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Baserga F, Vorkas A, Crea F, Schubert L, Chen JL, Redlich A, La Greca M, Storm J, Oldemeyer S, Hoffmann K, Schlesinger R, Heberle J. Membrane Protein Activity Induces Specific Molecular Changes in Nanodiscs Monitored by FTIR Difference Spectroscopy. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:915328. [PMID: 35769914 PMCID: PMC9234331 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.915328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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It is well known that lipids neighboring integral membrane proteins directly influence their function. The opposite effect is true as well, as membrane proteins undergo structural changes after activation and thus perturb the lipidic environment. Here, we studied the interaction between these molecular machines and the lipid bilayer by observing changes in the lipid vibrational bands via FTIR spectroscopy. Membrane proteins with different functionalities have been reconstituted into lipid nanodiscs: Microbial rhodopsins that act as light-activated ion pumps (the proton pumps NsXeR and UmRh1, and the chloride pump NmHR) or as sensors (NpSRII), as well as the electron-driven cytochrome c oxidase RsCcO. The effects of the structural changes on the surrounding lipid phase are compared to mechanically induced lateral tension exerted by the light-activatable lipid analogue AzoPC. With the help of isotopologues, we show that the ν(C = O) ester band of the glycerol backbone reports on changes in the lipids’ collective state induced by mechanical changes in the transmembrane proteins. The perturbation of the nanodisc lipids seems to involve their phase and/or packing state. 13C-labeling of the scaffold protein shows that its structure also responds to the mechanical expansion of the lipid bilayer.
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- Federico Baserga
- Department of Physics, Experimental Molecular Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Genetic Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Experimental Molecular Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Experimental Molecular Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Genetic Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Experimental Molecular Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Genetic Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Experimental Molecular Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Genetic Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Genetic Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- *Correspondence: Ramona Schlesinger, ; Joachim Heberle,
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- Department of Physics, Experimental Molecular Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- *Correspondence: Ramona Schlesinger, ; Joachim Heberle,
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Widespread Distribution and Functional Specificity of the Copper Importer CcoA: Distinct Cu Uptake Routes for Bacterial Cytochrome c Oxidases. mBio 2018; 9:mBio.00065-18. [PMID: 29487231 PMCID: PMC5829832 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00065-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Cytochrome c oxidases are members of the heme-copper oxidase superfamily. These enzymes have different subunits, cofactors, and primary electron acceptors, yet they all contain identical heme-copper (CuB) binuclear centers within their catalytic subunits. The uptake and delivery pathways of the CuB atom incorporated into this active site, where oxygen is reduced to water, are not well understood. Our previous work with the facultative phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus indicated that the copper atom needed for the CuB site of cbb3-type cytochrome c oxidase (cbb3-Cox) is imported to the cytoplasm by a major facilitator superfamily-type transporter, CcoA. In this study, a comparative genomic analysis of CcoA orthologs in alphaproteobacterial genomes showed that CcoA is widespread among organisms and frequently co-occurs with cytochrome c oxidases. To define the specificity of CcoA activity, we investigated its function in Rhodobacter sphaeroides, a close relative of R. capsulatus that contains both cbb3- and aa3-Cox. Phenotypic, genetic, and biochemical characterization of mutants lacking CcoA showed that in its absence, or even in the presence of its bypass suppressors, only the production of cbb3-Cox and not that of aa3-Cox was affected. We therefore concluded that CcoA is dedicated solely to cbb3-Cox biogenesis, establishing that distinct copper uptake systems provide the CuB atoms to the catalytic sites of these two similar cytochrome c oxidases. These findings illustrate the large variety of strategies that organisms employ to ensure homeostasis and fine control of copper trafficking and delivery to the target cuproproteins under different physiological conditions.IMPORTANCE The cbb3- and aa3-type cytochrome c oxidases belong to the widespread heme-copper oxidase superfamily. They are membrane-integral cuproproteins that catalyze oxygen reduction to water under hypoxic and normoxic growth conditions. These enzymes diverge in terms of subunit and cofactor composition, yet they all share a conserved heme-copper binuclear site within their catalytic subunit. In this study, we show that the copper atoms of the catalytic center of two similar cytochrome c oxidases from this superfamily are provided by different copper uptake systems during their biogenesis. This finding illustrates different strategies by which organisms fine-tune the trafficking of copper, which is an essential but toxic micronutrient.
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Thompson AK, Gray J, Liu A, Hosler JP. The roles of Rhodobacter sphaeroides copper chaperones PCu(A)C and Sco (PrrC) in the assembly of the copper centers of the aa(3)-type and the cbb(3)-type cytochrome c oxidases. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2012; 1817:955-64. [PMID: 22248670 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2011] [Revised: 12/30/2011] [Accepted: 01/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The α proteobacter Rhodobacter sphaeroides accumulates two cytochrome c oxidases (CcO) in its cytoplasmic membrane during aerobic growth: a mitochondrial-like aa(3)-type CcO containing a di-copper Cu(A) center and mono-copper Cu(B), plus a cbb(3)-type CcO that contains Cu(B) but lacks Cu(A). Three copper chaperones are located in the periplasm of R. sphaeroides, PCu(A)C, PrrC (Sco) and Cox11. Cox11 is required to assemble Cu(B) of the aa(3)-type but not the cbb(3)-type CcO. PrrC is homologous to mitochondrial Sco1; Sco proteins are implicated in Cu(A) assembly in mitochondria and bacteria, and with Cu(B) assembly of the cbb(3)-type CcO. PCu(A)C is present in many bacteria, but not mitochondria. PCu(A)C of Thermus thermophilus metallates a Cu(A) center in vitro, but its in vivo function has not been explored. Here, the extent of copper center assembly in the aa(3)- and cbb(3)-type CcOs of R. sphaeroides has been examined in strains lacking PCu(A)C, PrrC, or both. The absence of either chaperone strongly lowers the accumulation of both CcOs in the cells grown in low concentrations of Cu(2+). The absence of PrrC has a greater effect than the absence of PCu(A)C and PCu(A)C appears to function upstream of PrrC. Analysis of purified aa(3)-type CcO shows that PrrC has a greater effect on the assembly of its Cu(A) than does PCu(A)C, and both chaperones have a lesser but significant effect on the assembly of its Cu(B) even though Cox11 is present. Scenarios for the cellular roles of PCu(A)C and PrrC are considered. The results are most consistent with a role for PrrC in the capture and delivery of copper to Cu(A) of the aa(3)-type CcO and to Cu(B) of the cbb(3)-type CcO, while the predominant role of PCu(A)C may be to capture and deliver copper to PrrC and Cox11. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Biogenesis/Assembly of Respiratory Enzyme Complexes.
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- Audie K Thompson
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA.
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Varanasi L, Hosler J. Alternative initial proton acceptors for the D pathway of Rhodobacter sphaeroides cytochrome c oxidase. Biochemistry 2011; 50:2820-8. [PMID: 21344856 DOI: 10.1021/bi102002v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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To characterize protein structures that control proton uptake, we assayed forms of cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) containing a carboxyl or a thiol group in line with the initial, internal waters of the D pathway for proton transfer in the presence and absence of subunit III. Subunit III provides approximately half of the protein surrounding the entry region of the D pathway. The N139D/D132N mutant contains a carboxyl group 6 Å within the D pathway and lacks the normal, surface-exposed proton acceptor, Asp-132. With subunit III, the steady-state activity of this mutant is slow, but once subunit III is removed, its activity is the same as that of wild-type CcO lacking subunit III (∼1800 H+/s). Thus, a carboxyl group∼25% within the pathway enhances proton uptake even though the carboxyl has no direct contact with bulk solvent. Protons from solvent apparently move to internal Asp-139 through a short file of waters, normally blocked by subunit III. Cys-139 also supports rapid steady-state proton uptake, demonstrating that an anion other than a carboxyl can attract and transfer protons into the D pathway. When both Asp-132 and Asp/Cys-139 are present, the removal of subunit III increases CcO activity to rates greater than that of normal CcO because of simultaneous proton uptake by two initial acceptors. The results show how the environment of the initial proton acceptor for the D pathway in these CcO forms dictates the pH range of CcO activity, with implications for the function of Asp-132, the normal proton acceptor.
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- Lakshman Varanasi
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, United States
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Zhang Y, Gladyshev VN. Comparative Genomics of Trace Elements: Emerging Dynamic View of Trace Element Utilization and Function. Chem Rev 2009; 109:4828-61. [DOI: 10.1021/cr800557s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- Yan Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry and Redox Biology Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0664
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- Department of Biochemistry and Redox Biology Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0664
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Mills DA, Xu S, Geren L, Hiser C, Qin L, Sharpe MA, McCracken J, Durham B, Millett F, Ferguson-Miller S. Proton-dependent electron transfer from CuA to heme a and altered EPR spectra in mutants close to heme a of cytochrome oxidase. Biochemistry 2008; 47:11499-509. [PMID: 18847227 PMCID: PMC2659347 DOI: 10.1021/bi801156s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Eukaryotic cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) and homologous prokaryotic forms of Rhodobacter and Paraccocus differ in the EPR spectrum of heme a. It was noted that a histidine ligand of heme a (H102) is hydrogen bonded to serine in Rhodobacter (S44) and Paraccocus CcOs, in contrast to glycine in the bovine enzyme. Mutation of S44 to glycine shifts the heme a EPR signal from g(z) = 2.82 to 2.86, closer to bovine heme a at 3.03, without modifying other properties. Mutation to aspartate, however, results in an oppositely shifted and split heme a EPR signal of g(z) = 2.72/2.78, accompanied by lower activity and drastically inhibited intrinsic electron transfer from CuA to heme a. This intrinsic rate is biphasic; the proportion that is slow is pH dependent, as is the relative intensity of the two EPR signal components. At pH 8, the heme a EPR signal at 2.72 is most intense, and the electron transfer rate (CuA to heme a) is 10-130 s(-1), compared to wild-type at 90,000 s(-1). At pH 5.5, the signal at 2.78 is intensified, and a biphasic rate is observed, 50% fast (approximately wild type) and 50% slow (90 s(-1)). The data support the prediction that the hydrogen-bonding partner of the histidine ligand of heme a is one determinant of the EPR spectral difference between bovine and bacterial CcO. We further demonstrate that the heme a redox potential can be dramatically altered by a nearby carboxyl, whose protonation leads to a proton-coupled electron transfer process.
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- Denise A. Mills
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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Belevich I, Verkhovsky MI. Molecular mechanism of proton translocation by cytochrome c oxidase. Antioxid Redox Signal 2008; 10:1-29. [PMID: 17949262 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2007.1705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) is a terminal protein of the respiratory chain in eukaryotes and some bacteria. It catalyzes most of the biologic oxygen consumption on earth done by aerobic organisms. During the catalytic reaction, CcO reduces dioxygen to water and uses the energy released in this process to maintain the electrochemical proton gradient by functioning as a redox-linked proton pump. Even though the structures of several terminal oxidases are known, they are not sufficient in themselves to explain the molecular mechanism of proton pumping. Thus, additional extensive studies of CcO by varieties of biophysical and biochemical approaches are involved to shed light on the mechanism of proton translocation. In this review, we summarize the current level of knowledge about CcO, including the latest model developed to explain the CcO proton-pumping mechanism.
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- Ilya Belevich
- Helsinki Bioenergetics Group, Program for Structural Biology and Biophysics, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Qin L, Mills DA, Hiser C, Murphree A, Garavito RM, Ferguson-Miller S, Hosler J. Crystallographic location and mutational analysis of Zn and Cd inhibitory sites and role of lipidic carboxylates in rescuing proton path mutants in cytochrome c oxidase. Biochemistry 2007; 46:6239-48. [PMID: 17477548 PMCID: PMC2387241 DOI: 10.1021/bi700173w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) transfers protons from the inner surface of the enzyme to the buried O2 reduction site through two different pathways, termed K and D, and from the outer surface via an undefined route. These proton paths can be inhibited by metals such as zinc or cadmium, but the sites of inhibition have not been established. Anomalous difference Fourier analyses of Rhodobacter sphaeroides CcO crystals, with cadmium added, reveal metal binding sites that include the proposed initial proton donor/acceptor of the K pathway, Glu-101 of subunit II. Mutant forms of CcO that lack Glu-101II (E101A and E101A/H96A) exhibit low activity and eliminate metal binding at this site. Significant activity is restored to E101A and E101A/H96A by adding the lipophilic carboxylic compounds, arachidonic acid and cholic acid, but not by their non-carboxylic analogues. These amphipathic acids likely provide their carboxylic groups as substitute proton donors/acceptors in the absence of Glu-101II, as previously observed for arachidonic acid in mutants that alter Asp-132I of the D pathway. The activity of E101A/H96A is still inhibited by zinc, but this remaining inhibition is nearly eliminated by removal of subunit III, which is known to alter the D pathway. The results identify the Glu-101/His-96 site of subunit II as the site of metal binding that inhibits the uptake of protons into the K pathway and indicate that subunit III contributes to zinc binding and/or inhibition of the D pathway. By removing subunit III from E101A/H96A, thereby eliminating zinc inhibition of the uptake of protons from the inner surface of CcO, we confirm that an external zinc binding site is involved in inhibiting the backflow of protons to the active site.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Telephone: (601) 984-1861. Fax: (601) 984-1501. E-mail:
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Brändén G, Gennis RB, Brzezinski P. Transmembrane proton translocation by cytochrome c oxidase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2006; 1757:1052-63. [PMID: 16824482 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2006.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2006] [Revised: 05/11/2006] [Accepted: 05/12/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Respiratory heme-copper oxidases are integral membrane proteins that catalyze the reduction of molecular oxygen to water using electrons donated by either quinol (quinol oxidases) or cytochrome c (cytochrome c oxidases, CcOs). Even though the X-ray crystal structures of several heme-copper oxidases and results from functional studies have provided significant insights into the mechanisms of O2 -reduction and, electron and proton transfer, the design of the proton-pumping machinery is not known. Here, we summarize the current knowledge on the identity of the structural elements involved in proton transfer in CcO. Furthermore, we discuss the order and timing of electron-transfer reactions in CcO during O2 reduction and how these reactions might be energetically coupled to proton pumping across the membrane.
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- Gisela Brändén
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, The Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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Smith D, Gray J, Mitchell L, Antholine WE, Hosler JP. Assembly of cytochrome-c oxidase in the absence of assembly protein Surf1p leads to loss of the active site heme. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:17652-6. [PMID: 15764605 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.c500061200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Surf1p is a protein of the inner membrane of mitochondria that functions in the assembly of cytochrome-c oxidase. The specifics of the role of Surf1p have remained unresolved. Numerous mutations in human Surf1p lead to severe mitochondrial disease. A homolog of human Surf1p is encoded by the genome of the alpha-proteobacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, which synthesizes a mitochondrial-like aa(3)-type cytochrome-c oxidase. The gene for Surf1p was deleted from the genome of R. sphaeroides. The resulting aa(3)-type oxidase was purified and analyzed by biochemical methods plus optical and EPR spectroscopy. The oxidase that assembled in the absence of Surf1p was composed of three subpopulations with structurally distinct heme a(3)-Cu active sites. 50% of the oxidase lacked heme a(3), 10-15% contained heme a(3) but lacked Cu(BB), and 35-40% had a normal heme a(3) -Cu(B) active site with normal activity. Cu(A) assembly was unaffected. All of the oxidase contained low-spin heme a, but the environment of the heme a center was slightly altered in the 50% of the enzyme that lacked heme a(3). Introduction of a normal copy of the gene for Surf1p on an exogenous plasmid resulted in a single population of normally assembled, highly active enzyme. The data indicate that Surf1p plays a role in facilitating the insertion of heme a(3) into the active site of cytochrome-c oxidase. The results suggest that maturation of the heme a(3)-Cu(B) center is a step that limits the association of subunits I and II in the assembly of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase.
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- Daniel Smith
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216-4505, USA
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Pils D, Wilken C, Valladares A, Flores E, Schmetterer G. Respiratory terminal oxidases in the facultative chemoheterotrophic and dinitrogen fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis strain ATCC 29413: characterization of the cox2 locus. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2004; 1659:32-45. [PMID: 15511525 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2004.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2004] [Revised: 06/14/2004] [Accepted: 06/15/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Upon nitrogen step-down, some filamentous cyanobacteria differentiate heterocysts, cells specialized for dinitrogen fixation, a highly oxygen sensitive process. Aerobic respiration is one of the mechanisms responsible for a microaerobic environment in heterocysts and respiratory terminal oxidases are the key enzymes of the respiratory chains. We used Anabaena variabilis strain ATCC 29413, because it is one of the few heterocyst-forming facultatively chemoheterotrophic cyanobacteria amenable to genetic manipulation. Using PCR with degenerate primers, we found four gene loci for respiratory terminal oxidases, three of which code for putative cytochrome c oxidases and one whose genes are homologous to cytochrome bd-type quinol oxidases. One cytochrome c oxidase, Cox2, was the only enzyme whose expression, tested by RT-PCR, was evidently up-regulated in diazotrophy, and therefore cloned, sequenced, and characterized. Up-regulation of Cox2 was corroborated by Northern and primer extension analyses. Strains were constructed lacking Cox1 (a previously characterized cytochrome c oxidase), Cox2, or both, which all grew diazotrophically. In vitro cytochrome c oxidase and respiratory activities were determined in all strains, allowing for the first time to estimate the relative contributions to total respiration of the different respiratory electron transport branches under different external conditions. Especially adding fructose to the growth medium led to a dramatic enhancement of in vitro cytochrome c oxidation and in vivo respiratory activity without significantly influencing gene expression.
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- Dietmar Pils
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Wien, UZA2, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
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Roh JH, Smith WE, Kaplan S. Effects of Oxygen and Light Intensity on Transcriptome Expression in Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:9146-55. [PMID: 14662761 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m311608200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The roles of oxygen and light on the regulation of photosynthesis gene expression in Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 have been well studied over the past 50 years. More recently, the effects of oxygen and light on gene regulation have been shown to involve the interacting redox chains present in R. sphaeroides under diverse growth conditions, and many of the redox carriers comprising these chains have been well studied. However, the expression patterns of those genes encoding these redox carriers, under aerobic and anaerobic photosynthetic growth, have been less well studied. Here, we provide a transcriptional analysis of many of the genes comprising the photosynthesis lifestyle, including genes corresponding to many of the known regulatory elements controlling the response of this organism to oxygen and light. The observed patterns of gene expression are evaluated and discussed in light of our knowledge of the physiology of R. sphaeroides under aerobic and photosynthetic growth conditions. Finally, this analysis has enabled to us go beyond the traditional patterns of gene expression associated with the photosynthesis lifestyle and to consider, for the first time, the full complement of genes responding to oxygen, and variations in light intensity when growing photosynthetically. The data provided here should be considered as a first step in enabling one to model electron flow in R. sphaeroides 2.4.1.
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- Jung Hyeob Roh
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas, Health Science Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Distler AM, Allison J, Hiser C, Qin L, Hilmi Y, Ferguson-Miller S. Mass spectrometric detection of protein, lipid and heme components of cytochrome c oxidase from R. sphaeroides and the stabilization of non-covalent complexes from the enzyme. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2004; 10:295-308. [PMID: 15103107 DOI: 10.1255/ejms.594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The cytochrome c oxidase enzyme from the Rhodobacter sphaeroides bacteria exists as a complex of four peptide subunits, two hemes, and a variety of lipids and metal ions held together by non-covalent forces. While the native enzyme functions as an associated unit, this complex usually dissociates during MALDI- TOF analysis. Through the use of matrix additives such as sucrose, the complete complex and partial complexes can be stabilized in the MALDI-TOF experiment. The dissociation of the complex allows for the detection of the components of the enzyme. The direct detection of associated lipids from an aqueous solution of the intact enzyme may eliminate the need for enzyme disruption and lipid extraction. The partial dissociation of multisubunit enzymes in such experiments may allow for the determination of subunit-subunit and subunit-lipid interactions
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- Anne M Distler
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1322, USA
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- Jesus M Eraso
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Svensson-Ek M, Abramson J, Larsson G, Törnroth S, Brzezinski P, Iwata S. The X-ray crystal structures of wild-type and EQ(I-286) mutant cytochrome c oxidases from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J Mol Biol 2002; 321:329-39. [PMID: 12144789 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(02)00619-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 451] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The structure of cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been solved at 2.3/2.8A (anisotropic resolution). This high-resolution structure revealed atomic details of a bacterial terminal oxidase including water molecule positions and a potential oxygen pathway, which has not been reported in other oxidase structures. A comparative study of the wild-type and the EQ(I-286) mutant enzyme revealed structural rearrangements around E(I-286) that could be crucial for proton transfer in this enzyme. In the structure of the mutant enzyme, EQ(I-286), which cannot transfer protons during oxygen reduction, the side-chain of Q(I-286) does not have the hydrogen bond to the carbonyl oxygen of M(I-107) that is seen in the wild-type structure. Furthermore, the Q(I-286) mutant has a different arrangement of water molecules and residues in the vicinity of the Q side-chain. These differences between the structures could reflect conformational changes that take place upon deprotonation of E(I-286) during turnover of the wild-type enzyme, which could be part of the proton-pumping machinery of the enzyme.
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- Margareta Svensson-Ek
- Department of Biochemistry, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, Box 576, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Hiser L, Hosler JP. Heme A is not essential for assembly of the subunits of cytochrome c oxidase of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:45403-7. [PMID: 11574544 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m107016200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The aa(3)-type cytochrome c oxidase of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, a proteobacterium of the alpha subgroup, is structurally similar to the core subunits of the terminal oxidase in the mitochondrial electron transport chain. Subunit I, the product of the coxI gene, normally binds two heme A molecules. A deletion of cox10, the gene for the farnesyltransferase required for heme A synthesis, did not prevent high level accumulation of subunit I in the cytoplasmic membrane. Thus, subunit I can be expressed and stably inserted into the cytoplasmic membrane in the absence of heme A. Aposubunit I was purified via affinity chromatography to a polyhistidine tag. Copurification of subunits II and III with aposubunit I indicated that assembly of the core oxidase complex occurred without the binding of heme A. In addition to formation of the apooxidase containing all three large structural proteins, CoxI-II and CoxI-III heterodimers were isolated from cox10 deletion strains harboring expression plasmids with coxI and coxII or with coxI and coxIII, respectively. This demonstrated that subunit assembly of the apoenzyme was not an inherently ordered or sequential process. Thus, multiple paths must be considered for understanding the assembly of this integral membrane metalloprotein complex.
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- L Hiser
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, USA
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Daldal F, Mandaci S, Winterstein C, Myllykallio H, Duyck K, Zannoni D. Mobile cytochrome c2 and membrane-anchored cytochrome cy are both efficient electron donors to the cbb3- and aa3-type cytochrome c oxidases during respiratory growth of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J Bacteriol 2001; 183:2013-24. [PMID: 11222600 PMCID: PMC95097 DOI: 10.1128/jb.183.6.2013-2024.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have recently established that the facultative phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, like the closely related Rhodobacter capsulatus species, contains both the previously characterized mobile electron carrier cytochrome c2 (cyt c2) and the more recently discovered membrane-anchored cyt cy. However, R. sphaeroides cyt cy, unlike that of R. capsulatus, is unable to function as an efficient electron carrier between the photochemical reaction center and the cyt bc1 complex during photosynthetic growth. Nonetheless, R. sphaeroides cyt cy can act at least in R. capsulatus as an electron carrier between the cyt bc1 complex and the cbb3-type cyt c oxidase (cbb3-Cox) to support respiratory growth. Since R. sphaeroides harbors both a cbb3-Cox and an aa3-type cyt c oxidase (aa3-Cox), we examined whether R. sphaeroides cyt cy can act as an electron carrier to either or both of these respiratory terminal oxidases. R. sphaeroides mutants which lacked either cyt c2 or cyt cy and either the aa3-Cox or the cbb3-Cox were obtained. These double mutants contained linear respiratory electron transport pathways between the cyt bc1 complex and the cyt c oxidases. They were characterized with respect to growth phenotypes, contents of a-, b-, and c-type cytochromes, cyt c oxidase activities, and kinetics of electron transfer mediated by cyt c2 or cyt cy. The findings demonstrated that both cyt c2 and cyt cy are able to carry electrons efficiently from the cyt bc1 complex to either the cbb3-Cox or the aa3-Cox. Thus, no dedicated electron carrier for either of the cyt c oxidases is present in R. sphaeroides. However, under semiaerobic growth conditions, a larger portion of the electron flow out of the cyt bc1 complex appears to be mediated via the cyt c2-to-cbb3-Cox and cyt cy-to-cbb3-Cox subbranches. The presence of multiple electron carriers and cyt c oxidases with different properties that can operate concurrently reveals that the respiratory electron transport pathways of R. sphaeroides are more complex than those of R. capsulatus.
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- F Daldal
- Department of Biology, Plant Science Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
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Here we show that the extent of electron flow through the cbb(3) oxidase of Rhodobacter sphaeroides is inversely related to the expression levels of those photosynthesis genes that are under control of the PrrBA two-component activation system: the greater the electron flow, the stronger the inhibitory signal generated by the cbb(3) oxidase to repress photosynthesis gene expression. Using site-directed mutagenesis, we show that intramolecular electron transfer within the cbb(3) oxidase is involved in signal generation and transduction and this signal does not directly involve the intervention of molecular oxygen. In addition to the cbb(3) oxidase, the redox state of the quinone pool controls the transcription rate of the puc operon via the AppA-PpsR antirepressor-repressor system. Together, these interacting regulatory circuits are depicted in a model that permits us to understand the regulation by oxygen and light of photosynthesis gene expression in R.SPHAEROIDES:
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- J I Oh
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Medical School, 6431 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Watmough NJ, Butland G, Cheesman MR, Moir JW, Richardson DJ, Spiro S. Nitric oxide in bacteria: synthesis and consumption. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1411:456-74. [PMID: 10320675 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(99)00032-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- N J Watmough
- School of Biological Sciences, Centre for Metalloprotein Spectroscopy and Biology, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK.
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Mitchell DM, Wang Y, Alben JO, Shapleigh JP. FT-IR analysis of membranes of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.3 grown under microaerobic and denitrifying conditions. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1409:99-105. [PMID: 9838065 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(98)00154-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic analysis of CO binding proteins in Rhodobacter sphaeroides reveals the presence of a membrane-bound nitric oxide reductase (Nor). Nor has been clearly distinguished from the cytochrome oxidases by the temperature-dependence of relaxation following photodissociation of the CO complex at cryogenic temperatures. The center frequency and band shape, 1970 cm-1 and 20-30 cm-1 width at half-peak height, are similar to those reported for resonance Raman spectra of purified Paracoccus denitrificans Nor. Additional evidence is presented to indicate this enzyme is part of dissimilatory nitric oxide metabolism and that one of the genes in the nor operon required for production of an active Nor is not required for protein assembly or heme incorporation.
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- D M Mitchell
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Wu Q, Storrier GD, Wu KR, Shapleigh JP, Abruña HD. Electrocatalytic reduction of S-nitrosoglutathione at electrodes modified with an electropolymerized film of a pyrrole-derived viologen system and their application to cellular S-nitrosoglutathione determinations. Anal Biochem 1998; 263:102-12. [PMID: 9750150 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1998.2785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The preparation, electrochemical characterization, and analytical applications of glassy carbon (GC) electrodes modified with electropolymerized films of the cation N,N'-di(3-pyrrol-1-yl-propyl)-4,4'-bipyridine (DPPB) are described. Electropolymerized films of DPPB on GC electrodes exhibit two one-electron redox processes centered at -0.45 and -0.85 V, respectively. S-Nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) can be electrocatalytically reduced at electrodes modified with electropolymerized films of DPPB at approximately -0.4 V vs sodium-saturated calomel electrode, which represents a dramatic diminution of about 600 mV in the overpotential in comparison with the reaction carried out at a bare GC electrode. The kinetics of the catalytic reaction have been characterized using cyclic voltammetry and rotated disk electrode techniques from which a value of (1.3 +/- 0.2) x 10(3)M-1 s-1 was obtained. Using electrodes modified with an electropolymerized film of DPPB we have carried out preliminary studies of the determination of intracellular GSNO concentrations in two strains of the bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides.
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- Q Wu
- Department of Chemistry, Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, W216 Wing Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853-1301, USA
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Zhen Y, Qian J, Follmann K, Hayward T, Nilsson T, Dahn M, Hilmi Y, Hamer AG, Hosler JP, Ferguson-Miller S. Overexpression and purification of cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Protein Expr Purif 1998; 13:326-36. [PMID: 9693057 DOI: 10.1006/prep.1998.0903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The aa3-type cytochrome c oxidase of Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been overexpressed up to seven fold over that in wild-type strains by engineering a multicopy plasmid with all the required oxidase genes and by establishing optimum growth conditions. The two operons containing the three structural genes and two assembly genes for cytochrome c oxidase were ligated into a pUC19 vector and reintroduced into several oxidase-deleted R. sphaeroides strains. Under conditions of relatively high pH and maximal aeration, high levels of expression were observed. A smaller expression vector, pBBR1MCS, and a fructose promoter (fruP)5 were found not to enhance cytochrome c oxidase expression in R. sphaeroides. An improved cytochrome c oxidase purification protocol is reported, which combines histidine elution from a nickel affinity column and anion-exchange chromatography, and results in a higher yield and purity than previously obtained.
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- Y Zhen
- Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824-1319, USA
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Toledo-Cuevas M, Barquera B, Gennis RB, Wikström M, García-Horsman JA. The cbb3-type cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides, a proton-pumping heme-copper oxidase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1365:421-34. [PMID: 9711295 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(98)00095-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Rhodobacter sphaeroides expresses a bb3-type quinol oxidase, and two cytochrome c oxidases: cytochrome aa3 and cytochrome cbb3. We report here the characterization of the genes encoding this latter oxidase. The ccoNOQP gene cluster of R. sphaeroides contains four open reading frames with high similarity to all ccoNOQP/fixNOQP gene clusters reported so far. CcoN has the six highly conserved histidines proposed to be involved in binding the low spin heme, and the binuclear center metals. ccoO and ccoP code for membrane bound mono- and diheme cytochromes c. ccoQ codes for a small hydrophobic protein of unknown function. Upstream from the cluster there is a conserved Fnr/FixK-like box which may regulate its expression. Analysis of a R. sphaeroides mutant in which the ccoNOQP gene cluster was inactivated confirms that this cluster encodes the cbb3-type oxidase previously purified. Analysis of proton translocation in several strains shows that cytochrome cbb3 is a proton pump. We also conclude that cytochromes cbb3 and aa3 are the only cytochrome c oxidases in the respiratory chain of R. sphaeroides.
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- M Toledo-Cuevas
- Depàrtamento de Bioquímica, UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico D.F., Mexico
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Zeilstra-Ryalls JH, Gabbert K, Mouncey NJ, Kaplan S, Kranz RG. Analysis of the fnrL gene and its function in Rhodobacter capsulatus. J Bacteriol 1997; 179:7264-73. [PMID: 9393689 PMCID: PMC179675 DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.23.7264-7273.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The fnr gene encodes a regulatory protein involved in the response to oxygen in a variety of bacterial genera. For example, it was previously shown that the anoxygenic, photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides requires the fnrL gene for growth under anaerobic, photosynthetic conditions. Additionally, the FnrL protein in R. sphaeroides is required for anaerobic growth in the dark with an alternative electron acceptor, but it is not essential for aerobic growth. In this study, the fnrL locus from Rhodobacter capsulatus was cloned and sequenced. Surprisingly, an R. capsulatus strain with the fnrL gene deleted grows like the wild type under either photosynthetic or aerobic conditions but does not grow anaerobically with alternative electron acceptors such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) or trimethylamine oxide. It is demonstrated that the c-type cytochrome induced upon anaerobic growth on DMSO is not synthesized in the R. capsulatus fnrL mutant. In contrast to wild-type strains, R. sphaeroides and R. capsulatus fnrL mutants do not synthesize the anaerobically, DMSO-induced reductase. Mechanisms that explain the basis for FnrL function in both organisms are discussed.
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- J H Zeilstra-Ryalls
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, 77225, USA
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Flory JE, Donohue TJ. Transcriptional control of several aerobically induced cytochrome structural genes in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1997; 143 ( Pt 10):3101-3110. [PMID: 9353915 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-10-3101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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To decipher how the synthesis of energy-transducing enzymes responds to environmental cues, the response of three Rhodobacter sphaeroides aerobic cytochrome gene promoters was analysed under different conditions. Two of these promoters are upstream of structural genes (ctaD and coxII) for individual subunits of the cytochrome aa3 respiratory complex. The third promoter is that for the cycFG operon, which encodes two c-type cytochromes of unknown function, cytochrome c554 and CycG. Primer extension analysis identified a single oxygen-responsive transcription start site for each gene. Utilizing operon fusions to Escherichia coli lacZ as a measure of promoter activity, transcription from the ctaD, coxII and cycFG promoters was approximately twofold higher when cells were grown at high (30%) oxygen tensions than under low (2%) oxygen or anaerobic (photosynthetic) conditions. Analysis of promoter function using specific host mutations indicated that loss of the R. sphaeroides FNR homologue, FnrL, causes a small, but reproducible, increase in cycFG and coxII transcription when cells are grown at 2% oxygen. However, neither the delta FnrL mutation nor alterations in sequences related to a consensus target site for the E. coli FNR protein increased function of any of these three promoters to that seen under aerobic conditions in wild-type cells. From this we conclude that FnrL is not solely responsible for reduced transcription of these three aerobic cytochrome genes under low oxygen or anaerobic conditions. When activity of these three promoters was monitored after cells were shifted from anaerobic (photosynthetic) conditions to a 30% oxygen atmosphere, it took several cell doublings for LacZ levels to increase to those found in steady-state 30% oxygen cultures. From these results, it appears that activity of these promoters is also regulated by a stable molecule whose synthesis or function responds slowly to the presence of high oxygen tensions.
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- Janice E Flory
- Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Biogenesis of respiratory cytochromes is defined as consisting of the posttranslational processes that are necessary to assemble apoprotein, heme, and sometimes additional cofactors into mature enzyme complexes with electron transfer functions. Different biochemical reactions take place during maturation: (i) targeting of the apoprotein to or through the cytoplasmic membrane to its subcellular destination; (ii) proteolytic processing of precursor forms; (iii) assembly of subunits in the membrane and oligomerization; (iv) translocation and/or modification of heme and covalent or noncovalent binding to the protein moiety; (v) transport, processing, and incorporation of other cofactors; and (vi) folding and stabilization of the protein. These steps are discussed for the maturation of different oxidoreductase complexes, and they are arranged in a linear pathway to best account for experimental findings from studies concerning cytochrome biogenesis. The example of the best-studied case, i.e., maturation of cytochrome c, appears to consist of a pathway that requires at least nine specific genes and more general cellular functions such as protein secretion or the control of the redox state in the periplasm. Covalent attachment of heme appears to be enzyme catalyzed and takes place in the periplasm after translocation of the precursor through the membrane. The genetic characterization and the putative biochemical functions of cytochrome c-specific maturation proteins suggest that they may be organized in a membrane-bound maturase complex. Formation of the multisubunit cytochrome bc, complex and several terminal oxidases of the bo3, bd, aa3, and cbb3 types is discussed in detail, and models for linear maturation pathways are proposed wherever possible.
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- L Thöny-Meyer
- Mikrobiologisches Institut, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH Zentrum, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Konstantinov AA, Siletsky S, Mitchell D, Kaulen A, Gennis RB. The roles of the two proton input channels in cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides probed by the effects of site-directed mutations on time-resolved electrogenic intraprotein proton transfer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:9085-90. [PMID: 9256439 PMCID: PMC23042 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.17.9085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 265] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/1996] [Accepted: 05/28/1997] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The crystal structures of cytochrome c oxidase from both bovine and Paracoccus denitrificans reveal two putative proton input channels that connect the heme-copper center, where dioxygen is reduced, to the internal aqueous phase. In this work we have examined the role of these two channels, looking at the effects of site-directed mutations of residues observed in each of the channels of the cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. A photoelectric technique was used to monitor the time-resolved electrogenic proton transfer steps associated with the photo-induced reduction of the ferryl-oxo form of heme a3 (Fe4+ = O2-) to the oxidized form (Fe3+OH-). This redox step requires the delivery of a "chemical" H+ to protonate the reduced oxygen atom and is also coupled to proton pumping. It is found that mutations in the K channel (K362M and T359A) have virtually no effect on the ferryl-oxo-to-oxidized (F-to-Ox) transition, although steady-state turnover is severely limited. In contrast, electrogenic proton transfer at this step is strongly suppressed by mutations in the D channel. The results strongly suggest that the functional roles of the two channels are not the separate delivery of chemical or pumped protons, as proposed recently [Iwata, S., Ostermeier, C., Ludwig, B. & Michel, H. (1995) Nature (London) 376, 660-669]. The D channel is likely to be involved in the uptake of both "chemical" and "pumped" protons in the F-to-Ox transition, whereas the K channel is probably idle at this partial reaction and is likely to be used for loading the enzyme with protons at some earlier steps of the catalytic cycle. This conclusion agrees with different redox states of heme a3 in the K362M and E286Q mutants under aerobic steady-state turnover conditions.
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- A A Konstantinov
- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia
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Bartnikas TB, Tosques IE, Laratta WP, Shi J, Shapleigh JP. Characterization of the nitric oxide reductase-encoding region in Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.3. J Bacteriol 1997; 179:3534-40. [PMID: 9171397 PMCID: PMC179145 DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.11.3534-3540.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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A gene cluster which includes genes required for the expression of nitric oxide reductase in Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.3 has been isolated and characterized. Sequence analysis indicates that the two proximal genes in the cluster are the Nor structural genes. These two genes and four distal genes apparently constitute an operon. Mutational analysis indicates that the two structural genes, norC and norB, and the genes immediately downstream, norQ and norD, are required for expression of an active Nor complex. The remaining two genes, nnrT and nnrU, are required for expression of both Nir and Nor. The products of norCBQD have significant identity with products from other denitrifiers, whereas the predicted nnrT and nnrU gene products have no similarity with products corresponding to other sequences in the database. Mutational analysis and functional complementation studies indicate that the nnrT and nnrU genes can be expressed from an internal promoter. Deletion analysis of the regulatory region upstream of norC indicated that a sequence motif which has identity to a motif in the gene encoding nitrite reductase in strain 2.4.3 is critical for nor operon expression. Regulatory studies demonstrated that the first four genes, norCBQD, are expressed only when the oxygen concentration is low and nitrate is present but that the two distal genes, nnrTU, are expressed constitutively.
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- T B Bartnikas
- Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-8101, USA
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- L I Grossman
- Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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Mitchell DM, Aasa R, Adelroth P, Brzezinski P, Gennis RB, Malmström BG. EPR studies of wild-type and several mutants of cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: Glu286 is not a bridging ligand in the cytochrome a3-CuB center. FEBS Lett 1995; 374:371-4. [PMID: 7589573 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(95)01149-9] [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: 01/26/2023]
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Wild-type and several mutants of cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides were characterized by EPR spectroscopy. A pH-induced g12 signal, seen previously in mammalian cytochrome oxidase and assigned to the presence of a bridging carboxyl ligand in the bimetallic cytochrome a3-CuB site, is found also in the bacterial enzyme. Mutation of glutamate-286 to glutamine inactivates the enzyme but does not affect this signal, demonstrating that the carboxyl group of this residue is not the bridging ligand. Three mutants, M106Q, located one helix turn below a histidine ligand to cytochrome a, and T352A as well as F391Q, located close to the bimetallic center, are shown to affect dramatically the low-spin heme signal of cytochrome a. These mutants are essentially inactive, suggesting that these three mutations result in alterations to cytochrome a that render the oxidase non-functional.
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- D M Mitchell
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
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The Rhodobacter sphaeroides cycFG operon has been cloned, sequenced, and mapped to approximately coordinate 2500 of chromosome I. The cycF gene encodes cytochrome c554, a member of the class II family of soluble cytochrome c proteins. The cycF open reading frame includes a 20-amino acid extension at its N terminus which has not been detected in cytochrome c554. Antiserum against cytochrome c554 shows that this protein is localized to the periplasm of wild-type cells, which suggests that this N-terminal extension functions as a signal peptide. The predicted cycG gene product is a diheme cytochrome c with a subunit molecular mass of approximately 32 kDa. While a cytochrome with the properties predicted for CycG has not been reported for R. sphaeroides, we have tentatively identified this protein as a heme-staining polypeptide that is associated with membranes. CycG could have an overall structure similar to that of several other electron carriers, since the similarity between the predicted amino acid sequence of CycG and other multiheme cytochrome c proteins extends throughout the polypeptide. The cycFG transcript is approximately 1,500 nucleotides long and has a single 5' end 26 nucleotides upstream of the start of cycF translation. Expression of cycFG is regulated at the level of mRNA accumulation, since approximately fivefold-higher levels of both cycF-specific transcript and cytochrome c554 protein are detected in cell extracts from aerobic cultures in comparison with those from anaerobically grown cells. Although cytochrome c554 was detected under all growth conditions tested, the highest levels of this protein were found when cells generate energy via aerobic respiration.
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- J E Flory
- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706, USA
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Mitchell DM, Gennis RB. Rapid purification of wildtype and mutant cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides by Ni(2+)-NTA affinity chromatography. FEBS Lett 1995; 368:148-50. [PMID: 7615070 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(95)00626-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A rapid and highly efficient method of purifying the aa3-type cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been developed. This method relies upon a six-histidine affinity tag fused to the C-terminus of subunit I, which confers to the oxidase a high affinity for Ni(2+)-nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) agarose. The histidine-tagged oxidase can be purified rapidly and with high yield by one affinity chromatography step, starting with solubilized membranes. The purified oxidase is > 95% pure and possesses structural and functional characteristics of the wildtype enzyme. The six-histidine tag can be easily added to pre-constructed site-directed mutants of subunit I, increasing the availability of purified cytochrome c oxidase mutants for biophysical and biochemical studies.
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- D M Mitchell
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
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The hemA gene of Bradyrhizobium japonicum, which encodes the first enzyme in the heme biosynthetic pathway, is regulated by oxygen. Up to ninefold induction of beta-galactosidase activity is seen when cultures of B. japonicum containing either a plasmid-encoded or a chromosomally integrated hemA-lacZ fusion are shifted to restricted aeration. The oxygen effect is mediated via the FixLJ two-component regulatory system, which regulates the expression of a number of genes involved in the nitrogen fixation process in response to low-oxygen conductions; oxygen induction is lost when the hemA-lacZ fusion is expressed in strains of B. japonicum carrying mutations in fixL or fixJ. The B. japonicum hemA promoter region contains a sequence identical to the Escherichia coli Fnr binding site (positions -46 to -33 relative to the hemA transcription start site). Fnr is a regulatory protein necessary for the oxygen-regulated expression of anaerobic respiratory genes. Activity of a hemA-lacZ fusion construct in which the Fnr box-like sequence was replaced with a BglII site is not induced in B. japonicum cultures grown under restricted aeration. The fnr homolog fixK is FixLJ dependent. Collectively, these data suggest a role for the rhizobial Fnr-like protein, FixK, in the regulation of hemA. Furthermore, the coregulation of hemA with symbiotically important genes via FixLJ is consistent with the idea that hemA is required in the nodule as well as under free-living conditions.
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- K M Page
- Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
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Fetter JR, Qian J, Shapleigh J, Thomas JW, García-Horsman A, Schmidt E, Hosler J, Babcock GT, Gennis RB, Ferguson-Miller S. Possible proton relay pathways in cytochrome c oxidase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:1604-8. [PMID: 7878026 PMCID: PMC42568 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.5.1604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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As the final electron acceptor in the respiratory chain of eukaryotic and many prokaryotic organisms, cytochrome c oxidase (EC 1.9.3.1) catalyzes the reduction of oxygen to water and generates a proton gradient. To test for proton pathways through the oxidase, site-directed mutagenesis was applied to subunit I of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides enzyme. Mutants were characterized in three highly conserved regions of the peptide, comprising possible proton loading, unloading, and transfer sites: an interior loop between helices II and III (Asp132Asn/Ala), an exterior loop between helices IX and X (His411Ala, Asp412Asn, Thr413Asn, Tyr414Phe), and the predicted transmembrane helix VIII (Thr352Ala, Pro358Ala, Thr359Ala, Lys362Met). Most of the mutants had lower activity than wild type, but only mutants at residue 132 lost proton pumping while retaining electron transfer activity. Although electron transfer was substantially inhibited, no major structural alteration appears to have occurred in D132 mutants, since resonance Raman and visible absorbance spectra were normal. However, lower CO binding (70-85% of wild type) suggests some minor change to the binuclear center. In addition, the activity of the reconstituted Asp132 mutants was inhibited rather than stimulated by ionophores or uncoupler. The inhibition was not observed with the purified enzyme and a direct pH effect was ruled out, suggesting an altered response to the electrical or pH gradient. The results support an important role for the conserved II-III loop in the proton pumping process and are consistent with the possibility of involvement of residues in helix VIII and the IX-X loop.
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- J R Fetter
- Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824
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Cunningham L, Williams HD. Isolation and characterization of mutants defective in the cyanide-insensitive respiratory pathway of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Bacteriol 1995; 177:432-8. [PMID: 7814333 PMCID: PMC176607 DOI: 10.1128/jb.177.2.432-438.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The branched respiratory chain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa contains at least two terminal oxidases which are active under normal physiological conditions. One of these, cytochrome co, is a cytochrome c oxidase which is completely inhibited by concentrations of the respiratory inhibitor potassium cyanide as low as 100 microM. The second oxidase, the cyanide-insensitive oxidase, is resistant to cyanide concentrations in excess of 1 mM as well as to sodium azide. In this work, we describe the isolation and characterization of a mutant of P. aeruginosa defective in cyanide-insensitive respiration. This insertion mutant was isolated with mini-D171 (a replication-defective derivative of the P. aeruginosa phage D3112) as a mutagen and by screening the resulting tetracycline-resistant transductants for the loss of ability to grow in the presence of 1 mM sodium azide. Polarographic studies on the NADH-mediated respiration rate of the mutant indicated an approximate 50% loss of activity, and titration of this activity against increasing cyanide concentrations gave a monophasic curve clearly showing the complete loss of cyanide-insensitive respiration. The mutated gene for a mutant affected in the cyanide-insensitive, oxidase-terminated respiratory pathway has been designated cio. We have complemented the azide-sensitive phenotype of this mutant with a wild-type copy of the gene by in vivo cloning with another mini-D element, mini-D386, carried on plasmid pADD386. The complemented cio mutant regained the ability to grow on medium containing 1 mM azide, titration of its NADH oxidase activity with cyanide gave a biphasic curve similar to that of the wild-type organism, and the respiration rate returned to normal levels. Spectral analysis of the cytochrome contents of the membranes of the wild type, the cio mutant, and the complemented mutant suggests that the cio mutant is not defective in any membrane-bound cytochromes and that the complementing gene does not encode a heme protein.
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- L Cunningham
- Department of Biology, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Schmetterer G, Alge D, Gregor W. Deletion of cytochrome c oxidase genes from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803: Evidence for alternative respiratory pathways. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1994; 42:43-50. [PMID: 24307467 DOI: 10.1007/bf00019057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/1993] [Accepted: 06/29/1994] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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An oligonucleotide directed against a highly conserved region of aa3-type cytochrome c oxidases was used to clone the cox genes from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. Several overlapping clones were obtained that contained the coxB, coxA, and coxC genes, transcribed in the same direction in that order, coding for subunits II, I, and III, respectively. The deduced protein sequences of the three subunits showed high sequence similarity with the corresponding subunits of all known aa3-type cytochrome c oxidases. A 1.94-kb HindII fragment containing most of coxA and about half of coxC was deleted and replaced by a cassette coding for kanamycin resistance. Mutant cells that were homozygous for the deleted cox locus were obtained. They were viable under photoautotrophic and photoheterotrophic conditions, but contained no cytochrome c oxidase activity. Nevertheless, these mutant cells showed almost normal respiration, defined as cyanide-inhibitable O2 uptake by whole cells in the dark. It is concluded, therefore, that aa3-type cytochrome c oxidase is not the only terminal respiratory oxidase in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803.
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- G Schmetterer
- Membrane Protein Group, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Währingerstraße 42, A-1090, Wien, Austria
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García-Horsman JA, Barquera B, Rumbley J, Ma J, Gennis RB. The superfamily of heme-copper respiratory oxidases. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:5587-600. [PMID: 8083153 PMCID: PMC196760 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.18.5587-5600.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 304] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Calhoun MW, Thomas JW, Gennis RB. The cytochrome oxidase superfamily of redox-driven proton pumps. Trends Biochem Sci 1994; 19:325-30. [PMID: 7940677 DOI: 10.1016/0968-0004(94)90071-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Most respiratory oxidases of eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms are members of a superfamily of enzymes that couple the redox energy available from the reduction of molecular oxygen to the mechanism of pumping protons across the membrane. The recent applications of site-directed mutagenesis and of a variety of spectroscopic techniques have allowed major advances in our understanding of the structure and function of these proteins.
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- M W Calhoun
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801
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Yun CH, Barquera B, Iba K, Takamiya KI, Shapleigh J, Crofts AR, Gennis RB. Deletion of the gene encoding cytochromeb562fromRhodobacter sphaeroides. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1994. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1994.tb07015.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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de Gier JW, Lübben M, Reijnders WN, Tipker CA, Slotboom DJ, van Spanning RJ, Stouthamer AH, van der Oost J. The terminal oxidases of Paracoccus denitrificans. Mol Microbiol 1994; 13:183-96. [PMID: 7984100 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1994.tb00414.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Three distinct types of terminal oxidases participate in the aerobic respiratory pathways of Paracoccus denitrificans. Two alternative genes encoding subunit I of the aa3-type cytochrome c oxidase have been isolated before, namely ctaDI and ctaDII. Each of these genes can be expressed separately to complement a double mutant (delta ctaDI, delta ctaDII), indicating that they are isoforms of subunit I of the aa3-type oxidase. The genomic locus of a quinol oxidase has been isolated: cyoABC. This protohaem-containing oxidase, called cytochrome bb3, is the only quinol oxidase expressed under the conditions used. In a triple oxidase mutant (delta ctaDI, delta ctaDII, cyoB::KmR) an alternative cytochrome c oxidase has been characterized; this cbb3-type oxidase has been partially purified. Both cytochrome aa3 and cytochrome bb3 are redox-driven proton pumps. The proton-pumping capacity of cytochrome cbb3 has been analysed; arguments for and against the active transport of protons by this novel oxidase complex are discussed.
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- J W de Gier
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, BioCentrum Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
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Raitio M, Wikström M. An alternative cytochrome oxidase of Paracoccus denitrificans functions as a proton pump. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(94)90140-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Hosler JP, Ferguson-Miller S, Calhoun MW, Thomas JW, Hill J, Lemieux L, Ma J, Georgiou C, Fetter J, Shapleigh J. Insight into the active-site structure and function of cytochrome oxidase by analysis of site-directed mutants of bacterial cytochrome aa3 and cytochrome bo. J Bioenerg Biomembr 1993; 25:121-36. [PMID: 8389745 DOI: 10.1007/bf00762854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 230] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Cytochrome aa3 of Rhodobacter sphaeroides and cytochrome bo of E. coli are useful models of the more complex cytochrome c oxidase of eukaryotes, as demonstrated by the genetic, spectroscopic, and functional studies reviewed here. A summary of site-directed mutants of conserved residues in these two enzymes is presented and discussed in terms of a current model of the structure of the metal centers and evidence for regions of the protein likely to be involved in proton transfer. The model of ligation of the heme a3 (or o)-CuB center, in which both hemes are bound to helix X of subunit I, has important implications for the pathways and control of electron transfer.
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- J P Hosler
- Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824
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Gabel C, Maier RJ. Oxygen-dependent transcriptional regulation of cytochrome aa3 in Bradyrhizobium japonicum. J Bacteriol 1993; 175:128-32. [PMID: 8380149 PMCID: PMC196105 DOI: 10.1128/jb.175.1.128-132.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Cytochrome aa3 is one of two terminal oxidases expressed in free-living Bradyrhizobium japonicum but not symbiotically in bacteroids. Difference spectra (dithionite reduced minus ferricyanide oxidized) for membranes from cells incubated with progressively lower O2 concentrations showed a concomitant decrease in the A603, the absorption peak characteristic of cytochrome aa3. The level of N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine oxidase activity, a measure of cytochrome aa3 activity, was also found to depend on the O2 level. Dot blots of total RNA isolated from cells grown at various O2 levels were probed with a fragment of the coxA gene from B. japonicum; a sixfold reduction in transcription from the highest (250 microM) to the lowest (12.5 microM) O2 concentration was observed. Bacteroids had even less coxA message, approximately 19% that in the 12.5 microM O2-incubated cells. Primer extension analysis established the transcription initiation site of the coxA gene at 72 bases upstream of the putative translational start codon. Sequence analysis of the region upstream of the transcription initiation site revealed no homology with previously reported B. japonicum promoters.
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- C Gabel
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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Cao J, Hosler J, Shapleigh J, Revzin A, Ferguson-Miller S. Cytochrome aa3 of Rhodobacter sphaeroides as a model for mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase. The coxII/coxIII operon codes for structural and assembly proteins homologous to those in yeast. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)35761-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Hosler J, Fetter J, Tecklenburg M, Espe M, Lerma C, Ferguson-Miller S. Cytochrome aa3 of Rhodobacter sphaeroides as a model for mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase. Purification, kinetics, proton pumping, and spectral analysis. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)35760-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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New nucleotide sequence data on the EMBL File Server. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:3257-75. [PMID: 1620629 PMCID: PMC312473 DOI: 10.1093/nar/20.12.3257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Shapleigh JP, Hosler JP, Tecklenburg MM, Kim Y, Babcock GT, Gennis RB, Ferguson-Miller S. Definition of the catalytic site of cytochrome c oxidase: specific ligands of heme a and the heme a3-CuB center. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:4786-90. [PMID: 1317571 PMCID: PMC49172 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.11.4786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The three-subunit aa3-type cytochrome c oxidase (EC 1.9.3.1) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides is structurally and functionally homologous to the more complex mitochondrial oxidase. The largest subunit, subunit I, is highly conserved and predicted to contain 12 transmembrane segments that provide all the ligands for three of the four metal centers: heme a, heme a3, and CuB. A variety of spectroscopic techniques identify these ligands as histidines. We have used site-directed mutagenesis to change all the conserved histidines within subunit I of cytochrome c oxidase from Rb. sphaeroides. Analysis of the membrane-bound and purified mutant proteins by optical absorption and resonance Raman spectroscopy indicates that His-102 and His-421 are the ligands of heme a, while His-284, His-333, His-334, and His-419 ligate the heme a3-CuB center. To satisfy this ligation assignment, helices II, VI, VII, and X, which contain these histidine residues, must be in close proximity. These data provide empirical evidence regarding the three-dimensional protein structure at the catalytic core of cytochrome c oxidase.
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- J P Shapleigh
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801
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- M W Gray
- Department of Biochemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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