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2oif

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The crystal structure of ferric cyanide bound barley hexacoordinate hemoglobin.

Structural highlights

2oif is a 8 chain structure with sequence from Hordeum vulgare. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:	X-ray diffraction, Resolution 1.8Å
Ligands:	, ,
Resources:	FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

HBL_HORVU May not function as an oxygen storage or transport protein, but might act as an oxygen sensor or play a role in electron transfer, possibly to a bound oxygen molecule.

Evolutionary Conservation

Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.

Publication Abstract from PubMed

The evolution of oxygen transport hemoglobins occurred on at least two independent occasions. The earliest event led to myoglobin and red blood cell hemoglobin in animals. In plants, oxygen transport "leghemoglobins" evolved much more recently. In both events, pentacoordinate heme sites capable of inert oxygen transfer evolved from hexacoordinate hemoglobins that have unrelated functions. High sequence homology between hexacoordinate and pentacoordinate hemoglobins in plants has poised them for potential structural analysis leading to a molecular understanding of this important evolutionary event. However, the lack of a plant hexacoordinate hemoglobin structure in the exogenously ligand-bound form has prevented such comparison. Here we report the crystal structure of the cyanide-bound hexacoordinate hemoglobin from barley. This presents the first opportunity to examine conformational changes in plant hexacoordinate hemoglobins upon exogenous ligand binding, and reveals structural mechanisms for stabilizing the high-energy pentacoordinate heme conformation critical to the evolution of reversible oxygen binding hemoglobins.

Plant hemoglobins: a molecular fossil record for the evolution of oxygen transport.,Hoy JA, Robinson H, Trent JT 3rd, Kakar S, Smagghe BJ, Hargrove MS J Mol Biol. 2007 Aug 3;371(1):168-79. Epub 2007 May 18. PMID:17560601^[1]

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References

↑ Hoy JA, Robinson H, Trent JT 3rd, Kakar S, Smagghe BJ, Hargrove MS. Plant hemoglobins: a molecular fossil record for the evolution of oxygen transport. J Mol Biol. 2007 Aug 3;371(1):168-79. Epub 2007 May 18. PMID:17560601 doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2007.05.029