Publication Date:
1988-06-17
Description:
The specificity of complex formation between cytochrome b5 (cyt b5) and cytochrome c (cyt c) is believed to involve the formation of salt linkages between specific carboxylic acid residues of cyt b5 with lysine residues on cyt c. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to alter the specified acidic residues of cyt b5 to the corresponding amide analogues, which resulted in a lower affinity for complex formation with cyt c. The dissociation of the complex under high pressure resulted in specific volume changes, the magnitude of which reflected the degree of solvation of the acidic residues in the proposed protein-protein interface.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rodgers, K K -- Pochapsky, T C -- Sligar, S G -- GM 31756/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 33775/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jun 17;240(4859):1657-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2837825" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cytochrome b Group/genetics/*metabolism
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Cytochrome c Group/*metabolism
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Cytochromes b5
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
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Hydrostatic Pressure
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Macromolecular Substances
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Mutation
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Protein Conformation
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Rats
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Solubility
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Thermodynamics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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