Conformational changes of cytochromes P-450cam and P-450lin induced by high pressure
- 24 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 28 (2) , 651-656
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00428a035
Abstract
Absorbance and fluorescence spectra of bacterial cytochrome P-450cam and cytochrome P-450lin have been studied as a function of pressure. These pressure-induced spectral perturbations fall into two categories, which are interpreted as resulting from denaturation domains and are discussed in terms of protein structural dynamics. The results presented herein support a view that these two bacterial cytochromes have large structural differences and suggest a picture in which the gellike cortex of each protein may play an essential role in stability and function.Keywords
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