Effects of myxothiazol and 5-undecyl-6-hydroxy-4,7-dioxobenzothiazole on the respiratory pathways of the phytopathogenic fluorescent bacteria Pseudomonas cichorii and Pseudomonas aptata |
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Authors: | S Cocchi D Zannoni |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Botany, University of Bologna, Via Irnerio 42, I-40126 Bologna, Italy |
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Abstract: | Myxothiazol inhibited the electron transport in the cytochrome b/c segment of membrane particles from Pseudomonas cichorii. A residual NADH-oxidation due to the presence of an alternative pathway via cytochrome o (Em,7=+250 mV) was sensitive to the quinone analog 5-undecyl-6-hydroxy-4,7-dioxobenzothiazole (UHDBT). This latter inhibitor was equally effective in blocking the linear respiratory chain of Pseudomonas aptata, a strain deficient in cytochromes of c type and Rieske iron-sulphur centre. The analysis of the oxido-reduction kinetic patterns of cytochromes indicated that, among the b type haems present in P. aptata, only cyt. o could be reduced by ubiquinol-1 in a reaction insensitive to both antimycin A and myxothiazol but inhibited by UHDBT. This latter finding has been correlated to the fact that P. aptata exhibits a defective b/c complex. In membranes from P. cichorii, in which the absorption maximum of dithionite reduced cytochrome(s) b shifted by 2–3 nm in the presence of antimycin A and/or myxothiazol, the electron flow through the b/c oxidoreductase complex has tentatively been arranged in a proton motive Q-cycle like mechanism.Non standard abbreviations UHDBT
5-undecyl-6-hydroxy-4,7-dioxobenzothiazole
- cyt.
cytochrom
- Em, 7
mid-point potential at pH 7.0
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b/c complex
ubiquinol-cyt. c oxidoreductase |
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Keywords: | Electron transport Myxothiazol 5-Undecyl-6-hydroxy-4 7-dioxobenzothiazole Pseudomonas cichorii Pseudomonas aptata |
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