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  • Title: Calcium-dependent heme structure in the reduced forms of the bacterial cytochrome c peroxidase from Paracoccus pantotrophus.
    Author: Pauleta SR, Lu Y, Goodhew CF, Moura I, Pettigrew GW, Shelnutt JA.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 2008 May 27; 47(21):5841-50. PubMed ID: 18442258.
    Abstract:
    This work reports for the first time a resonance Raman study of the mixed-valence and fully reduced forms of Paracoccus pantotrophus bacterial cytochrome c peroxidase. The spectra of the active mixed-valence enzyme show changes in the structure of the ferric peroxidatic heme compared to the fully oxidized enzyme; these differences are observed upon reduction of the electron-transferring heme and upon full occupancy of the calcium site. For the mixed-valence form in the absence of Ca(2+), the peroxidatic heme is six-coordinate and low-spin on the basis of the frequencies of the structure-sensitive Raman lines: the enzyme is inactive. With added Ca(2+), the peroxidatic heme is five-coordinate high-spin and active. The calcium-dependent spectral differences indicate little change in the conformation of the ferrous electron-transferring heme, but substantial changes in the conformation of the ferric peroxidatic heme. Structural changes associated with Ca(2+) binding are indicated by spectral differences in the structure-sensitive marker lines, the out-of-plane low-frequency macrocyclic modes, and the vibrations associated with the heme substituents of that heme. The Ca(2+)-dependent appearance of a strong gamma 15 saddling-symmetry mode for the mixed-valence form is consistent with a strong saddling deformation in the active peroxidatic heme, a feature seen in the Raman spectra of other peroxidases. For the fully reduced form in the presence of Ca(2+), the resonance Raman spectra show that the peroxidatic heme remains high-spin.
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