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The paramagnetic 1H NMR spectra of the Co(II) and Ni(II) substituted forms of the type 1 blue copper protein (cupredoxin) amicyanin have been assigned. This is the first such analysis of a cupredoxin, which has a distorted tetrahedral active site with the ligands provided by two histidines, a cysteine and a methionine. The isotropic shifts of the resonances in these spectra are compared with those of Co(II) and Ni(II) azurin. A number of interesting similarities and differences are found. The coordination of the metal by the two equatorial histidine ligands is very similar in both proteins. The interaction between the introduced metal and the thiolate sulfur of the equatorial cysteine ligand is enhanced in the amicyanin derivatives. Resonances belonging to the weak axial methionine ligand exhibit much larger shifts in the amicyanin derivatives, indicative of shorter M(II)-S(Met) distances. The presence of shorter axial M(II)-S(Met) and equatorial M(II)S(Cys) distances in both Co(II) and Ni(II) amicyanin is ascribed to the absence of a second axially interacting amino acid at the active site of this cupredoxin.
Author(s): Dennison C; Salgado J; Kalverda AP; Diederix REM; Canters GW; Moratal JM; Lawler AT
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Year: 1999
Volume: 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 457-467
Print publication date: 23/08/1999
ISSN (print): 0949-8257
ISSN (electronic): 1432-1327
Publisher: Springer
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s007750050332
DOI: 10.1007/s007750050332
PubMed id: 10555580
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