title: Investigations of heme ligation and ligand switching in cytochromes p450 and p420.
abstract: It is generally accepted that the inactive P420 form of cytochrome P450 (CYP) involves the protonation of the native cysteine thiolate to form a neutral thiol heme ligand. On the other hand, it has also been suggested that recruitment of a histidine to replace the native cysteine thiolate ligand might underlie the P450 → P420 transition. Here, we discuss resonance Raman investigations of the H93G myoglobin (Mb) mutant in the presence of tetrahydrothiophene (THT) or cyclopentathiol (CPSH), and on pressure-induced cytochrome P420cam (CYP101), that show a histidine becomes the heme ligand upon CO binding. The Raman mode near 220 cm⁻¹, normally associated with the Fe-histidine vibration in heme proteins, is not observed in either reduced P420cam or the reduced H93G Mb samples, indicating that histidine is not the ligand in the reduced state. The absence of a mode near 220 cm⁻¹ is also inconsistent with a generalization of the suggestion that the 221 cm⁻¹ Raman mode, observed in the P420-CO photoproduct of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), arises from a thiol-bound ferrous heme. This leads us to assign the 218 cm⁻¹ mode observed in the 10 ns P420cam-CO photoproduct Raman spectrum to a Fe-histidine vibration, in analogy to many other histidine-bound heme systems. Additionally, the inverse correlation plots of the νFe-His and νCO frequencies for the CO adducts of P420cam and the H93G analogs provide supporting evidence that histidine is the heme ligand in the P420-CO-bound state. We conclude that, when CO binds to the ferrous P420 state, a histidine ligand is recruited as the heme ligand. The common existence of an HXC-Fe motif in many CYP systems allows the C → H ligand switch to occur with only minor conformational changes. One suggested conformation of P420-CO involves the addition of another turn in the proximal L helix so that, when the protonated Cys ligand is dissociated from the heme, it can become part of the helix, and the heme is ligated by the His residue from the adjoining loop region. In other systems, such as iNOS and CYP3A4 (where the HXC-Fe motif is not found), a somewhat larger conformational change would be necessary to recuit a nearby histidine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
authors.forename: Yuhan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Weiqiao
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Abdelkrim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Benabbas
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Ilia
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Denisov
authors.forename: Stephen G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Sligar
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: John H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Dawson
authors.forename: Paul M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Champion
mesh_terms: D019475:Camphor 5-Monooxygenase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D002248:Carbon Monoxide / Q000737:chemistry; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D006418:Heme / Q000737:chemistry*; D006639:Histidine / Q000737:chemistry*; D008024:Ligands; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009211:Myoglobin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D009211:Myoglobin; D006418:Heme; D006639:Histidine; D002248:Carbon Monoxide; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D019475:Camphor 5-Monooxygenase
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