Isolation and Purification of a Ubiquinone-Cytochrome b-c1 Complex from a Photosynthetic Bacterium, Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides |
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Authors: | Takamiya, Ken-ichiro Doi, Michio Okimatsu, Hideaki |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kynshu University 33 Fukuoka 812, Japan |
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Abstract: | A ubiquinone-cytochrome b-c1 complex was removed from chromatophoremembranes of a Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides green mutant bydeoxycholate-cholate treatment of the chromatophores. The complexwas purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation and gel filtration. The molecular weight of the purified complex was 240,000 (240kD) and it was composed of seven subunits with molecular weightsof 47 kD, 42 kD, 38 kD, 32 kD, 30 kD, 24 kD and 16 kD. The complexcontained 1.54 and 3.42 nmol of cytochrome c1 and two differentcytochrome b species per mg protein, respectively. It also contained7.07 nmol of ubiquinone, 6.37 nmol of non-heme iron and about3 nmol of carotenoids per mg protein. No flavins were detected.Heme staining indicated that the 32 kD-and 24 kD-subunits werecytochromes. The midpoint potential of cytochrome c1 was 245 mV, and thevalues for the cytochromes b were 60 mV and 75 mV atpH 7.2. The peak of the -band of the reduced-minus-oxidizeddifference spectrum of cytochrome c1 was located at 552.5 nm,arid peaks of the b-type cytochromes with higher and lower midpointpotentials were located at 562 nm and 563 nm. The chemical and the subunit compositions of the purified complexreported here were similar to those obtained for the inner membranesof mitochondria of various organisms. (Received April 5, 1982; Accepted June 14, 1982) |
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