Abstract
Mössbauer spectroscopy has been used to study the heme iron in various states of cytochrome P450cam from the camphor-hydroxylating system of the bacterium Pseudomonas putida. Native, camphor-free P450cam contains low-spin ferric iron, part of which (approx. 50-70%) is converted to the high-spin ferric state upon addition of camphor. The Mössbauer spectra of the camphor-free enzyme (S = 1 2) and of the high-spin component (S = 5 2) of the camphor complex have been successfully simulated using a model based on crystal-field theory and simple covalency considerations. The native low-spin ferric state of P450cam forms a complex with 2-phenylimidazole, with small changes in the g values and Mössbauer spectra. These changes can be accounted for consistently in the crystal-field model referred to above. The addition of putidaredoxin to the camphor-complexed, oxidized P450cam decreases the intensity of the high-spin component and changes its quadrupole splitting. The reduced form of P450cam contains high-spin ferrous iron, both in the presence and absence of camphor. The complex of reduced P450cam with molecular oxygen is diamagnetic and has a combination of quadrupole splitting and isomer shift that is unusual for a ferrous complex, but strongly resembles that of oxyhemoglobin. These results are compatible with the bound superoxide, Fe3+-O-2, model proposed for oxyhemoglobin (Weiss, J. J. (1964) Nature 202, 83-84). Reduced P450cam and its complexes, oxyP450cam and P450cam·CO, are all found to be analogous in some respects to the corresponding hemoglobin complexes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 8-26 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | BBA - Protein Structure |
Volume | 420 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 20 1976 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors thank Professor E. M/inck for helpful discussions and Professor G. DePasquali and Ms. M. J. Namtvedt for chemical preparations. This work was supported in part by grants from the U.S. Public Health Service (GM 16406 and AM 00562) and the National Science Foundation (NSF GB 41629X).