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Makarchuk I, Gerasimova T, Kägi J, Wohlwend D, Melin F, Friedrich T, Hellwig P. Mutating the environment of heme b 595 of E. coli cytochrome bd-I oxidase shifts its redox potential by 200 mV without inactivating the enzyme. Bioelectrochemistry 2023; 151:108379. [PMID: 36736178 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2023.108379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2022] [Revised: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Cytochrome bd-I catalyzes the reduction of oxygen to water with the aid of hemes b558, b595 and d. Here, effects of a mutation of E445, a ligand of heme b595 and of R448, hydrogen bonded to E445 are studied electrochemically in the E. coli enzyme. The equilibrium potential of the three hemes are shifted by up to 200 mV in these mutants. Strikingly the E445D and the R448N mutants show a turnover of 41 ± 2 % and 20 ± 4 %, respectively. Electrocatalytic studies confirm that the mutants react with oxygen and bind and release NO. These results point towards the ability of cytochrome bd to react even if the electron transfer is less favorable.
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- Iryna Makarchuk
- Laboratoire de Bioélectrochimie et Spectroscopie, UMR 7140, Chimie de la Matière Complexe, Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Institut für Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstr 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Bioélectrochimie et Spectroscopie, UMR 7140, Chimie de la Matière Complexe, Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Institut für Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstr 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Bioélectrochimie et Spectroscopie, UMR 7140, Chimie de la Matière Complexe, Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Institut für Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstr 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Bioélectrochimie et Spectroscopie, UMR 7140, Chimie de la Matière Complexe, Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Institut für Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstr 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Bioélectrochimie et Spectroscopie, UMR 7140, Chimie de la Matière Complexe, Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Institut für Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstr 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Bioélectrochimie et Spectroscopie, UMR 7140, Chimie de la Matière Complexe, Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Institut für Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstr 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Bioélectrochimie et Spectroscopie, UMR 7140, Chimie de la Matière Complexe, Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Institut für Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstr 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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Reconstruction and Use of Microbial Metabolic Networks: the Core Escherichia coli Metabolic Model as an Educational Guide. EcoSal Plus 2015; 4. [PMID: 26443778 DOI: 10.1128/ecosalplus.10.2.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Biochemical network reconstructions have become popular tools in systems biology. Metabolicnetwork reconstructions are biochemically, genetically, and genomically (BiGG) structured databases of biochemical reactions and metabolites. They contain information such as exact reaction stoichiometry, reaction reversibility, and the relationships between genes, proteins, and reactions. Network reconstructions have been used extensively to study the phenotypic behavior of wild-type and mutant stains under a variety of conditions, linking genotypes with phenotypes. Such phenotypic simulations have allowed for the prediction of growth after genetic manipulations, prediction of growth phenotypes after adaptive evolution, and prediction of essential genes. Additionally, because network reconstructions are organism specific, they can be used to understand differences between organisms of species in a functional context.There are different types of reconstructions representing various types of biological networks (metabolic, regulatory, transcription/translation). This chapter serves as an introduction to metabolic and regulatory network reconstructions and models and gives a complete description of the core Escherichia coli metabolic model. This model can be analyzed in any computational format (such as MATLAB or Mathematica) based on the information given in this chapter. The core E. coli model is a small-scale model that can be used for educational purposes. It is meant to be used by senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students learning about constraint-based modeling and systems biology. This model has enough reactions and pathways to enable interesting and insightful calculations, but it is also simple enough that the results of such calculations can be understoodeasily.
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Arutyunyan AM, Sakamoto J, Inadome M, Kabashima Y, Borisov VB. Optical and magneto-optical activity of cytochrome bd from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2012; 1817:2087-94. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2012] [Revised: 06/13/2012] [Accepted: 06/15/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Rappaport F, Zhang J, Vos MH, Gennis RB, Borisov VB. Heme-heme and heme-ligand interactions in the di-heme oxygen-reducing site of cytochrome bd from Escherichia coli revealed by nanosecond absorption spectroscopy. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2010; 1797:1657-64. [PMID: 20529691 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2010] [Revised: 05/12/2010] [Accepted: 05/15/2010] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Cytochrome bd is a terminal quinol:O(2) oxidoreductase of respiratory chains of many bacteria. It contains three hemes, b(558), b(595), and d. The role of heme b(595) remains obscure. A CO photolysis/recombination study of the membranes of Escherichia coli containing either wild type cytochrome bd or inactive E445A mutant was performed using nanosecond absorption spectroscopy. We compared photoinduced changes of heme d-CO complex in one-electron-reduced, two-electron-reduced, and fully reduced states of cytochromes bd. The line shape of spectra of photodissociation of one-electron-reduced and two-electron-reduced enzymes is strikingly different from that of the fully reduced enzyme. The difference demonstrates that in the fully reduced enzyme photolysis of CO from heme d perturbs ferrous heme b(595) causing loss of an absorption band centered at 435 nm, thus supporting interactions between heme b(595) and heme d in the di-heme oxygen-reducing site, in agreement with previous works. Photolyzed CO recombines with the fully reduced enzyme monoexponentially with tau approximately 12 micros, whereas recombination of CO with one-electron-reduced cytochrome bd shows three kinetic phases, with tau approximately 14 ns, 14 micros, and 280 micros. The spectra of the absorption changes associated with these components are different in line shape. The 14 ns phase, absent in the fully reduced enzyme, reflects geminate recombination of CO with part of heme d. The 14-micros component reflects bimolecular recombination of CO with heme d and electron backflow from heme d to hemes b in approximately 4% of the enzyme population. The final, 280-micros component, reflects return of the electron from hemes b to heme d and bimolecular recombination of CO in that population. The fact that even in the two-electron-reduced enzyme, a nanosecond geminate recombination is observed, suggests that namely the redox state of heme b(595), and not that of heme b(558), controls the pathway(s) by which CO migrates between heme d and the medium.
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- Fabrice Rappaport
- Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Unite Mixte de Recherche 7141 CNRS, Universite Paris 6, 13 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
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Electron transfer processes in subunit I mutants of cytochrome bo quinol oxidase in Escherichia coli. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2009; 73:1599-603. [PMID: 19584547 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.90105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Cytochrome bo is a terminal quinol oxidase in the aerobic respiratory chain of Escherichia coli. Subunit I binds all four redox centers, and electrons are transferred from quinols to high-spin heme o and Cu(B) through a bound uniquinone-8 and low-spin heme b. To explore the role of conserved charged amino acid residues, we examined the one-electron transfer processes in subunit I mutants. We found that all the mutants examined increased the electron transfer rate from the bound quinone to heme b more than 40-fold. Tyr288 and Lys362 are key residues in the K-channel for charge compensation of the heme o-Cu(B) binuclear center with protons. The Tyr288Phe and Lys362Gln mutants showed 100-fold decreases in heme b-to-heme o electron transfer, accompanied by large increases in the redox potential of heme o. Our results indicate that electromagnetic coupling of hemes is important for facilitated heme-heme electron transfer in cytochrome bo.
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Mogi T. Probing the haem d-binding site in cytochrome bd quinol oxidase by site-directed mutagenesis. J Biochem 2009; 145:763-70. [DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvp033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Kobayashi K, Tagawa S, Mogi T. Intramolecular electron transfer processes in Cu(B)-deficient cytochrome bo studied by pulse radiolysis. J Biochem 2009; 145:685-91. [PMID: 19218360 DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvp026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The Escherichia coli cytochrome bo is a heme-copper terminal ubiquinol oxidase, and functions as a redox-driven proton pump. We applied pulse radiolysis technique for studying the one-electron reduction processes in the Cu(B)-deficient mutant, His333Ala. We found that the Cu(B) deficiency suppressed the heme b-to-heme o electron transfer two order of the magnitude (4.0 x 10(2) s(-1)), as found for the wild-type enzyme in the presence of 1 mM KCN (3.0 x 10(2) s(-1)). Potentiometric analysis of the His333Ala mutant revealed the 40 mV decrease in the E(m) value for low-spin heme b and the 160 mV increase in the E(m) value of high-spin heme o. Our results indicate that Cu(B) not only serves as one-electron donor to the bound dioxygen upon the O-O bond cleavage, but also facilitates dioxygen reduction at the heme-copper binuclear centre by modulating the E(m) value of heme o through magnetic interactions. And the absence of a putative OH(-) bound to Cu(B) seems not to affect the uptake of the first chemical proton via K-channel in the His333Ala mutant.
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- Kazuo Kobayashi
- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan
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Mogi T. Effects of replacement of low-spin haem b by haem O on Escherichia coli cytochromes bo and bd quinol oxidases. J Biochem 2009; 145:599-607. [PMID: 19174546 DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvp015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Cytochromes bo and bd are terminal ubiquinol oxidases in the aerobic respiratory chain of Escherichia coli and generate proton motive force across the membrane. To probe roles of haem species in the oxidation of quinols, intramolecular electron transfer and the dioxygen reduction, we replaced b-haems with haem O by using the haem O synthase-overproducing system, which can accumulate haem O in cytoplasmic membranes. Characterizations of spectroscopic properties of cytochromes bo and bd isolated from BL21 (DE3)/pLysS and BL21 (DE3)/pLysS/pTTQ18-cyoE after 4 h of the aerobic induction of haem O synthase (CyoE) showed the specific incorporation of haem O into the low-spin haem-binding site in both oxidases. We found that the resultant haem oo- and obd-type oxidase severely reduced the ubiquinol-1 oxidase activity due to the perturbations of the quinol oxidation site. Our observations suggest that haem B is required at the low-spin haem site for the oxidation of quinols by cytochromes bo and bd.
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- Tatsushi Mogi
- Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Yang K, Borisov VB, Konstantinov AA, Gennis RB. The fully oxidized form of the cytochrome bd quinol oxidase from E. coli does not participate in the catalytic cycle: direct evidence from rapid kinetics studies. FEBS Lett 2008; 582:3705-9. [PMID: 18823983 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.09.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2008] [Revised: 09/13/2008] [Accepted: 09/16/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Cytochrome bd catalyzes the two-electron oxidation of either ubiquinol or menaquinol and the four-electron reduction of O(2) to H(2)O. In the current work, the rates of reduction of the fully oxidized and oxoferryl forms of the enzyme by the 2-electron donor ubiquinol-1 and single electron donor N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-p-phenylendiamine (TMPD) have been examined by stopped-flow techniques. Reduction of the all-ferric form of the enzyme is 1000-fold slower than required for a step in the catalytic cycle, whereas the observed rates of reduction of the oxoferryl and singly-reduced forms of the cytochrome are consistent with the catalytic turnover. The data support models of the catalytic cycle which do not include the fully oxidized form of the enzyme as an intermediate.
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- Ke Yang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Borisov VB, Belevich I, Bloch DA, Mogi T, Verkhovsky MI. Glutamate 107 in Subunit I of Cytochrome bd from Escherichia coli Is Part of a Transmembrane Intraprotein Pathway Conducting Protons from the Cytoplasm to the Heme b595/Heme d Active Site. Biochemistry 2008; 47:7907-14. [DOI: 10.1021/bi800435a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Vitaliy B. Borisov
- Department of Molecular Energetics of Microorganisms, Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation, Helsinki Bioenergetics Group, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, PB 65 (Viikinkaari 1), 00014, Helsinki, Finland, and Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Energetics of Microorganisms, Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation, Helsinki Bioenergetics Group, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, PB 65 (Viikinkaari 1), 00014, Helsinki, Finland, and Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Energetics of Microorganisms, Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation, Helsinki Bioenergetics Group, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, PB 65 (Viikinkaari 1), 00014, Helsinki, Finland, and Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Energetics of Microorganisms, Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation, Helsinki Bioenergetics Group, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, PB 65 (Viikinkaari 1), 00014, Helsinki, Finland, and Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Energetics of Microorganisms, Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation, Helsinki Bioenergetics Group, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, PB 65 (Viikinkaari 1), 00014, Helsinki, Finland, and Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Matsumoto Y, Muneyuki E, Fujita D, Sakamoto K, Miyoshi H, Yoshida M, Mogi T. Kinetic mechanism of quinol oxidation by cytochrome bd studied with ubiquinone-2 analogs. J Biochem 2006; 139:779-88. [PMID: 16672279 DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvj087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cytochrome bd is a heterodimeric terminal ubiquinol oxidase of Escherichia coli under microaerophilic growth conditions. The oxidase activity shows sigmoidal concentration-dependence with low concentrations of ubiquinols, and a marked substrate inhibition with high concentrations of ubiquinol-2 analogs [Sakamoto, K., Miyoshi, H., Takegami, K., Mogi, T., Anraku, Y., and Iwamura H. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 29897-29902]. Kinetic analysis of the oxidation of the ubiquinol-2 analogs, where the 2- or 3-methoxy group has been substituted with an azido or ethoxy group, suggested that its peculiar enzyme kinetics can be explained by a modified ping-pong bi-bi mechanism with the formation of inactive binary complex FS in the one-electron reduced oxygenated state and inactive ternary complex (E2S)S(n) on the oxidation of the second quinol molecule. Structure-function studies on the ubiquinol-2 analogs suggested that the 6-diprenyl group and the 3-methoxy group on the quinone ring are involved in the substrate inhibition. We also found that oxidized forms of ubiquinone-2 analogs served as weak noncompetitive inhibitors. These results indicate that the mechanism for the substrate oxidation by cytochrome bd is different from that of the heme-copper terminal quinol oxidase and is tightly coupled to dioxygen reduction chemistry.
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- Yushi Matsumoto
- Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503
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Matsumoto Y, Murai M, Fujita D, Sakamoto K, Miyoshi H, Yoshida M, Mogi T. Mass spectrometric analysis of the ubiquinol-binding site in cytochrome bd from Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 2005; 281:1905-12. [PMID: 16299377 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m508206200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Cytochrome bd is a heterodimeric terminal ubiquinol oxidase in the aerobic respiratory chain of Escherichia coli. For understanding the unique catalytic mechanism of the quinol oxidation, mass spectrometry was used to identify amino acid residue(s) that can be labeled with a reduced form of 2-azido-3-methoxy-5-methyl-6-geranyl-1,4-benzoquinone or 2-methoxy-3-azido-5-methyl-6-geranyl-1,4-benzoquinone. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry demonstrated that the photo inactivation of ubiquinol-1 oxidase activity was accompanied by the labeling of subunit I with both azidoquinols. The cross-linked domain was identified by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography of subunit I peptides produced by in-gel double digestion with lysyl endopeptidase and endoproteinase Asp-N. Electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry determined the amino acid sequence of the peptide (m/z 1047.5) to be Glu(278)-Lys(283), where a photoproduct of azido-Q(2) was linked to the carboxylic side chain of I-Glu(280). This study demonstrated directly that the N-terminal region of periplasmic loop VI/VII (Q-loop) is a part of the quinol oxidation site and indicates that the 2- and 3-methoxy groups of the quinone ring are in the close vicinity of I-Glu(280).
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- Yushi Matsumoto
- Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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Belevich I, Borisov VB, Zhang J, Yang K, Konstantinov AA, Gennis RB, Verkhovsky MI. Time-resolved electrometric and optical studies on cytochrome bd suggest a mechanism of electron-proton coupling in the di-heme active site. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:3657-62. [PMID: 15728392 PMCID: PMC553295 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0405683102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2004] [Accepted: 01/28/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Time-resolved electron transfer and electrogenic H(+) translocation have been compared in a bd-type quinol oxidase from Escherichia coli and its E445A mutant. The high-spin heme b(595) is found to be retained by the enzyme in contrast to the original proposal, but it is not reducible even by excess of dithionite. When preincubated with the reductants, both the WT (b(558)(2+), b(595)(2+), d(2+)) and E445A mutant oxidase (b(558)(2+), b(595)(3+), d(2+)) bind O(2) rapidly, but formation of the oxoferryl state in the mutant is approximately 100-fold slower than in the WT enzyme. At the same time, the E445A substitution does not affect intraprotein electron re-equilibration after the photolysis of CO bound to ferrous heme d in the one-electron-reduced enzyme (the so-called "electron backflow"). The backflow is coupled to membrane potential generation. Electron transfer between hemes d and b(558) is electrogenic. In contrast, electron transfer between hemes d and b(595) is not electrogenic, although heme b(595) is the major electron acceptor for heme d during the backflow, and therefore is not likely to be accompanied by net H(+) uptake or release. The E445A replacement does not alter electron distribution between hemes b(595) and d in the one-electron reduced cytochrome bd [E(m)(d) > E(m)(b(595)), where E(m) is the midpoint redox potential]; however, it precludes reduction of heme b(595), given heme d has been reduced already by the first electron. Presumably, E445 is one of the two redox-linked ionizable groups required for charge compensation of the di-heme oxygen-reducing site (b(595), d) upon its full reduction by two electrons.
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- Ilya Belevich
- Helsinki Bioenergetics Group, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, PB 65 (Viikinkaari 1), FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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Zhang J, Barquera B, Gennis RB. Gene fusions with β-lactamase show that subunit I of the cytochromebdquinol oxidase fromE. colihas nine transmembrane helices with the O2reactive site near the periplasmic surface. FEBS Lett 2004; 561:58-62. [PMID: 15013751 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(04)00125-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2003] [Accepted: 01/09/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The cytochrome bd quinol oxidase is a component of the respiratory chain of many prokaryotes. The enzyme contains two subunits, CydA and CydB, which were initially predicted based on the sequence of the Escherichia coli oxidase to have seven and eight transmembrane spans, respectively. More recently, the topological model of CydA was revised to predict nine transmembrane helices, based on additional sequence information from other organisms. In the current work, the topology of the E. coli oxidase was experimentally examined using beta-lactamase gene fusions. The results confirm the revised topology, which places the oxygen reactive site near the periplasmic surface.
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- Jie Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, 600 South Mathews Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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Kobayashi K, Tagawa S, Daff S, Sagami I, Shimizu T. Rapid calmodulin-dependent interdomain electron transfer in neuronal nitric-oxide synthase measured by pulse radiolysis. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:39864-71. [PMID: 11518705 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m102537200] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Electron transfer within rat neuronal nitric-oxide synthase (nNOS) was investigated by pulse radiolysis. Radiolytically generated 1-methyl-3-carbamoyl pyridinium (MCP) radical was found to react predominantly with the heme of the enzyme with a second-order rate constant for heme reduction of 3 x 10(8) m(-1) s(-1). In the calmodulin (CaM)-bound enzyme a subsequent first-order phase was observed which had a rate constant of 1.2 x 10(3) s(-1). In the absence of CaM, this phase was absent. Kinetic difference spectra for nNOS reduction indicated that the second phase consisted of heme reoxidation accompanied by formation of a neutral flavin semiquinone, suggesting that it is heme to flavin electron transfer. Experiments with the heme proximal surface mutant, K423E, had no second phase, confirming that the mutation blocks interdomain electron transfer. With the autoinhibitory loop deletion mutant, Delta40, the slow phase was observed even in the absence of CaM consistent with the role of the loop in impeding interdomain electron transfer. The rate of heme to FMN electron transfer observed in the wild-type enzyme is approximately 1000 times faster than the FMN to heme electron transfer rate predicted during catalysis from kinetic modeling, suggesting that the catalytic process is slowed by kinetic gating.
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- K Kobayashi
- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Mihogaoka 8-1, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan.
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Nakajima H, Nakagawa E, Kobayashi K, Tagawa S, Aono S. Ligand-switching intermediates for the CO-sensing transcriptional activator CooA measured by pulse radiolysis. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:37895-9. [PMID: 11487580 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m105429200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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CooA is a heme-containing and CO-sensing transcriptional activator whose activity is regulated by CO. The protoheme that acts as a CO sensor in CooA shows unique properties for its coordination structure. The Cys75 axial ligand of the ferric heme is replaced by His77 upon the reduction of the heme iron and vice versa. In this work, the ligand-switching process induced by the reduction of the heme was investigated by the technique of pulse radiolysis. Hydrated electron reduced the heme iron in ferric CooA within 1 micros to form the first intermediate with the Soret peak at 440 nm, suggesting that a six-coordinate ferrous heme with a thiolate axial ligand was formed initially. The first intermediate was converted into the second intermediate with the time constant of 40 micros (k = 2.5 x 10(4) x s(-1)). In the second intermediate, the thiolate from Cys75 was thought to be protonated and/or the Fe-S bond was thought to be elongated. The second intermediate was converted into the final reduced form with the time constant of 2.9 ms (k = 3.5 x 10(2) x s(-1)) for wild-type CooA. The ligand exchange between Cys75 and His77 took place during the conversion of the second intermediate into the final reduced form.
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- H Nakajima
- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi, Nomi-gun, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
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Borisov VB, Sedelnikova SE, Poole RK, Konstantinov AA. Interaction of cytochrome bd with carbon monoxide at low and room temperatures: evidence that only a small fraction of heme b595 reacts with CO. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:22095-9. [PMID: 11283005 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m011542200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Azotobacter vinelandii is an obligately aerobic bacterium in which aerotolerant dinitrogen fixation requires cytochrome bd. This oxidase comprises two polypeptide subunits and three hemes, but no copper, and has been studied extensively. However, there remain apparently conflicting reports on the reactivity of the high spin heme b(595) with ligands. Using purified cytochrome bd, we show that absorption changes induced by CO photodissociation from the fully reduced cytochrome bd at low temperatures demonstrate binding of the ligand with heme b(595). However, the magnitude of these changes corresponds to the reaction with CO of only about 5% of the heme. CO binding with a minor fraction of heme b(595) is also revealed at room temperature by time-resolved studies of CO recombination. The data resolve the apparent discrepancies between conclusions drawn from room and low temperature spectroscopic studies of the CO reaction with cytochrome bd. The results are consistent with the proposal that hemes b(595) and d form a diheme oxygen-reducing center with a binding capacity for a single exogenous ligand molecule that partitions between the hemes d and b(595) in accordance with their intrinsic affinities for the ligand. In this model, the affinity of heme b(595) for CO is about 20-fold lower than that of heme d.
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- V B Borisov
- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia
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Vos MH, Borisov VB, Liebl U, Martin JL, Konstantinov AA. Femtosecond resolution of ligand-heme interactions in the high-affinity quinol oxidase bd: A di-heme active site? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:1554-9. [PMID: 10660685 PMCID: PMC26473 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.030528197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/1999] [Accepted: 12/06/1999] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Interaction of the two high-spin hemes in the oxygen reduction site of the bd-type quinol oxidase from Escherichia coli has been studied by femtosecond multicolor transient absorption spectroscopy. The previously unidentified Soret band of ferrous heme b(595) was determined to be centered around 440 nm by selective excitation of the fully reduced unliganded or CO-bound cytochrome bd in the alpha-band of heme b(595). The redox state of the b-type hemes strongly affects both the line shape and the kinetics of the absorption changes induced by photodissociation of CO from heme d. In the reduced enzyme, CO photodissociation from heme d perturbs the spectrum of ferrous cytochrome b(595) within a few ps, pointing to a direct interaction between hemes b(595) and d. Whereas in the reduced enzyme no heme d-CO geminate recombination is observed, in the mixed-valence CO-liganded complex with heme b(595) initially oxidized, a significant part of photodissociated CO does not leave the protein and recombines with heme d within a few hundred ps. This caging effect may indicate that ferrous heme b(595) provides a transient binding site for carbon monoxide within one of the routes by which the dissociated ligand leaves the protein. Taken together, the data indicate physical proximity of the hemes d and b(595) and corroborate the possibility of a functional cooperation between the two hemes in the dioxygen-reducing center of cytochrome bd.
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- M H Vos
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U451, Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique-Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées, 91761 Palaiseau Cedex, France.
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