Globin

Not to be confused with globulin or globular protein.
Globin family

the Structure of deoxyhemoglobin Rothschild 37 beta Trp----Arg: a mutation that creates an intersubunit chloride-binding site.[1]
Identifiers
Symbol Globin
Pfam PF00042
Pfam clan CL0090
InterPro IPR000971
PROSITE PS01033
SCOP 1hba
SUPERFAMILY 1hba
CDD cd01067
Bac_globin

crystal structure of "truncated" hemoglobin n (hbn) from mycobacterium tuberculosis, soaked with xe atoms
Identifiers
Symbol Bac_globin
Pfam PF01152
Pfam clan CL0090
InterPro IPR001486
PROSITE PDOC00933
SCOP 1dlw
SUPERFAMILY 1dlw

The globins are a family of globular proteins, which are thought to share a common ancestor. These proteins all incorporate the globin fold, a series of eight alpha helical segments. Two prominent members of this family include myoglobin and hemoglobin, which both bind the heme (also haem) prosthetic group. Both of these proteins are reversible oxygen binders.

Globins are haem-containing proteins involved in binding and/or transporting oxygen. They belong to a very large and well studied family that is widely distributed in many organisms.[2]

Types

Globins evolved from a common ancestor and can be divided into three groups: single-domain globins, and two types of chimeric globins, flavohaemoglobins and globin-coupled sensors. Bacteria have all three types of globins, while archaea lack flavohaemoglobins, and eukaryotes lack globin-coupled sensors.[3] Several functionally different haemoglobins can coexist in the same species.

Eight globins are known to occur in vertebrates: androglobin, cytoglobin, globin E, globin X, globin Y, haemoglobin, myoglobin and neuroglobin.

Subfamilies

Examples

Human genes encoding globin proteins include:

The globins include:

See also

References

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  2. Vinogradov SN, Hoogewijs D, Bailly X, Mizuguchi K, Dewilde S, Moens L, Vanfleteren JR (August 2007). "A model of globin evolution". Gene 398 (1-2): 132–42. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2007.02.041. PMID 17540514.
  3. Vinogradov SN, Hoogewijs D, Bailly X, Arredondo-Peter R, Gough J, Dewilde S, Moens L, Vanfleteren JR (2006). "A phylogenomic profile of globins". BMC Evol. Biol. 6: 31. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-31. PMC 1457004. PMID 16600051.
  4. Pesce A, Dewilde S, Nardini M, Moens L, Ascenzi P, Hankeln T, Burmester T, Bolognesi M (September 2003). "Human brain neuroglobin structure reveals a distinct mode of controlling oxygen affinity". Structure 11 (9): 1087–95. doi:10.1016/S0969-2126(03)00166-7. PMID 12962627.
  5. Fago A, Hundahl C, Malte H, Weber RE (2004). "Functional properties of neuroglobin and cytoglobin. Insights into the ancestral physiological roles of globins". IUBMB Life 56 (11-12): 689–96. doi:10.1080/15216540500037299. PMID 15804833.
  6. Royer WE, Omartian MN, Knapp JE (January 2007). "Low resolution crystal structure of Arenicola erythrocruorin: influence of coiled coils on the architecture of a megadalton respiratory protein". J. Mol. Biol. 365 (1): 226–36. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2006.10.016. PMC 1847385. PMID 17084861.
  7. Mukai M, Mills CE, Poole RK, Yeh SR (March 2001). "Flavohemoglobin, a globin with a peroxidase-like catalytic site". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (10): 7272–7. doi:10.1074/jbc.M009280200. PMID 11092893.
  8. Blank M, Kiger L, Thielebein A, Gerlach F, Hankeln T, Marden MC, Burmeister T (2011). "Oxygen supply from the bird's eye perspective: Globin E is a respiratory protein in the chicken retina". J. Biol. Chem. 286 (30): 26507–15. doi:10.1074/jbc.M111.224634. PMC 3143615. PMID 21622558.
  9. Hou S, Freitas T, Larsen RW, Piatibratov M, Sivozhelezov V, Yamamoto A, Meleshkevitch EA, Zimmer M, Ordal GW, Alam M (July 2001). "Globin-coupled sensors: a class of heme-containing sensors in Archaea and Bacteria". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 (16): 9353–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.161185598. PMC 55424. PMID 11481493.
  10. Freitas TA, Saito JA, Hou S, Alam M (January 2005). "Globin-coupled sensors, protoglobins, and the last universal common ancestor". J. Inorg. Biochem. 99 (1): 23–33. doi:10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2004.10.024. PMID 15598488.
  11. Freitas TA, Hou S, Dioum EM, Saito JA, Newhouse J, Gonzalez G, Gilles-Gonzalez MA, Alam M (April 2004). "Ancestral hemoglobins in Archaea". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (17): 6675–80. doi:10.1073/pnas.0308657101. PMC 404104. PMID 15096613.
  12. Lama A, Pawaria S, Dikshit KL (July 2006). "Oxygen binding and NO scavenging properties of truncated hemoglobin, HbN, of Mycobacterium smegmatis". FEBS Lett. 580 (17): 4031–41. doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2006.06.037. PMID 16814781.
  13. Yeh DC, Thorsteinsson MV, Bevan DR, Potts M, La Mar GN (February 2000). "Solution 1H NMR study of the heme cavity and folding topology of the abbreviated chain 118-residue globin from the cyanobacterium Nostoc commune". Biochemistry 39 (6): 1389–99. doi:10.1021/bi992081l. PMID 10684619.
  14. Pathania R, Navani NK, Rajamohan G, Dikshit KL (May 2002). "Mycobacterium tuberculosis hemoglobin HbO associates with membranes and stimulates cellular respiration of recombinant Escherichia coli". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (18): 15293–302. doi:10.1074/jbc.M111478200. PMID 11796724.
  15. Watts RA, Hunt PW, Hvitved AN, Hargrove MS, Peacock WJ, Dennis ES (August 2001). "A hemoglobin from plants homologous to truncated hemoglobins of microorganisms". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 (18): 10119–24. doi:10.1073/pnas.191349198. PMC 56925. PMID 11526234.

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