Functional consequences of ligand-linked dissociation in hemoglobin from the sea cucumber molpadia arenicola

doi:10.1016/0304-4165(76)90209-9

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects

Volume 428, Issue 3, 28 May 1976, Pages 779-786

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Abstract

It has been established that Molpadia hemoglobin tends to dissociate into subunits as oxygen is bound. The kinetics and equilibria of carbon monoxide and ehtylisocyanide binding reported here show a dependence on protein concentration that supports the conclusions that the aggregated hemoglobin has a lower ligand affinity than the dissociated subunits. This is true for the isolated D-chain as well as for the unfractionated hemolysate that contains four distinct polypeptide chains (A-D). This indicates that even homopolymers of Molpadia hemoglobin have lower ligand affinity than the dissociated subunits. At high protein concentration hemolysates of Molpadia hemoglobin show slight cooperativity. The time course of ligand binding to the deoxy D-chain also suggests cooperative interactions, The low affinity of the aggregated state may have a different molecular explanation than in human hemoglobin were tetramers of identical subunits (as in Hb H) show high oxygen affinity. The absence of tyrosine and histidine at the C-tremini of the Molpadia D-chains also suggests a different stabilization of the low affinity deoxy state. An additional functional difference between Molpadia hemoglobin and human hemoglobin is that organic phosphate do not alter the ligand affinity of the sea cucumber hemoglobin.

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