxygen transport by hemoglobin. High Alt Med Biol. 00:00-00, 2024.-Hypoxia is a common pathological and physiological phenomenon in ischemia, cancer, and strenuous exercise. Nitric oxide (NO) acts as an endothelium-derived relaxing factor in hypoxic vasodilation and serves as an allosteric regulator of hemoglobin (Hb). However, the ultimate effects of NO on the hematological system in vivo remain unknown, especially in extreme environmental hypoxia. Whether NO regulation of the structure of Hb improves oxygen transport remains unclear. Hence, we examined whether NO altered the oxygen affinity of Hb (Hb-O2 affinity) to protect extremely hypoxic mice. Mice were exposed to severe hypoxia with various concentrations of NO, and the survival time, exercise capacity, and other physical indexes were recorded. The survival time was prolonged in the 5 ppm NO (6.09 ± 1.29 minutes) and 10 ppm NO (6.39 ± 1.58 minutes) groups compared with the 0 ppm group (4.98 ± 1.23 minutes). Hypoxia of the brain was relieved, and the exercise exhaustion time was prolonged when mice inhaled 20 ppm NO (24.70 ± 6.87 minutes vs. 20.23 ± 6.51 minutes). In addition, the differences in arterial oxygen saturation (SO2%) (49.64 ± 7.29% vs. 42.90 ± 4.30%) and arteriovenous SO2% difference (25.14 ± 8.95% vs. 18.10 ± 6.90%) obviously increased. In ex vivo experiments, the oxygen equilibrium curve (OEC) left shifted as P50 decreased from 43.77 ± 2.49 mmHg (0 ppm NO) to 40.97 ± 1.40 mmHg (100 ppm NO) and 38.36 ± 2.78 mmHg (200 ppm NO). Furthermore, the Bohr effect of Hb was enhanced by the introduction of 200 ppm NO (-0.72 ± 0.062 vs.-0.65 ± 0.051), possibly allowing Hb to more easily offload oxygen in tissue at lower pH. The crystal structure reveals a greater distance between Asp94β-His146β in nitrosyl -Hb(NO-Hb), NO-HbβCSO93, and S-NitrosoHb(SNO-Hb) compared to tense Hb(T-Hb, 3.7 Å, 4.3 Å, and 5.8 Å respectively, versus 3.5 Å for T-Hb). Moreover, hydrogen bonds were less likely to form, representing a key limitation of relaxed Hb (R-Hb). Upon NO interaction with Hb, hydrogen bonds and salt bridges were less favored, facilitating relaxation. We speculated that NO ameliorated the effects of hypoxia in mice by promoting erythrocyte oxygen loading in the lung and offloading in tissues.
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- Xiaoying Zhou
- Department of High Altitude Physiology and Pathology, College of High Altitude Military Medicine, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
- High Altitude Medical Research Center, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of High Altitude and Frigidzone Medical Surpport, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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- Department of High Altitude Physiology and Pathology, College of High Altitude Military Medicine, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
- High Altitude Medical Research Center, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of High Altitude and Frigidzone Medical Surpport, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of High Altitude Physiology and Pathology, College of High Altitude Military Medicine, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
- High Altitude Medical Research Center, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of High Altitude and Frigidzone Medical Surpport, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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- Department of High Altitude Physiology and Pathology, College of High Altitude Military Medicine, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
- High Altitude Medical Research Center, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of High Altitude and Frigidzone Medical Surpport, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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- Department of High Altitude Physiology and Pathology, College of High Altitude Military Medicine, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
- High Altitude Medical Research Center, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of High Altitude and Frigidzone Medical Surpport, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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- Department of High Altitude Physiology and Pathology, College of High Altitude Military Medicine, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
- High Altitude Medical Research Center, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of High Altitude and Frigidzone Medical Surpport, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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- Department of High Altitude Physiology and Pathology, College of High Altitude Military Medicine, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
- High Altitude Medical Research Center, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of High Altitude and Frigidzone Medical Surpport, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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- Department of High Altitude Physiology and Pathology, College of High Altitude Military Medicine, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
- High Altitude Medical Research Center, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of High Altitude and Frigidzone Medical Surpport, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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- Department of High Altitude Physiology and Pathology, College of High Altitude Military Medicine, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
- High Altitude Medical Research Center, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of High Altitude and Frigidzone Medical Surpport, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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- Department of High Altitude Physiology and Pathology, College of High Altitude Military Medicine, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
- High Altitude Medical Research Center, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of High Altitude and Frigidzone Medical Surpport, PLA, Chongqing, China
- Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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Fujiwara SI, Nishimura K, Imamura K, Amisaki T. Identification of histidine residues that affect the T/R-state conformations of human hemoglobin using constant pH molecular dynamics simulations. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 267:131457. [PMID: 38588836 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.131457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2023] [Revised: 03/21/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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Human hemoglobin (Hb) is a tetrameric protein consisting of two α and two β subunits that can adopt a low-affinity T- and high-affinity R-state conformations. Under physiological pH conditions, histidine (His) residues are the main sites for proton binding or release, and their protonation states can affect the T/R-state conformation of Hb. However, it remains unclear which His residues can effectively affect the Hb conformation. Herein, the impact of the 38 His residues of Hb on its T/R-state conformations was evaluated using constant-pH molecular dynamics (CpHMD) simulations at physiological pH while focusing on the His protonation states. Overall, the protonation states of some His residues were found to be correlated with the Hb conformation state. These residues were mainly located in the proximity of the heme (α87 and β92), and at the α1β2 and α2β1 interfaces (α89 and β97). This correlation may be partly explained by how easily hydrogen bonds can be formed, which depends on the protonation states of the His residues. Taken together, these CpHMD-based findings provide new insights into the identification of titratable His residues α87, α89, β92, and β97 that can affect Hb conformational switching under physiological pH conditions.
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- Shin-Ichi Fujiwara
- Department of Biological Regulation, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago 683-8503, Japan.
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- Department of Biological Regulation, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago 683-8503, Japan
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- Department of Biological Regulation, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago 683-8503, Japan
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- Department of Biological Regulation, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago 683-8503, Japan
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Neto V, Victor BL, Galamba N. Cyclic Peptides as Aggregation Inhibitors for Sickle Cell Disease. J Med Chem 2023; 66:16062-16074. [PMID: 37988411 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c01484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2023]
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Sickle cell disease is a missense genetic disorder characterized by the aggregation of deoxy-HbS into helical fibers that distort erythrocytes into a sickle-like shape. Herein, we investigate, through molecular dynamics, the effect of nine 5-mer cyclic peptides (CPs), tailor-designed to block key lateral contacts of the fibers. Our results show that the CPs bind orthogonally to the main HbS pocket involved in the latter contacts, with some revealing exceedingly long residence times. These CPs display moderate to high specificity, exhibiting molecular recognition events even at a HbS/CP (1:1) ratio. A much lower HbS-CP binding free energy, longer residence times, and higher specificity are also found relative to a previously reported CP with modest in vitro antisickling activity. These results indicate that some of these CPs have the potential to reduce the concentration of aggregation-competent deoxy-HbS, precluding or delaying the formation of lateral contact at the homogeneous nucleation stage.
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- Vasco Neto
- Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício C8, Campo Grande 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício C8, Campo Grande 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício C8, Campo Grande 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal
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Sapienza PJ, Bonin JP, Jinasena HD, Li K, Dieckhaus H, Popov KI, Aubé J, Lee AL. Mixed, nonclassical behavior in a classic allosteric protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2308338120. [PMID: 37695919 PMCID: PMC10515163 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2308338120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 09/13/2023] Open
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Allostery is a major driver of biological processes requiring coordination. Thus, it is one of the most fundamental and remarkable phenomena in nature, and there is motivation to understand and manipulate it to a multitude of ends. Today, it is often described in terms of two phenomenological models proposed more than a half-century ago involving only T(tense) or R(relaxed) conformations. Here, methyl-based NMR provides extensive detail on a dynamic T to R switch in the classical dimeric allosteric protein, yeast chorismate mutase (CM), that occurs in the absence of substrate, but only with the activator bound. Switching of individual subunits is uncoupled based on direct observation of mixed TR states in the dimer. This unique finding excludes both classic models and solves the paradox of a coexisting hyperbolic binding curve and highly skewed substrate-free T-R equilibrium. Surprisingly, structures of the activator-bound and effector-free forms of CM appear the same by NMR, providing another example of the need to account for dynamic ensembles. The apo enzyme, which has a sigmoidal activity profile, is shown to switch, not to R, but to a related high-energy state. Thus, the conformational repertoire of CM does not just change as a matter of degree depending on the allosteric input, be it effector and/or substrate. Rather, the allosteric model appears to completely change in different contexts, which is only consistent with modern ensemble-based frameworks.
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- Paul J. Sapienza
- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC27599
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC27599
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- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC27599
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- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC27599
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- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC27599
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- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC27599
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC27599
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- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC27599
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- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC27599
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC27599
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Arastoo M, Mazanetz MP, Miller S, Shiells H, Hull C, Robinson K, Storey JMD, Harrington CR, Wischik CM. Exploring the Anti-Hypoxaemia Effect of Hydromethylthionine: A Prospective Study of Phase 3 Clinical Trial Participants. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:13747. [PMID: 37762050 PMCID: PMC10531415 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241813747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2023] [Revised: 08/22/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Methylthioninium chloride (MTC) is a standard treatment for methaemoglobinaemia. A preparation of reduced MTC has been reported to increase blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) and lower respiratory rates in patients with severe COVID-19. We have developed a stable form of reduced methylthionine (hydromethylthionine-mesylate, HMTM) having a benign safety profile in two Phase 3 trials in Alzheimer's disease. The aim of this prospective study was to determine the effects of oral HMTM on SpO2 and methaemoglobin (metHb) levels in a cohort of patients with mild hypoxaemia not due to COVID-19. Eighteen participants randomised to a single dose of 4, 75, 100 or 125 mg doses of HMTM had SpO2 levels below 94% at baseline. Patients were routinely monitored by pulse oximetry after 4 h, and after 2 and 6 weeks of twice daily dosing. Significant ~3% increases in SpO2 occurred within 4 h and were sustained over 2 and 6 weeks with no dose differences. There were small dose-dependent increases (0.060-0.162%) in metHb levels over 2 to 6 weeks. Minimum-energy computational chemistry revealed that HMT can bind within 2.10 Å of heme iron by donating a pair of electrons from the central nitrogen of HMT to d orbitals of heme iron, but with lower affinity than oxygen. In conclusion, HMTM can increase SpO2 without reducing metHb by acting as a strong displaceable field ligand for heme iron. We hypothesise that this facilitates a transition from the low oxygen affinity T-state of heme to the higher affinity R-state. HMTM has potential as an adjunctive treatment for hypoxaemia.
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- Mohammad Arastoo
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZP, UK; (M.A.); (C.R.H.)
- Scottish Biologics Facility, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZP, UK
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- NovaData Solutions Ltd., 15 Monreith Rd, Newlands, Glasgow G43 2NX, UK;
- Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK;
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- TauRx Therapeutics Ltd., 395 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK; (S.M.); (H.S.); (C.H.)
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- TauRx Therapeutics Ltd., 395 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK; (S.M.); (H.S.); (C.H.)
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- TauRx Therapeutics Ltd., 395 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK; (S.M.); (H.S.); (C.H.)
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK;
- TauRx Therapeutics Ltd., 395 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK; (S.M.); (H.S.); (C.H.)
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- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZP, UK; (M.A.); (C.R.H.)
- TauRx Therapeutics Ltd., 395 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK; (S.M.); (H.S.); (C.H.)
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- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZP, UK; (M.A.); (C.R.H.)
- TauRx Therapeutics Ltd., 395 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK; (S.M.); (H.S.); (C.H.)
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Sharon EM, Henderson LW, Clemmer DE. Resolving Hidden Solution Conformations of Hemoglobin Using IMS-IMS on a Cyclic Instrument. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2023; 34:1559-1568. [PMID: 37418419 PMCID: PMC10916761 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.3c00032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/09/2023]
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Ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry (IMS-MS) experiments on a cyclic IMS instrument were used to examine heterogeneous distributions of structures found in the 15+ to 18+ charge states of the hemoglobin tetramer (Hb). The resolving power of IMS measurements is known to increase with increasing drift-region length. This effect is not significant for Hb charge states as peaks were shown to broaden with increasing drift-region length. This observation suggests that multiple structures with similar cross sections may be present. To examine this hypothesis, selections of drift time distributions were isolated and subsequently reinjected into the mobility region for additional separation. These IMS-IMS experiments demonstrate that selected regions separate further upon additional passes around the drift cell, consistent with the idea that initial resolving power was limited due to the presence of many closely related conformations. Additional variable temperature electrospray ionization (vT-ESI) experiments were conducted to study how changing the solution temperature affects solution conformations. Some features in these IMS-IMS studies were observed to change similarly with solution temperature compared to features in the single IMS distribution. Other features changed differently in the selected mobility data, indicating that solution structures that were obscured upon IMS analysis because of the complex heterogeneity of the original distribution are discernible after reducing the number of conformers that are analyzed by further IMS analysis. These results illustrate that the combination of vT-ESI with IMS-IMS is useful for resolving and exploring conformer distributions and stabilities in systems that exhibit a large degree of structural heterogeneity.
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- Edie M Sharon
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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Olari LR, Bauer R, Gil Miró M, Vogel V, Cortez Rayas L, Groß R, Gilg A, Klevesath R, Rodríguez Alfonso AA, Kaygisiz K, Rupp U, Pant P, Mieres-Pérez J, Steppe L, Schäffer R, Rauch-Wirth L, Conzelmann C, Müller JA, Zech F, Gerbl F, Bleher J, Preising N, Ständker L, Wiese S, Thal DR, Haupt C, Jonker HRA, Wagner M, Sanchez-Garcia E, Weil T, Stenger S, Fändrich M, von Einem J, Read C, Walther P, Kirchhoff F, Spellerberg B, Münch J. The C-terminal 32-mer fragment of hemoglobin alpha is an amyloidogenic peptide with antimicrobial properties. Cell Mol Life Sci 2023; 80:151. [PMID: 37198527 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-023-04795-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are major components of the innate immune defense. Accumulating evidence suggests that the antibacterial activity of many AMPs is dependent on the formation of amyloid-like fibrils. To identify novel fibril forming AMPs, we generated a spleen-derived peptide library and screened it for the presence of amyloidogenic peptides. This approach led to the identification of a C-terminal 32-mer fragment of alpha-hemoglobin, termed HBA(111-142). The non-fibrillar peptide has membranolytic activity against various bacterial species, while the HBA(111-142) fibrils aggregated bacteria to promote their phagocytotic clearance. Further, HBA(111-142) fibrils selectively inhibited measles and herpes viruses (HSV-1, HSV-2, HCMV), but not SARS-CoV-2, ZIKV and IAV. HBA(111-142) is released from its precursor by ubiquitous aspartic proteases under acidic conditions characteristic at sites of infection and inflammation. Thus, HBA(111-142) is an amyloidogenic AMP that may specifically be generated from a highly abundant precursor during bacterial or viral infection and may play an important role in innate antimicrobial immune responses.
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- Lia-Raluca Olari
- Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Core Facility for Functional Peptidomics, Ulm Peptide Pharmaceuticals (U-PEP), Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
- Core Unit of Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research Mainz, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Central Facility for Electron Microscopy, Ulm University, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Computational Biochemistry, Center of Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141, Essen, Germany
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- Computational Biochemistry, Center of Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141, Essen, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Philipps University Marburg, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Ulm University, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Core Facility for Functional Peptidomics, Ulm Peptide Pharmaceuticals (U-PEP), Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Core Facility for Functional Peptidomics, Ulm Peptide Pharmaceuticals (U-PEP), Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Core Unit of Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Laboratory of Neuropathology, Department of Imaging and Pathology, Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Pathology, UZ-Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Ulm University, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Goethe University, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research Mainz, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Computational Biochemistry, Center of Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141, Essen, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research Mainz, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Ulm University, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
- Central Facility for Electron Microscopy, Ulm University, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Central Facility for Electron Microscopy, Ulm University, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
- Core Unit of Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
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Brunori M, Miele AE. Modulation of Allosteric Control and Evolution of Hemoglobin. Biomolecules 2023; 13:biom13030572. [PMID: 36979507 PMCID: PMC10046315 DOI: 10.3390/biom13030572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Revised: 03/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/18/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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Allostery arises when a ligand-induced change in shape of a binding site of a protein is coupled to a tertiary/quaternary conformational change with a consequent modulation of functional properties. The two-state allosteric model of Monod, Wyman and Changeux [J. Mol. Biol. 1965; 12, 88-118] is an elegant and effective theory to account for protein regulation and control. Tetrameric hemoglobin (Hb), the oxygen transporter of all vertebrates, has been for decades the ideal system to test for the validity of the MWC theory. The small ligands affecting Hb's behavior (organic phosphates, protons, bicarbonate) are produced by the red blood cell during metabolism. By binding to specific sites, these messengers make Hb sensing the environment and reacting consequently. HbI and HbIV from trout and human HbA are classical cooperative models, being similar yet different. They share many fundamental features, starting with the globin fold and the quaternary assembly, and reversible cooperative O2 binding. Nevertheless, they differ in ligand affinity, binding of allosteric effectors, and stability of the quaternary assembly. Here, we recollect essential functional properties and correlate them to the tertiary and quaternary structures available in the protein databank to infer on the molecular basis of the evolution of oxygen transporters.
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- Maurizio Brunori
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, via della Lungara, 00165 Rome, Italy
- Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Institute of Analytical Sciences, UMR 5280 ISA CNRS UCBL, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 5 Rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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Ginn HM. Torsion angles to map and visualize the conformational space of a protein. Protein Sci 2023; 32:e4608. [PMID: 36840926 PMCID: PMC10022581 DOI: 10.1002/pro.4608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2022] [Revised: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 02/26/2023]
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Present understanding of protein structure dynamics trails behind that of static structures. A torsion-angle based approach, called representation of protein entities (RoPE), derives an interpretable conformational space which correlates with data collection temperature, resolution and reaction coordinate. For more complex systems, atomic coordinates fail to separate functional conformational states, which are still preserved by torsion angle-derived space. This indicates that torsion angles are often a more sensitive and biologically relevant descriptor for protein conformational dynamics than atomic coordinates. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Helen Mary Ginn
- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, United Kingdom; Institute for Nanostructure and Solid State Physics, Hamburg, Germany
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How Nanoparticles Modify Adsorbed Proteins: Impact of Silica Nanoparticles on the Hemoglobin Active Site. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24043659. [PMID: 36835069 PMCID: PMC9967434 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24043659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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The adsorption of proteins on surfaces has been studied for a long time, but the relationship between the structural and functional properties of the adsorbed protein and the adsorption mechanism remains unclear. Using hemoglobin adsorbed on silica nanoparticles, we have previously shown that hemoglobin's affinity towards oxygen increases with adsorption. Nevertheless, it was also shown that there were no significant changes in the quaternary and secondary structures. In order to understand the change in activity, we decided in this work to focus on the active sites of hemoglobin, the heme and its iron. After measuring adsorption isotherms of porcine hemoglobin on Ludox silica nanoparticles, we analyzed the structural modifications of adsorbed hemoglobin by X-ray absorption spectroscopy and circular dichroism spectra in the Soret region. It was found that upon adsorption, there were modifications in the heme pocket environment due to changes in the angles of the heme vinyl functions. These alterations can explain the greater affinity observed.
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Salehi SM, Pezzella M, Willard A, Meuwly M, Karplus M. Water dynamics around T 0 vs R 4 of hemoglobin from local hydrophobicity analysis. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:025101. [PMID: 36641390 DOI: 10.1063/5.0129990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The local hydration around tetrameric hemoglobin (Hb) in its T0 and R4 conformational substates is analyzed based on molecular dynamics simulations. Analysis of the local hydrophobicity (LH) for all residues at the α1β2 and α2β1 interfaces, responsible for the quaternary T → R transition, which is encoded in the Monod-Wyman-Changeux model, as well as comparison with earlier computations of the solvent accessible surface area, makes clear that the two quantities measure different aspects of hydration. Local hydrophobicity quantifies the presence and structure of water molecules at the interface, whereas "buried surface" reports on the available space for solvent. For simulations with Hb frozen in its T0 and R4 states, the correlation coefficient between LH and buried surface is 0.36 and 0.44, respectively, but it increases considerably if the 95% confidence interval is used. The LH with Hb frozen and flexible changes little for most residues at the interfaces but is significantly altered for a few select ones: Thr41α, Tyr42α, Tyr140α, Trp37β, Glu101β (for T0) and Thr38α, Tyr42α, Tyr140α (for R4). The number of water molecules at the interface is found to increase by ∼25% for T0 → R4, which is consistent with earlier measurements. Since hydration is found to be essential to protein function, it is clear that hydration also plays an essential role in allostery.
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- Seyedeh Maryam Salehi
- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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Burley SK, Bhikadiya C, Bi C, Bittrich S, Chao H, Chen L, Craig PA, Crichlow GV, Dalenberg K, Duarte JM, Dutta S, Fayazi M, Feng Z, Flatt JW, Ganesan S, Ghosh S, Goodsell DS, Green RK, Guranovic V, Henry J, Hudson BP, Khokhriakov I, Lawson CL, Liang Y, Lowe R, Peisach E, Persikova I, Piehl DW, Rose Y, Sali A, Segura J, Sekharan M, Shao C, Vallat B, Voigt M, Webb B, Westbrook JD, Whetstone S, Young JY, Zalevsky A, Zardecki C. RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB.org): delivery of experimentally-determined PDB structures alongside one million computed structure models of proteins from artificial intelligence/machine learning. Nucleic Acids Res 2023; 51:D488-D508. [PMID: 36420884 PMCID: PMC9825554 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac1077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 140.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Revised: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB), founding member of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB), is the US data center for the open-access PDB archive. As wwPDB-designated Archive Keeper, RCSB PDB is also responsible for PDB data security. Annually, RCSB PDB serves >10 000 depositors of three-dimensional (3D) biostructures working on all permanently inhabited continents. RCSB PDB delivers data from its research-focused RCSB.org web portal to many millions of PDB data consumers based in virtually every United Nations-recognized country, territory, etc. This Database Issue contribution describes upgrades to the research-focused RCSB.org web portal that created a one-stop-shop for open access to ∼200 000 experimentally-determined PDB structures of biological macromolecules alongside >1 000 000 incorporated Computed Structure Models (CSMs) predicted using artificial intelligence/machine learning methods. RCSB.org is a 'living data resource.' Every PDB structure and CSM is integrated weekly with related functional annotations from external biodata resources, providing up-to-date information for the entire corpus of 3D biostructure data freely available from RCSB.org with no usage limitations. Within RCSB.org, PDB structures and the CSMs are clearly identified as to their provenance and reliability. Both are fully searchable, and can be analyzed and visualized using the full complement of RCSB.org web portal capabilities.
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- Stephen K Burley
- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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Pantaleone S, Sodupe M, Ugliengo P, Rimola A. On the stability of peptide secondary structures on the TiO 2 (101) anatase surface: a computational insight. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 25:392-401. [PMID: 36477070 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp04395e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
Abstract
The biological activity of proteins is partly due to their secondary structures and conformational states. Peptide chains are rather flexible so that finding ways inducing protein folding in a well-defined state is of great importance. Among the different constraint techniques, the interaction of proteins with inorganic surfaces is a fruitful strategy to stabilize selected folded states. Surface-induced peptide folding can have potential applications in different biomedicine areas, but it can also be of fundamental interest in prebiotic chemistry since the biological activity of a peptide can turn-on when folded in a given state. In this work, periodic quantum mechanical simulations (including implicit solvation effects) at the PBE-D2* level have been carried out to study the adsorption and the stability of the secondary structures (α-helix and β-sheet) of polypeptides with different chemical composition (i.e., polyglycine, polyalanine, polyglutamic acid, polylysine, and polyarginine) on the TiO2 (101) anatase surface. The computational cost is reduced by applying periodic boundary conditions to both the surface and the peptides, thus obtaining full periodic polypeptide/TiO2 surface systems. At variance with polyglycine, the interaction of the other polypeptides with the surface takes place with the lateral chain functionalities, leaving the secondary structures almost undistorted. Results indicate that the preferred conformation upon adsorption is the α-helix over the β-sheet, with the exception of the polyglutamic acid. According to the calculated adsorption energies, the affinity trend of the polypeptides with the (101) anatase surface is: polyarginine ≈ polylysine > polyglutamic acid > polyglycine ≈ polyalanine, both when adsorbed in gas phase and in presence of the implicit water solvent, which is very similar to the trend for the single amino acids. A set of implications related to the areas of surface-induced peptide folding, biomedicine and prebiotic chemistry are finally discussed.
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- Stefano Pantaleone
- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Catalonia, Spain. .,Dipartimento di Chimica and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS) Inter-Departmental Centre, Università degli Studi di Torino, Via P. Giuria 7, 10125, Torino, Italy
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- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS) Inter-Departmental Centre, Università degli Studi di Torino, Via P. Giuria 7, 10125, Torino, Italy
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- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Catalonia, Spain.
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Wang J, Liu J, Gisriel CJ, Wu S, Maschietto F, Flesher DA, Lolis E, Lisi GP, Brudvig GW, Xiong Y, Batista VS. How to correct relative voxel scale factors for calculations of vector-difference Fourier maps in cryo-EM. J Struct Biol 2022; 214:107902. [PMID: 36202310 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2022.107902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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The atomic coordinates derived from cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) maps can be inaccurate when the voxel scaling factors are not properly calibrated. Here, we describe a method for correcting relative voxel scaling factors between pairs of cryo-EM maps for the same or similar structures that are expanded or contracted relative to each other. We find that the correction of scaling factors reduces the amplitude differences of Fourier-inverted structure factors from voxel-rescaled maps by up to 20-30%, as shown by two cryo-EM maps of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein measured at pH 4.0 and pH 8.0. This allows for the calculation of the difference map after properly scaling, revealing differences between the two structures for individual amino acid residues. Unexpectedly, the analysis uncovers two previously overlooked differences of amino acid residues in structures and their local structural changes. Furthermore, we demonstrate the method as applied to two cryo-EM maps of monomeric apo-photosystem II from the cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and Thermosynechococcus elongatus. The resulting difference maps reveal many changes in the peripheral transmembrane PsbX subunit between the two species.
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- Jimin Wang
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06536, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06536, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8066, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06536, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8066, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06536, USA; Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511-8499, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06536, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511-8499, USA
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Shao C, Bittrich S, Wang S, Burley SK. Assessing PDB macromolecular crystal structure confidence at the individual amino acid residue level. Structure 2022; 30:1385-1394.e3. [PMID: 36049478 PMCID: PMC9547844 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2022.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Revised: 06/24/2022] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
Approximately 87% of the more than 190,000 atomic-level three-dimensional (3D) biostructures in the PDB were determined using macromolecular crystallography (MX). Agreement between 3D atomic coordinates and experimental data for >100 million individual amino acid residues occurring within ∼150,000 PDB MX structures was analyzed in detail. The real-space correlation coefficient (RSCC) calculated using the 3D atomic coordinates for each residue and experimental-data-derived electron density enables outlier detection of unreliable atomic coordinates (particularly important for poorly resolved side-chain atoms) and ready evaluation of local structure quality by PDB users. For human protein MX structures in PDB, comparisons of the per-residue RSCC metric with AlphaFold2-computed structure model confidence (pLDDT-predicted local distance difference test) document (1) that RSCC values and pLDDT scores are correlated (median correlation coefficient ∼0.41), and (2) that experimentally determined MX structures (3.5 Å resolution or better) are more reliable than AlphaFold2-computed structure models and should be used preferentially whenever possible.
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- Chenghua Shao
- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Department of Statistics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
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- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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Huang G, Voorspoels A, Versloot RCA, van der Heide NJ, Carlon E, Willems K, Maglia G. PlyAB Nanopores Detect Single Amino Acid Differences in Folded Haemoglobin from Blood. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202206227. [PMID: 35759385 PMCID: PMC9541544 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202206227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The real‐time identification of protein biomarkers is crucial for the development of point‐of‐care and portable devices. Here, we use a PlyAB biological nanopore to detect haemoglobin (Hb) variants. Adult haemoglobin (HbA) and sickle cell anaemia haemoglobin (HbS), which differ by just one amino acid, were distinguished in a mixture with more than 97 % accuracy based on individual blockades. Foetal Hb, which shows a larger sequence variation, was distinguished with near 100 % accuracy. Continuum and Brownian dynamics simulations revealed that Hb occupies two energy minima, one near the inner constriction and one at the trans entry of the nanopore. Thermal fluctuations, the charge of the protein, and the external bias influence the dynamics of Hb within the nanopore, which in turn generates the unique ionic current signal in the Hb variants. Finally, Hb was counted from blood samples, demonstrating that direct discrimination and quantification of Hb from blood using nanopores, is feasible.
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- Gang Huang
- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences & Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Soft Matter and Biophysics Unit, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, 3001, Leuven, Belgium
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences & Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Soft Matter and Biophysics Unit, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, 3001, Leuven, Belgium
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences & Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Sipe SN, Sanders JD, Reinecke T, Clowers BH, Brodbelt JS. Separation and Collision Cross Section Measurements of Protein Complexes Afforded by a Modular Drift Tube Coupled to an Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer. Anal Chem 2022; 94:9434-9441. [PMID: 35736993 PMCID: PMC9302900 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c01653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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New developments in analytical technologies and biophysical methods have advanced the characterization of increasingly complex biomolecular assemblies using native mass spectrometry (MS). Ion mobility methods, in particular, have enabled a new dimension of structural information and analysis of proteins, allowing separation of conformations and providing size and shape insights based on collision cross sections (CCSs). Based on the concepts of absorption-mode Fourier transform (aFT) multiplexing ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), here, a modular drift tube design proves capable of separating native-like proteins up to 148 kDa with resolution up to 45. Coupled with high-resolution Orbitrap MS, binding of small ligands and cofactors can be resolved in the mass domain and correlated to changes in structural heterogeneity observed in the ion-neutral CCS distributions. We also demonstrate the ability to rapidly determine accurate CCSs for proteins with 1-min aFT-IMS-MS sweeps without the need for calibrants or correction factors.
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- Sarah N. Sipe
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Huang G, Voorspoels A, Versloot RCA, Van Der Heide NJ, Carlon E, Willems K, Maglia G. PlyAB Nanopores Detect Single Amino Acid Differences in Folded Haemoglobin from Blood. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202206227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Gang Huang
- University of Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Chemical Biology NETHERLANDS
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- KU Leuven: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Soft Matter and Biophysics BELGIUM
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- KU Leuven University: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Soft Matter and Biophysics NETHERLANDS
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- Imec Integrated photonics for microscopy and biomedical imaging BELGIUM
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- Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Chemical Biology Nijenborgh 7 9747 AG Groningen NETHERLANDS
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Heme-bound tyrosine vibrations in hemoglobin M: Resonance Raman, crystallography, and DFT calculation. Biophys J 2022; 121:2767-2780. [PMID: 35689380 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2022] [Revised: 05/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Hemoglobins M (Hbs M) are human hemoglobin variants in which either the α or β subunit contains a ferric heme in the α2β2 tetramer. Though the ferric subunit cannot bind O2, it regulates O2 affinity of its counterpart ferrous subunit. We have investigated resonance Raman spectra of two Hbs, M Iwate (α87His → tyrosine [Tyr]) and M Boston (α58His → Tyr), having tyrosine as a heme axial ligand at proximal and distal positions, respectively, that exhibit unassigned resonance Raman bands arising from ferric (not ferrous) hemes at 899 and 876 cm-1. Our quantum chemical calculations using density functional theory on Fe-porphyrin models with p-cresol and/or 4-methylimidazole showed that the unassigned bands correspond to the breathing-like modes of Fe3+-bound Tyr and are sensitive to the Fe-O-C(Tyr) angle. Based on the frequencies of the Raman bands, the Fe-O-C(Tyr) angles of Hbs M Iwate and M Boston were predicted to be 153.5° and 129.2°, respectively. Consistent with this prediction, x-ray crystallographic analysis showed that the Fe-O-C(Tyr) angles of Hbs M Iwate and M Boston in the T quaternary structure were 153.6° and 134.6°, respectively. It also showed a similar Fe-O bond length (1.96 and 1.97 Å) and different tilting angles.
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Nagatomo S, Nagai M, Kitagawa T. Structural origin of cooperativity in human hemoglobin: a view from different roles of α and β subunits in the α2β2 tetramer. Biophys Rev 2022; 14:483-498. [PMID: 35528033 PMCID: PMC9043147 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-022-00945-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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This mini-review, mainly based on our resonance Raman studies on the structural origin of cooperative O2 binding in human adult hemoglobin (HbA), aims to answering why HbA is a tetramer consisting of two α and two β subunits. Here, we focus on the Fe-His bond, the sole coordination bond connecting heme to a globin. The Fe-His stretching frequencies reflect the O2 affinity and also the magnitude of strain imposed through globin by inter-subunit interactions, which is the origin of cooperativity. Cooperativity was first explained by Monod, Wyman, and Changeux, referred to as the MWC theory, but later explained by the two tertiary states (TTS) theory. Here, we related the higher-order structures of globin observed mainly by vibrational spectroscopy to the MWC theory. It became clear from the recent spectroscopic studies, X-ray crystallographic analysis, and mutagenesis experiments that the Fe-His bonds exhibit different roles between the α and β subunits. The absence of the Fe-His bond in the α subunit in some mutant and artificial Hbs inhibits T to R quaternary structural change upon O2 binding. However, its absence from the β subunit in mutant and artificial Hbs simply enhances the O2 affinity of the α subunit. Accordingly, the inter-subunit interactions between α and β subunits are nonsymmetric but substantial for HbA to perform cooperative O2 binding.
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- Shigenori Nagatomo
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571 Japan
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- Research Center for Micro-Nano Technology, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-0003 Japan
- School of Health Sciences, College of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-0942 Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Science, Picobiology Institute, University of Hyogo, Kouto, Kamigori, Ako-gun Hyogo, 678-1297 Japan
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De Bei O, Marchetti M, Ronda L, Gianquinto E, Lazzarato L, Chirgadze DY, Hardwick SW, Cooper LR, Spyrakis F, Luisi BF, Campanini B, Bettati S. Cryo-EM structures of staphylococcal IsdB bound to human hemoglobin reveal the process of heme extraction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2116708119. [PMID: 35357971 PMCID: PMC9168843 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2116708119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Iron surface determinant B (IsdB) is a hemoglobin (Hb) receptor essential for hemic iron acquisition by Staphylococcus aureus. Heme transfer to IsdB is possible from oxidized Hb (metHb), but inefficient from Hb either bound to oxygen (oxyHb) or bound to carbon monoxide (HbCO), and encompasses a sequence of structural events that are currently poorly understood. By single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, we determined the structure of two IsdB:Hb complexes, representing key species along the heme extraction pathway. The IsdB:HbCO structure, at 2.9-Å resolution, provides a snapshot of the preextraction complex. In this early stage of IsdB:Hb interaction, the hemophore binds to the β-subunits of the Hb tetramer, exploiting a folding-upon-binding mechanism that is likely triggered by a cis/trans isomerization of Pro173. Binding of IsdB to α-subunits occurs upon dissociation of the Hb tetramer into α/β dimers. The structure of the IsdB:metHb complex reveals the final step of the extraction process, where heme transfer to IsdB is completed. The stability of the complex, both before and after heme transfer from Hb to IsdB, is influenced by isomerization of Pro173. These results greatly enhance current understanding of structural and dynamic aspects of the heme extraction mechanism by IsdB and provide insight into the interactions that stabilize the complex before the heme transfer event. This information will support future efforts to identify inhibitors of heme acquisition by S. aureus by interfering with IsdB:Hb complex formation.
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- Omar De Bei
- Interdepartmental Center Biopharmanet-TEC, University of Parma, Parma 43124, Italy
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- Interdepartmental Center Biopharmanet-TEC, University of Parma, Parma 43124, Italy
- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
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- Interdepartmental Center Biopharmanet-TEC, University of Parma, Parma 43124, Italy
- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
- Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council, Pisa 56124, Italy
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- Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin, Turin 10125, Italy
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- Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin, Turin 10125, Italy
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin, Turin 10125, Italy
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
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- Interdepartmental Center Biopharmanet-TEC, University of Parma, Parma 43124, Italy
- Department of Food and Drug, University of Parma, Parma 43124, Italy
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- Interdepartmental Center Biopharmanet-TEC, University of Parma, Parma 43124, Italy
- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
- Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council, Pisa 56124, Italy
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Blake LI, Cann MJ. Carbon Dioxide and the Carbamate Post-Translational Modification. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:825706. [PMID: 35300111 PMCID: PMC8920986 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.825706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Carbon dioxide is essential for life. It is at the beginning of every life process as a substrate of photosynthesis. It is at the end of every life process as the product of post-mortem decay. Therefore, it is not surprising that this gas regulates such diverse processes as cellular chemical reactions, transport, maintenance of the cellular environment, and behaviour. Carbon dioxide is a strategically important research target relevant to crop responses to environmental change, insect vector-borne disease and public health. However, we know little of carbon dioxide’s direct interactions with the cell. The carbamate post-translational modification, mediated by the nucleophilic attack by carbon dioxide on N-terminal α-amino groups or the lysine ɛ-amino groups, is one mechanism by which carbon dioxide might alter protein function to form part of a sensing and signalling mechanism. We detail known protein carbamates, including the history of their discovery. Further, we describe recent studies on new techniques to isolate this problematic post-translational modification.
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Analysis of Fluctuation in the Heme-Binding Pocket and Heme Distortion in Hemoglobin and Myoglobin. Life (Basel) 2022; 12:life12020210. [PMID: 35207496 PMCID: PMC8880375 DOI: 10.3390/life12020210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2021] [Revised: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Heme is located in the active site of proteins and has diverse and important biological functions, such as electron transfer and oxygen transport and/or storage. The distortion of heme porphyrin is considered an important factor for the diverse functions of heme because it correlates with the physical properties of heme, such as oxygen affinity and redox potential. Therefore, clarification of the relationship between heme distortion and the protein environment is crucial in protein science. Here, we analyzed the fluctuation in heme distortion in the protein environment for hemoglobin and myoglobin using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and quantum mechanical (QM) calculations as well as statistical analysis of the protein structures of hemoglobin and myoglobin stored in Protein Data Bank. Our computation and statistical analysis showed that the protein environment for hemoglobin and myoglobin prominently affects the doming distortion of heme porphyrin, which correlates with its oxygen affinity, and that the magnitude of distortion is different between hemoglobin and myoglobin. These results suggest that heme distortion is affected by its protein environment and fluctuates around its fitted conformation, leading to physical properties that are appropriate for protein functions.
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Morita Y, Shindo Y, Komatsu T. Protein Triad Comprising Genetically Fused Hemoglobin and Human Serum Albumins as an Artificial O2 Carrier Resistant to Haptoglobin Binding. CHEM LETT 2021. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.210549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Yoshitsugu Morita
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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Kurisaki I, Takahashi Y, Kitamura Y, Nagaoka M. Chloride Ions Stabilize Human Adult Hemoglobin in the T-State, Competing with Allosteric Interaction of Oxygen Molecules. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:12670-12677. [PMID: 34756042 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c07520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In the context of a molecular-level understanding of the allostery mechanisms, human adult hemoglobin (HbA) has been extensively studied for over half a century. Chloride ions (Cl-) have been known as one of HbA allosteric effectors, which stabilizes the T-state preferable to release oxygen molecules. The functional mechanisms were individually proposed by Ueno and Perutz several decades ago. Ueno considered that the site-specific Cl- binding is essential, while Perutz proposed the non-site-specific interaction between HbA and Cl-. Each speculation explains the mechanism plausibly since each was tightly associated with its reasonable experimental observation. However, both mechanisms themselves still seem to make their speculations controversial. In the present study, we have theoretically reconsidered these apart from their approaches. Our atomistic molecular dynamics simulations then showed that the increase of Cl- concentration suppresses the conformational conversion from the T-state. Interestingly, chloride ions loosely interact with the amino acid residues inside the HbA central cavity, suggesting that both Perutz's and Ueno's speculations are involved in understanding the microscopic roles of Cl-. In conclusion, we theoretically certified that the effect of Cl- competes against that of solvated O2, i.e., the destabilization of T-state through the non-site-specific interaction, implying the concerted regulation of HbA under physiological conditions.
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- Ikuo Kurisaki
- Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan.,Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku Naka-ku, Hamamatsu 432-8561, Japan.,Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Honmachi, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan
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- Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan.,Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Honmachi, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan.,Future Value Creation Research Center, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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Bellelli A, Tame JRH. Hemoglobin allostery and pharmacology. Mol Aspects Med 2021; 84:101037. [PMID: 34600771 DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2021.101037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2021] [Revised: 09/24/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The oxygen demands of the human body require the constant circulation of blood carrying an enormous concentration of hemoglobin (Hb). Oxygen transport depends not only on the amount of Hb, but also on the control over the affinity of the protein for the gas, which can be optimized for the environmental conditions by changes in the concentration of effectors (hydrogen ions, chloride, CO2, and DPG) inside the red cell. Some pathological conditions affecting Hb may benefit from pharmacological interventions to increase or decrease its affinity for oxygen, or otherwise modify its properties, or alter its biosynthesis. Examples of such conditions include sickle cell anemia, thalassemias and inherited hemoglobinopathies. Effective and safe drugs such as voxelotor, bezafibrate and efaproxiral are available that significantly increase or decrease Hb oxygen affinity. Some medical conditions not directly affecting the blood or its oxygen carrying capacity may also be relieved by the manipulation of Hb. For example, the standard treatment of acute cyanide poisoning requires the oxidation of a fraction of the Hb in the bloodstream so that it efficiently scavenges cyanide. Tumors are often extremely hypoxic and therefore strongly resistant to radiotherapy; the sensitivity of cancerous tissue to X-rays may be increased by improved oxygenation through drugs binding Hb. This review attempts to provide a systematic exploration of the pharmacology of Hb, its molecular basis, and its intended and possible uses.
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- Andrea Bellelli
- Department of Biochemical Sciences "A. Rossi Fanelli", Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
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- Drug Design Laboratory, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Tsurumi, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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Olson JS. Kinetic mechanisms for O 2 binding to myoglobins and hemoglobins. Mol Aspects Med 2021; 84:101024. [PMID: 34544605 DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2021.101024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2021] [Revised: 09/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Antonini and Brunori's 1971 book "Hemoglobin and Myoglobin in Their Reactions with Ligands" was a truly remarkable publication that summarized almost 100 years of research on O2 binding to these globins. Over the ensuing 50 years, ultra-fast laser photolysis techniques, high-resolution and time resolved X-ray crystallography, molecular dynamics simulations, and libraries of recombinant myoglobin (Mb) and hemoglobin (Hb) variants have provided structural interpretations of O2 binding to these proteins. The resultant mechanisms provide quantitative descriptions of the stereochemical factors that govern overall affinity, including proximal and distal steric restrictions that affect iron reactivity and favorable positive electrostatic interactions that preferentially stabilize bound O2. The pathway for O2 uptake and release by Mb and subunits of Hb has been mapped by screening libraries of site-directed mutants in laser photolysis experiments. O2 enters mammalian Mb and the α and β subunits of human HbA through a channel created by upward and outward rotation of the distal His at the E7 helical position, is non-covalently captured in the interior of the distal cavity, and then internally forms a bond with the heme Fe(II) atom. O2 dissociation is governed by disruption of hydrogen bonding interactions with His (E7), breakage of the Fe(II)-O2 bond, and then competition between rebinding and escape through the E7-gate. The structural features that govern the rates of both the individual steps and overall reactions have been determined and provide the framework for: (1) defining the physiological functions of specific globins and their evolution; (2) understanding the clinical features of hemoglobinopathies; and (3) designing safer and more efficient acellular hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) for transfusion therapy, organ preservation, and other commercially relevant O2 transport and storage processes.
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- John S Olson
- Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
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Morita Y, Takada R, Saito A, Komatsu T. Genetically and chemically tuned haemoglobin-albumin trimers with superior O 2 transport efficiency. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 57:9144-9147. [PMID: 34498647 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc03684j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Haemoglobin (Hb)-albumin (HSA) trimers were synthesized using five distinct Hb variants in which the structures were genetically and chemically tuned as an artificial O2 carrier and used as a red blood cell (RBC) substitute. The trimers were found to have moderately low O2 affinity (p50 = 23-34 Torr, 37 °C) and high co-operativity, yielding a maximum O2 transport efficiency 1.8-fold higher than that of human RBCs.
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- Yoshitsugu Morita
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
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Ciaccio C, Coletta A, Coletta M. Role of hemoglobin structural-functional relationships in oxygen transport. Mol Aspects Med 2021; 84:101022. [PMID: 34509280 DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2021.101022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2021] [Revised: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The molecular mechanism of O2 binding to hemoglobin (Hb) has been critically reviewed on the basis of the information built up in the last decades. It allows to describe in detail from the kinetic and thermodynamic viewpoint the process of O2 uptake in the lungs and release to the tissues, casting some light on the physiological and pathological aspects of this process. The relevance of structural-functional relationships for O2 binding is particularly outlined in the case of poorly vascularized tissues, such as retina, briefly discussing of strategies employed for optimization of oxygen supply to this type of tissues.
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- Chiara Ciaccio
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier 1, I-00133 Roma, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier 1, I-00133 Roma, Italy; IRCCS Fondazione Bietti, Rome, Italy.
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Maity D, Pal D. Molecular Dynamics of Hemoglobin Reveals Structural Alterations and Explains the Interactions Driving Sickle Cell Fibrillation. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:9921-9933. [PMID: 34459602 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c01684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In sickle cell anemia, deoxyhemoglobin deforms RBCs by forming fibrils inside that disintegrate on oxygenation. We studied 100 ns long all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) for sickle and normal hemoglobin fibril models to understand this process, complemented by multiple 1 μs MD for a single tetramer of sickle and normal hemoglobin in deoxy and oxy states. We find that the presence of hydrophobic residues without a bulky side chain at β-6 in hemoglobin is the reason for the stability of the fibrils. Moreover, the free energy landscapes from MD of hemoglobin starting in the tensed (T) state capture the putative transition from T to relaxed (R) state, associated with oxygen binding. The three conformational wells in the landscapes are characterized by the quaternary changes where one αβ dimer rotates with respect to the other. The conformational changes from the oxygenation of sickle hemoglobin hinder the intermolecular contacts necessary for fibril formation.
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- Dibyajyoti Maity
- Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
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Biophysical reviews 'meet the editor series'-Jeremy R. H. Tame. Biophys Rev 2021; 13:295-301. [PMID: 34178167 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-021-00798-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Nagatomo S, Kitagawa T, Nagai M. Roles of Fe-Histidine bonds in stability of hemoglobin: Recognition of protein flexibility by Q Sepharose. Biophys J 2021; 120:2734-2745. [PMID: 34087219 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Using various mutants, we investigated to date the roles of the Fe-histidine (F8) bonds in cooperative O2 binding of human hemoglobin (Hb) and differences in roles between α- and β-subunits in the α2β2 tetramer. An Hb variant with a mutation in the heme cavity exhibited an unexpected feature. When the β mutant rHb (βH92G), in which the proximal histidine (His F8) of the β-subunit is replaced by glycine (Gly), was subjected to ion-exchange chromatography (Q Sepharose column) and eluted with an NaCl concentration gradient in the presence of imidazole, yielded two large peaks, whereas the corresponding α-mutant, rHb (αH87G), gave a single peak similar to Hb A. The β-mutant rHb proteins under each peak had identical isoelectric points according to isoelectric focusing electrophoresis. Proteins under each peak were further characterized by Sephadex G-75 gel filtration, far-UV CD, 1H NMR, and resonance Raman spectroscopy. We found that rHb (βH92G) exists as a mixture of αβ-dimers and α2β2 tetramers, and that hemes are released from β-subunits in a fraction of the dimers. An approximate amount of released hemes were estimated to be as large as 30% with Raman relative intensities. It is stressed that Q Sepharose columns can distinguish differences in structural flexibility of proteins having identical isoelectric points by altering the exit rates from the porous beads. Thus, the role of Fe-His (F8) bonds in stabilizing the Hb tetramer first described by Barrick et al. was confirmed in this study. In addition, it was found in this study that a specific Fe-His bond in the β-subunit minimizes globin structural flexibility.
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- Shigenori Nagatomo
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
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- Picobiology Institute, Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Ako-gun, Hyogo, Japan.
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- Research Center for Micro-Nano Technology, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan; School of Health Sciences, College of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
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Małecka M, Skoczyńska A, Goodman DM, Hartinger CG, Budzisz E. Biological properties of ruthenium(II)/(III) complexes with flavonoids as ligands. Coord Chem Rev 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.213849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Allostery is a fundamental regulatory mechanism in the majority of biological processes of molecular machines. Allostery is well-known as a dynamic-driven process, and thus, the molecular mechanism of allosteric signal transmission needs to be established. Elastic network models (ENMs) provide efficient methods for investigating the intrinsic dynamics and allosteric communication pathways in proteins. In this chapter, two ENM methods including Gaussian network model (GNM) coupled with Markovian stochastic model, as well as the anisotropic network model (ANM), were introduced to identify allosteric effects in hemoglobins. Techniques on model parameters, scripting and calculation, analysis, and visualization are shown step by step.
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TANAKA M, TAKAHASHI Y, TAKAMI K, KITAMURA Y, NAGAOKA M. Data Scientific Study on Allosteric Regulation of Hemoglobin -The Role of Chloride Ion in Quaternary Structural Change-. JOURNAL OF COMPUTER CHEMISTRY-JAPAN 2021. [DOI: 10.2477/jccj.2021-0045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Miho TANAKA
- Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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Weak O 2 binding and strong H 2O 2 binding at the non-heme diiron center of trypanosome alternative oxidase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2020; 1862:148356. [PMID: 33385341 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2020.148356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2020] [Revised: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 12/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Alternative oxidase (AOX) catalyzes the four-electron reduction of dioxygen to water as an additional terminal oxidase, and the catalytic reaction is critical for the parasite to survive in its bloodstream form. Recently, the X-ray crystal structure of trypanosome alternative oxidase (TAO) complexed with ferulenol was reported and the molecular structure of the non-heme diiron center was determined. The binding of O2 was a unique side-on type compared to other iron proteins. In order to characterize the O2 binding state of TAO, the O2 binding states were searched at a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) theoretical level in the present study. We found that the most stable O2 binding state is the end-on type, and the binding states of the side-on type are higher in energy. Based on the binding energies and electronic structure analyses, O2 binds very weakly to the TAO iron center (ΔE =6.7 kcal mol-1) in the electronic state of Fe(II)…OO, not in the suggested charge transferred state such as the superoxide state (Fe(III)OO· -) as seen in hemerythrin. Coordination of other ligands such as water, Cl-, CN-, CO, N3- and H2O2 was also examined, and H2O2 was found to bind most strongly to the Fe(II) site by ΔE = 14.0 kcal mol-1. This was confirmed experimentally through the measurement of ubiquinol oxidase activity of TAO and Cryptosporidium parvum AOX which was found to be inhibited by H2O2 in a dose-dependent and reversible manner.
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Adachi R, Suzuki S, Mitsuda T, Morita Y, Komatsu T. Supramolecular linear coordination polymers of human serum albumin and haemoglobin. Chem Commun (Camb) 2020; 56:15585-15588. [PMID: 33245310 DOI: 10.1039/d0cc07167f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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We describe the synthesis, structure, and functionalities of water-soluble linear coordination polymers of human serum albumin and haemoglobin, which are connected via a bis(terpyridyl)-Fe2+ complex. These protein fibres were self-assembled by lyophilisation and were transformed into single-wall nanotubes. The biological activities of the protein units were perfectly preserved in the long fibres.
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- Ryo Adachi
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
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Ascenzi P, De Simone G, Pasquadibisceglie A, Gioia M, Coletta M. Kinetic inequivalence between α and β subunits of ligand dissociation from ferrous nitrosylated human haptoglobin:hemoglobin complexes. A comparison with O 2 and CO dissociation. J Inorg Biochem 2020; 214:111272. [PMID: 33129126 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2020.111272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2020] [Revised: 10/04/2020] [Accepted: 10/04/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Haptoglobin (Hp) counterbalances the adverse effects of extra-erythrocytic hemoglobin (Hb) by trapping the αβ dimers of Hb in the bloodstream. In turn, the Hp:Hb complexes display Hb-like reactivity. Here, the kinetics of NO dissociation from ferrous nitrosylated Hp:Hb complexes (i.e., Hp1-1:Hb(II)-NO and Hp2-2:Hb(II)-NO, respectively) are reported at pH 7.0 and 20.0 °C. NO dissociation from Hp:Hb(II)-NO complexes has been followed by replacing NO with CO. Denitrosylation kinetics of Hp1-1:Hb(II)-NO and Hp2-2:Hb(II)-NO are biphasic, the relative amplitude of the fast and slow phase being 0.495 ± 0.015 and 0.485 ± 0.025, respectively. Values of koff(NO)1 and koff(NO)2 (i.e., (6.4 ± 0.8) × 10-5 s-1 and (3.6 ± 0.6) × 10-5 s-1 for Hp1-1:Hb(II)-NO and (5.8 ± 0.8) × 10-5 s-1 and (3.1 ± 0.6) × 10-5 s-1 for Hp2-2:Hb(II)-NO) are unaffected by allosteric effectors and correspond to those reported for the α and β subunits of tetrameric Hb(II)-NO and isolated α(II)-NO and β(II)-NO chains, respectively. This highlights the view that the conformation of the Hb α1β1 and α2β2 dimers matches that of the Hb high affinity conformation. Moreover, the observed functional heterogeneity reflects the variation of energy barriers for the ligand detachment and exit pathway(s) associated to the different structural arrangement of the two subunits in the nitrosylated R-state. Noteworthy, the extent of the inequivalence of α and β chains is closely similar for the O2, NO and CO dissociation in the R-state, suggesting that it is solely determined by the structural difference between the two subunits.
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- Paolo Ascenzi
- Interdepartmental Laboratory for Electron Microscopy, Roma Tre University, Via della Vasca Navale 79, I-00146 Roma, Italy.
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- Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Viale Guglielmo Marconi 79, I-00146 Roma, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Via Montpellier 1, I-00133 Roma, Italy; Interuniversity Consortium for the Research on the Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems, Via Celso Ulpiani 27, I-70126, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Via Montpellier 1, I-00133 Roma, Italy; Interuniversity Consortium for the Research on the Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems, Via Celso Ulpiani 27, I-70126, Bari, Italy
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Shou K, Sarter M, de Souza NR, de Campo L, Whitten AE, Kuchel PW, Garvey CJ, Stadler AM. Effect of red blood cell shape changes on haemoglobin interactions and dynamics: a neutron scattering study. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2020; 7:201507. [PMID: 33204483 PMCID: PMC7657910 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2020] [Accepted: 09/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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By using a combination of experimental neutron scattering techniques, it is possible to obtain a statistical perspective on red blood cell (RBC) shape in suspensions, and the inter-relationship with protein interactions and dynamics inside the confinement of the cell membrane. In this study, we examined the ultrastructure of RBC and protein-protein interactions of haemoglobin (Hb) in them using ultra-small-angle neutron scattering and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). In addition, we used the neutron backscattering method to access Hb motion on the ns time scale and Å length scale. Quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) experiments were performed to measure diffusive motion of Hb in RBCs and in an RBC lysate. By using QENS, we probed both internal Hb dynamics and global protein diffusion, on the accessible time scale and length scale by QENS. Shape changes of RBCs and variation of intracellular Hb concentration were induced by addition of the Na+-selective ionophore monensin and the K+-selective one, valinomycin. The experimental SANS and QENS results are discussed within the framework of crowded protein solutions, where free motion of Hb is obstructed by mutual interactions.
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- Keyun Shou
- Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS-1) and Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-8: Neutron Scattering and Biological Matter), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 2, 52056 Aachen, Germany
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, New South Wales 2234, Australia
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- Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS-1) and Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-8: Neutron Scattering and Biological Matter), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany
- I. Physikalisches Institut (IA), AG Biophysik, RWTH Aachen, Sommerfeldstrasse 14, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, New South Wales 2234, Australia
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- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, New South Wales 2234, Australia
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- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, New South Wales 2234, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, New South Wales 2234, Australia
- Biofilm—Research Center for Biointerfaces and Biomedical Science Department, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
- Lund Institute for Advanced Neutron and X-ray Science, Lund, Sweden
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- Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS-1) and Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-8: Neutron Scattering and Biological Matter), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 2, 52056 Aachen, Germany
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Morita Y, Saito A, Yamaguchi J, Komatsu T. Haemoglobin(βK120C)-albumin trimer as an artificial O 2 carrier with sufficient haemoglobin allostery. RSC Chem Biol 2020; 1:128-136. [PMID: 34458753 PMCID: PMC8341959 DOI: 10.1039/d0cb00056f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The allosteric O2 release of haemoglobin (Hb) allows for efficient O2 delivery from the lungs to the tissues. However, allostery is weakened in Hb-based O2 carriers because the chemical modifications of the Lys- and Cys-β93 residues prevent the quaternary transition of Hb. In this paper, we describe the synthesis and O2 binding properties of a recombinant Hb [rHb(βK120C)]–albumin heterotrimer that maintains sufficient Hb allostery. The rHb(βK120C) core, with two additional cysteine residues at the symmetrical positions on its protein surface, was expressed using yeast cells. The mutations did not influence either the O2 binding characteristics or the quaternary transition of Hb. Maleimide-activated human serum albumins (HSAs) were coupled with rHb(βK120C) at the two Cys-β120 positions, yielding the rHb(βK120C)–HSA2 trimer, in which the Cys-β93 residues were unreacted. Molecular dynamics simulation demonstrated that the HSA moiety does not interact with the amino acid residues around the haem pockets and the α1β2 surfaces of the rHb(βK120C) core, the alteration of which retards Hb allostery. Circular dichroism spectroscopy demonstrated that the quaternary transition between the relaxed (R) state and the tense (T) state of the Hb core occurred upon both the association and dissociation of O2. In phosphate-buffered saline solution (pH 7.4) at 37 °C, the rHb(βK120C)–HSA2 trimer exhibited a sigmoidal O2 equilibrium curve with the O2 affinity and cooperativity identical to those of native Hb (p50 = 12 Torr, n = 2.4). Moreover, we observed an equal Bohr effect and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate response in the rHb(βK120C)–HSA2 trimer compared with naked Hb. Recombinant haemoglobin [rHb(βK120C)] was coupled with two human serum albumins (HSAs), yielding a rHb(βK120C)–HSA2 heterotrimer, which shows a sigmoidal O2 equilibrium curve and sufficient Hb allostery identical to those of native Hb.![]()
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- Yoshitsugu Morita
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 112-8551 Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 112-8551 Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 112-8551 Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 112-8551 Japan
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Pezzella M, El Hage K, Niesen MJM, Shin S, Willard AP, Meuwly M, Karplus M. Water Dynamics Around Proteins: T- and R-States of Hemoglobin and Melittin. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:6540-6554. [PMID: 32589026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c04320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The water dynamics, as characterized by the local hydrophobicity (LH), is investigated for tetrameric hemoglobin (Hb) and dimeric melittin. For the T0 to R0 transition in Hb, it is found that LH provides additional molecular-level insight into the Perutz mechanism, i.e., the breaking and formation of salt bridges at the α1/β2 and α2/β1 interface is accompanied by changes in LH. For Hb in cubic water boxes with 90 and 120 Å edge length it is observed that following a decrease in LH as a consequence of reduced water density or change of water orientation at the protein/water interface the α/β interfaces are destabilized; this is a hallmark of the Perutz stereochemical model for the T to R transition in Hb. The present work thus provides a dynamical view of the classical structural model relevant to the molecular foundations of Hb function. For dimeric melittin, earlier results by Cheng and Rossky [ Nature 1998, 392, 696-699] are confirmed and interpreted on the basis of LH from simulations in which the protein structure is frozen. For the flexible melittin dimer, the changes in the local hydration can be as much as 30% greater than for the rigid dimer, reflecting the fact that protein and water dynamics are coupled.
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- Marco Pezzella
- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.,SABNP, Université Evry, INSERM U1204, Université Paris-Saclay, 91025 Evry, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.,Laboratoire de Chimie Biophysique, ISIS, Université Louis Pasteur, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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di Masi A, De Simone G, Ciaccio C, D'Orso S, Coletta M, Ascenzi P. Haptoglobin: From hemoglobin scavenging to human health. Mol Aspects Med 2020; 73:100851. [PMID: 32660714 DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2020.100851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2020] [Revised: 03/23/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Haptoglobin (Hp) belongs to the family of acute-phase plasma proteins and represents the most important plasma detoxifier of hemoglobin (Hb). The basic Hp molecule is a tetrameric protein built by two α/β dimers. Each Hp α/β dimer is encoded by a single gene and is synthesized as a single polypeptide. Following post-translational protease-dependent cleavage of the Hp polypeptide, the α and β chains are linked by disulfide bridge(s) to generate the mature Hp protein. As human Hp gene is characterized by two common Hp1 and Hp2 alleles, three major genotypes can result (i.e., Hp1-1, Hp2-1, and Hp2-2). Hp regulates Hb clearance from circulation by the macrophage-specific receptor CD163, thus preventing Hb-mediated severe consequences for health. Indeed, the antioxidant and Hb binding properties of Hp as well as its ability to stimulate cells of the monocyte/macrophage lineage and to modulate the helper T-cell type 1 and type 2 balance significantly associate with a variety of pathogenic disorders (e.g., infectious diseases, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer). Alternative functions of the variants Hp1 and Hp2 have been reported, particularly in the susceptibility and protection against infectious (e.g., pulmonary tuberculosis, HIV, and malaria) and non-infectious (e.g., diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and obesity) diseases. Both high and low levels of Hp are indicative of clinical conditions: Hp plasma levels increase during infections, inflammation, and various malignant diseases, and decrease during malnutrition, hemolysis, hepatic disease, allergic reactions, and seizure disorders. Of note, the Hp:Hb complexes display heme-based reactivity; in fact, they bind several ferrous and ferric ligands, including O2, CO, and NO, and display (pseudo-)enzymatic properties (e.g., NO and peroxynitrite detoxification). Here, genetic, biochemical, biomedical, and biotechnological aspects of Hp are reviewed.
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- Alessandra di Masi
- Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Viale Guglielmo Marconi 446, I-00146 Roma, Italy
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- Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Viale Guglielmo Marconi 446, I-00146 Roma, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Via Montpellier 1, I-00133, Roma, Italy; Interuniversity Consortium for the Research on the Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems, Via Celso Ulpiani 27, I-70126, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Viale Guglielmo Marconi 446, I-00146 Roma, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Via Montpellier 1, I-00133, Roma, Italy; Interuniversity Consortium for the Research on the Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems, Via Celso Ulpiani 27, I-70126, Bari, Italy
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- Interdepartmental Laboratory for Electron Microscopy, Roma Tre University, Via della Vasca Navale 79, I-00146, Roma, Italy.
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Mayda S, Kandemir Z, Bulut N, Maekawa S. Magnetic mechanism for the biological functioning of hemoglobin. Sci Rep 2020; 10:8569. [PMID: 32444622 PMCID: PMC7244595 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64364-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The role of magnetism in the biological functioning of hemoglobin has been debated since its discovery by Pauling and Coryell in 1936. The hemoglobin molecule contains four heme groups each having a porphyrin layer with a Fe ion at the center. Here, we present combined density-functional theory and quantum Monte Carlo calculations for an effective model of Fe in a heme cluster. In comparison with these calculations, we analyze the experimental data on human adult hemoglobin (HbA) from the magnetic susceptibility, Mössbauer and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) measurements. In both the deoxygenated (deoxy) and the oxygenated (oxy) cases, we show that local magnetic moments develop in the porphyrin layer with antiferromagnetic coupling to the Fe moment. Our calculations reproduce the magnetic susceptibility measurements on deoxy and oxy-HbA. For deoxy-HbA, we show that the anomalous MCD signal in the UV region is an experimental evidence for the presence of antiferromagnetic Fe-porphyrin correlations. The functional properties of hemoglobin such as the binding of O2, the Bohr effect and the cooperativity are explained based on the magnetic correlations. This analysis suggests that magnetism could be involved in the functioning of hemoglobin.
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- Selma Mayda
- Department of Physics, Izmir Institute of Technology, Urla, 35430, Turkey
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, Urla, 35430, Turkey
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- Department of Physics, Izmir Institute of Technology, Urla, 35430, Turkey
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- Department of Physics, Izmir Institute of Technology, Urla, 35430, Turkey.
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- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Wako, 351-0198, Japan
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Ascenzi P, De Simone G, Tundo GR, Coletta M. Kinetics of cyanide and carbon monoxide dissociation from ferrous human haptoglobin:hemoglobin(II) complexes. J Biol Inorg Chem 2020; 25:351-360. [DOI: 10.1007/s00775-020-01766-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2019] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Horri-Naceur A, Timson DJ. In Silico Analysis of the Effects of Point Mutations on α-Globin: Implications for α-Thalassemia. Hemoglobin 2020; 44:89-103. [PMID: 32420790 DOI: 10.1080/03630269.2020.1739067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Hemoglobinopathies are inherited diseases that impair the structure and function of the oxygen-carrying pigment hemoglobin (Hb). Adult Hb consists of two α and two β subunits. α-Thalassemia (α-thal) affects the genes that code for the α-globin chains, HBA1 and HBA2. Mutations can result in asymptomatic, mild or severe outcomes depending on several factors, such as mutation type, number of mutations and the location at which they occur. PredictSNP was used to estimate whether every possible single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) would have a neutral or deleterious effect on the protein. These results were then used to create a plot of predicted tolerance to change for each residue in the protein. Tolerance to change was negatively correlated with the residue's sequence conservation score. The PredictSNP data were compared to clinical reports of 110 selected variants in the literature. There were 29 disagreements between the two data types. Some of these could be resolved by considering the role of the affected residue in binding other molecules. The three-dimensional structures of some of these variant proteins were modeled. These models helped explain variants which affect heme binding. We predict that where a point mutation alters a residue that is intolerant to change, is well conserved and or involved in interactions, it is likely to be associated with disease. Overall, the data from this study could be used alongside biochemical and clinical data to assess novel α-globin variants.
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- Agathe Horri-Naceur
- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, East Sussex, UK
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, East Sussex, UK
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Woodall DW, Brown CJ, Raab SA, El-Baba TJ, Laganowsky A, Russell DH, Clemmer DE. Melting of Hemoglobin in Native Solutions as measured by IMS-MS. Anal Chem 2020; 92:3440-3446. [PMID: 31990187 PMCID: PMC7480357 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Thermally induced structural transitions of the quaternary structure of the hemoglobin tetramer (human) in aqueous solution (150 mM ammonium acetate) were investigated using a variable temperature electrospray ionization (vt-ESI) technique in combination with ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and mass spectrometry (MS) measurements. At low solution temperatures (28 to ∼40 °C), a heterotetrameric (α2β2) complex is the most abundant species that is observed. When the solution temperature is increased, this assembly dissociates into heterodimers (holo αβ forms) before ultimately forming insoluble aggregates at higher temperatures (>60 °C). In addition to the holo αβ forms, a small population of αβ dimers containing only a single heme ligand and having a dioxidation modification mapping to the β subunit are observed. The oxidized heterodimers are less stable than the unmodified holo-heterodimer. The Cys93 residue of the β subunit is the primary site of dioxidation. The close proximity of this post translational modification to both the αβ subunit interface and the heme binding site suggests that this modification is coupled to the loss of the heme and decreased protein stability. Changes in the charge state and collision cross sections of these species indicate that the tetramers and dimers favor less compact structures at elevated temperatures (prior to temperatures where dissociation dominates).
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- Daniel W Woodall
- Department of Chemistry , Indiana University , Bloomington , Indiana 47405 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Indiana University , Bloomington , Indiana 47405 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Indiana University , Bloomington , Indiana 47405 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Indiana University , Bloomington , Indiana 47405 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Texas A & M University , College Station , Texas 77843 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Texas A & M University , College Station , Texas 77843 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Indiana University , Bloomington , Indiana 47405 , United States
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Funaki R, Okamoto W, Endo C, Morita Y, Kihira K, Komatsu T. Genetically engineered haemoglobin wrapped covalently with human serum albumins as an artificial O 2 carrier. J Mater Chem B 2020; 8:1139-1145. [PMID: 31840728 DOI: 10.1039/c9tb02184a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We describe the synthesis and O2 affinity of genetically engineered human adult haemoglobin (rHbA) wrapped covalently with recombinant human serum albumins (rHSAs) as an artificial O2 carrier used for a completely synthetic red blood cell (RBC) substitute. Wild-type rHbA [rHbA(wt)] expressed in yeast species Pichia pastoris shows an identical amino acid sequence and three-dimensional structure to those of native HbA. It is particularly interesting that two orientations of the prosthetic haem group in rHbA(wt) were aligned by gentle heating in the natural form. Covalent wrapping of rHbA(wt) with three rHSAs conferred a core-shell structured haemoglobin-albumin cluster: rHbA(wt)-rHSA3. Three variant clusters containing an rHbA mutant core were also created: Leu-β28 → Phe, Leu-β28 → Trp, and Leu-β28 → Tyr/His-β63 → Gln. Replacement of Leu-β28 with Trp decreased the distal space in the haem pocket, thereby yielding a cluster with moderately low O2 affinity which is nearly the same as that of human RBC.
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- Ryosuke Funaki
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
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- JEM Utilization Center, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8505, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
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Shibayama N. Allosteric transitions in hemoglobin revisited. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2020; 1864:129335. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2019.03.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2018] [Revised: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 03/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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