Coulometric and potentiometric evaluation of the redox components of cytochrome c oxidase in situ |
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Authors: | David F Wilson David Nelson |
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Institution: | Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | A new coulometric-potentiometric titration cuvette is described which permits accurate measurements of oxidation-reduction components in membranous systems. This cuvette has been utilized to measure the properties of cytochrome c oxidase in intact membranes of pigeon breast muscle mitochondria. The reducing equivalents accepted and donated by the portion of the respiratory chain with half-reduction potentials greater than 200 mV are equal to those required for the known components (cytochrome a3 and the high-potential copper plus cytochrome a, ‘visible copper’, cytochrome c1, cytochrome c, and the Rieske iron-sulfur protein). Titrations in the presence of CO show that formation of the reduced cytochrome a3-CO complex requires two reducing equivalents per cytochrome a3 (coulometric titration). Potentiometric titrations indicate (Lindsay, J.G., Owen, C.S. and Wilson, D.F. (1975) Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 169, 492–505) that both cytochromes a3 and the high-potential copper must be reduced in order to form the CO complex (n=2.0 with a CO concentration-dependent half-reduction potential, Em). By contrast, titrations in the presence of azide show that the Em value of the high-potential copper is unchanged by the presence of azide and thus azide binds with nearly equal affinity whether the copper is reduced or oxidized. |
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Keywords: | Redox component Coulometric assay Potentiometry Cytochrome c oxidase |
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