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Boncella AE, Sabo ET, Santore RM, Carter J, Whalen J, Hudspeth JD, Morrison CN. The expanding utility of iron-sulfur clusters: Their functional roles in biology, synthetic small molecules, maquettes and artificial proteins, biomimetic materials, and therapeutic strategies. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The Redox Active [2Fe-2S] Clusters: Key-Components of a Plethora of Enzymatic Reactions—Part I: Archaea. INORGANICS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/inorganics10010014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The earliest forms of life (i.e., Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya) appeared on our planet about ten billion years after its formation. Although Archaea do not seem to possess the multiprotein machinery constituted by the NIF (Nitrogen Fixation), ISC (Iron Sulfur Cluster), SUF (sulfur mobilization) enzymes, typical of Bacteria and Eukarya, some of them are able to encode Fe-S proteins. Here we discussed the multiple enzymatic reactions triggered by the up-to-date structurally characterized members of the archaeal family that require the crucial presence of structurally characterized [2Fe-2S] assemblies, focusing on their biological functions and, when available, on their electrochemical behavior.
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Liu J, Chakraborty S, Hosseinzadeh P, Yu Y, Tian S, Petrik I, Bhagi A, Lu Y. Metalloproteins containing cytochrome, iron-sulfur, or copper redox centers. Chem Rev 2014; 114:4366-469. [PMID: 24758379 PMCID: PMC4002152 DOI: 10.1021/cr400479b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 559] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Jing Liu
- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics
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Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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ten Brink F, Schoepp-Cothenet B, van Lis R, Nitschke W, Baymann F. Multiple Rieske/cytb complexes in a single organism. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2013; 1827:1392-406. [PMID: 23507620 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2013.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2012] [Revised: 03/01/2013] [Accepted: 03/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Most organisms contain a single Rieske/cytb complex. This enzyme can be integrated in any respiratory or photosynthetic electron transfer chain that is quinone-based and sufficiently energy rich to allow for the turnover of three enzymes - a quinol reductase, a Rieske/cytb complex and a terminal oxidase. Despite this universal usability of the enzyme a variety of phylogenetically distant organisms have multiple copies thereof and no reason for this redundancy is obvious. In this review we present an overview of the distribution of multiple copies among species and describe their properties from the scarce experimental results, analysis of their amino acid sequences and genomic context. We discuss the predicted redox properties of the Rieske cluster in relation to the nature of the pool quinone. It appears that acidophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria specialized one of their two copies for reverse electron transfer, archaeal Thermoprotei adapted their three copies to the interaction with different oxidases and several, phylogenetically unrelated species imported a second complex with a putative heme ci that may confer some yet to be determined properties to the complex. These hypothesis and all the more the so far completely unexplained cases call for further studies and we put forward a number of suggestions for future research that we hope to be stimulating for the field. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Respiratory complex III and related bc complexes.
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- F ten Brink
- BIP/UMR7281, FR3479, CNRS/AMU, 13 chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13009 Marseille, France
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Bönisch H, Schmidt CL, Schäfer G, Ladenstein R. The structure of the soluble domain of an archaeal Rieske iron-sulfur protein at 1.1 A resolution. J Mol Biol 2002; 319:791-805. [PMID: 12054871 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(02)00323-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The first crystal structure of an archaeal Rieske iron-sulfur protein, the soluble domain of Rieske iron-sulfur protein II (soxF) from the hyperthermo-acidophile Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, has been solved by multiple wavelength anomalous dispersion (MAD) and has been refined to 1.1 A resolution. SoxF is a subunit of the terminal oxidase supercomplex SoxM in the plasma membrane of S. acidocaldarius that combines features of a cytochrome bc(1) complex and a cytochrome c oxidase. The [2Fe-2S] cluster of soxF is most likely the primary electron acceptor during the oxidation of caldariella quinone by the cytochrome a(587)/Rieske subcomplex. The geometry of the [2Fe-2S] cluster and the structure of the cluster-binding site are almost identical in soxF and the Rieske proteins from eucaryal cytochrome bc(1) and b(6)f complexes, suggesting a strict conservation of the catalytic mechanism. The main domain of soxF and part of the cluster-binding domain, though structurally related, show a significantly divergent structure with respect to topology, non-covalent interactions and surface charges. The divergent structure of soxF reflects a different topology of the soxM complex compared to eucaryal bc complexes and the adaptation of the protein to the extreme ambient conditions on the outer membrane surface of a hyperthermo-acidophilic organism.
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- Heiko Bönisch
- Department of Biosciences at NOVUM, Center for Structural Biochemistry, Karolinska Institutet, Hälsovägen 7-9, S-14157 Huddinge, Sweden
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Jahns P, Graf M, Munekage Y, Shikanai T. Single point mutation in the Rieske iron-sulfur subunit of cytochrome b6/f leads to an altered pH dependence of plastoquinol oxidation in Arabidopsis. FEBS Lett 2002; 519:99-102. [PMID: 12023025 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)02719-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The pgr1 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana carries a single point mutation (P194L) in the Rieske subunit of the cytochrome b6/f (cyt b6/f) complex and is characterised by a reduced electron transport activity at saturating light intensities in vivo. We have investigated the electron transport in this mutant under in vitro conditions. Measurements of P700 reduction kinetics and of photosynthetic electron transport rates indicated that electron transfer from cyt b6/f to photosystem I is not generally reduced in the mutant, but that the pH dependence of this reaction is altered. The data imply that the pH-dependent inactivation of electron transport through cyt b6/f is shifted by about 1 pH unit to more alkaline pH values in pgr1 thylakoids in comparison with wild-type thylakoids. This interpretation was confirmed by determination of the transmembrane deltapH at different stromal pH values showing that the lumen pH in pgr1 mutant plants cannot drop below pH 6 reflecting most likely a shift of the pK and/or the redox potential of the oxidised Rieske protein.
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- Peter Jahns
- Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Janssen S, Trincão J, Teixeira M, Schäfer G, Anemüller S. Ferredoxins from the archaeon Acidianus ambivalens: overexpression and characterization of the non-zinc-containing ferredoxin FdB. Biol Chem 2001; 382:1501-7. [PMID: 11727834 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2001.184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Two ferredoxin genes, fdA and fdB, from the extremely thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon Acidianus ambivalens have been sequenced; the sequences share 86% similarity. Whereas the deduced protein sequence of the ferredoxin FdA clearly contains a zinc-binding motif, the corresponding sequence of the FdB is devoid of this motif. Thus far, only the zinc-containing ferredoxin, FdA, from A. ambivalens has been chemically and functionally characterized from its native source. Using RT-PCR and Northern blot analysis, we show that both ferredoxins are expressed by A. ambivalens under either anaerobic or aerobic growth conditions. The zinc-free ferredoxin, FdB, was overexpressed in E. coli and purified to homogeneity. Using EPR spectroscopy, we could demonstrate that FdB contains one [3Fe-4S](1+/0) and one [4Fe-4S](2+/1+) cluster. The reduction potential of the [3Fe-4S](1+/0) cluster was determined as -235+/-10 mV, at pH 6.5, by EPR-monitored redox titration. The high melting temperature of 108+/-2 degrees C of FdB determined by CD spectroscopy reveals that it is not the binding of the Zn2+ that induces the extreme thermostability of these ferredoxins.
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- S Janssen
- Institut für Biochemie, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
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- T Iwasaki
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan
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Colbert CL, Couture MM, Eltis LD, Bolin JT. A cluster exposed: structure of the Rieske ferredoxin from biphenyl dioxygenase and the redox properties of Rieske Fe-S proteins. Structure 2000; 8:1267-78. [PMID: 11188691 DOI: 10.1016/s0969-2126(00)00536-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Ring-hydroxylating dioxygenases are multicomponent systems that initiate biodegradation of aromatic compounds. Many dioxygenase systems include Rieske-type ferredoxins with amino acid sequences and redox properties remarkably different from the Rieske proteins of proton-translocating respiratory and photosynthetic complexes. In the latter, the [Fe2S2] clusters lie near the protein surface, operate at potentials above +300 mV at pH 7, and express pH- and ionic strength-dependent redox behavior. The reduction potentials of the dioxygenase ferredoxins are approximately 150 mV and are pH-independent. These distinctions were predicted to arise from differences in the exposure of the cluster and/or interactions of the histidine ligands. RESULTS The crystal structure of BphF, the Rieske-type ferredoxin associated with biphenyl dioxygenase, was determined by multiwavelength anomalous diffraction and refined at 1.6 A resolution. The structure of BphF was compared with other Rieske proteins at several levels. BphF has the same two-domain fold as other Rieske proteins, but it lacks all insertions that give the others unique structural features. The BphF Fe-S cluster and its histidine ligands are exposed. However, the cluster has a significantly different environment in that five fewer polar groups interact strongly with the cluster sulfide or the cysteinyl ligands. CONCLUSIONS BphF has structural features consistent with a minimal and perhaps archetypical Rieske protein. Variations in redox potentials among Rieske clusters appear to be largely the result of local electrostatic interactions with protein partial charges. Moreover, it appears that the redox-linked ionizations of the Rieske proteins from proton-translocating complexes are also promoted by these electrostatic interactions.
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- C L Colbert
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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In the late 1970s, on the basis of rRNA phylogeny, Archaea (archaebacteria) was identified as a distinct domain of life besides Bacteria (eubacteria) and Eucarya. Though forming a separate domain, Archaea display an enormous diversity of lifestyles and metabolic capabilities. Many archaeal species are adapted to extreme environments with respect to salinity, temperatures around the boiling point of water, and/or extremely alkaline or acidic pH. This has posed the challenge of studying the molecular and mechanistic bases on which these organisms can cope with such adverse conditions. This review considers our cumulative knowledge on archaeal mechanisms of primary energy conservation, in relationship to those of bacteria and eucarya. Although the universal principle of chemiosmotic energy conservation also holds for Archaea, distinct features have been discovered with respect to novel ion-transducing, membrane-residing protein complexes and the use of novel cofactors in bioenergetics of methanogenesis. From aerobically respiring Archaea, unusual electron-transporting supercomplexes could be isolated and functionally resolved, and a proposal on the organization of archaeal electron transport chains has been presented. The unique functions of archaeal rhodopsins as sensory systems and as proton or chloride pumps have been elucidated on the basis of recent structural information on the atomic scale. Whereas components of methanogenesis and of phototrophic energy transduction in halobacteria appear to be unique to Archaea, respiratory complexes and the ATP synthase exhibit some chimeric features with respect to their evolutionary origin. Nevertheless, archaeal ATP synthases are to be considered distinct members of this family of secondary energy transducers. A major challenge to future investigations is the development of archaeal genetic transformation systems, in order to gain access to the regulation of bioenergetic systems and to overproducers of archaeal membrane proteins as a prerequisite for their crystallization.
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- G Schäfer
- Institut für Biochemie, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
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Brugna M, Nitschke W, Asso M, Guigliarelli B, Lemesle-Meunier D, Schmidt C. Redox components of cytochrome bc-type enzymes in acidophilic prokaryotes. II. The Rieske protein of phylogenetically distant acidophilic organisms. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:16766-72. [PMID: 10358018 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.24.16766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Rieske proteins of two phylogenetically distant acidophilic organisms, i.e. the proteobacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans and the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, were studied by EPR. Redox titrations at a range of pH values showed that the Rieske centers of both organisms are characterized by redox midpoint potential-versus-pH curves featuring a common pK value of 6.2. This pK value is significantly more acidic (by almost 2 pH units) than that of Rieske proteins in neutrophilic species. The orientations of the Rieske center's g tensors with respect to the plane of the membrane were studied between pH 4 and 8 using partially ordered samples. At pH 4, the Sulfolobus Rieske cluster was found in the "typical" orientation of chemically reduced Rieske centers, whereas this orientation changed significantly on going toward high pH values. The Thiobacillus protein, by contrast, appeared to be in the "standard" orientation at both low and high pH values. The results are discussed with respect to the molecular parameters conveying acid resistance and in light of the recently demonstrated long-range conformational movement of the Rieske protein during enzyme turnover in cytochrome bc1 complexes.
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- M Brugna
- Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines (UPR 9036), CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France
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Schoepp B, Brugna M, Riedel A, Nitschke W, Kramer DM. The Qo-site inhibitor DBMIB favours the proximal position of the chloroplast Rieske protein and induces a pK-shift of the redox-linked proton. FEBS Lett 1999; 450:245-50. [PMID: 10359083 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00511-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The interaction of the inhibitor 2,5-dibromo-3-methyl-6-isopropylbenzoquinone (DBMIB) with the Rieske protein of the chloroplast b6f complex has been studied by EPR. All three redox states of DBMIB were found to interact with the iron-sulphur cluster. The presence of the oxidised form of DBMIB altered the equilibrium distribution of the Rieske protein's conformational substates, strongly favouring the proximal position close to heme bL. In addition to this conformational effect, DBMIB shifted the pK-value of the redox-linked proton involved in the iron-sulphur cluster's redox transition by about 1.5 pH units towards more acidic values. The implications of these results with respect to the interaction of the native quinone substrate and the Rieske cluster in cytochrome bc complexes are discussed.
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- B Schoepp
- Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines (UPR 9036), Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, Marseille, France
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Schoepp B, Brugna M, Lebrun E, Nitschke W. Iron-Sulfur Centers Involved in Photosynthetic Light Reactions. ADVANCES IN INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0898-8838(08)60082-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sreeramulu K, Schmidt CL, Schäfer G, Anemüller S. Studies of the electron transport chain of the euryarcheon Halobacterium salinarum: indications for a type II NADH dehydrogenase and a complex III analog. J Bioenerg Biomembr 1998; 30:443-53. [PMID: 9932647 DOI: 10.1023/a:1020538129400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The components involved in the respiratory system of the euryarcheon Halobacterium salinarum were investigated by spectroscopic and polarographic techniques. Previous results about the cytochrome composition could be verified. However, under low oxygen tension, the expression of a d-type cytochrome was detected. Membranes exerted an NADH- and succinatecytochrome-c oxidoreductase as well as an NADH and succinate oxidase activity. These activities could be blocked by the following inhibitors: 7-jodocarboxylic acid, giving evidence for the presence of a type II NADH dehydrogenase, antimycin A, and myxothiazol, indicating the presence of a complex III analog, and the typical succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and terminal oxidase inhibitors. Complex I inhibitors like rotenone and annonine were inactive, clearly excluding the presence of a coupled NADH dehydrogenase. In addition, no [Fe-S] resonances in the region of the NADH dehydrogenase (NDH) clusters could be observed after NADH addition. One of the terminal oxidases could be shown to act as a cytochrome-c oxidase with a Km value of 37 microM and an activation energy of 23.7 kJ/mol. The relative molecular mass of the endogenous c-type cytochrome could be determined as 14.1 kD. The complex III analog could be enriched after detergent extraction with Triton X-100 and hydroxylapatite (HTP) chromatography. The partially purified complex contained a Rieske iron-sulfur cluster, b- and c-type cytochromes, and was catalytically active in the decylubiquinone-cytochrome-c oxidoreductase assay.
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- K Sreeramulu
- Department of Biochemistry, Gulbarga University, India
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Brugna M, Albouy D, Nitschke W. Diversity of cytochrome bc complexes: example of the Rieske protein in green sulfur bacteria. J Bacteriol 1998; 180:3719-23. [PMID: 9658021 PMCID: PMC107346 DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.14.3719-3723.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/1998] [Accepted: 05/17/1998] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The Rieske 2Fe2S cluster of Chlorobium limicola forma thiosulfatophilum strain tassajara was studied by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. Two distinct orientations of its g tensor were observed in oriented samples corresponding to differing conformations of the protein. Only one of the two conformations persisted after treatment with 2,5-dibromo-3-methyl-6-isopropyl-p-benzoquinone. A redox midpoint potential (Em) of +160 mV in the pH range of 6 to 7.7 and a decreasing Em (-60 to -80 mV/pH unit) above pH 7.7 were found. The implications of the existence of differing conformational states of the Rieske protein, as well as of the shape of its Em-versus-pH curve, in green sulfur bacteria are discussed.
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- M Brugna
- Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines (UPR 9036), Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France
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Link TA. The role of the 'Rieske' iron sulfur protein in the hydroquinone oxidation (Q(P)) site of the cytochrome bc1 complex. The 'proton-gated affinity change' mechanism. FEBS Lett 1997; 412:257-64. [PMID: 9256231 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(97)00772-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The essential reaction in the widely accepted proton-motive Q-cycle mechanism of the bc1 complex is the bifurcation of the electron flow during hydroquinone oxidation at the hydroquinone oxidation (Q(P)) site formed by the 'Rieske' iron sulfur protein and by the heme bL domain of cytochrome b. The 'Rieske' [2Fe-2S] cluster has a unique structure containing two exposed histidine ligands, which are the binding site for quinones. The affinity of the 'Rieske' cluster for quinones increases several orders of magnitude upon reduction; this will stabilize semiquinone at the Q(P) site. Based on this affinity change, a reaction scheme is presented which can explain the bifurcation of the electron flow without invoking highly unstable semiquinone species.
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- T A Link
- Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, ZBC, Institut für Biochemie I, Molekulare Bioenergetik, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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Schmidt CL, Hatzfeld OM, Petersen A, Link TA, Schäfer G. Expression of the Solfolobus acidocaldarius Rieske iron sulfur protein II (SOXF) with the correctly inserted [2FE-2S] cluster in Escherichia coli. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 234:283-7. [PMID: 9169004 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.6599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The Rieske protein II (Schmidt et al., 1996, FEBS Lett. 388, 43-46) from the thermoacidophilic crenarcheon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius (DSM 639) was expressed in E. coli cells. The full length protein was strictly bound to the E. coli membranes and could only be removed by detergent treatment indicating the presence of a membrane anchor. The iron sulfur cluster was correctly inserted into a fraction of the full length protein and much more effectively into a soluble form created by the deletion of the 45 N-terminal amino acids. The soluble form of the protein displayed the typical spectroscopic properties of a respiratory Rieske protein. The midpoint potential was +375 mV determined by CD redox potentiometry. The presented data demonstrate that the structure of the recombinant protein is very similar or identical to the authentic protein making this a powerful model system for the studies of Rieske proteins by site directed mutagenesis.
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- C L Schmidt
- Institut für Biochemie, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
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Archaea are forming one of the three kingdoms defining the universal phylogenetic tree of living organisms. Within itself this kingdom is heterogenous regarding the mechanisms for deriving energy from the environment for support of cellular functions. These comprise fermentative and chemolithotrophic pathways as well as light driven and respiratory energy conservation. Due to their extreme growth conditions access to the molecular machineries of energy transduction in archaea can be experimentally limited. Among the aerobic, extreme thermoacidophilic archaea, the genus Sulfolobus has been studied in greater detail than many others and provides a comprehensive picture of bioenergetics on the level of substrate metabolism, formation and utilization of high energy phosphate bonds, and primary energy conservation in respiratory electron transport. A number of novel metabolic reactions as well as unusual structures of respiratory enzyme complexes have been detected. Since their genomic organization and many other primary structures could be determined, these studies shed light on the evolution of various bioenergetic modules. It is the aim of this comprehensive review to bring the different aspects of Sulfolobus bioenergetics into focus as a representative example of, and point of comparison for closely related, aerobic archaea.
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- G Schäfer
- Institute of Biochemistry, Medical University of Lübeck, Germany.
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Iwasaki T, Imai T, Urushiyama A, Oshima T. Redox-linked ionization of sulredoxin, an archaeal Rieske-type [2Fe-2S] protein from Sulfolobus sp. strain 7. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:27659-63. [PMID: 8910356 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.44.27659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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"Sulredoxin" of Sulfolobus sp. strain 7 is an archaeal soluble Rieske-type [2Fe-2S] protein and was initially characterized by several spectroscopic techniques (Iwasaki, T., Isogai, T., Iizuka, T. , and Oshima, T. (1995) J. Bacteriol. 177, 2576-2582). It appears to have tightly linked ionization affecting the redox properties of the protein, which is characteristic of the Rieske FeS proteins found as part of the respiratory chain. Sulredoxin had an Em(low pH) value of +188 +/- 9 mV, and the slope of pH dependence of the midpoint redox potential indicated two ionization equilibria in the oxidized form with pKa(ox1) of 6.23 +/- 0.22 and pKa(ox2) of 8.57 +/- 0.20. The absorption, CD, and resonance Raman spectra of oxidized sulredoxin are consistent with the proposed St2FeSb2Fe[N(His)]t2 core structure, and deprotonation of one of the two putative coordinated histidine imidazoles, having the pKa(ox2) of 8.57 +/- 0.20, causes a decrease in the midpoint redox potential, the change in the optical and CD spectra, and the appearance of a new Raman transition at 278 cm-1, without major structural rearrangement of the [2Fe-2S] cluster as well as the overall protein conformation. The redox-linked ionization of sulredoxin is also contributed by local changes involving another ionizable group having the pKa(ox1) of 6.23 +/- 0. 22, which is probably attributed to a certain positively charged amino acid residue that may not be a ligand by itself but located very close to the cluster. We suggest that sulredoxin provides a new tractable model of the membrane-bound homologue of the respiratory chain, the Rieske FeS proteins of the cytochrome bc1-b6f complexes.
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- T Iwasaki
- Department of Life Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta, Yokohama 226
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Schäfer G, Purschke WG, Gleissner M, Schmidt CL. Respiratory chains of archaea and extremophiles. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1996; 1275:16-20. [PMID: 8688447 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(96)00043-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Extremophilic organisms are adapted to harsh environmental conditions like high temperature, extremely acidic or alkaline pH, high salt, or a combination of those. With a few exceptions extremophilic bacteria are colonizing only moderately hot biotopes, whereas hyperthermophiles are found specifically among archaea (formerly 'archaebacteria') which can thrive at temperatures close to or even above the boiling point of water. It has been a challenging question whether the special properties of their proteins and membranes have been acquired by adaptation, or whether they might reflect early evolutionary states as suggested by their phylogenetic position at the lowest branches of the universal tree of life.
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- G Schäfer
- Institute of Biochemistry, Medical University of Lübeck, Germany
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Link TA, Iwata S. Functional implications of the structure of the 'Rieske' iron-sulfur protein of bovine heart mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1996; 1275:54-60. [PMID: 8688452 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(96)00050-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Recently, we have determined the structure of the catalytic domain of the 'Rieske' iron-sulfur protein of bovine heart mitochondrial bc1 complex at 1.5 A resolution (Iwata, S., Saynovits, M., Link, T.A. and Michel, H. (1996) Structure, 4, 567-579). This is the first structure of a bis-histidine coordinated [2Fe-2S] cluster. The spectroscopic, electrochemical, and functional implications of the structure will be discussed.
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- T A Link
- Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Main, Germany.
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Schmidt CL, Anemüller S, Schäfer G. Two different respiratory Rieske proteins are expressed in the extreme thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius: cloning and sequencing of their genes. FEBS Lett 1996; 388:43-6. [PMID: 8654586 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00511-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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We have isolated two genes encoding Rieske iron sulfur proteins from the genomic DNA of the thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius (DSM 639). One of the genes, named soxL, codes for the previously isolated novel Rieske-I protein. The second gene (soxF) 121 codes for the Rieske-II protein associated with the second terminal oxidase of Sulfolobus. Both proteins exhibit only 24% identical residues. The Rieske-I protein shows a number of unusual features. (i) The distance between the two cluster binding sites is significantly larger than in all known proteins. (ii) An unexpected Pro --> Asp exchange in one of the cluster binding sites. (iii) It shows some resemblance to the mitochondrial and plastidic Rieske proteins insofar as the soxL gene codes for a pre-sequence which is no longer present in the mature Rieske-I protein. Both proteins cluster together on a separate branch of the phylogenetic tree. To our knowledge this is the first proven case of two significantly different Rieske proteins in a prokaryote.
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- C L Schmidt
- Institut für Biochemie, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
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Schäfer G, Purschke W, Schmidt CL. On the origin of respiration: electron transport proteins from archaea to man. FEMS Microbiol Rev 1996; 18:173-88. [PMID: 8639327 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.1996.tb00235.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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All aerobic organisms use the exergonic reduction of molecular oxygen to water as primary source of metabolic energy. This reaction is catalyzed by membrane residing terminal heme/Cu-oxidases which belong to a superfamily of widely varying structural complexity between mitochondrial and bacterial members of this family. Over the last few years, considerable information from this and other laboratories accumulated also on archaeal respiratory chains and their terminal oxidases. In the following, the molecular and catalytic properties of the latter are discussed and compared to those from bacteria and eucarya under the aspect of their energy conserving capabilities and their phylogenetic relations. The Rieske iron-sulfur proteins being important functional constituents of energy transducing respiratory complexes are included in this study. A number of essential conclusions can be drawn. (1) Like bacteria, archaea can also contain split respiratory chains with parallel expression of separate terminal oxidases. (2) The functional core of all oxidases is the highly conserved topological motif of subunit I consisting of at least 12 membrane spanning helices with the 6 histidine residues of the heme/Cu-binding centers in identical locations. (3) Some archaeal oxidases are organized in unusual supercomplexes with other cytochromes and Rieske [2Fe2S] proteins. These complexes are likely to function as proton pumps, whereas on a structural basis several subunit I equivalents alone are postulated to be unable to pump protons. (4) The genes of two archaeal Rieske proteins have been cloned from Sulfolobus; phylogenetically they are forming a separate archaeal branch and suggest the existence of an evolutionary ancestor preceding the split into the three urkingdoms. (5) Archaeal oxidase complexes may combine features of electron transport systems occurring exclusively as separate respiratory complexes in bacteria and eucarya. (6) As far back as the deepest branches of the phylogentic tree, terminal oxidases reveal a degree of complexity comparable to that found in higher organisms. (7) Sequence analysis suggests a monophyletic origin of terminal oxidases with an early split into two types found in archaea as well as bacteria. This view implies an origin of terminal oxidases prior to oxygenic photosynthesis in contrast to the widely accepted inverse hypothesis.
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- G Schäfer
- Institute of Biochemistry, Medical University of Lübeck, Germany
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Riedel A, Fetzner S, Rampp M, Lingens F, Liebl U, Zimmermann JL, Nitschke W. EPR, electron spin echo envelope modulation, and electron nuclear double resonance studies of the 2Fe2S centers of the 2-halobenzoate 1,2-dioxygenase from Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia 2CBS. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:30869-73. [PMID: 8537340 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.52.30869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The 2-halobenzoate 1,2-dioxygenase from Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia 2CBS (Fetzner, S., Müller, R., and Lingens, F. (1992) J. Bacteriol. 174, 279-290) contains both a ferredoxin-type and a Rieske-type 2Fe2S center. These two significantly different 2Fe2S clusters were characterized with respect to their EPR spectra, electrochemical properties (Rieske-type cluster with gz = 2.025, gy = 1.91, gx = 1.79, gav = 1.91, Em = -125 +/- 10 mV; ferredoxin-type center with gz = 2.05, gy = 1.96, gx = 1.89, gav = 1.97, Em = -200 +/- 10 mV) and pH dependence thereof. X band electron spin echo envelope modulation and electron nuclear double resonance spectroscopy was applied to study the interaction of the Rieske-type center of the 2-halobenzoate 1,2-dioxygenase with 14N and 1H nuclei in the vicinity of the 2Fe2S cluster. The results are compared to those obtained on the Rieske protein of the cytochrome b6f complex (Em = +320 mV) and the water-soluble ferredoxin (Em = -430 mV) of spinach chloroplasts, as typical representatives of the gav = 1.91 and gav = 1.96 class of 2Fe2S centers. Properties common to all Rieske-type clusters and those restricted to the respective centers in bacterial oxygenases are discussed.
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- A Riedel
- Institut für Biophysik und Physikalische Biochemie, Universität Regensburg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Schmidt CL, Anemüller S, Teixeira M, Schäfer G. Purification and characterization of the Rieske iron-sulfur protein from the thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. FEBS Lett 1995; 359:239-43. [PMID: 7867807 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)00052-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The previously detected Rieske iron-sulfur protein from the membranes of the thermoacidophile Sulfolobus acidocaldarius [Anemüller, S., et al. (1993) FEBS Lett. 318, 61-64] was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity and the N-terminal amino acids determined. The apparent molecular weight was estimated to be 32 kDa. The reduced protein displays a rhombic EPR spectrum with gxyz = 1.768, 1.895, 2.035. The average g-value of 1.902 is typical for nitrogen ligand-containing clusters. EPR spin quantification and the iron content indicate the presence of one [2Fe-2S] cluster. The purified protein displays ubiquinol cytochrome c reductase activity. The pH optimum of this reaction is temperature dependent and was determined to be pH 7 at 56 degrees C. The results presented in this study clearly prove that the Sulfolobus Rieske protein belongs to the family of the true Rieske iron-sulfur proteins.
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- C L Schmidt
- Institut für Biochemie, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
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