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Protein Engineering vol. 1 no. 1 pp. 23-27, 1986
© 1986 Oxford University Press

RESEARCH-ARTICLE

Protein engineering of cytochrome c by semisynthesis: substitutions at Glutamic acid 66

Carmichael J.A. Wallace and Blaise E. Corthésy

Département Biochmie Médicale, Centre Médical Universitaire, Université de Genève. 9, avenue de Champel. 1211 Genève 4. Switzerland

We have used protein semisynthesis to prepare four analogues of horse cytochrome c, in which the glutamic acid residue at position 66 has been removed and replaced by norvaline, glutamine, lysine and, as a methodological control, glutamic acid. This residue is quite strongly conserved in mitochondrial cytochrome c, and forms part of a cluster of acidic residues that occurs in all cytochromes c but whose function is obscure. Comparative studies of the physical and biochemical properties of the analogues have now disclosed two specific roles for Glu66 in the protein. It contributes significantly to the stabilization of the active conformation of the protein, probably by salt bridge formation, and it appears to participate in the redox-state-dependent ATP-binding site of cytochrome c. Our results also support two general views of the role of surface charged residues in cytochrome c, namely that their disposition influences both redox potential, through the electrostatic field felt at the redox centre, and the kinetics of electron transfer, through the dipole moment they generate.

Keywords: ATP binding/conformational stabtlization/cytochrome c/semisynthesis/structural analogues

Received June 13, 1986;
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