Abbreviations: TMPD, N,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine 相似文献
1. 1. The superoxide anion radical (O2−) reacts with ferricytochrome c to form ferrocytochrome c. No intermediate complexes are observable. No reaction could be detected between O2− and ferrocytochrome c.
2. 2. At 20 °C the rate constant for the reaction at pH 4.7 to 6.7 is 1.4 · 106 M−1 · s−1 and as the pH increases above 6.7 the rate constant steadily decreases. The dependence on pH is the same for tuna heart and horse heart cytochrome c. No reaction could be demonstrated between O2− and the form of cytochrome c which exists above pH ≈ 9.2. The dependence of the rate constant on pH can be explained if cytochrome c has pKs of 7.45 and 9.2, and O2− reacts with the form present below pH 7.45 with k = 1.4 · 106 M−1 · s−1, the form above pH 7.45 with k = 3.0 · 105 M−1 · s−1, and the form present above pH 9.2 with k = 0.
3. 3. The reaction has an activation energy of 20 kJ mol−1 and an enthalpy of activation at 25 °C of 18 kJ mol−1 both above and below pH 7.45. It is suggested that O2− may reduce cytochrome c through a track composed of aromatic amino acids, and that little protein rearrangement is required for the formation of the activated complex.
4. 4. No reduction of ferricytochrome c by HO2 radicals could be demonstrated at pH 1.2–6.2 but at pH 5.3, HO2 radicals oxidize ferrocytochrome c with a rate constant of about 5 · 105–5 · 106 M−1 · s−1
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2. Fluoride shifts the γ-band of the enzyme from 423 to 421 nm and the -band from 597 to 598 nm. The difference spectrum (oxidized enzyme in the presence of fluoride minus oxidized enzyme) has peaks at 400, 453, 482, 605 and 638 nm and troughs at 430, 520, 552 and 674 nm. The changes in absorbance are small (about 3% at absorbance maxima) with respect to those of other hemoproteins.
3. On addition of fluoride to isolated cytochrome c oxidase 3 reactions can be distinguished: (I) a bimolecular binding reaction (Kon = 4 M−1 · s−1 and koff = 2.9 · 10−2s−1 at 25 °C, pH 7.4) contributing at 638 nm and 430 nm; (II) a first-order reaction (k = 2.4 · 10−2) s−1 at 22 °C, pH 7.2) visible mainly at 430 nm and (III) a very slow reaction with a half-time in the order of 10 min.
4. The spectroscopic dissociation constants for the fluoride binding, determined from Hill plots using the absorbance changes at 638 and 430 nm, are similar (7 and 10 mM, respectively, at 22 °C, pH 7.2).
5. A mechanism for the reaction is discussed in which the bimolecular binding reaction is followed by a conformational change of the enzyme-fluoride complex. 相似文献
Not every H-atom reacts with ferricytochrome c at a site which results in conversion of the Fe(III) state to the Fe(II) state. Approximately half of reacting H-atoms do not produce reduction.
The following second order rate constants have been determined in solutions of low ionic strength at 20±2 °C: k[H+ferricytochrome c] = (1.0±0.2) · 1010 M−1 · s−1 at pH 3.0 and 6.7; k[H+ferrocytochrome c] = (1.3±0.2) · 1010 M−1 · s−1 at pH 3.0; k[e−aq + ferrocytochrome c] = (1.9±0.4) · 1010 M−1 · s−1 at pH 6.7. 相似文献
The reaction of ascorbate-reduced oxidase with CO has also been studied and is second order with a rate constant of 1.8 · 104 M−1 · s−1. The initial reaction with CO is followed by a slower reaction of significantly less magnitude. The equilibrium constant for the reaction with CO, calculated as a dissociation constant from titrimetric experiments with dithionite-reduced oxidase, is about 2.3 · 10−6 M. From these data a rate constant of 0.041 s−1 can be calculated for the dissociation of CO from the enzyme. 相似文献
Similar measurements made with azurin instead of plastocyanin gave k = 6 · 106 and approx. 2 · 107 M−1 · s−1 for reaction of reduced azurin with cytochrome ƒ and algal cytochrome respectively.
Rate constants of 115 and 80 M−1 · s−1 were found for reduction of plastocyanin by ascorbate and hydroquinone at 298 °K and pH 7.0. The rate constants for the oxidation of plastocyanin, cytochrome ƒ, Pseudomonas cytochrome c-551 and red algal cytochrome c-553 by ferricyanide were found to be between 3 · 104 and 8 · 104 M−1 · s−1.
The results are discussed in relation to photosynthetic electron transport. 相似文献
2. The kinetics of the disappearance of the 648-nm band of cytochrome d with excess cyanide deviates from first-order kinetics at lower temperatures (22 °C) indicating that at least two conformations of the enzyme are involved. At higher temperatures (32 °C) the observed kinetics of the cyanide reaction are first order with a kon = 0.7 M−1·s−1 and with an estimated koff of approximately 5·10−5 s−1.
3. The value of the koff (7·10−4−14·10−4 s−1 at 32 °C) determined from the rate of reduction of cyanocytochrome d by Na2S2O4 or NADH is one order of magnitude larger than the koff value found when the enzyme is in its oxidized state.
4. No effect of cyanide is found on the spectrum of cytochrome a1. 相似文献
The relevance of this finding to the electron-transfer function of cytochrome c is discussed. 相似文献
EPR spectra of the aerobic submitochondrial particles in the absence of substrate show the presence of low spin ferric hemes with g values at 3.4 and 3.0, a high spin ferric heme with g = 6, and a g = 2.0 signal characteristic of oxidized copper. In the reduced submitochondrial particles signals of various iron-sulfur centers are observed.
Cytochrome c553 is lost from mitochondria during preparation of the submitochondrial particles. The partially purified cytochrome c553 is a negatively charged protein at neutral pH with an Em7.2 of 0.25 V which binds to the cytochrome c-depleted Tetrahymena mitochondria in the amount of 0.5 nmol/mg protein with a KD of 0.8 · 10−6 M. Reduced cytochrome c553 serves as an efficient substrate in the reaction with its own oxidase. The EPR spectrum of the partially purified cytochrome c553 shows the presence of a low spin ferric heme with the dominant resonance signal at g = 3.28.
A pigment with an absorption maximum at 560 nm can be solubilized from the Tetrahymena cells with butanol. This pigments has a molecular weight of approx. 18 000, and Em7.2 of −0.17 V and exhibits a high spin ferric heme signal at g = 6. 相似文献
1. 1. Cyanide inhibits the catalytic activity of cytochrome aa3 in both polarographic and spectrophotometric assay systems with an apparent velocity constant of 4·103 M−1·s−1 and a Ki that varies from 0.1 to 1.0 μM at 22 °C, pH 7·3.
2. 2. When cyanide is added to the ascorbate-cytochrome c-cytochromeaa3−O2 system a biphasic reduction of cytochrome c occurs corresponding to an initial Ki of 0.8 μM and a final Ki of about 0.1 μM for the cytochrome aa3−cyanide reaction.
3. 3. The inhibited species (a2+a33+HCN) is formed when a2+a33+ reacts with HCN, when a2+a32+HCN reacts with oxygen, or when a3+a33+HCN (cyano-cytochrome aa3) is reduced. Cyanide dissociates from a2+a33+HCN at a rate of 2·10−3 s−1 at 22 °C, pH 7.3.
4. 4. The results are interpreted in terms of a scheme in which one mole of cyanide binds more tightly and more rapidly to a2+a33+ than to a3+a33+.
1. Circular dichroism spectra of the cytochromes in membrane fragments derived from sonicated beef heart mitochondria have been obtained in the wavelength region 400–480 nm in which the major absorbance maxima of the heme prosthetic groups are found.
2. 2. Cytochrome oxidase in the mitochondrial membrane fragments has a band of positive ellipticity at 426 nm in the oxidized form and a pronounced band of positive ellipticity at 445 nm in the reduced form. The reduced-minus-oxidized difference molar ellipticity at 445 nm, Δ[θ]445 is 3.0·105 degree·cm−2·dmole−1 heme a for membrane-bound oxidase compared to 1.6·105 degree·cm−2·dmole−1 heme a for the purified oxidase. The membrane-bound oxidase in the reduced form also appears to have a band of negative ellipticity at 426 nm not found in the purified oxidase.
3. 3. When reduced with succinate in the presence of cyanide and oxygen, cytochrome oxidase in the membrane fragments has a positive band at 442 nm very similar to that observed with the purified oxidase.
4. 4. Cytochrome c, which has a positive band at 426 nm in the purified form when reduced, appears to have a negative band at this wavelength in the mito-chondrial membrane fragments which contributes to the pronounced negative band at 426 nm observed in the membrane fragments reduced with succinate in anaerobiosis. There is no evidence for a contribution to the CD spectra of the membrane fragments from cytochrome c1 or from cytochrome b561 in either the oxidized or the reduced form.
5. 5. Cytochrome b566 in the mitochondrial membrane fragments has no detectable CD spectrum in the oxidized form, but has a small positive band at 427 nm and a small negative band at 436 nm in the reduced form. The same CD spectrum is observed with cytochrome b566 reduced with succinate in the presence of antimycin A or 2-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide. The same increase in positive ellipticity is observed at 427 nm in the mitochondrial membrane fragments, treated with oligomycin to restore energy coupling, when cytochrome b566 is reduced with succinate in the energized membrane, as is observed in the inhibitor-treated membrane fragments. The absence of a pronounced conformational change in cytochrome b566 on energization, as revealed by its CD spectrum, favors the concept that its reduction by succinate in the energized state is due to reversed electron transport rather than an intrinsic shift in the cytochrome's midpoint redox potential.
Abbreviations: HOQNO, 2-heptyl-4-hydroxy quinoline-N-oxide; PMS, phenazine methosulfate 相似文献
2. These results demonstrate that upon photodissociation, CO is replaced by azide wheras upon incubation in the dark CO expels azide from its binding site in cytochrome c oxidase.
3. Concomitantly with the binding of CO and dissociation of the azide molecule, and vice versa, electron redistributions occur as inferred from the changes in the intensity of the copper signal at g = 2.
4. The results are explained in a model of cytochrome c oxidase with either a common binding site (cytochrome a3)* for CO and azide or in a model with anti-cooperative interaction between two different sites of binding.
5. Similar types of experiments with cyanide instead of azide show that cyanide is more firmly bound to partially reduced cytochrome c oxidase than CO and azide. The affinity of ligands for partially reduced enzyme decreases in the sequence: cyanide, CO (dark), azide and CO (illuminated). 相似文献
2. A convenient electrochemical preparation of large amounts of MV.+ has been developed.
3. A commercial stopped-flow apparatus was modified in order to obtain a high degree of anaerobicity.
4. The reaction of MV.+ with O2 produced H2O2 (k > 5 · 106 M−1 · s−1, pH 7.5, 25 °C). H2O2 subsequently reacted with excess MV.+ (k = 2.3 · 103 M−1 · s−1, pH 7.5, 25 °C) to produce water. The kinetics of this reaction were complex and have only been interpreted over a limited range of concentrations.
5. The results support the theory that the herbicidal action of methyl viologen (Paraquat, Gramoxone) is due to H2O2 (or radicals derived from H2O2) induced damage of plant cell membrane. 相似文献
2. Redox potentials of haem c in the presence of 2.5 M pyridine were determined in the pH range 1.5–13; it was found necessary to add cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) to prevent precipitation in the acid range below about pH 4. The Em vs pH curve shows three slopes (−dE/dpH) of value, 0.18, 0.01 and 0.06 with points of inflexion at pH 3.8 and 10.6. The potentials are intermediate between those of protohaem and mesohaem obtained under similar conditions.
3. With constant haem c concentration (a) 10−4 M and (b) 10−5 M and varying pyridine concentration (0.12–5 M) it was found at pH 9.0 that Em values increased as the pyridine concentration was increased and there was a tendency to reach a plateau value. The explanation appears to be that pyridine binds more firmly to ferroporphyrin c than to ferriporhyrin c.
4. When the pyridine concentration was kept constant (2.5 M) and the haem c concentration was varied in the range 7 · 10−4–7 · 10−6 M, it was found that a decrease in haem c concentration brought about an increase in redox potential. The results are explained as being due to dimerization of the oxidized form.
5. The results are discussed in comparison with a number of related haem systems. 相似文献
The most highly purified nitrite reductase still exhibited cytochrome c oxidase activity with a Km of 27 μM for O2. This activity was also inhibited by KCN, NaN3 and NH2OH and by NO2−.
A constitutive cytochrome oxidase associated with membranes was also isolated from cells grown anaerobically with NO2−. It was inhibited by smaller amounts of KCN, NaN3 and NH2OH than the cytochrome oxidase activity of the nitrite reductase enzyme and also differed in having a pH optimum of about 8 and a Km for O2 of less than 0.1 μM. Spectroscopically, cytochromes b and c were found to be associated with the constitutive oxidase in the particulate preparation. Its activity was also inhibited by NO2−.
The physiological role of the cytochrome oxidase activity associated with the purified nitrite reductase is likely to be of secondary importance for the following reasons: (a) it accounts for less than 10% of total cytochrome c oxidase activity of cell extracts; (b) the constitutive cytochrome c oxidase has a smaller Km for O2 and would therefore be expected to function more efficiently especially at low concentrations of O2. 相似文献
2. The reaction of paraquat radical with oxygen has been analysed to give rate constants of 7.7·108 M−1·s−1 and 6.5·108 M−1·s−1 for the reactions of paraquat radical with O2 and O2−·, respectively. The similarity in these rate constants is in marked contrast to the difference in redox potentials of O2 and O2−· (− 0.59 V and + 1.12 V, respectively).
3. These rate constants, together with that for the self-reaction of O2−·, have been used to calculate the steady-state concentration of O2−· under conditions thought to apply at the site of reduction of paraquat in the plant cell. On the basis of these calculations the decay of O2−· appears to be governed almost entirely by its self-reaction, and the concentration 5 μm away from the thylakoid is still 90% of that at the thylakoid itself. Thus, O2−· persists long enough to diffuse as far as the chloroplast envelope and tonoplast, which are the first structures to be damaged by paraquat treatment. O2−· is therefore sufficiently long-lived to be a candidate for the phytotoxic product formed by paraquat in plants. 相似文献
The kinetic data have been analyzed in terms of the thermodynamics of the interactions. This analysis indicates that the copper protein has a ΔE of about 0.038 V more positive than the heme c component, a value that compares favorably with that of 0.040 V obtained by equilibrium methods. The value of ΔE obtained by the kinetic method for the internal reaction is less precise but is reasonably close to that of 0.070 V determined by an equilibrium technique. 相似文献