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1m60
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Solution Structure of Zinc-substituted cytochrome c
Overview
Zinc-substituted cytochrome c has been widely used in studies of, protein-protein interactions and photo-induced electron transfer reactions, between proteins. However, the coordination geometry of zinc in, zinc-substituted cyt c has not yet been determined; two different opinions, about the coordination have been reached. Here the solution structures of, zinc-substituted cytochrome c that might be five-coordinated and, six-coordinated have been refined separately by using (1)H NMR, spectroscopy, and the zinc coordination geometry was determined just by, NOE distance constraints. Structural analysis of the energy-minimized, average solution structures of both the pentacoordinated and, hexacoordinated geometries indicate that that zinc in zinc-substituted cyt, c should be bound to both His18 and Met80, which means that the zinc is, six-coordinated. RMSD values of the family of 25 six-coordinated, structures from the average structure are 0.66+/-0.13 A and 1.09+/-0.16 A, for the backbone and all heavy atoms, respectively. A statistical analysis, of the structure indicates its satisfactory quality. Comparison of the, solution structure of the six-coordinated energy-minimized average, structure of zinc-substituted cytochrome c with the solution structure of, reduced cytochrome c reveals that for the overall folding the secondary, structure elements are very close. The availability of the structure, provides for a better understanding of the protein-protein complex and for, electron transfer processes between Zn cyt c and other metalloproteins.
About this Structure
1M60 is a Single protein structure of sequence from Equus caballus with HES as ligand. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Structural analysis of zinc-substituted cytochrome c., Qian C, Yao Y, Tong Y, Wang J, Tang W, J Biol Inorg Chem. 2003 Apr;8(4):394-400. Epub 2002 Dec 14. PMID:12761660
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