Structural studies on prolyl hydroxylase. Conformation from circular dichroism spectroscopy.

The circular dichroism spectra of purified prolyl hydroxylase [EC 1.14.11.12] in the native and heat-denatured states were obtained at pH 7.8. Analysis of the far-uv spectrum of the native enzyme gave an estimate of 40% alpha-helix, 40% beta-structure and 20% random coil. The near-uv spectrum contained several negative dichroic bands that can be attributed to phenylalanyl, tyrosyl and tryptophyl residues situated in an asymmetric environment in …