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Tomson F, Bailey JA, Gennis RB, Unkefer CJ, Li Z, Silks LA, Martinez RA, Donohoe RJ, Dyer RB, Woodruff WH. Direct infrared detection of the covalently ring linked His-Tyr structure in the active site of the heme-copper oxidases. Biochemistry 2002; 41:14383-90. [PMID: 12450405 DOI: 10.1021/bi026370c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Infrared spectroscopy, isotopic labeling ([(15)N(delta,epsilon)]histidine and ring-deuterated tyrosine), synthetic model studies, and normal mode calculations are employed to search for the spectroscopic signatures of the unique, covalently linked (His N(epsilon)-C(epsilon) Tyr) biring structure in the heme-copper oxidases. The specific enzyme examined is the cytochrome bo(3) quinol oxidase of E. coli. Infrared features of histidine and tyrosine are identified in the frequency regions of imidazole and phenol ring stretching modes (1350-1650 cm(-1)) and C-H and N-H stretching modes as well as overtones and combinations (>3000 cm(-1)). Two of these, at ca. 1480 and 1550 cm(-1), and their combination tones between 3010 and 3040 cm(-1), are definitively identified with the biring structure involving H284 and Y288 in the E. coli enzyme. Studies of a synthetic analogue of the H-Y structure, 4-methylimidazole covalently linked to p-cresol, show that a feature near 1540 cm(-1) is unique to the biring structure and is absent from the infrared spectrum of 4-methylimidazole or p-cresol alone. This feature is readily detectable by infrared difference techniques, and offers a direct spectroscopic probe for potential radical production involving the H-Y structure in the O(2) reduction cycle of the oxidases.
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- Farol Tomson
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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Pawate AS, Morgan J, Namslauer A, Mills D, Brzezinski P, Ferguson-Miller S, Gennis RB. A mutation in subunit I of cytochrome oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides results in an increase in steady-state activity but completely eliminates proton pumping. Biochemistry 2002; 41:13417-23. [PMID: 12416987 DOI: 10.1021/bi026582+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The heme-copper oxidases convert the free energy liberated in the reduction of O(2) to water into a transmembrane proton electrochemical potential (protonmotive force). One of the essential structural elements of the enzyme is the D-channel, which is thought to be the input pathway, both for protons which go to form H(2)O ("chemical protons") and for protons that get translocated across the lipid membrane ("pumped protons"). The D-channel contains a chain of water molecules extending about 25 A from an aspartic acid (D132 in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides oxidase) near the cytoplasmic ("inside") enzyme surface to a glutamic acid (E286) in the protein interior. Mutations in which either of these acidic residues is replaced by their corresponding amides (D132N or E286Q) result in severe inhibition of enzyme activity. In the current work, an asparagine located in the D-channel has been replaced by the corresponding acid (N139 to D; N98 in bovine enzyme) with dramatic consequences. The N139D mutation not only completely eliminates proton pumping but, at the same time, confers a substantial increase (150-300%) in the steady-state cytochrome oxidase activity. The N139D mutant of the R. sphaeroides oxidase was further characterized by examining the rates of individual steps in the catalytic cycle. Under anaerobic conditions, the rate of reduction of heme a(3) in the fully oxidized enzyme, prior to the reaction with O(2), is identical to that of the wild-type oxidase and is not accelerated. However, the rate of reaction of the fully reduced enzyme with O(2) is accelerated by the N139D mutation, as shown by a more rapid F --> O transition. Whereas the rates of formation and decay of the oxygenated intermediates are altered, the nature of the oxygenated intermediates is not perturbed by the N139D mutation.
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- Ashtamurthy S Pawate
- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology and Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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Forte E, Barone MC, Brunori M, Sarti P, Giuffrè A. Redox-linked protonation of cytochrome c oxidase: the effect of chloride bound to CuB. Biochemistry 2002; 41:13046-52. [PMID: 12390032 DOI: 10.1021/bi025917k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The effect of bound Cl- on the redox-linked protonation of soluble beef heart cytochrome c oxidase (CcOX) has been investigated at pH 7.3-7.5 by multiwavelength stopped-flow spectroscopy, using phenol red as the pH indicator in an unbuffered medium. Reduction by Ru-II hexamine of the Cl-bound enzyme is associated with an overall apparent uptake of 1.40 +/- 0.21 H+/aa3, whereas 2.28 +/- 0.36 H+/aa3 is taken upon reduction of the Cl-free enzyme. Bound Cl- has no effect on the extent of H+ uptake coupled to heme a reduction (0.59 +/- 0.06 H+/aa3), but significantly decreases (by approximately 0.9 H+/aa3) the apparent stoichiometry of H+ uptake coupled to heme a3-Cu(B) reduction, by eliminating the net H+ uptake linked to Cu(B) reduction. To account for these results, we propose that, after the transfer of the first electron to the active site, reduction of Cu(B) is associated with Cl- dissociation, addition of a H+, and diffusion into the bulk (with subsequent dissociation) of HCl. In the physiologically competent Cl--free enzyme, an OH- likely bound to oxidized Cu(B) is protonated upon arrival of the first electron, and dissociates as H2O. The relevance of this finding to the understanding of the enzyme mechanism is discussed.
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- Elena Forte
- Department of Biochemical Sciences and CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, University of Rome La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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Hellwig P, Soulimane T, Mäntele W. Electrochemical, FT-IR and UV/VIS spectroscopic properties of the caa3 oxidase from T. thermophilus. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2002; 269:4830-8. [PMID: 12354114 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.03182.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The caa3-oxidase from Thermus thermophilus has been studied with a combined electrochemical, UV/VIS and Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopic approach. In this oxidase the electron donor, cytochrome c, is covalently bound to subunit II of the cytochrome c oxidase. Oxidative electrochemical redox titrations in the visible spectral range yielded a midpoint potential of -0.01 +/- 0.01 V (vs. Ag/AgCl/3m KCl, 0.218 V vs. SHE') for the heme c. This potential differs for about 50 mV from the midpoint potential of isolated cytochrome c, indicating the possible shifts of the cytochrome c potential when bound to cytochrome c oxidase. For the signals where the hemes a and a3 contribute, three potentials, = -0.075 V +/- 0.01 V, Em2 = 0.04 V +/- 0.01 V and Em3 = 0.17 V +/- 0.02 V (0.133, 0.248 and 0.378 V vs. SHE', respectively) could be obtained. Potential titrations after addition of the inhibitor cyanide yielded a midpoint potential of -0.22 V +/- 0.01 V for heme a3-CN- and of Em2 = 0.00 V +/- 0.02 V and Em3 = 0.17 V +/- 0.02 V for heme a (-0.012 V, 0.208 V and 0.378 V vs. SHE', respectively). The three phases of the potential-dependent development of the difference signals can be attributed to the cooperativity between the hemes a, a3 and the CuB center, showing typical behavior for cytochrome c oxidases. A stronger cooperativity of CuB is discussed to reflect the modulation of the enzyme to the different key residues involved in proton pumping. We thus studied the FT-IR spectroscopic properties of this enzyme to identify alternative protonatable sites. The vibrational modes of a protonated aspartic or glutamic acid at 1714 cm-1 concomitant with the reduced form of the protein can be identified, a mode which is not present for other cytochrome c oxidases. Furthermore modes at positions characteristic for tyrosine vibrations have been identified. Electrochemically induced FT-IR difference spectra after inhibition of the sample with cyanide allows assigning the formyl signals upon characteristic shifts of the nu(C=O) modes, which reflect the high degree of similarity of heme a3 to other typical heme copper oxidases. A comparison with previously studied cytochrome c oxidases is presented and on this basis the contributions of the reorganization of the polypeptide backbone, of individual amino acids and of the hemes c, a and a3 upon electron transfer to/from the redox active centers discussed.
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- Petra Hellwig
- Institut für Biophysik der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/M., Germany; Institut für Biochemie der Rheinisch-Westfälischen-Technischen Hochschule, Aachen, Germany.
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Koutsoupakis K, Stavrakis S, Pinakoulaki E, Soulimane T, Varotsis C. Observation of the equilibrium CuB-CO complex and functional implications of the transient heme a3 propionates in cytochrome ba3-CO from Thermus thermophilus. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and time-resolved step-scan FTIR studies. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:32860-6. [PMID: 12097331 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m204943200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We report the first evidence for the existence of the equilibrium Cu(B)1+-CO species of CO-bound reduced cytochrome ba(3) from Thermus thermophilus at room temperature. The frequency of the C-O stretching mode of Cu(B)1+-CO is located at 2053 cm(-1) and remains unchanged in H(2)O/D(2)O exchanges and, between pD 5.5 and 9.7, indicating that the chemical environment does not alter the protonation state of the Cu(B) histidine ligands. The data and conclusions reported here are in contrast to the changes in protonation state of Cu(B)-His-290, reported recently (Das, T. K., Tomson, F. K., Gennis, R. B., Gordon, M., and Rousseau, D. L. (2001) Biophys. J. 80, 2039-2045 and Das, T. P., Gomes, C. M., Teixeira, M., and Rousseau, D. L. (1999) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 96, 9591-9596). The time-resolved step-scan FTIR difference spectra indicate that the rate of decay of the transient Cu(B)1+-CO complex is 34.5 s(-1) and rebinding to heme a(3) occurs with k(2) = 28.6 s(-1). The rate of decay of the transient Cu(B)1+-CO complex displays a similar time constant as the absorption changes at 1694(+)/1706(-), attributed to perturbation of the heme a(3) propionates (COOH). The nu(C-O) of the transient Cu(B)1+-CO species is the same as that of the equilibrium Cu(B)1+-CO species and remains unchanged in the pD range 5.5-9.7 indicating that no structural change takes place at Cu(B) between these states. The implications of these results with respect to proton pathways in heme-copper oxidases are discussed.
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- Konstantinos Koutsoupakis
- Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, 71409 Heraklion, Crete, Greece and Paul Scherrer Institut, Life Sciences, OSRA/008, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Pinakoulaki E, Soulimane T, Varotsis C. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and step-scan time-resolved FTIR spectroscopies reveal a unique active site in cytochrome caa3 oxidase from Thermus thermophilus. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:32867-74. [PMID: 12107185 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m205568200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and step-scan time-resolved FTIR difference spectra are reported for the [carbonmonoxy]cytochrome caa(3) from Thermus thermophilus. A major C-O mode of heme a(3) at 1958 cm(-1) and two minor modes at 1967 and 1975 cm(-1) (7:1:1) have been identified at room temperature and remained unchanged in H(2)O/D(2)O exchange. The observed C-O frequencies are 10 cm(-1) higher than those obtained previously at 21 K (Einarsdóttir, O., Killough, P. M., Fee, J. A., and Woodruff, W. H. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 2405-2408). The time-resolved FTIR data indicate that the transient Cu(B)(1+)-CO complex is formed at room temperature as revealed by the CO stretching mode at 2062 cm(-1). Therefore, the caa(3) enzyme is the only documented member of the heme-copper superfamily whose binuclear center consists of an a(3)-type heme of a beta-form and a Cu(B) atom of an alpha-form. These results illustrate that the properties of the binuclear center in other oxidases resulting in the alpha-form are not required for enzymatic activity. Dissociation of the transient Cu(B)(1+)-CO complex is biphasic. The rate of decay is 2.3 x 10(4) s(-1) (fast phase, 35%) and 36.3 s(-1) (slow phase, 65%). The observed rate of rebinding to heme a(3) is 34.1 s(-1). The implications of these results with respect to the molecular motions that are general to the photodynamics of the binuclear center in heme-copper oxidases are discussed.
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- Eftychia Pinakoulaki
- Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, 71409 Heraklion, Crete, Greece and the Paul Scherrer Institut, Life Sciences, OSRA/008, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Namslauer A, Brändén M, Brzezinski P. The rate of internal heme-heme electron transfer in cytochrome C oxidase. Biochemistry 2002; 41:10369-74. [PMID: 12173922 DOI: 10.1021/bi025976y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cytochrome c oxidase catalyzes the one-electron oxidation of four molecules of cytochrome c and the four-electron reduction of dioxygen to water. The process involves a number of intramolecular electron-transfer reactions, one of which takes place between the two hemes of the enzyme, hemes a and a3, with a rate of approximately 3 x 10(5) s(-1) (tau approximately 3 micros). In a recent report [Verkhovsky et al. (2001) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1506, 143-146], it was suggested that the 3 x 10(5) s(-1) electron transfer may be controlled by structural rearrangements and that there is an additional electron transfer that is several orders of magnitude faster. In the present study, we have reinvestigated the spectral changes occurring in the nanosecond and microsecond time frames after photolysis of CO from the fully reduced and mixed-valence enzymes. On the basis of the differences between them, we conclude that in the bovine enzyme the microscopic forward and reverse rate constants for the electron-transfer reactions from heme a to heme a3 are not faster than approximately 2 x 10(5) and approximately 1 x 10(5) s(-1), respectively.
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- Andreas Namslauer
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, The Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Lee A, Kirichenko A, Vygodina T, Siletsky SA, Das TK, Rousseau DL, Gennis R, Konstantinov AA. Ca(2+)-binding site in Rhodobacter sphaeroides cytochrome C oxidase. Biochemistry 2002; 41:8886-98. [PMID: 12102631 DOI: 10.1021/bi020183x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) from R. sphaeroides contains one Ca(2+) ion per enzyme that is not removed by dialysis versus EGTA. This is similar to COX from Paracoccus denitrificans [Pfitzner, U., Kirichenko, A., Konstantinov, A. A., Mertens, M., Wittershagen, A., Kolbesen, B. O., Steffens, G. C. M., Harrenga, A., Michel, H., and Ludwig, B. (1999) FEBS Lett. 456, 365-369] and is in contrast to the bovine oxidase, which binds Ca(2+) reversibly. A series of R. sphaeroides mutants with replacements of the E54, Q61, and D485 residues, which form the Ca(2+) coordination sphere in subunit I, has been generated. The substitutions for the E54 residue do not assemble normally. Mutants with the Q61 replacements are active and retain the tightly bound Ca(2+); their spectra are not perturbed by added Ca(2+) or EGTA. The D485A mutant is active, binds to Ca(2+) reversibly, like the mitochondrial oxidase, and exhibits the red shift in the heme a absorption spectrum upon Ca(2+) binding for both reduced and oxidized states of heme a. The K(d) value of 6 nM determined by equilibrium titrations is much lower than that reported for the homologous D477A mutant of Paracoccus denitrificans or for bovine COX (K(d) = 1-3 microM). The rate of Ca(2+) binding with the D485A oxidase (k(on) = 5 x 10(3) M(-1) s(-1)) is comparable to that observed earlier for bovine COX, but the off-rate is extremely slow (approximately 10(-3) s(-1)) and highly temperature-dependent. The k(off) /k(on) ratio (190 nM) is about 30-fold higher than the equilibrium K(d) of 6 nM, indicating that formation of the Ca(2+)-adduct may involve more than one step. Sodium ions reverse the Ca(2+)-induced red shift of heme a and dramatically decrease the rate of Ca(2+) binding to the D485A mutant COX. With the D485A mutant, 1 Ca(2+) competes with 1 Na(+) for the binding site, whereas 2 Na(+) compete with 1 Ca(2+) for binding to the bovine oxidase. This finding indicates that the aspartic residue D442 (a homologue of R. sphaeroides D485) may be the second Na(+) binding site in bovine COX. No effect of Ca(2+) binding to the D485A mutant is evident on either the steady-state enzymatic activity or several time-resolved partial steps of the catalytic cycle. It is proposed that the tightly bound Ca(2+) plays a structural role in the bacterial oxidases while the reversible binding with the mammalian enzyme may be involved in the regulation of mitochondrial function.
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- Alex Lee
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Gilderson G, Aagaard A, Brzezinski P. Relocation of an internal proton donor in cytochrome c oxidase results in an altered pK(a) and a non-integer pumping stoichiometry. Biophys Chem 2002; 98:105-14. [PMID: 12128193 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4622(02)00088-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides has two proton-input pathways leading from the protein surface towards the catalytic site, located within the membrane-spanning part of the enzyme. One of these pathways, the D-pathway, contains a highly conserved Glu residue [E(I-286)], which plays an important role in proton transfer through the pathway. In a recent study, we showed that a mutant enzyme in which E(I-286) was re-located to the opposite side of the D-pathway [EA(I-286)/IE(I-112) double mutant enzyme] was able to pump protons, although with a stoichiometry that was lower than that of the wild-type enzyme (approximately 0.6 H(+)/e(-)) (Aagaard et al. (2000) Biochemistry 39, 15847-15850). These results showed that the residue must not necessarily be located at a specific place in the amino-acid sequence, but rather at a specific location in space. In this study, we have investigated the effect of moving E(I-286) on the kinetics of specific reaction steps of the catalytic cycle in the pH range 6-11. Our results show that during the reaction of the four-electron reduced enzyme with O(2), the rates of the two first transitions (up to formation of the 'peroxy' intermediate, P(r)) are the same for the double mutant as for the wild-type enzyme, but formation of the oxo-ferryl (F) and fully oxidized (O) states, associated with proton uptake from the bulk solution, are slowed by factors of approximately 30 and approximately 400, respectively. Thus, in spite of the dramatically reduced transition rates, the proton-pumping stoichiometry is reduced only by approximately 40%. The apparent pK(a) values in the pH-dependencies of the rates of the P(R)-->F and F-->O transitions were >3 and approximately 2 units lower than those of the corresponding transitions in the wild-type enzyme, respectively. The relation between the modified pK(a)s, the transition rates between oxygen intermediates and the pumping stoichiometry is discussed.
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- Gwen Gilderson
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, The Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Oxygen reductases are the final enzymes in the aerobic respiratory chains catalysing the reduction of dioxygen to water, with the concomitant translocation of protons through the bacterial cytoplasmatic or mitochondrial membranes. Most of these enzymes belong to the family of haem-copper oxygen reductases. Intraprotein proton-conducting pathways are needed for the chemical reaction and for the translocated protons. Based on sequence and structural analyses, and site-directed mutagenesis, two proton channels were established for the mitochondrial-like oxygen reductases. However, the amino acid residues forming these channels are not conserved among the family members. Most importantly, many oxygen reductases do not contain ionisable amino acid residues in the putative proton pathways nor in alternative positions. The diversity of channels in haem-copper oxygen reductases exemplifies the plasticity of proton pathways that occurred throughout evolution, and strongly suggests a substantial role for water as the main proton carrier.
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- Manuela M Pereira
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Rua da Quinta Grande 6, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
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Adamian L, Liang J. Interhelical hydrogen bonds and spatial motifs in membrane proteins: polar clamps and serine zippers. Proteins 2002; 47:209-18. [PMID: 11933067 DOI: 10.1002/prot.10071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Polar and ionizable amino acid residues are frequently found in the transmembrane (TM) regions of membrane proteins. In this study, we show that they help to form extensive hydrogen bond connections between TM helices. We find that almost all TM helices have interhelical hydrogen bonding. In addition, we find that a pair of contacting TM helices is packed tighter when there are interhelical hydrogen bonds between them. We further describe several spatial motifs in the TM regions, including "Polar Clamp" and "Serine Zipper," where conserved Ser residues coincide with tightly packed locations in the TM region. With the examples of halorhodopsin, calcium-transporting ATPase, and bovine cytochrome c oxidase, we discuss the roles of hydrogen bonds in stabilizing helical bundles in polytopic membrane proteins and in protein functions.
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- Larisa Adamian
- Department of Bioengineering, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA
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Bartalesi I, Bertini I, Hajieva P, Rosato A, Vasos PR. Solution structure of a monoheme ferrocytochrome c from Shewanella putrefaciens and structural analysis of sequence-similar proteins: functional implications. Biochemistry 2002; 41:5112-9. [PMID: 11955059 DOI: 10.1021/bi015984z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Within the frame of the characterization of the structure and function of cytochromes c, an 81-amino acid cytochrome c was identified in the genome of Shewanella putrefaciens. Because of the scarce information about bacterial cytochromes of this type and the large variability in sequences and possibly function, we decided to proceed to its structural characterization. This protein was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified. The oxidized species is largely high spin, with a detached methionine, whereas the reduced species has the classical His/Met axial ligation to iron. The NMR solution structure of the reduced form was determined on a (15)N-labeled sample, for which 99% of all non-proline backbone (1)H and (15)N resonances have been assigned. One thousand three hundred two meaningful NOEs, out of 1775 NOEs, together with 66 dihedral angles provide a structure with rmsd values from the mean of 0.50 and 0.96 A for backbone and all heavy atoms, respectively. A search of gene banks allowed us to locate 10 different cytochromes c, the sequences of which are more than 30% identical to that of the S. putrefacienscytochrome. For two of them, the structures are known. The structures of the others have been modeled by using the available templates and internally validated. Structural similarities in terms of surface properties account for their biophysical features and provide hints about the function.
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- Ilaria Bartalesi
- Centro di Risonanze Magnetiche, University of Florence, Via Luigi Sacconi 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Banci L, Bertini I, Ciurli S, Dikiy A, Dittmer J, Rosato A, Sciara G, Thompsett AR. NMR solution structure, backbone mobility, and homology modeling of c-type cytochromes from gram-positive bacteria. Chembiochem 2002; 3:299-310. [PMID: 11933230 DOI: 10.1002/1439-7633(20020402)3:4<299::aid-cbic299>3.0.co;2-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The solution structure of oxidized cytochrome c(553) (71 amino acid residues) from the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus pasteurii is here reported and compared with the available crystal structure. The solution structure is obtained from 1609 meaningful NOE data (22.7 per residue), 76 dihedral angles, and 59 pseudocontact shifts. The root mean square deviations from the average structure are 0.25+/-0.07 and 0.59+/-0.13 A for the backbone and all heavy atoms, respectively, and the quality assessment of the structure is satisfactory. The solution structure closely reproduces the fold observed in the crystal structure. The backbone mobility was then investigated through amide (15)N relaxation rate and (15)N-(1)H NOE measurements. The protein is rigid in both the sub-nanosecond and millisecond time scales, probably due to the relatively large heme:number of amino acids ratio. Modeling of eight c-type cytochromes from other Gram-positive bacteria with a high sequence identity (>30 %) to the present cytochrome c(553) was performed. Analysis of consensus features accounts for the relatively low reduction potential as being due to extensive heme hydration and indicates residues 34-35, 44-46, 69-72, and 75 as a conserved hydrophobic patch for the interaction with a protein partner. At variance with mitochondrial c-type cytochrome, this protein does not experience pH-dependent coordination equilibria. The reasons for this difference are analyzed.
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- Lucia Banci
- Centro di Risonanze Magnetiche, University of Florence, Via Luigi Sacconi 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Wasser IM, de Vries S, Moënne-Loccoz P, Schröder I, Karlin KD. Nitric oxide in biological denitrification: Fe/Cu metalloenzyme and metal complex NO(x) redox chemistry. Chem Rev 2002; 102:1201-34. [PMID: 11942794 DOI: 10.1021/cr0006627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 361] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ian M Wasser
- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Charles and 34th Streets, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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A wide range of membrane protein structures have been published during the past two years. These have included proteins from both eucaryotic and heterologously overexpressed sources. Whereas some of these proteins were crystallised using conventional techniques, others employed the new methods of lipidic cubic phase crystallisation and antibody fragment co-crystallisation. These and other new approaches to the expression and crystallisation of membrane proteins are accelerating structural studies of membrane protein complexes.
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- Bernadette Byrne
- Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College, SW7 2AZ, London, UK.
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Rogers MS, Dooley DM. Posttranslationally modified tyrosines from galactose oxidase and cytochrome c oxidase. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 2002; 58:387-436. [PMID: 11665492 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3233(01)58009-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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- M S Rogers
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA
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Borisov VB, Liebl U, Rappaport F, Martin JL, Zhang J, Gennis RB, Konstantinov AA, Vos MH. Interactions between heme d and heme b595 in quinol oxidase bd from Escherichia coli: a photoselection study using femtosecond spectroscopy. Biochemistry 2002; 41:1654-62. [PMID: 11814360 DOI: 10.1021/bi0158019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Femtosecond spectroscopy was performed on CO-liganded (fully reduced and mixed-valence states) and O(2)-liganded quinol oxidase bd from Escherichia coli. Substantial polarization effects, unprecedented for optical studies of heme proteins, were observed in the CO photodissociation spectra, implying interactions between heme d (the chlorin ligand binding site) and the close-lying heme b(595) on the picosecond time scale; this general result is fully consistent with previous work [Vos, M. H., Borisov, V. B., Liebl, U., Martin, J.-L., and Konstantinov, A. A. (2000) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97, 1554-1559]. Analysis of the data obtained under isotropic and anisotropic polarization conditions and additional flash photolysis nanosecond experiments on a mutant of cytochrome bd mostly lacking heme b(595) allow to attribute the features in the well-known but unusual CO dissociation spectrum of cytochrome bd to individual heme d and heme b(595) transitions. This renders it possible to compare the spectra of CO dissociation from reduced and mixed-valence cytochrome bd under static conditions and on a picosecond time scale in much more detail than previously possible. CO binding/dissociation from heme d is shown to perturb ferrous heme b(595), causing induction/loss of an absorption band centered at 435 nm. In addition, the CO photodissociation-induced absorption changes at 50 ps reveal a bathochromic shift of ferrous heme b(595) relative to the static spectrum. No evidence for transient binding of CO to heme b(595) after dissociation from heme d is found in the picosecond time range. The yield of CO photodissociation from heme d on a time scale of < 15 ps is found to be diminished more than 3-fold when heme b(595) is oxidized rather than reduced. In contrast to other known heme proteins, molecular oxygen cannot be photodissociated from the mixed-valence cytochrome bd at all, indicating a unique structural and electronic configuration of the diheme active site in the enzyme.
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- Vitaliy B Borisov
- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia
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Fernández CO, Cricco JA, Slutter CE, Richards JH, Gray HB, Vila AJ. Axial ligand modulation of the electronic structures of binuclear copper sites: analysis of paramagnetic 1H NMR spectra of Met160Gln Cu(A). J Am Chem Soc 2001; 123:11678-85. [PMID: 11716725 DOI: 10.1021/ja0162515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cu(A) is an electron-transfer copper center present in heme-copper oxidases and N2O reductases. The center is a binuclear unit, with two cysteine ligands bridging the metal ions and two terminal histidine residues. A Met residue and a peptide carbonyl group are located on opposite sides of the Cu2S2 plane; these weaker ligands are fully conserved in all known Cu(A) sites. The Met160Gln mutant of the soluble subunit II of Thermus thermophilus ba3 oxidase has been studied by NMR spectroscopy. In its oxidized form, the binuclear copper is a fully delocalized mixed-valence pair, as are all natural Cu(A) centers. The faster nuclear relaxation in this mutant suggests that a low-lying excited state has shifted to higher energies compared to that of the wild-type protein. The introduction of the Gln residue alters the coordination mode of His114 but does not affect His157, thereby confirming the proposal that the axial ligand-to-copper distances influence the copper-His interactions (Robinson, H.; Ang, M. C.; Gao, Y. G.; Hay, M. T.; Lu, Y.; Wang, A. H. Biochemistry 1999, 38, 5677). Changes in the hyperfine coupling constants of the Cys beta-CH2 groups are attributed to minor geometrical changes that affect the Cu-S-C(beta)-H(beta) dihedral angles. These changes, in addition, shift the thermally accessible excited states, thus influencing the spectral position of the Cys beta-CH2 resonances. The Cu-Cys bonds are not substantially altered by the Cu-Gln160 interaction, in contrast to the situation found in the evolutionarily related blue copper proteins. It is possible that regulatory subunits in the mitochondrial oxidases fix the relative positions of thermally accessible Cu(A) excited states by tuning axial ligand interactions.
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- C O Fernández
- LANAIS RMN-300 (University of Buenos Aires-CONICET), Junín 956, C1113AAD Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Urbani A, Gemeinhardt S, Warne A, Saraste M. Properties of the detergent solubilised cytochrome c oxidase (cytochrome cbb(3)) purified from Pseudomonas stutzeri. FEBS Lett 2001; 508:29-35. [PMID: 11707262 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)03006-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Cytochrome cbb(3) is a cytochrome c-oxidising isoenzyme that belongs to the superfamily of respiratory haem/copper oxidases. We have developed a purification method yielding large amounts of pure cbb(3) complex from the soil bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri. This cytochrome cbb(3) complex consists of three subunits (ccoNOP) in a 1:1:1 stoichiometry and contains two b-type and three c-type haems. The protein complex behaves as a monomer with an overall molecular weight of 114.0+/-8.9 kDa and a s(0)(20,w) value of 8.9+/-0.3 S as determined by analytical ultracentrifugation. Crystals diffracting to 5.0 A resolution have been grown by the vapour diffusion sitting drop method to an average size of 0.1 x 0.1 x 0.3 mm. This is the first crystallisation report of a (cbb(3))-type oxidase.
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- A Urbani
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Programme, Meyerhof str. 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Hendriks JH, Prior L, Baker AR, Thomson AJ, Saraste M, Watmough NJ. Reaction of carbon monoxide with the reduced active site of bacterial nitric oxide reductase. Biochemistry 2001; 40:13361-9. [PMID: 11683646 DOI: 10.1021/bi011428t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bacterial nitric oxide reductase (NOR), a member of the superfamily of heme-copper oxidases, catalyzes the two-electron reduction of nitric oxide to nitrous oxide. The key feature that distinguishes NOR from the typical heme-copper oxidases is the elemental composition of the dinuclear center, which contains non-heme iron (FeB) rather than copper (CuB). UV-vis electronic absorption and room-temperature magnetic circular dichroism (RT-MCD) spectroscopies showed that CO binds to Fe(II) heme b3 to yield a low-spin six-coordinate species. Photolysis of the Fe(II)-CO bond is followed by CO recombination (k(on) = 1.7 x 10(8) M(-1) x s(-1)) that is approximately 3 orders of magnitude faster than CO recombination to the active site of typical heme-copper oxidases (k(on) = 7 x 10(4) M(-1)x s(-1)). This rapid rate of CO recombination suggests an unimpeded pathway to the active site that may account for the enzyme's high affinity for substrate, essential for maintaining denitrification at low concentrations of NO. In contrast, the initial binding of CO to reduced heme b3 measured by stopped-flow spectroscopy is much slower (k(on) = 1.2 x 10(5) M(-1) x s(-1)). This suggests that an existing heme distal ligand (water/OH-) may be displaced to elicit the spin-state change observed in the RT-MCD spectrum.
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- J H Hendriks
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1 D-69126 Heidelberg, Germany
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Verkhovsky MI, Jasaitis A, Wikström M. Ultrafast haem-haem electron transfer in cytochrome c oxidase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1506:143-6. [PMID: 11779547 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(01)00220-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Electron transfer between the redox centres is essential for the function of the haem-copper oxidases. To date, the fastest rate of electron transfer between the haem groups has been determined to be ca. 3 x 10(5) s(-1). Here, we show by optical spectroscopy that about one half of this electron transfer actually occurs at least three orders of magnitude faster, after photolysis of carbon monoxide from the half-reduced bovine heart enzyme. We ascribe this to the true haem-haem electron tunnelling rate between the haem groups.
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- M I Verkhovsky
- Helsinki Bioenergetics Group, Institute of Biotechnology and Biocentrum Helsinki, Biocenter 2, Room 2011, P.O. Box 56, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland.
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Sakamoto J, Shibata T, Mine T, Miyahara R, Torigoe T, Noguchi S, Matsushita K, Sone N. Cytochrome c oxidase contains an extra charged amino acid cluster in a new type of respiratory chain in the amino-acid-producing Gram-positive bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2001; 147:2865-2871. [PMID: 11577165 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-147-10-2865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The membranes from Corynebacterium glutamicum cells contain a hydrophobic di-haem C protein as the cytochrome c subunit of the new type of cytochrome bc complex (complex III in the respiratory chain) encoded by the qcrCAB operon [Sone, N., Nagata, K., Kojima, H., Tajima, J., Kodera, Y., Kanamaru, T., Noguchi, S. & Sakamoto, J. (2001). Biochim Biophys Acta 1503, 279-290]. To characterize complex IV, cytochrome c oxidase and its structural genes were isolated. The oxidase is of the cytochrome aa(3) type, but mass spectrometry indicated that the haem is haem As, which contains a geranylgeranyl side-chain instead of a farnesyl group. The enzyme is a SoxM-type haem-copper oxidase composed of three subunits. Edman degradation and mass spectrometry suggested that the N-terminal signal sequence of subunit II is cleaved and that the new N-terminal cysteine residue is diacylglycerated, while neither subunit I nor subunit III is significantly modified. The genes for subunits II (ctaC) and III (ctaE) are located upstream of the qcrCAB operon, while that for subunit I (ctaD) is located separately. The oxidase showed low enzyme activity with extrinsic substrates such as cytochromes c from horse heart or yeast, and has the Cu(A)-binding motif in its subunit II. A prominent structural feature is the insertion of an extra charged amino acid cluster between the beta2 and beta4 strands in the substrate-binding domain of subunit II. The beta2-beta4 loop of this oxidase is about 30 residues longer than that of major cytochrome c oxidases from mitochondria and proteobacteria, and is rich in both acidic and basic residues. These findings suggest that the extra charged cluster may play a role in the interaction of the oxidase with the cytochrome c subunit of the new type of bc complex.
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- Junshi Sakamoto
- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kawazu 680-4, Iizuka, Fukuoka-ken 820-8502, Japan1
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kawazu 680-4, Iizuka, Fukuoka-ken 820-8502, Japan1
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kawazu 680-4, Iizuka, Fukuoka-ken 820-8502, Japan1
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kawazu 680-4, Iizuka, Fukuoka-ken 820-8502, Japan1
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kawazu 680-4, Iizuka, Fukuoka-ken 820-8502, Japan1
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kawazu 680-4, Iizuka, Fukuoka-ken 820-8502, Japan1
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi 753-0841, Japan2
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kawazu 680-4, Iizuka, Fukuoka-ken 820-8502, Japan1
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Nyquist RM, Heitbrink D, Bolwien C, Wells TA, Gennis RB, Heberle J. Perfusion-induced redox differences in cytochrome c oxidase: ATR/FT-IR spectroscopy. FEBS Lett 2001; 505:63-7. [PMID: 11557043 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02769-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Attenuated total reflection (ATR) spectroscopy brings an added dimension to studies of structural changes of cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) because it enables the recording of reaction-induced infrared difference spectra under a wide variety of controlled conditions (e.g. pH and chemical composition), without relying on light or potentiometric changes to trigger the reaction. We have used the ATR method to record vibrational difference spectra of CcO with reduction induced by flow-exchange of the aqueous buffer. Films of CcO prepared from Rhodobacter sphaeroides and beef heart mitochondria by reconstitution with lipid were adhered to the internal reflection element of the ATR device and retained their full functionality as evidenced by visible spectroscopy and time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy. These results demonstrate that the technique of perfusion-induced Fourier-transform infrared difference spectroscopy can be successfully applied to a large, complex enzyme, such as CcO, with sufficient signal/noise to probe vibrational changes in individual residues of the enzyme under various conditions.
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- R M Nyquist
- Forschungszentrum Jülich, IBI-2: Biologische Strukturforschung, Germany
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Adamian L, Liang J. Helix-helix packing and interfacial pairwise interactions of residues in membrane proteins. J Mol Biol 2001; 311:891-907. [PMID: 11518538 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Helix-helix packing plays a critical role in maintaining the tertiary structures of helical membrane proteins. By examining the overall distribution of voids and pockets in the transmembrane (TM) regions of helical membrane proteins, we found that bacteriorhodopsin and halorhodopsin are the most tightly packed, whereas mechanosensitive channel is the least tightly packed. Large residues F, W, and H have the highest propensity to be in a TM void or a pocket, whereas small residues such as S, G, A, and T are least likely to be found in a void or a pocket. The coordination number for non-bonded interactions for each of the residue types is found to correlate with the size of the residue. To assess specific interhelical interactions between residues, we have developed a new computational method to characterize nearest neighboring atoms that are in physical contact. Using an atom-based probabilistic model, we estimate the membrane helical interfacial pairwise (MHIP) propensity. We found that there are many residue pairs that have high propensity for interhelical interactions, but disulfide bonds are rarely found in the TM regions. The high propensity pairs include residue pairs between an aromatic residue and a basic residue (W-R, W-H, and Y-K). In addition, many residue pairs have high propensity to form interhelical polar-polar atomic contacts, for example, residue pairs between two ionizable residues, between one ionizable residue and one N or Q. Soluble proteins do not share this pattern of diverse polar-polar interhelical interaction. Exploratory analysis by clustering of the MHIP values suggests that residues similar in side-chain branchness, cyclic structures, and size tend to have correlated behavior in participating interhelical interactions. A chi-square test rejects the null hypothesis that membrane protein and soluble protein have the same distribution of interhelical pairwise propensity. This observation may help us to understand the folding mechanism of membrane proteins.
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- L Adamian
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan Street RM 218, MC-063, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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Coulombe R, Yue KQ, Ghisla S, Vrielink A. Oxygen access to the active site of cholesterol oxidase through a narrow channel is gated by an Arg-Glu pair. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:30435-41. [PMID: 11397813 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m104103200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Cholesterol oxidase is a monomeric flavoenzyme that catalyzes the oxidation and isomerization of cholesterol to cholest-4-en-3-one. Two forms of the enzyme are known, one containing the cofactor non-covalently bound to the protein and one in which the cofactor is covalently linked to a histidine residue. The x-ray structure of the enzyme from Brevibacterium sterolicum containing covalently bound FAD has been determined and refined to 1.7-A resolution. The active site consists of a cavity sealed off from the exterior of the protein. A model for the steroid substrate, cholesterol, can be positioned in the pocket revealing the structural factors that result in different substrate binding affinities between the two known forms of the enzyme. The structure suggests that Glu(475), located at the active site cavity, may act as the base for both the oxidation and the isomerization steps of the catalytic reaction. A water-filled channel extending toward the flavin moiety, inside the substrate-binding cavity, may act as the entry point for molecular oxygen for the oxidative half-reaction. An arginine and a glutamate residue at the active site, found in two conformations are proposed to control oxygen access to the cavity from the channel. These concerted side chain movements provide an explanation for the biphasic mode of reaction with dioxygen and the ping-pong kinetic mechanism exhibited by the enzyme.
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- R Coulombe
- Department of Biochemistry and Montréal Joint Center for Structural Biology, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y6, Canada
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Pereira MM, Santana M, Teixeira M. A novel scenario for the evolution of haem-copper oxygen reductases. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1505:185-208. [PMID: 11334784 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(01)00169-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 339] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The increasing sequence information on oxygen reductases of the haem-copper superfamily, together with the available three-dimensional structures, allows a clear identification of their common, functionally important features. Taking into consideration both the overall amino acid sequences of the core subunits and key residues involved in proton transfer, a novel hypothesis for the molecular evolution of these enzymes is proposed. Three main families of oxygen reductases are identified on the basis of common features of the core subunits, constituting three lines of evolution: (i) type A (mitochondrial-like oxidases), (ii) type B (ba3-like oxidases) and (iii) type C (cbb3-type oxidases). The first group can be further divided into two subfamilies, according to the helix VI residues at the hydrophobic end of one of the proton pathways (the so-called D-channel): (i) type A1, comprising the enzymes with a glutamate residue in the motif -XGHPEV-, and (ii) type A2, enzymes having instead a tyrosine and a serine in the alternative motif -YSHPXV-. This second subfamily of oxidases is shown to be ancestor to the one containing the glutamate residue, which in the Bacteria domain is only present in oxidases from Gram-positive or purple bacteria. It is further proposed that the Archaea domain acquired terminal oxidases by gene transfer from the Gram-positive bacteria, implying that these enzymes were not present in the last common ancestor before the divergence between Archaea and Bacteria. In fact, most oxidases from archaea have a higher amino acid sequence identity and similarity with those from bacteria, mainly from the Gram-positive group, than with oxidases from other archaea. Finally, a possible relation between the dihaemic subunit (FixP) of the cbb3 oxidases and subunit II of caa3 oxidases is discussed. As the families of haem-copper oxidases can also be identified by their subunit II, a parallel evolution of subunits I and II is suggested.
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- M M Pereira
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Rua da Quinta Grande 6, 2780-156, Oeiras, Portugal.
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Palmgren MG. PLANT PLASMA MEMBRANE H+-ATPases: Powerhouses for Nutrient Uptake. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2001; 52:817-845. [PMID: 11337417 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.52.1.817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 473] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Most transport proteins in plant cells are energized by electrochemical gradients of protons across the plasma membrane. The formation of these gradients is due to the action of plasma membrane H+ pumps fuelled by ATP. The plasma membrane H+-ATPases share a membrane topography and general mechanism of action with other P-type ATPases, but differ in regulatory properties. Recent advances in the field include the identification of the complete H+-ATPase gene family in Arabidopsis, analysis of H+-ATPase function by the methods of reverse genetics, an improved understanding of the posttranslational regulation of pump activity by 14-3-3 proteins, novel insights into the H+ transport mechanism, and progress in structural biology. Furthermore, the elucidation of the three-dimensional structure of a related Ca2+ pump has implications for understanding of structure-function relationships for the plant plasma membrane H+-ATPase.
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- Michael G Palmgren
- Department of Plant Biology, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Thorvaldsensvej 40, Frederiksberg C, DK-1871 Denmark; e-mail:
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Gomes CM, Backgren C, Teixeira M, Puustinen A, Verkhovskaya ML, Wikström M, Verkhovsky MI. Heme-copper oxidases with modified D- and K-pathways are yet efficient proton pumps. FEBS Lett 2001; 497:159-64. [PMID: 11377432 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02431-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The cytochrome aa(3)-type quinol oxidase from the archaeon Acidianus ambivalens and the ba(3)-type cytochrome c oxidase from Thermus thermophilus are divergent members of the heme-copper oxidase superfamily of enzymes. In particular they lack most of the key residues involved in the proposed proton transfer pathways. The pumping capability of the A. ambivalens enzyme was investigated and found to occur with the same efficiency as the canonical enzymes. This is the first demonstration of pumping of 1 H(+)/electron in a heme-copper oxidase that lacks most residues of the K- and D-channels. Also, the structure of the ba(3) oxidase from T. thermophilus was simulated by mutating Phe274 to threonine and Glu278 to isoleucine in the D-pathway of the Paracoccus denitrificans cytochrome c oxidase. This modification resulted in full efficiency of proton translocation albeit with a substantially lowered turnover. Together, these findings show that multiple structural solutions for efficient proton conduction arose during evolution of the respiratory oxidases, and that very few residues remain invariant among these enzymes to function in a common proton-pumping mechanism.
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- C M Gomes
- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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Lecomte S, Hilleriteau C, Forgerit JP, Revault M, Baron MH, Hildebrandt P, Soulimane T. Structural Changes of Cytochromec552 fromThermus thermophilus Adsorbed on Anionic and Hydrophobic Surfaces Probed by FTIR and 2D-FTIR Spectroscopy. Chembiochem 2001. [DOI: 10.1002/1439-7633(20010302)2:3<180::aid-cbic180>3.0.co;2-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Strampraad MJ, Schröder I, de Vries S. A novel copper A containing menaquinol NO reductase from Bacillus azotoformans. Biochemistry 2001; 40:2632-9. [PMID: 11327887 DOI: 10.1021/bi0020067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The molecular biology and biochemistry of denitrification in gram-negative bacteria has been studied extensively. However, little is known about this process in gram-positive bacteria. We have purified the NO reductase from the cytoplasmic membrane of the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus azotoformans. The purified enzyme consists of two subunits with apparent molecular masses of 16 and 40 kDa based on SDS-PAGE. Analytical and spectroscopic determinations revealed the presence of one non-heme iron, two copper atoms and of two b-type hemes per enzyme complex. Heme c was absent. Using EPR and UV-visible spectroscopy, it was determined that one of the hemes is a low-spin heme b, in which the two axial histidine imidazole planes are positioned at an angle of 60-70 degrees. The second heme b is high-spin binding CO in the reduced state. The high-spin heme center and the non-heme iron are EPR silent. They are proposed to form a binuclear center where reduction of NO occurs. There are two novel features of this enzyme that distinguish it from other NO reductases. First, the enzyme contains copper in form of copper A, an electron carrier up to now only detected in cytochrome oxidases and nitrous oxide reductases. Second, the enzyme uses menaquinol as electron donor, whereas cytochrome c, which is the substrate of other NO reductases, is not used. Copper A and both hemes are reducible by menaquinol. This new NO reductase is thus a menaquinol:NO oxidoreductase. With respect to its prosthetic groups the B. azotoformans NO reductase is a true hybrid between copper A containing cytochrome oxidases and NO reductases present in gram-negative bacteria. It may represent the most ancient "omnipotent" progenitor of the family of heme-copper oxidases.
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Gilderson G, Aagaard A, Gomes CM, Adelroth P, Teixeira M, Brzezinski P. Kinetics of electron and proton transfer during O(2) reduction in cytochrome aa(3) from A. ambivalens: an enzyme lacking Glu(I-286). BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1503:261-70. [PMID: 11115638 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(00)00195-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Acidianus ambivalens is a hyperthermoacidophilic archaeon which grows optimally at approximately 80 degrees C and pH 2.5. The terminal oxidase of its respiratory system is a membrane-bound quinol oxidase (cytochrome aa(3)) which belongs to the heme-copper oxidase superfamily. One difference between this quinol oxidase and a majority of the other members of this family is that it lacks the highly-conserved glutamate (Glu(I-286), E. coli ubiquinol oxidase numbering) which has been shown to play a central role in controlling the proton transfer during reaction of reduced oxidases with oxygen. In this study we have investigated the dynamics of the reaction of the reduced A. ambivalens quinol oxidase with O(2). With the purified enzyme, two kinetic phases were observed with rate constants of 1.8&z.ccirf;10(4) s(-1) (at 1 mM O(2), pH 7.8) and 3. 7x10(3) s(-1), respectively. The first phase is attributed to binding of O(2) to heme a(3) and oxidation of both hemes forming the 'peroxy' intermediate. The second phase was associated with proton uptake from solution and it is attributed to formation of the 'oxo-ferryl' state, the final state in the absence of quinol. In the presence of bound caldariella quinol (QH(2)), heme a was re-reduced by QH(2) with a rate of 670 s(-1), followed by transfer of the fourth electron to the binuclear center with a rate of 50 s(-1). Thus, the results indicate that the quinol donates electrons to heme a, followed by intramolecular transfer to the binuclear center. Moreover, the overall electron and proton-transfer kinetics in the A. ambivalens quinol oxidase are the same as those in the E. coli ubiquinol oxidase, which indicates that in the A. ambivalens enzyme a different pathway is used for proton transfer to the binuclear center and/or other protonatable groups in an equivalent pathway are involved. Potential candidates in that pathway are two glutamates at positions (I-80) and (I-83) in the A. ambivalens enzyme (corresponding to Met(I-116) and Val(I-119), respectively, in E. coli cytochrome bo(3)).
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- G Gilderson
- Department of Biochemistry, The Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden
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Abramson J, Svensson-Ek M, Byrne B, Iwata S. Structure of cytochrome c oxidase: a comparison of the bacterial and mitochondrial enzymes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1544:1-9. [PMID: 11341911 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(00)00241-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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It has been almost 5 years since the first structures of cytochrome c oxidase, from Paracoccus denitrificans and bovine heart mitochondria, were revealed. Since then many different proton pumping mechanisms have been proposed for the enzyme; however, no definitive conclusion has been achieved. In this article, we revisit the original structures of bacterial and mitochondrial oxidases and try to clarify similarities as well as differences between the two structures.
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- J Abramson
- Department of Biochemistry, Upssala Univeristy, Biomedical Center, Sweden
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Aagaard A, Gilderson G, Mills DA, Ferguson-Miller S, Brzezinski P. Redesign of the proton-pumping machinery of cytochrome c oxidase: proton pumping does not require Glu(I-286). Biochemistry 2000; 39:15847-50. [PMID: 11123910 DOI: 10.1021/bi0012641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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One of the putative proton-transfer pathways leading from solution toward the binuclear center in many cytochrome c oxidases is the D-pathway, so-called because it starts with a highly conserved aspartate [D(I-132)] residue. Another highly conserved amino acid residue in this pathway, glutamate(I-286), has been indicated to play a central role in the proton-pumping machinery of mitochondrial-type enzymes, a role that requires a movement of the side chain between two distinct positions. In the present work we have relocated the glutamate to the opposite side of the proton-transfer pathway by constructing the double mutant EA(I-286)/IE(I-112). This places the side chain in about the same position in space as in the original enzyme, but does not allow for the same type of movement. The results show that the introduction of the second-site mutation, IE(I-112), in the EA(I-286) mutant enzyme results in an increase of the enzyme activity by a factor of >10. In addition, the double mutant enzyme pumps approximately 0.4 proton per electron. This observation restricts the number of possible mechanisms for the operation of the redox-driven proton pump. The proton-pumping machinery evidently does require the presence of a protonatable/polar residue at a specific location in space, presumably to stabilize an intact water chain. However, this residue does not necessarily have to be at a strictly conserved location in the amino acid sequence. In addition, the results indicate that E(I-286) is not the "proton gate" of cytochrome c oxidase controlling the flow of pumped protons from one to the other side of the membrane.
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- A Aagaard
- Department of Biochemistry, The Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Soulimane T, Than ME, Dewor M, Huber R, Buse G. Primary structure of a novel subunit in ba3-cytochrome oxidase from Thermus thermophilus. Protein Sci 2000; 9:2068-73. [PMID: 11152118 PMCID: PMC2144504 DOI: 10.1110/ps.9.11.2068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The bax-type cytochrome c oxidase from Thermus thermophilus is known as a two subunit enzyme. Deduced from the crystal structure of this enzyme, we discovered the presence of an additional transmembrane helix "subunit IIa" spanning the membrane. The hydrophobic N-terminally blocked protein was isolated in high yield using high-performance liquid chromatography. Its complete amino acid sequence was determined by a combination of automated Edman degradation of both the deformylated and the cyanogen bromide cleaved protein and automated C-terminal sequencing of the native protein. The molecular mass of 3,794 Da as determined by MALDI-MS and by ESI requires the N-terminal methionine to be formylated and is in good agreement with the value calculated from the formylmethionine containing sequence (3,766.5 Da + 28 Da = 3,794.5 Da). This subunit consits of 34 residues forming one helix across the membrane (Lys5-Ala34), which corresponds in space to the first transmembrane helix of subunit II of the cytochrome c oxidases from Paracoccus denitrificans and bovine heart, however, with opposite polarity. It is 35% identical to subunit IV of the ba3-cytochrome oxidase from Natronobacterium pharaonis. The open reading frame encoding this new subunit IIa (cbaD) is located upstream of cbaB in the same operon as the genes for subunit I (cbaA) and subunit II (cbaB).
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Cattle
- Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
- Cyanogen Bromide/metabolism
- Cytochrome b Group/chemistry
- Electron Transport Complex IV/chemistry
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Methionine/chemistry
- Models, Genetic
- Models, Molecular
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Myocardium/enzymology
- Open Reading Frames
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
- Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
- Thermus thermophilus/chemistry
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- T Soulimane
- Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Institut für Biochemie, Germany.
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Moënne-Loccoz P, Richter OMH, Huang HW, Wasser IM, Ghiladi RA, Karlin KD, de Vries S. Nitric Oxide Reductase from Paracoccus denitrificans Contains an Oxo-Bridged Heme/Non-Heme Diiron Center. J Am Chem Soc 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/ja0016295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Pierre Moënne-Loccoz
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology Beaverton, Oregon 97006 Kluyver Laboratory for Biotechnology Delft University of Technology 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology Beaverton, Oregon 97006 Kluyver Laboratory for Biotechnology Delft University of Technology 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology Beaverton, Oregon 97006 Kluyver Laboratory for Biotechnology Delft University of Technology 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology Beaverton, Oregon 97006 Kluyver Laboratory for Biotechnology Delft University of Technology 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology Beaverton, Oregon 97006 Kluyver Laboratory for Biotechnology Delft University of Technology 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology Beaverton, Oregon 97006 Kluyver Laboratory for Biotechnology Delft University of Technology 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology Beaverton, Oregon 97006 Kluyver Laboratory for Biotechnology Delft University of Technology 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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