title: Amino acid sequence of yeast hemoglobin. A two-domain structure.
abstract: The complete amino acid sequence of a hemoglobin from yeast (Candida norvegensis) has been determined by peptide and cDNA sequence analyses. The protein is composed of 387 amino acid residues and its amino terminus was blocked by an acetyl group. A computer search showed that the sequence of 155 N-terminal residues has 39% homology with that of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin. On the other hand, the sequence of 230 C-terminal residues showed a small, but notable, degree of similarity with that of a methemoglobin reductase found in human erythrocyte, i.e. NADH-cytochrome b5 oxido-reductase. We therefore conclude that yeast hemoglobin consists of two distinct domains; one is a heme-containing oxygen binding domain of the N-terminal region and the other is an FAD-containing reductase domain found in the C-terminal region.
authors.affiliation: Biological Institute, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwaasa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takagi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shikama
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002175:Candida / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D006454:Hemoglobins