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Cryo-EM structures of Escherichia coli cytochrome bo 3 reveal bound phospholipids and ubiquinone-8 in a dynamic substrate binding site. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2106750118. [PMID: 34417297 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2106750118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Two independent structures of the proton-pumping, respiratory cytochrome bo 3 ubiquinol oxidase (cyt bo 3 ) have been determined by cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) in styrene-maleic acid (SMA) copolymer nanodiscs and in membrane scaffold protein (MSP) nanodiscs to 2.55- and 2.19-Å resolution, respectively. The structures include the metal redox centers (heme b, heme o 3 , and CuB), the redox-active cross-linked histidine-tyrosine cofactor, and the internal water molecules in the proton-conducting D channel. Each structure also contains one equivalent of ubiquinone-8 (UQ8) in the substrate binding site as well as several phospholipid molecules. The isoprene side chain of UQ8 is clamped within a hydrophobic groove in subunit I by transmembrane helix TM0, which is only present in quinol oxidases and not in the closely related cytochrome c oxidases. Both structures show carbonyl O1 of the UQ8 headgroup hydrogen bonded to D75I and R71I In both structures, residue H98I occupies two conformations. In conformation 1, H98I forms a hydrogen bond with carbonyl O4 of the UQ8 headgroup, but in conformation 2, the imidazole side chain of H98I has flipped to form a hydrogen bond with E14I at the N-terminal end of TM0. We propose that H98I dynamics facilitate proton transfer from ubiquinol to the periplasmic aqueous phase during oxidation of the substrate. Computational studies show that TM0 creates a channel, allowing access of water to the ubiquinol headgroup and to H98I.
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Choi SK, Schurig-Briccio L, Ding Z, Hong S, Sun C, Gennis RB. Location of the Substrate Binding Site of the Cytochrome bo 3 Ubiquinol Oxidase from Escherichia coli. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:8346-8354. [PMID: 28538096 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b03883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Cytochrome bo3 is a respiratory proton-pumping oxygen reductase that is a member of the heme-copper superfamily that utilizes ubiquinol-8 (Q8H2) as a substrate. The current consensus model has Q8H2 oxidized at a low affinity site (QL), passing electrons to a tightly bound quinone cofactor at a high affinity site (QH site) that stabilizes the one-electron reduced ubisemiquinone, facilitating the transfer of electrons to the redox active metal centers where O2 is reduced to water. The current work shows that the Q8 bound to the QH site is more dynamic than previously thought. In addition, mutations of residues at the QH site that do not abolish activity have been re-examined and shown to have properties expected of mutations at the substrate binding site (QL): an increase in the KM of the substrate ubiquinol-1 (up to 4-fold) and an increase in the apparent Ki of the inhibitor HQNO (up to 8-fold). The data suggest that there is only one binding site for ubiquinol in cyt bo3 and that site corresponds to the QH site.
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- Sylvia K Choi
- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Yap LL, Lin MT, Ouyang H, Samoilova RI, Dikanov SA, Gennis RB. The quinone-binding sites of the cytochrome bo3 ubiquinol oxidase from Escherichia coli. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2010; 1797:1924-32. [PMID: 20416270 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2009] [Revised: 03/04/2010] [Accepted: 04/13/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Cytochrome bo(3) is the major respiratory oxidase located in the cytoplasmic membrane of Escherichia coli when grown under high oxygen tension. The enzyme catalyzes the 2-electron oxidation of ubiquinol-8 and the 4-electron reduction of dioxygen to water. When solubilized and isolated using dodecylmaltoside, the enzyme contains one equivalent of ubiquinone-8, bound at a high affinity site (Q(H)). The quinone bound at the Q(H) site can form a stable semiquinone, and the amino acid residues which hydrogen bond to the semiquinone have been identified. In the current work, it is shown that the tightly bound ubiquinone-8 at the Q(H) site is not displaced by ubiquinol-1 even during enzyme turnover. Furthermore, the presence of high affinity inhibitors, HQNO and aurachin C1-10, does not displace ubiquinone-8 from the Q(H) site. The data clearly support the existence of a second binding site for ubiquinone, the Q(L) site, which can rapidly exchange with the substrate pool. HQNO is shown to bind to a single site on the enzyme and to prevent formation of the stable ubisemiquinone, though without displacing the bound quinone. Inhibition of the steady state kinetics of the enzyme indicates that aurachin C1-10 may compete for binding with quinol at the Q(L) site while, at the same time, preventing formation of the ubisemiquinone at the Q(H) site. It is suggested that the two quinone binding sites may be adjacent to each other or partially overlap.
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- Lai Lai Yap
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, 600 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, 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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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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Calhoun MW, Hill JJ, Lemieux LJ, Ingledew WJ, Alben JO, Gennis RB. Site-directed mutants of the cytochrome bo ubiquinol oxidase of Escherichia coli: amino acid substitutions for two histidines that are putative CuB ligands. Biochemistry 1993; 32:11524-9. [PMID: 8218219 DOI: 10.1021/bi00094a008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The bo-type ubiquinol oxidase of Escherichia coli is a member of the superfamily of structurally related heme-copper respiratory oxidases. The members of this family, which also includes the aa3-type cytochrome c oxidases, contain at least two heme prosthetic groups, a six-coordinate low-spin heme, and a high-spin heme. The high-spin heme is magnetically coupled to a copper, CuB, forming a binuclear center which is the site of oxygen reduction to water. Vectorial proton translocation across the membrane bilayer appears to be another common feature of this superfamily of oxidases. It has been proposed previously that the two adjacent histidines in putative transmembrane helix VII (H333 and H334 in the E. coli sequence) of the largest subunit of the heme-copper oxidases are ligands to CuB. Previously reported mutagenesis studies of the E. coli bo-type oxidase and the aa3-type oxidase of Rhodobacter sphaeroides supported this model, as substitutions at these two positions produced nonfunctional enzymes but did not perturb the visible spectra of the two heme groups. In this work, six different amino acids, including potential copper-liganding residues, were substituted for H333 and H334 of the E. coli oxidase. All of the mutations resulted in inactive, but assembled, oxidase with both of the heme components present. However, cryogenic Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy of the CO adducts revealed that dramatic changes occur at the binuclear center as a result of each mutation and that CuB appears to be absent.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- M W Calhoun
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801
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Musser SM, Stowell MH, Chan SI. Comparison of ubiquinol and cytochrome c terminal oxidases. An alternative view. FEBS Lett 1993; 327:131-6. [PMID: 8392948 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)80156-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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There have been numerous instances in the recent literature where the properties of ubiquinol and cytochrome c terminal oxidases are compared. Here we specifically examine the cytochrome bo3-type ubiquinol oxidase from Escherichia coli and the cytochrome aa3-type cytochrome c oxidases. A second redox-active copper site (CuA) is present only in the cytochrome c oxidases and the physiological electron donors for the two enzymes are different (ubiquinol-8 vs. ferrocytochrome c). In our opinion, these differences are significant and most likely indicate that distinct turnover mechanisms are operative in the two enzymes.
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- S M Musser
- Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125
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Bolgiano B, Salmon I, Poole RK. Reactions of the membrane-bound cytochrome bo terminal oxidase of Escherichia coli with carbon monoxide and oxygen. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1993; 1141:95-104. [PMID: 8382081 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(93)90194-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The cytochrome 'bo' quinol oxidase of Escherichia coli contains 2 mol of haem, one or both of which are 'haem O'. One of the haems forms, with the single copper present, a binuclear site for ligand binding and oxygen reduction. Cytoplasmic membranes from a strain of E. coli lacking the alternative cytochrome bd quinol oxidase, and having amplified levels of cytochrome bo, were used to study oxygen and carbon monoxide reactivity with this oxidase. The high-spin ligand-binding haem was identified from its contribution to the Soret region and the shift in midpoint potential from +211 to +477 mV in the presence of CO. Oxidative titration of a CO-liganded sample was accompanied by a decrease in the contribution from a photodissociable CO-binding haem. The photodissociation spectrum was typical of a high-spin haem. Photolysis of CO-liganded, reduced membranes in the presence of O2 at sub-zero temperatures revealed O2 binding and cytochrome oxidation characterized by differential absorbance changes in the alpha-spectral region. Monitoring by epr spectroscopy of the same reaction sequence at -80 degrees C revealed a slight increase in g = 6 signal intensity immediately after photolysis attributable to cytochrome o oxidation prior to Cu oxidation. Subsequent decline in the g = 6 signal and appearance of a g = 3 signal indicated sequential electron flow from low-spin to high-spin haems and copper oxidation, suggesting that a second haem carries electrons from ubiquinol to the binuclear centre.
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- B Bolgiano
- Division of Life Sciences, King's College London, UK
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Determination of the ligands of the low spin heme of the cytochrome o ubiquinol oxidase complex using site-directed mutagenesis. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)46058-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Sone N, Fujiwara Y. Haem O2 can replace haem A in the active site of cytochrome c oxidase from thermophilic bacterium PS3. FEBS Lett 1991; 288:154-8. [PMID: 1652469 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(91)81024-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Thermophilic bacterium PS3 cultured under slightly air-limited conditions showed a mitochondrion-like cytochrome pattern similar to that in vigorously aerated cells, but an o-type cytochrome replaced cytochrome a3 as the CO-binding centre. Cytochrome cao-type oxidase was purified from the cell membranes by almost the same procedure as used for cytochrome caa3. The turnover number of cytochrome cao was higher than that of cytochrome caa3, but the Km's of the two enzymes for cytochrome c and O2 were almost the same. Gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate gave bands of four subunits at the identical positions both for cytochrome cao and cytochrome caa3. Cytochrome cao contained a novel kind of haem in addition to haems C and A. This novel haem is likely to be haem O, very recently found as the chromophore of the cytochrome bo complex in Escherichia coli. These data suggest that cytochrome cao is an alternative form of cytochrome c oxidase (cytochrome caa3), in which the cytochrome a3 centre of the enzyme is replaced with cytochrome o.
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- N Sone
- Department of Biochemistry, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi-ken, Japan
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Puustinen A, Wikström M. The heme groups of cytochrome o from Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:6122-6. [PMID: 2068092 PMCID: PMC52034 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.14.6122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Cytochrome o, one of the two terminal ubiquinol oxidases of Escherichia coli, is structurally and functionally related to cytochrome c oxidase of mitochondria and some bacteria. It has two heme groups, one of which binds CO and forms a binuclear oxygen reaction center with copper. The other heme is unreactive toward ligands, exhibits strong interactions with the binuclear center, and is mainly responsible for the reduced-minus-oxidized alpha band. Protoheme has been thought to be the prosthetic group of b-type cytochromes, including cytochrome o. However, the hemes of cytochrome o are of a different kind, for which we propose the name heme O. Its pyridine hemochrome spectrum is blue-shifted by 4 nm relative to that of protoheme, and chromatographic behavior showed that it is much more hydrophobic than protoheme. Fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry yielded a molecular mass of 839 Da. Heme O is proposed to be a heme A-like molecule, containing a 17-carbon hydroxyethylfarnesyl side chain, but with a methyl residue replacing the formyl group.
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- A Puustinen
- Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Lauraeus M, Haltia T, Saraste M, Wikström M. Bacillus subtilis expresses two kinds of haem-A-containing terminal oxidases. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 197:699-705. [PMID: 1851483 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb15961.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The expression of two different aa3-type cytochrome oxidases is demonstrated in Bacillus subtilis. One of them (denoted caa3-605), was predicted by DNA-sequencing of Bacillus cytochrome oxidase genes, but has not been found previously. It contains covalently bound haem C in subunit II and is very similar to the enzyme previously described in the thermophilic bacterium PS3. The other oxidase (denoted aa3-600) deviates from most known oxidases of aa3 type, and is probably identical with the oxidase described by de Vrij et al. [de Vrij, W., Azzi, A. & Konings, W. N. (1983) Eur. J. Biochem. 131, 97-103]. It shows no immunological cross-reactivity to the PS3 enzyme and differs from this spectroscopically; it contains no CuA and does not oxidise cytochrome c despite of its haem-A chromophores. It catalyses oxidation of quinols, which is proposed to be its physiological function.
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- M Lauraeus
- Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Puustinen A, Finel M, Haltia T, Gennis RB, Wikström M. Properties of the two terminal oxidases of Escherichia coli. Biochemistry 1991; 30:3936-42. [PMID: 1850294 DOI: 10.1021/bi00230a019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 235] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Proton translocation coupled to oxidation of ubiquinol by O2 was studied in spheroplasts of two mutant strains of Escherichia coli, one of which expresses cytochrome d, but not cytochrome bo, and the other expressing only the latter. O2 pulse experiments revealed that cytochrome d catalyzes separation of the protons and electrons of ubiquinol oxidation but is not a proton pump. In contrast, cytochrome bo functions as a proton pump in addition to separating the charges of quinol oxidation. E. coli membranes and isolated cytochrome bo lack the CuA center typical of cytochrome c oxidase, and the isolated enzyme contains only 1Cu/2Fe. Optical spectra indicate that high-spin heme o contributes less than 10% to the reduced minus oxidized 560-nm band of the enzyme. Pyridine hemochrome spectra suggest that the hemes of cytochrome bo are not protohemes. Proteoliposomes with cytochrome bo exhibited good respiratory control, but H+/e- during quinol oxidation was only 0.3-0.7. This was attributed to an "inside out" orientation of a significant fraction of the enzyme. Possible metabolic benefits of expressing both cytochromes bo and d in E. coli are discussed.
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- A Puustinen
- Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Kadenbach B, Stroh A, Hüther FJ, Reimann A, Steverding D. Evolutionary aspects of cytochrome c oxidase. J Bioenerg Biomembr 1991; 23:321-34. [PMID: 1646800 DOI: 10.1007/bf00762225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The presence of additional subunits in cytochrome oxidase distinguish the multicellular eukaryotic enzyme from that of a simple unicellular bacterial enzyme. The number of these additional subunits increases with increasing evolutionary stage of the organism. Subunits I-III of the eukaryotic enzyme are related to the three bacterial subunits, and they are encoded on mitochondrial DNA. The additional subunits are nuclear encoded. Experimental evidences are presented here to indicate that the lower enzymatic activity of the mammalian enzyme is due to the presence of nuclear-coded subunits. Dissociation of some of the nuclear-coded subunits (e.g. VIa) by laurylmaltoside and anions increased the activity of the rat liver enzyme to a value similar to that of the bacterial enzyme. Further, it is shown that the intraliposomal nucleotides influence the kinetics of ferrocytochrome c oxidation by the reconstituted enzyme from bovine heart but not from P. denitrificans. The regulatory function attributed to the nuclear-coded subunits of mammalian cytochrome c oxidase is also demonstrated by the tissue-specific response of the reconstituted enzyme from bovine heart but not from bovine liver to intraliposomal ADP. These enzymes from bovine heart and liver differ in the amino acid sequences of subunits VIa, VIIa, and VIII. The results presented here are taken to indicate a regulation of cytochrome c oxidase activity by nuclear-coded subunits which act like receptors for allosteric effectors and influence the catalytic activity of the core enzyme via conformational changes.
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van der Oost J, Haltia T, Raitio M, Saraste M. Genes coding for cytochrome c oxidase in Paracoccus denitrificans. J Bioenerg Biomembr 1991; 23:257-67. [PMID: 1646796 DOI: 10.1007/bf00762221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Several loci on the Paracoccus denitrificans chromosome are involved in the synthesis of cytochrome c oxidase. So far three genetic loci have been isolated. One of them contains the structural genes of subunits II and III, as well as two regulatory genes which probably code for oxidase-specific assembly factors. In addition, two distinct genes for subunit I have been cloned, one of which is located adjacent to the cytochrome c550 gene. An alignment of six promoter regions reveals only short common sequences.
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Cytochrome c oxidase of Paracoccus denitrificans is spectroscopically and functionally very similar to the mammalian enzyme. However, it has a very much simpler quaternary structure, consisting of only three subunits instead of the 13 of the bovine enzyme. The known primary structure of the Paracoccus denitrificans subunits, the knowledge of a large number of sequences from other species, and data on the controlled proteolytic digestion of the enzyme allow structural restrictions to be placed on the models describing the binding of the active metal centers to the polypeptide structure.
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- M Müller
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie der Universität Bern, Switzerland
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Hill BC. The reaction of the electrostatic cytochrome c-cytochrome oxidase complex with oxygen. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)52231-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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This article tries to be a compact summary of some recent research on cytochromecoxidase (EC 1.9.3.1), an important enzyme in membrane bioenergetics. Cytochrome oxidase is the terminal catalyst of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. It uses the electrons flowing through the chain to reduce oxygen molecules to water. Four electrons and four protons are consumed in the reduction of O2to two molecules of water (Fig. 1). Cytochrome oxidase contains four redoxactive metal centres. Two of these are copper atoms, two haem A groups. These four centres are employed in the dioxygen-binding site and in the electron-transferring pathways from cytochromec. The enzyme is also called cytochromeaa3, because the protein-bound haems are functionally and spectroscopically different.
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- M Saraste
- Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Azzi A, Müller M. Cytochrome c oxidases: polypeptide composition, role of subunits, and location of active metal centers. Arch Biochem Biophys 1990; 280:242-51. [PMID: 2164354 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(90)90326-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The general structure of the enzyme, its polypeptide composition, and a proposal for a rational nomenclature are discussed. The mitochondrially coded and bacterial cytochrome c oxidase subunits have been analyzed with more attention focused on elucidating the number of metals present in the enzyme and the ligands available for their coordination. The picture of a 2 Cu/2 Fe enzyme has been compared with that of a 3 Cu/2 Fe enzyme and a new model is proposed for the location of the metal centers in the enzyme.
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- A Azzi
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Bern, Switzerland
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Sone N, Shimada S, Ohmori T, Souma Y, Gonda M, Ishizuka M. A fourth subunit is present in cytochrome c oxidase from the thermophilic bacterium PS3. FEBS Lett 1990; 262:249-52. [PMID: 2159415 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)80202-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A new putative subunit was found in cytochrome c oxidase (aa3-type) of the thermophilic bacterium PS3. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of this approximately 12 kDa protein coincides with the deduced sequence of an open reading frame found downstream from the gene encoding subunit I of the PS3 cytochrome oxidase [(1988) J. Biochem. 103, 606-610]. This small hydrophobic protein, composed of 109 amino acid residues after the initial methionine residue has been processed, shows homology with the subunit IV (cyoD product) of cytochrome bo-type quinol oxidase of Escherichia coli.
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- N Sone
- Department of Biochemistry, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan
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Raitio M, Pispa JM, Metso T, Saraste M. Are there isoenzymes of cytochrome c oxidase in Paracoccus denitrificans? FEBS Lett 1990; 261:431-5. [PMID: 2155830 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)80609-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We have used a gene replacement strategy to delete the previously isolated gene [(1987) EMBO J. 6, 2825-2833] for the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I from Paracoccus denitrificans. The resulting mutant was still able to synthesize active cytochrome c oxidase. This led us to look for another locus which could completely suppress the mutation. In this study we report the isolation of a second gene encoding subunit I. An open reading frame coding for cytochrome c 550 was found upstream from this gene. We suggest that there are isoenzymes of cytochrome c oxidase (cytochrome aa3) in this bacterium.
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- M Raitio
- Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland
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