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Heme Oxidation in a Chimeric Protein of the -Selective Neisseriae meningitidis Heme Oxygenase with the Distal Helix of the
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Heme oxygenases from the bacterial pathogens Neisseriae meningitidis (nm-HO) andPseudomonas aeruginosa (pa-HO) share significant sequence identity (37%). In nm-HO, biliverdin IXis the sole product of the reaction, whereas pa-HO yields predominantly biliverdin IX. We have previouslyshown by NMR that the in-plane conformation of the heme in pa-HO is significantly different from thatof nm-HO as a result of distinct interactions of the heme propionates with the protein scaffold [Caignan,G. A., Deshmukh, R., Wilks, A., Zeng, Y., Huang, H. W., Moenne-Loccoz, P., Bunce, R. A., Eastman,M. A., and Rivera, M. (2002) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 14879-14892]. In the report presented here, wehave extended these studies to investigate the role of the distal helix by preparing a chimera of nm-HO(nm-HOch), in which distal helix residues 107-142 of nm-HO have been replaced with the correspondingresidues of the -regioselective pa-HO (112-147). Electronic absorption spectra, resonance Raman andFTIR spectroscopic studies confirm that the orientation and hydrogen bonding properties of the proximalHis ligand are not significantly altered in the chimera relative those of the wild-type proteins. The catalyticturnover of the nm-HOch-heme complex yields almost exclusively -biliverdin and a small but reproducibleamount of -biliverdin. NMR spectroscopic studies reveal that the altered regioselectivity in the chimericprotein likely stems from a dynamic equilibrium between two alternate in-plane conformations of theheme (in-plane heme disorder). Replacement of K16 with Ala and Met31 with Lys in the chimeric proteinin an effort to tune key polypeptide-heme propionate contacts largely stabilizes the in-plane conformerconducive to -meso hydroxylation.

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