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The three-dimensional conformation of ferricytochrome c results from specific folding of the polypeptide chain around the covalently bound heme so that His-18 and Met-80 are axially coordinated to the Fe(III). The Fe(III)-free, porphyrin protein has an intrinsic viscosity, sedimentation coefficient, and circular dichroism indicative of a compact, globular protein conformation comparable to the holoprotein. Both the porphyrin protein and ferricytochrome c are reversibly denatured by guanidinium chloride.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPorphyrins c have been obtained from Rhodospirillum rubrum cytochrome c2, yeast cytochrome c, and horse heart cytochrome c and compared using proton magnetic resonance and circular dichroism. Identity of the spectra establishes that chemically and stereochemically the three porphyrins c are identical. Since the stereochemistry of the porphyrin alpha-thioether linkage is not affected in the conversion to porphyrin c, the stereochemistry at the porphyrin alpha-thioether bonds among the corresponding cytochromes c also must be the same.
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