TY - JOUR
T1 - Refolding processes of cytochrome P450cam from ferric and ferrous acid forms to the native conformation. Formations of folding intermediates with non-native heme coordination state
AU - Egawa, Tsuyoshi
AU - Hishiki, Takako
AU - Ichikawa, Yusuke
AU - Kanamori, Yasukazu
AU - Shimada, Hideo
AU - Takahashi, Satoshi
AU - Kitagawa, Teizo
AU - Ishimura, Yuzuru
PY - 2004/7/30
Y1 - 2004/7/30
N2 - Changes in heme coordination state and protein conformation of cytochrome P450cam (P450cam), a b-type heme protein, were investigated by employing pH jump experiments coupled with time-resolved optical absorption, fluorescence, circular dichroism, and resonance Raman techniques. We found a partially unfolded form (acid form) of ferric P450cam at pH 2.5, in which a Cys-heme coordination bond in the native conformation was ruptured. When the pH was raised to pH 7.5, the acid form refolded to the native conformation through a distinctive intermediate. Formations of similar acid and intermediate forms were also observed for ferrous P450cam. Both the ferric and ferrous forms of the intermediate were found to have an unidentified axial ligand of the heme at the 6th coordination sphere, which is vacant in the high spin ferric and ferrous forms at the native conformation. For the ferrous form, it was also indicated that the 5th axial ligand is different from the native cysteinate. The folding intermediates identified in this study demonstrate occurrences of non-native coordination state of heme during the refolding processes of the large b-type heme protein, being akin to the well known folding intermediates of cytochromes c, in which c-type heme is covalently attached to a smaller protein.
AB - Changes in heme coordination state and protein conformation of cytochrome P450cam (P450cam), a b-type heme protein, were investigated by employing pH jump experiments coupled with time-resolved optical absorption, fluorescence, circular dichroism, and resonance Raman techniques. We found a partially unfolded form (acid form) of ferric P450cam at pH 2.5, in which a Cys-heme coordination bond in the native conformation was ruptured. When the pH was raised to pH 7.5, the acid form refolded to the native conformation through a distinctive intermediate. Formations of similar acid and intermediate forms were also observed for ferrous P450cam. Both the ferric and ferrous forms of the intermediate were found to have an unidentified axial ligand of the heme at the 6th coordination sphere, which is vacant in the high spin ferric and ferrous forms at the native conformation. For the ferrous form, it was also indicated that the 5th axial ligand is different from the native cysteinate. The folding intermediates identified in this study demonstrate occurrences of non-native coordination state of heme during the refolding processes of the large b-type heme protein, being akin to the well known folding intermediates of cytochromes c, in which c-type heme is covalently attached to a smaller protein.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.M310810200
DO - 10.1074/jbc.M310810200
M3 - Article
C2 - 15128748
AN - SCOPUS:3543035183
SN - 0021-9258
VL - 279
SP - 32008
EP - 32017
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
IS - 31
ER -