AN f-TYPE CYTOCHROME FROM CHLORELLA VULGARIS |
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Authors: | HONDA, S. I. BAKER, J. E. MUENSTER, ANNE-MARIE |
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Affiliation: | U. S. Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture Ithaca, New York, U. S. A. |
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Abstract: | A method for isolating an f-type cytochrome (Chlorella cytochrome554) from Chlorella vulgaris var. viridis (CHODAT) utilizingN, N-diethylaminoethylcellulose is described. The spectrum ofreduced Chlorella cyt. 554 has absorption maxima at 554 mµ(-band), 524 mµ (ß-band), 417 mµ (SORETband), 352 mµ, 319 mµ and 277 mµ (proteinband). The oxidized form has absorption maxima at 554mµ530 mµ, (ß-band), 412 mµ (SORET band),360mµ 322 mµ and 275 mµ (protein band). Thespectral characteristics resembled other f-type cytochromes,e. g. in the high SORET to -extinction ratio (6.8) and an asymmetric-absorption band (especially at liquid N2 temperature) ; butcharacteristic differences were present. Mitochondria from whitelupine seedlings and sweet potato roots reduced Chlorella cyt.554. From the effects of antimycin A and 2-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinolineN-oxide it appears that Chlorella cyt. 554 was reduced sequentiallybefore cytochrome a+a3 and near the level of the cytochromesof the b type. Oxidation was slow using lupine mitochondriaand nil with sweet potato mitochondria. The oxidation-reductionpotential at pH 7.2 and 30? was 0.35 V. Ascorbate, cysteine,glutathione and Na2S2O4 readily reduced Chlorella cyt. 554.The cytochrome was not autoxidizable and was slowly oxidizedby excess potassium ferricyanide. The reduced form did not reactwith CO and was not adsorbed by IRC-50 or Cellex-P cation exchangers. 1 Temporary address until September 1961: Department of HorticulturalScience, University of California, Los Angeles 24, California,U. S. A.2 Present address: Plant Industry Station, Pioneering ResearchLaboratory, Marketing Quality Research Division, AgriculturalMarketing Service, Beltsville, Maryland, U. S. A. (Received January 16, 1961; ) |
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