Electrophoretically monodisperse cytochrome c oxidases |
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Authors: | M Heinrichs G Buse |
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Institution: | Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Abteilung für Biopolymere, RWTH Aachen, FRG. |
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Abstract: | A discontinuous gradient polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under nondenaturing conditions has been used to demonstrate monodispersity of procaryotic and eucaryotic cytochrome c oxidase preparations. Alkaline treated bovine enzyme which contains nine subunits as analysed by subsequent discontinuous SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is a monodisperse dimer in 0.1% Triton X-100 and a monomer in 0.1% dodecyl maltoside. The Mr-values corrected for bound detergent are 286,000 in Triton X-100 and 152,000 in dodecyl maltoside respectively. The two-subunit bacterial cytochrome c oxidase of Paracoccus denitrificans is proved to be a monomer with a corrected Mr of 76,000 in both nonionic detergents Triton X-100 and dodecyl maltoside. |
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