Motions in hemoglobin studied by normal mode analysis and energy minimization: evidence for the existence of tertiary T-like, quaternary R-like intermediate structures - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 1996 May 3;258(2):393-410.
doi: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0257.
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Motions in hemoglobin studied by normal mode analysis and energy minimization: evidence for the existence of tertiary T-like, quaternary R-like intermediate structures
L Mouawad et al. J Mol Biol. 1996.
Abstract
The normal mode analysis of human hemoglobin showed the presence in the deoxy T-state of one main preferential direction that brings the structure close to the R-state, with a low-energy variation, while in the oxy R-state there are several modes that point towards the T-state, but with higher energy variations and less contribution to the transition. The displacement along a combination of normal modes, followed by energy minimization, starting from the R-state, did not allow one to obtain a structure significantly different from that of R, showing that the fully oxygenated hemoglobin is trapped in a deep and narrow potential energy minimum. On the contrary, starting from the deoxy T-state, the displacement along a combination of normal modes, followed by energy minimization, yielded an intermediate structure, that we designate Tmin(d1), which is closer to R; the normal modes of Tmin(d1) indicated that the potential energy minimum in the vicinity of this structure is as narrow as that of R but less deep. The procedure of displacement along the modes, followed by energy minimization, was applied to Tmin(d1), yielding Tmin(d2); then the procedure was repeated, yielding the intermediate structures Tmin(d3) and Tmin(d4). The structures Tmin(d2), Tmin(d3) and Tmin(d4) are not significantly different from each other, indicating that they are trapped in a narrow, deep energy minimum. This procedure revealed the existence of at least two intermediate sets of structures between T and R: the first one, Tmin(d1), is different from the T and R structures, while the second set, Tmin(d2), Tmin(d3) and Tmin(d4), is quaternary R-like and tertiary T-like, where the contacts at the interfaces alpha1 beta1 and alpha1 beta2 are R-like, and the alpha and beta heme environments are still T-like.
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