Spectroscopic characterization of a newly isolated cytochrome P450 from Rhodococcus rhodochrous.
AUTOR(ES)
Banci, L
RESUMO
Cytochrome P450 (P450) from Rhodococcus rhodochrous have been characterized through circular dichroism and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, both in the substrate-free and substrate-bound forms. The data are compared with those of P450cam and indicate a close similarity of the structure of the active site in the two proteins. The substrate-free species contains low-spin iron(III), while the 2-ethoxyphenol bound species contains high-spin iron(III). The substrate is in slow exchange on the NMR time scale. The binding of CN- has been investigated and the final adduct characterized through NMR spectra. Nuclear relaxation times of the isotropically shifted signals turn out to be shorter than in other heme proteins, both in the high- and in the low-spin species. This is the result of longer electron relaxation times in P450s than in peroxidases and metmyoglobin. This property, as well as the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrum of the substrate-free form, are discussed in terms of the presence of the cysteine as the fifth ligand of the iron ion instead of a histidine as it occurs in peroxidases and myoglobin.
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