Abstract
The pH and temperature dependences of the 270-MHz proton nuclear magnetic resonance and resonance Raman spectra of Thermus thermophilus cytochrome c-552 were studied. Observation of the NMR methyl signal of the iron-bound methionine indicates that a methionine residue is the sixth ligand of heme iron in both ferric and ferrous states, although the environment of this methionine is not similar to that in mitochondrial cytochrome c. The NMR methyl signal of the coordinated methionine in the ferrous state was observed even at 87 degrees C, indicating the retention of the methionine ligand at the sixth coordination position. None of resonance Raman lines in ferrous cytochrome c-552 at higher temperatures showed a prominant temperature-dependent frequency shift, which implies that the heme iron was still bound with strong ligands and retained the low-spin state. In either redox state overall thermal denaturation did not occur even at 87 degrees C, although the ferric form existed in thermal spin mixture of the low-spin and high-spin species at higher temperatures. The hyperfine-shifted NMR resonances of the ferric form indicated rapid exchange of the sixth ligand at alkaline pH in the process of a single-step alkaline isomerization.
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