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Transient kinetics of subunit-III-depleted cytochrome c oxidase.


ABSTRACT: Cytochrome c oxidase from ox heart was depleted of subunit III and its transient kinetic properties studied by stopped-flow and flash photolysis. It was found that the overall mechanism of electron transfer is very similar for subunit-III-depleted and native oxidase, although significant differences in some kinetic parameters have been detected. These include the second-order rate constant for cytochrome c oxidation and the rate-limiting step of the overall process. Moreover, at low cytochrome c/oxidase ratios (where the number of reducing equivalents is insufficient), the rate of reoxidation of cytochrome a was found to be very slow, even in air, and in fact for the subunit-III-depleted enzyme is even slower than for the native oxidase. The stability of reduced cytochrome a excludes the likelihood that removal of subunit III leads to a new O2-binding site, and the result may be relevant to the lowered vectorial H+/e- stoichiometry. The subunit-III-depleted oxidase can be pulsed under appropriate conditions and its combination with CO is unchanged, as shown by kinetic experiments and difference spectroscopy.

SUBMITTER: Malatesta F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1146609 | biostudies-other | 1986 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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