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Pattern of cavities in globins: The case of human hemoglobin. (Articolo in rivista)

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Savino C; Miele, A.E.; Draghi F.; Johnson K.A.; Sciara G.; Brunori M.; Vallone B. (2009)
Pattern of cavities in globins: The case of human hemoglobin.
in Biopolymers (Print); John Wiley & Sons Inc., Hoboken (Stati Uniti d'America)
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1. Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dept Biochem Sci, Inst Mol Biol & Pathol, I-00185 Rome, Italy 2. Univ Roma La Sapienza, CNR, Inst Mol Biol & Pathol, I-00185 Rome, Italy 3. Univ Patras, Dept Chem, Patras 26500, Greece 4. CNR, Inst Prot Biochem, I-80131 Naples, Italy (literal)

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Our aim is to shed light on the conservation of potential ligand docking sites that play an important role in ligand dynamics of globins by using the technique of filling internal cavities naturally present in hemoglobin and myoglobin with xenon atom. In particular, we present the high resolution structures of the Xe-adduct of deoxygenated wild type human hemoglobin and a quadruple mutant (L(B10)Y and H(E7)Q in alpha and beta chians). For the sake of comparison we also determined under the same experimental conditions the xenon complex of wild type sperm whale myoglobin. The analysis revealed that the number and position of Xe binding cavities are different in the a and beta subunits, the latter being more similar to myoglobin. Notably, no proximal Xe docking site was detected in hemoglobin, at variance with myoglobin. The pattern of internal cavities accessibility and affinity for xenon suggests a different role for the dynamics of ligand migration in the two types of hemoglobin chains as compared to myoglobin. The number and position of hydrophobic cavities in hemoglobin are briefly discussed also in comparison with the data available for other members of the globin superfamily. (literal)

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