Heme A

Heme A
Names
Other names
Iron cytoporphyrin IX, formilporphyrin
Identifiers
18535-39-2
ChemSpider 21106444 YesY
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MeSH Heme+a
PubChem 5288529
Properties
C49H56O6N4Fe
Molar mass 852.837
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Heme A (or haem A) is a heme, a coordination complex consisting of a macrocyclic ligand called a porphyrin, chelating an iron atom. Heme A is a biomolecule and is produced naturally by many organisms.

Relationship to other hemes

Heme A differs from heme B in that a methyl side chain at ring position 8 is oxidized to a formyl group and a hydroxyethylfarnesyl group, an isoprenoid chain, has been attached to the vinyl side chain at ring position 2 of the iron tetrapyrrole heme. Heme A is similar to heme o, in that both have this farnesyl addition at position 2 but heme O does not have the formyl group at position 8, still containing the methyl group. The correct structure of heme A, based upon NMR and IR experiments of the reduced, Fe(II), form of the heme, was published in 1975.[1]

History

Heme A was first isolated by the German biochemist Otto Warburg in 1951 and shown by him to be the active component of the integral membrane metalloprotein cytochrome c oxidase.[2]

Stereochemistry

The final structural question of the exact geometric configuration about the first carbon at ring position 3 of ring I, the carbon bound to the hydroxyl group, has been recently published as the chiral S configuration.[3]

Like heme B, heme A is often attached to the apoprotein through a coordinate bond between the heme iron and a conserved amino acid side-chain. In the important respiratory protein cytochrome c oxidase (CCO) this ligand 5 for the heme A at the oxygen reaction center is a histidyl group.[4] This is a common ligand for many hemeproteins including hemoglobin and myoglobin.


Heme a in cyctochrome c oxidase, bound by two histidine residues (shown in pink)[5]

An example of a metalloprotein that contains heme A is cytochrome c oxidase. This very complicated protein contains heme A at two different sites, each with a different function. The iron of the heme A of cytochrome a is hexacoordinated, that is bound with 6 other atoms. The iron of the heme A of cytochrome a3 is sometimes bound by 5 other atoms leaving the sixth site available to bind dioxygen (molecular oxygen).[5] In addition, this enzyme binds 3 copper, magnesium, zinc, and several potassium and sodium ions. The two heme A groups in CCO are thought to readily exchange electrons between each other, the copper ions and the closely associated protein cytochrome c.

Both the formyl group and the isoprenoid side chain are thought to play important roles in conservation of the energy of oxygen reduction by cytochrome c oxidase. CCO is thought to be responsible for conserving the energy of dioxygen reduction by pumping protons into the inner mitochondrial space. Both the formyl and hydroxyethylfarnesyl groups of heme A are thought to play important roles in this critical process, as published by the influential group of S. Yoshikawa.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Caughey, W.S.; et al. (1975). "Heme A of Cytochrome c Oxidase". Journal of Biological Chemistry 250: 7602–7622.
  2. ↑ Warburg, O and Gewitz H S. (1951). "Cytohämin aus Herzmuskel". Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie 288: 1–4. doi:10.1515/bchm2.1951.288.1.1.
  3. ↑ Yamashita E, Aoyama H, Yao M, Muramoto K, Shinzawa-Itoh K, Yoshikawa S, Tsukihara T.; Aoyama; Yao; Muramoto; Shinzawa-Itoh; Yoshikawa; Tsukihara (2005). "Absolute configuration of the hydroxyfarnesylethyl group of heme A, determined by X-ray structural analysis of bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase using methods applicable at 2.8 Angstrom resolution". Acta Crystallographica D 61 (10): 1373–1377. doi:10.1107/S0907444905023358.
  4. ↑ Tsukihara T, Shimokata K, Katayama Y, Shimada H, Muramoto K, Aoyama H, Mochizuki M, Shinzawa-Itoh K, Yamashita E, Yao M, Ishimura Y, Yoshikawa S.; Shimokata; Katayama; Shimada; Muramoto; Aoyama; Mochizuki; Shinzawa-Itoh; Yamashita; Yao; Ishimura; Yoshikawa (2003). "The low-spin heme of cytochrome c oxidase as the driving element of the proton-pumping process". PNAS 100 (26): 15304–15309. doi:10.1073/pnas.2635097100. PMC 307562. PMID 14673090.
  5. 1 2 Yoshikawa, S.; Shinzawa-Itoh, K.; Nakashima, R.; Yaono, R.; Yamashita, E.; Inoue, N.; Yao, M.; Fei, M. J.; et al. (1998). "Redox-Coupled Crystal Structural Changes in Bovine Heart Cytochrome c Oxidase". Science 280 (5370): 1723–1729. doi:10.1126/science.280.5370.1723. PMID 9624044.
  6. ↑ Shimokata K, Katayama Y, Murayama H, Suematsu M, Tsukihara T, Muramoto K, Aoyama H, Yoshikawa S, Shimada H.; Katayama; Murayama; Suematsu; Tsukihara; Muramoto; Aoyama; Yoshikawa; Shimada (2007). "The proton pumping pathway of bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase". PNAS 104 (10): 4200–4205. doi:10.1073/pnas.0611627104. PMC 1820732. PMID 17360500.
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