Myoglobin Cavities Provide Interior Ligand Pathway

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Journal Protein Sci

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2004 Jan 24

PMID 14739317

Citations 15

Authors

Martha M Teeter

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Abstract

The myoglobin protein binds oxygen and catalyzes NO oxidation. As a key model protein, its dynamics have been well studied by spectroscopy and by crystallography as well as by simulation. Nonetheless, visualization of the mechanism of movement of ligands within myoglobin has been difficult. Coordinates of the A1 and A3 taxonomic spectral states of myoglobin from the 1 A crystal structure (1a6g) are generated as consistent sets of correlated clusters of residues with A or B crystal alternates. Analysis of cavities in these A1 and A3 conformations clarifies the pathway of ligand motion from distal entry through interior movement to the proximal side of the heme. Cavities opened up by buried alternate conformations link the distal to the proximal side of the heme. Structural conservation highlights the relevance of this pathway to human neuroglobin. Cavity migration via myoglobin crystal alternates provides a specific link of protein structure to protein dynamics and protein function and demonstrates the relevance of substates (discrete disorder) to function for all proteins.

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