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It is shown that an electron transport reaction which is rate-limited by electron conduction 4 across a solid biological particle or membrane in accord with Ohm's law should have a first order rate constant approximately proportional to exp (E a/KT ), whereT is absolute temperature,k is the Boltzmann constant andE a is the activation energy for semiconduction in the solid particle, where resistance in the semiconductor is proportional to exp (E a /KT). For two different preparations of cytochrome oxidase, this method yields an average value ofE a =0.27 ev, which agrees well with direct conductivity measurements on dry solid enzyme, which provide an average value ofE a =0.26 ev. Electron mobility in dry cytochrome oxidase is estimated to be approximately \gm=10\t-5 cm2 volt\t-1 sec\t-1. Elovich decay of current in dry cytochrome oxidase was observed, which parallels the Elovich kinetics of cytochrome oxidase activity in yeast observed previously by M\:uhlig (1966). Finally, the solid state kinetic theory is used to deduce that conduction of polarons may be involved in cytochrome oxidase activity (1 polaron=1 electron + 1 phonon), which provides a link with the solid state phonon phosphorylation theory of Straub.  相似文献   

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Reaction kinetics of the reduction of O2 by cytochrome oxidase follow essentially the same rate equation as that proposed for the oxidation of cytochrome c. However, the apparent second order rate constant varies with the oxidase concentration. The redox level of cytochrome c at the steady state was found to be essentially temperature-independent. Currently recognized pathways (or mechanisms) of electron transport from cytochrome c to O2 do not predict, and cannot account for the occurrence of these phenomena.  相似文献   

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David C. Unitt 《BBA》2010,1797(3):371-532
We have developed a respiration chamber that allows intact cells to be studied under controlled oxygen (O2) conditions. The system measures the concentrations of O2 and nitric oxide (NO) in the cell suspension, while the redox state of cytochrome c oxidase is continuously monitored optically. Using human embryonic kidney cells transfected with a tetracycline-inducible NO synthase we show that the inactivation of NO by cytochrome c oxidase is dependent on both O2 concentration and electron turnover of the enzyme. At a high O2 concentration (70 μM), and while the enzyme is in turnover, NO generated by the NO synthase upon addition of a given concentration of l-arginine is partially inactivated by cytochrome c oxidase and does not affect the redox state of the enzyme or consumption of O2. At low O2 (15 μM), when the cytochrome c oxidase is more reduced, inactivation of NO is decreased. In addition, the NO that is not inactivated inhibits the cytochrome c oxidase, further reducing the enzyme and lowering O2 consumption. At both high and low O2 concentrations the inactivation of NO is decreased when sodium azide is used to inhibit cytochrome c oxidase and decrease electron turnover.  相似文献   

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An iron-hexacyanide-covered microelectrode sensor has been used to continuously monitor the kinetics of hydrogen peroxide decomposition catalyzed by oxidized cytochrome oxidase. At cytochrome oxidase concentration ≈1 μM, the catalase activity behaves as a first order process with respect to peroxide at concentrations up to ≈300–400 μM and is fully blocked by heat inactivation of the enzyme. The catalase (or, rather, pseudocatalase) activity of bovine cytochrome oxi- dase is characterized by a second order rate constant of ≈2•102 M-1•sec-1 at pH 7.0 and room temperature, which, when divided by the number of H2O2 molecules disappearing in one catalytic turnover (between 2 and 3), agrees reasonably well with the second order rate constant for H2O2-dependent conversion of the oxidase intermediate FI-607 to FII-580. Accordingly, the catalase activity of bovine oxidase may be explained by H2O2 procession in the oxygen-reducing center of the enzyme yielding superoxide radicals. Much higher specific rates of H2O2 decomposition are observed with preparations of the bacterial cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The observed second order rate constants (up to ≈3000 M-1•sec-1) exceed the rate constant of peroxide binding with the oxygen-reducing center of the oxidized enzyme (≈500 M-1•sec-1) several-fold and therefore cannot be explained by catalytic reaction in the a 3/CuB site of the enzyme. It is proposed that in the bacterial oxidase, H2O2 can be decomposed by reacting with the adventitious transition metal ions bound by the polyhistidine-tag present in the enzyme, or by virtue of reaction with the tightly-bound Mn2+, which in the bacterial enzyme substitutes for Mg2+ present in the mitochondrial oxidase.  相似文献   

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Pea leaf mitochondria showed complex kinetics for malate metabolism. O2 uptake increased as malate concentration increased from 0 to 10 mm, reached a plateau between 10 and 20 mm malate, and then increased again up to 40 mm malate. Analysis of the products of malate oxidation by high-performance liquid chromatography revealed that the first phase of O2 uptake coincided with the synthesis of both pyruvate and oxalacetate (OAA) while the second phase of O2 uptake at higher malate levels usually occurred with a large increase in OAA formation. The biphasic response in O2 uptake and the changing ratios of pyruvate and OAA synthesis did not appear to be the direct result of the differing Km values of malate dehydrogenase and malic enzyme. Rather, they resulted from thermodynamic properties of these two malate oxidases and the kinetics of the two NADH dehydrogenases found in plant mitochondria. At low malate concentrations the rotenone-sensitive NADH dehydrogenase was active and could accept electrons from both malate oxidases. This NADH dehydrogenase became saturated at about 10 mm malate. At higher malate concentrations the rotenone-insensitive NADH dehydrogenase was increasingly important and its increased electron transport capacity was best exploited by malate dehydrogenase. At the higher malate concentrations an increasing portion of the electrons from malate reduce O2 through the alternative oxidase. Although this coincided with the second phase of malate-dependent O2 uptake it was not required for this phase to be seen.  相似文献   

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The pathways through which NADPH, NADH and H2 provide electrons to nitrogenase were examined in anaerobically isolated heterocysts. Electron donation in freeze-thawed heterocysts and in heterocyst fractions was studied by measuring O2 uptake, acetylene reduction and reduction of horse heart cytochrome c. In freeze-thawed heterocysts and membrane fractions, NADH and H2 supported cyanide-sensitive, respiratory O2 uptake and light-enhanced, cyanide-insensitive uptake of O2 resulting from electron donation to O2 at the reducing side of Photosystem I. Membrane fractions also catalyzed NADH-dependent reduction of cytochrome c. In freeze-thawed heterocysts and soluble fractions from heterocysts, NADPH donated electrons in dark reactions to O2 or cytochrome c through a pathway involving ferredoxin:NADP reductase; these reactions were only slightly influenced by cyanide or illumination. In freeze-thawed heterocysts provided with an ATP-generating system, NADH or H2 supported slow acetylene reduction in the dark through uncoupler-sensitive reverse electron flow. Upon illumination, enhanced rates of acetylene reduction requiring the participation of Photosystem I were observed with NADH and H2 as electron donors. Rapid NADPH-dependent acetylene reduction occurred in the dark and this activity was not influenced by illumination or uncoupler. A scheme summarizing electron-transfer pathways between soluble and membrane components is presented.  相似文献   

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The reduction of cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris by dithionite or carboxyl radicals follows biphasic kinetics. The data are consistent with lack of heme to heme electron exchange within a single protein molecule. The kinetics of reduction with hydrated electrons are also reported.  相似文献   

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Synechococcus sp. RF-1, a unicellular N2-fixing cyanobacterium, can grow photosynthetically and diazotrophically in continuous light. How the organism protects its nitrogenase from damage by oxygen is unclear. In cyanobacerial cells, electron transport carriers associated with photosynthesis and respiration are all on the thylakoid membranes and share some common components, including plastoquinone pool and cytochrome b 6 f complex, and the pathways are interacting with each other. In this work, a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) fluorometer (PAM-101) and an O2 electrode are used simultaneously to study the chlorophyll a fluorescence and to monitor O2 exchanges in Synechococcus sp. RF-1 cells. At the CO2 compensation point, the photochemical quenching activity remained high unless the O2 was exhausted by the glucose oxidase system (GOS). It indicates that in addition to CO2, O2 can also act as electron acceptor to receive electrons derived from QA. Studies with various inhibitors of the electron transport chain demonstrated that 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU), 2,5-dibromo-3-methyl-6-isopropyl-p-benzoquinone (DBMIB) and salicylhydroxamic acid (SHAM) inhibited the photoreduction of O2, while glycolaldehyde, disalicylidenepropanediamine (DSPD), methyl viologen (MV) and KCN did not. These results imply that a KCN-resistant and SHAM-sensitive oxidase transfers electrons generated from Photosystem II to O2 between cytochrome b 6 f complex and ferredoxin. When SHAM blocked this alternative electron transport pathway, the dinitrogen-fixing activity decreased significantly. The results indicate that a novel oxidase may function as an intracellular O2-scavenger in Synechococcus sp. RF-1 cells. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

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The photosynthetic electron transport chain in Rhodopseudomonas capsulata cells was investigated by studying light-induced noncyclic electron transport from external donors to O2. Two membrane preparations with opposite membrane polarity, heavy chromatophores and regular chromatophores, were used to characterize this electron transport. It was shown that with lipophylic electron donors such as dichloroindophenol, diaminobenzidine, and phenazine methosulfate the electron transport activities were similar in both types of chromatophores, whereas horse heart cytochrome c, K4Fe(CN)6, 3-sulfonic acid phenazine methosulfate, and ascorbate, which cannot penetrate the membrane, were more active in the heavy chromatophores than in the regular chromatophores. Partial depletion of cytochrome c2 from the heavy chromatophores caused a decrease in the light-induced O2 uptake from reduced dichloroindophenol or ascorbate. The activity could be restored with higher concentrations of dichloroindophenol or with purified cytochrome c2 from Rps. capsulata. It is assumed that in the heavy chromatophores the artificial electron donors are oxidized on the cytochrome c2 level which faces the outside medium. However, cytochrome c2 is not exposed to the outside medium in the regular chromatophores. Therefore, only lipophylic donors would interact with cytochrome c2 in this system, while hydrophylic donors would be oxidized by another component of the electron transport chain which is exposed to the external medium. Studies with inhibitors of photophosphorylation show that antimycin A enhances the light-dependent electron transport to O2 whereas 1:10 phenanthroline inhibited the reaction, but dibromothymoquinone did not affect it. It is assumed that a nonheme iron protein is taking part in this electron transport but not a dibromothymoquinone-sensitive quinone. The terminal oxidase of the light-dependent pathway is different from the two oxidases of the respiratory chain. The ratio between electrons entering the system and molecules of O2 consumed is 4, which means that the end product of O2 reduction is H2O.  相似文献   

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The role of plastoquinone in a thermophilic blue-green alga, Shynechococcus sp., was studied by measuring reduction kinetics of cytochrome 553 which was oxidized with red flash preferentially exciting photosystem I. Sensitivity of the cytochrome reduction to DBMIB indicates that cytochrome 553 accepts electrons from reduced plastoquinone. Plastoquinone is in turn reduced in cells without electrons from photosystem II, since DCMU, which inhibited methyl viologen photoreduction more strongly than DBMIB, failed to affect the cytochrome reduction. Participation of cyclic electron transport around photosystem I in cytochrome reduction in the presence of DCMU was excluded, because methyl viologen and antimycin A had no effect on the cytochrome kinetics. On the other hand, electron donation from endogenous substrates to plastoquinone was suggested from decreases in rate of the cytochrome reduction by dark starvation of cells and also from restoration of fast reduction kinetics by the addition of exogenous substrates to or by reillumination of starved cells.KCN, which completely suppressed respiratory O2-uptake, induced a marked acceleration of the cytochrome reduction in starved cells. The poison was less or not effective in stimulating the cytochrome reduction in more extensively starved or reilluminated cells.Results indicate that plastoquinone is functioning not only in the photosynthetic but also in the respiratory electron transport chain, thereby forming a common link between the two energy conservation systems of the blue-green alga.
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Oxygen plays a key role in bacterial bioluminescence. The simultaneous and continuous kinetics of oxygen consumption and light emission during a complete exhaustion of the exogenous oxygen present in a closed system has been investigated. The kinetics are performed with Vibrio fischeri, V. harveyi, and Photobacterium phosphoreum incubated on respiratory substrates chosen for their different reducing power. The general patterns of the luminescence time courses are different among species but not among substrates. During steady-state conditions, substrates, which are less reduced than glycerol, have, paradoxally, a better luminescence efficiency. Oxygen consumption by luciferase has been evaluated to be 17% of the total respiration. Luciferase is a regulatory enzyme presenting a positive cooperative effect with oxygen and its affinity for this final electron acceptor is about 4–5 times higher than the one of cytochrome oxidase. The apparent Michaelis constant for luciferase has been evaluated to be in the range of 20 to 65 nM O2. When O2 concentrations are as low as 10 nM, luminescence can still be detected; this means that above this concentration, strict anaerobiosis does not exist. By n-butyl malonate titration, it was clearly shown that electrons enter the luciferase pathway only when the cytochrome pathway is saturated. It is suggested that, in bioluminescent bacteria, luciferase acts as a free-energy dissipating valve when anabolic processes (biomass production) are impaired.  相似文献   

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Gerhard Sandmann  Richard Malkin 《BBA》1983,725(1):221-224
In the blue-green alga, Aphanocapsa, light inhibits respiration. This can be observed with spheroplasts when O2 uptake is measured with NADH or NADPH as electron donor. However, NAD(P)H oxidation is unaffected by illumination. Furthermore, it was possible to demonstrate electron transfer from NAD(P)H to Photosystem I. Thus, the inhibition of respiratory oxygen uptake by light is explained by a competition of cytochrome oxidase and Photosystem I for reduction equivalents. Based on studies with inhibitors, electron transfer from NAD(P)H to Photosystem I involves the chloroplast cytochrome b6-f complex.  相似文献   

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Dissimilatory iron-reducing bacteria transfer electrons to solid ferric respiratory electron acceptors. Outer-membrane cytochromes expressed by these organisms are of interest in both microbial fuel cells and biofuel cells. We use optical waveguide lightmode spectroscopy (OWLS) to show that OmcA, an 85 kDa decaheme outer-membrane c-type cytochrome from Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, adsorbs to isostructural Al2O3 and Fe2O3 in similar amounts. Adsorption is ionic-strength and pH dependent (peak adsorption at pH 6.5-7.0). The thickness of the OmcA layer on Al2O3 at pH 7.0 [5.8 ± 1.1 (2σ) nm] from OWLS is similar, within error, to that observed using atomic force microscopy (4.8 ± 2 nm). The highest adsorption density observed was 334 ng cm−2 (2.4 × 1012 molecules cm−2), corresponding to a monolayer of 9.9 nm diameter spheres or submonolayer coverage by smaller molecules. Direct electrochemistry of OmcA on Fe2O3 electrodes was observed using cyclic voltammetry, with cathodic peak potentials of −380 to −320 mV versus Ag/AgCl. Variations in the cathodic peak positions are speculatively attributed to redox-linked conformation change or changes in molecular orientation. OmcA can exchange electrons with ITO electrodes at higher current densities than with Fe2O3. Overall, OmcA can bind to and exchange electrons with several oxides, and thus its utility in fuel cells is not restricted to Fe2O3.  相似文献   

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Cytochrome bd from Escherichia coli is able to oxidize such substrates as guaiacol, ferrocene, benzohydroquinone, and potassium ferrocyanide through the peroxidase mechanism, while none of these donors is oxidized in the oxidase reaction (i.e. in the reaction that involves molecular oxygen as the electron acceptor). Peroxidation of guaiacol has been studied in detail. The dependence of the rate of the reaction on the concentration of the enzyme and substrates as well as the effect of various inhibitors of the oxidase reaction on the peroxidase activity have been tested. The dependence of the guaiacol-peroxidase activity on the H2O2 concentration is linear up to the concentration of 8 mM. At higher concentrations of H2O2, inactivation of the enzyme is observed. Guaiacol markedly protects the enzyme from inactivation induced by peroxide. The peroxidase activity of cytochrome bd increases with increasing guaiacol concentration, reaching saturation in the range from 0.5 to 2.5 mM, but then starts falling. Such inhibitors of the ubiquinol-oxidase activity of cytochrome bd as cyanide, pentachlorophenol, and 2-n-heptyl 4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide also suppress its guaiacol-peroxidase activity; in contrast, zinc ions have no influence on the enzyme-catalyzed peroxidation of guaiacol. These data suggest that guaiacol interacts with the enzyme in the center of ubiquinol binding and donates electrons into the di-heme center of oxygen reduction via heme b 558, and H2O2 is reduced by heme d. Although the peroxidase activity of cytochrome bd from E. coli is low compared to peroxidases, it might be of physiological significance for the bacterium itself and plays a pathophysiological role for humans and animals.  相似文献   

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Changes in the bulk-phase concentration of O2 and H+ associated with the reduction of O2 to water are simultaneously determined in reactions catalyzed by fully reduced cytochrome c oxidase both isolated and embedded in liposomes. Consistent with the polyphasic kinetics of electron transfer through the oxidase, the time course of O2 consumption and H+ translocation exhibit the following novel characteristics: (1) The uptake of scalar protons (Hm +), the ejection of vectorial protons (H+ v), and the consumption of O2, all proceed in a kinetically polyphasic process. (2) During the first phase of the reaction the rates of O2 uptake and H+ transfer are extremely fast and compatible with the rates of electron flow through the oxidase. (3) The Km of the oxidase for O2 is close to 75 M, the same for O2 consumption and scalar H+ uptake. The Vmax of O2 reduction to water in reactions catalyzed by the isolated enzyme is, at least, 0.5 × 104 s–1. (4) The extent of vectorial H+ ejection by cytochrome c oxidase embedded in liposomes is an exponential function dependent on both enzyme concentration and extent of O2 consumption. (5) The H+/O stoichiometry of H+ ejection is a variable that may reach a maximum value of 4.0 only when the enzyme undergoes net oxidation at extremely high enzyme/O2 molar ratios. It is postulated that the generation of useful energy at the level of cytochrome c oxidase depends not only on the number of molecules of O2 reduced to water but also on the extent and state of reduction and/or protonation of the enzyme.  相似文献   

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The thermophilic cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus was grown at different CO2 concentrations and temperatures. Respiratory and photosynthetic electron transport in isolated membranes were measured and their activities were compared. Cells grown at low CO2 concentration showed respiratory electron transport, whereas Photosystem-II-dependent transport was optimal in cells grown at high CO2 concentrations. The respiratory electron transport from NADH and succinate were KCN-sensitive, whereas NADPH-dependent O2 uptake was not. It could be shown that NADH and succinate donate electrons in the photosynthetic electron pathway via Photosystem I. In cytochrome-c-553-depleted membranes added cytochrome c-553 could stimulate photosynthetic and respiratory electron transport. A common electron transport pathway between the quinone and cytochrome c is postulated.  相似文献   

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The superfamily of quinol and cytochrome c terminal oxidase complexes is related by a homologous subunit containing six positionally conserved histidines that ligate a low-spin heme and a heme–copper dioxygen activating and reduction center. On the basis of the structural similarities of these enzymes, it has been postulated that all members of this superfamily catalyze proton translocation by similar mechanisms and that the CuA center found in most cytochrome c oxidase complexes serves merely as an electron conduit shuttling electrons from ferrocytochrome c into the hydrophobic core of the enzyme. The recent characterization of cytochrome c oxidase complexes and structurally similar cytochrome c:nitric oxide oxidoreductase complexes without CuA centers has strengthened this view. However, recent experimental evidence has shown that there are two ubiquinone(ol) binding sites on the Escherichia coli cytochrome bo 3 complex in dynamic equilibrium with the ubiquinone(ol) pool, thereby strengthening the argument for a Q(H2)-loop mechanism of proton translocation [Musser SM et al. (1997) Biochemistry 36:894–902]. In addition, a number of reports suggest that a Q(H2)-loop or another alternate proton translocation mechanism distinct from the mitochondrial aa 3 -type proton pump functions in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius terminal oxidase complexes. The possibility that a primitive quinol oxidase complex evolved to yield two separate complexes, the cytochrome bc 1 and cytochrome c oxidase complexes, is explored here. This idea is the basis for an evolutionary tree constructed using the notion that respiratory complexity and efficiency progressively increased throughout the evolutionary process. The analysis suggests that oxygenic respiration is quite an old process and, in fact, predates nitrogenic respiration as well as reaction-center photosynthesis. Received: 11 June 1997 / Accepted: 30 October 1997  相似文献   

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Yu Liu 《BBA》2007,1767(1):45-55
Formamide is a slow-onset inhibitor of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase that is proposed to act by blocking water movement through the protein. In the presence of formamide the redox level of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase evolves over the steady state as the apparent electron transfer rate from cytochrome a to cytochrome a3 slows. At maximal inhibition cytochrome a and cytochrome c are fully reduced, whereas cytochrome a3 and CuB remain fully oxidized consistent with the idea that formamide interferes with electron transfer between cytochrome a and the oxygen reaction site. However, transient kinetic studies show that intrinsic rates of electron transfer are unchanged in the formamide-inhibited enzyme. Formamide inhibition is demonstrated for another member of the heme-oxidase family, cytochrome c oxidase from Bacillus subtilis, but the onset of inhibition is much quicker than for mitochondrial oxidase. If formamide inhibition arises from a steric blockade of water exchange during catalysis then water exchange in the smaller bacterial oxidase is more open. Subunit III removal from the mitochondrial oxidase hastens the onset of formamide inhibition suggesting a role for subunit III in controlling water exchange during the cytochrome c oxidase reaction.  相似文献   

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The rate of dark O2 uptake of Elodea canadensis leaves was titrated with either cyanide or sulfide in the presence and in the absence of 5 millimolar salicylhydroxamic acid (SHAM), an inhibitor of the alternative oxidase. The inhibition of O2 uptake by SHAM alone was very small (3-6%), suggesting that actual respiration mainly occurred through the cytochrome pathway. O2 uptake was slightly stimulated by cyanide at concentrations of 50 micromolar or higher, but in the presence of SHAM respiration was strongly suppressed. The effects of sulfide on O2 uptake were similar to those of cyanide, except that the percent stimulation of O2 uptake by sulfide alone was somewhat higher than that of cyanide. However, the estimates of the capacity of the alternative pathway were similar with both inhibitors. Another difference is that maximal inhibition of respiration in the presence of SHAM was observed with lower concentrations of sulfide (50 micromolar) than cyanide (250 micromolar). The results suggest that sulfide can be used as a suitable inhibitor of cytochrome c oxidase in studies with intact plant tissues, and that sulfide does not apparently inhibit the alternative oxidase.  相似文献   

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The facultative piezophile Shewanella violacea DSS12 is known to have respiratory components that alter under the influence of hydrostatic pressure during growth, suggesting that its respiratory system is adapted to high pressure. We analyzed the expression of the genes encoding terminal oxidases and some respiratory components of DSS12 under various growth conditions. The expression of some of the genes during growth was regulated by both the O2 concentration and hydrostatic pressure. Additionally, the activities of cytochrome c oxidase and quinol oxidase of the membrane fraction of DSS12 grown under various conditions were measured under high pressure. The piezotolerance of cytochrome c oxidase activity was dependent on the O2 concentration during growth, while that of quinol oxidase was influenced by pressure during growth. The activity of quinol oxidase was more piezotolerant than that of cytochrome c oxidase under all growth conditions. Even in the membranes of the non-piezophile Shewanella amazonensis, quinol oxidase was more piezotolerant than cytochrome c oxidase, although both were highly piezosensitive as compared to the activities in DSS12. By phylogenetic analysis, piezophile-specific cytochrome c oxidase, which is also found in the genome of DSS12, was identified in piezophilic Shewanella and related genera. Our observations suggest that DSS12 constitutively expresses piezotolerant respiratory terminal oxidases, and that lower O2 concentrations and higher hydrostatic pressures induce higher piezotolerance in both types of terminal oxidases. Quinol oxidase might be the dominant terminal oxidase in high-pressure environments, while cytochrome c oxidase might also contribute. These features should contribute to adaptation of DSS12 in deep-sea environments.  相似文献   

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