Unusual heme-histidine bond in the active site of a chaperone |
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Authors: | Lee Donghan Pervushin Konstantin Bischof Daniela Braun Martin Thöny-Meyer Linda |
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Affiliation: | Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Institute of Microbiology, ETH H?nggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland. |
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Abstract: | The heme chaperone CcmE is essential for the delivery of heme to c-type cytochromes. It forms an unusual transient, yet covalent, bond between an essential histidine, H130, and heme. We report on the discovery of the chemical structure of this bond solved by NMR, where the heme vinyl is cross-linked at the beta carbon to the Ndelta1 of H130. As this type of heme linkage has not been described previously in any cytochrome or hemoprotein, it represents a novel type of heme-histidine complex. |
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