Abstract
Fishes thriving in polar habitats offer many opportunities for comparative approaches to understanding protein adaptations to temperature. Notothenioidei, the dominant suborder in the Antarctic Ocean, have evolved reduction of hemoglobin concentration and multiplicity, perhaps as a consequence of temperature stability and other environmental parameters. In the icefish family, the blood pigment is absent. In contrast, similar to other acanthomorph teleosts, Arctic fish, thriving in a more complex oceanographic system, have maintained higher hemoglobin multiplicity and a highly diversified globin system in response to environmental variability and/or variations in metabolic demands. This review summarises the current knowledge on the structure, function and phylogeny of hemoglobins of fish living in polar habitats. On the basis of crystallographic analysis, a novel guideline to the interpretation of the Root effect in terms of a threestate model is suggested, implying the accessibility of an R/T intermediate quaternary structure, frequently observed in Antarctic fish hemoglobins. The occurrence of bis-histidyl and penta-coordinate states in ferric forms of polar fish hemoglobins suggests additional redox properties.
Keywords: hemoglobin, polar fish, evolution, Root effect, X-ray structure
Current Protein & Peptide Science
Title: The Hemoglobins of Fishes Living at Polar Latitudes - Current Knowledge on Structural Adaptations in a Changing Environment
Volume: 9 Issue: 6
Author(s): Cinzia Verde, Alessandro Vergara, Lelio Mazzarella and Guido di Prisco
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Keywords: hemoglobin, polar fish, evolution, Root effect, X-ray structure
Abstract: Fishes thriving in polar habitats offer many opportunities for comparative approaches to understanding protein adaptations to temperature. Notothenioidei, the dominant suborder in the Antarctic Ocean, have evolved reduction of hemoglobin concentration and multiplicity, perhaps as a consequence of temperature stability and other environmental parameters. In the icefish family, the blood pigment is absent. In contrast, similar to other acanthomorph teleosts, Arctic fish, thriving in a more complex oceanographic system, have maintained higher hemoglobin multiplicity and a highly diversified globin system in response to environmental variability and/or variations in metabolic demands. This review summarises the current knowledge on the structure, function and phylogeny of hemoglobins of fish living in polar habitats. On the basis of crystallographic analysis, a novel guideline to the interpretation of the Root effect in terms of a threestate model is suggested, implying the accessibility of an R/T intermediate quaternary structure, frequently observed in Antarctic fish hemoglobins. The occurrence of bis-histidyl and penta-coordinate states in ferric forms of polar fish hemoglobins suggests additional redox properties.
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Verde Cinzia, Vergara Alessandro, Mazzarella Lelio and di Prisco Guido, The Hemoglobins of Fishes Living at Polar Latitudes - Current Knowledge on Structural Adaptations in a Changing Environment, Current Protein & Peptide Science 2008; 9 (6) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/138920308786733895
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