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  • Title: Resonance Raman evidence for a novel charge relay activation mechanism of the CO-dependent heme protein transcription factor CooA.
    Author: Vogel KM, Spiro TG, Shelver D, Thorsteinsson MV, Roberts GP.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1999 Mar 02; 38(9):2679-87. PubMed ID: 10052938.
    Abstract:
    Resonance Raman spectra of the CO-responsive transcription factor CooA from Rhodospirillum rubrum provides evidence on the nature of heme ligation and its CO activation mechanism. The Fe(III) form gives standard low-spin heme spectrum, while the Fe(II) form is low spin for wild-type (WT) CooA and mixed spin for a CooA variant, H77Y, with an His77Tyr substitution. The Fe(II) porphyrin skeletal mode nu11 is at a value (1541 cm-1) indicative of a neutral donor ligand for the H77Y variant but is at an unusually depressed frequency (1529 cm-1) for the WT protein, indicating a strongly donating ligand. This ligand is proposed to be His77 imidazolate, formed by proton transfer to a nearby acceptor. The WT CO adduct has FeCO and CO stretching frequencies that indicate a neutral trans ligand and negative polarity in the CO binding pocket, while the CO adduct of His77Tyr has both 6- and 5-coordinate signals and a nonpolar CO environment. Photolysis of the WT CO adduct by the Raman laser produced a low-spin product at steady state, indicating fast recombination of the displaced ligand. These data suggest a novel YH- - -His- charge relay mechanism for CooA activation by CO. In this mechanism, His77 is reprotonated upon ligand displacement by CO; CO displaces either His77 or the trans ligand, X. The resulting charge on Y- may induce the protein conformation change required for site-selective DNA binding.
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