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Biophys J, December 2000, p. 3105-3117, Vol. 79, No. 6

Heme Structure and Orientation in Single Monolayers of Cytochrome c on Polar and Nonpolar Soft Surfaces

Ann M. Edwards,* Ke Zhang,dagger C. Erik Nordgren,* and J. Kent Blasie*

 *Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, and  dagger Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616 USA

Polarized x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectroscopy has been performed in fluorescence mode under total external reflection conditions on frozen hydrated single monolayers of yeast cytochrome c (YCC). The protein molecules were vectorially oriented within the monolayer by tethering their naturally occurring and unique surface cysteine residues to the sulfhydryl-endgroups at the surface of a mixed organic self-assembled monolayer, itself covalently attached to an ultrapure silicon wafer. The sulfhydryl-endgroups were isolated by dilution with either methyl- or hydroxyl-endgroups, producing macroscopically nonpolar or uncharged-polar soft surfaces, respectively. Independent information on the heme-plane orientation relative to the monolayer plane was obtained experimentally via optical linear dichroism. The polarized XAFS data have been analyzed both qualitatively and by a global mapping approach limited to systematically altering the various iron-ligand distances within a model for the local atomic environment of the heme prosthetic group, and comparing the theoretically generated XAFS spectra with those obtained experimentally. A similar analysis of unpolarized XAFS data from a frozen solution of YCC was performed using either the heme environment from the NMR solution or the x-ray crystallographic data for YCC as the model structure. All resulting iron-ligand distances were then used in molecular dynamics (MD) computer simulations of YCC in these three systems to investigate the possible effects of anisotropic ligand motions on the fits of the calculated to the experimental XAFS spectra.

Biophys J, December 2000, p. 3105-3117, Vol. 79, No. 6
© 2000 by the Biophysical Society   0006-3495/00/12/3105/13  $2.00


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