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Ghatak A, Samanta S, Nayek A, Mukherjee S, Dey SG, Dey A. Second-Sphere Hydrogen-Bond Donors and Acceptors Affect the Rate and Selectivity of Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction by Iron Porphyrins Differently. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:12931-12947. [PMID: 35939766 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The factors that control the rate and selectivity of 4e-/4H+ O2 reduction are important for efficient energy transformation as well as for understanding the terminal step of respiration in aerobic organisms. Inspired by the design of naturally occurring enzymes which are efficient catalysts for O2 and H2O2 reduction, several artificial systems have been generated where different second-sphere residues have been installed to enhance the rate and efficiency of the 4e-/4H+ O2 reduction. These include hydrogen-bonding residues like amines, carboxylates, ethers, amides, phenols, etc. In some cases, improvements in the catalysis were recorded, whereas in some cases improvements were marginal or nonexistent. In this work, we use an iron porphyrin complex with pendant 1,10-phenanthroline residues which show a pH-dependent variation of the rate of the electrochemical O2 reduction reaction (ORR) over 2 orders of magnitude. In-situ surface-enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy reveals the presence of different intermediates at different pH's reflecting different rate-determining steps at different pH's. These data in conjunction with density functional theory calculations reveal that when the distal 1,10-phenanthroline is neutral it acts as a hydrogen-bond acceptor which stabilizes H2O (product) binding to the active FeII state and retards the reaction. However, when the 1,10-phenanthroline is protonated, it acts as a hydrogen-bond donor which enhances O2 reduction by stabilizing FeIII-O2.- and FeIII-OOH intermediates and activating the O-O bond for cleavage. On the basis of these data, general guidelines for controlling the different possible rate-determining steps in the complex multistep 4e-/4H+ ORR are developed and a bioinspired principle-based design of an efficient electrochemical ORR is presented.
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- Arnab Ghatak
- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
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Szundi I, Funatogawa C, Soulimane T, Einarsdóttir Ó. The Reactions of O 2 and NO with Mixed-Valence ba 3 Cytochrome c Oxidase from Thermus thermophilus. Biophys J 2019; 118:386-395. [PMID: 31870538 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.11.3390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Revised: 11/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Earlier CO flow-flash experiments on the fully reduced Thermus thermophilus ba3 (Tt ba3) cytochrome oxidase revealed that O2 binding was slowed down by a factor of 10 in the presence of CO (Szundi et al., 2010, PNAS 107, 21010-21015). The goal of the current study is to explore whether the long apparent lifetime (∼50 ms) of the CuB+-CO complex generated upon photolysis of the CO-bound mixed-valence Tt ba3 (Koutsoupakis et al., 2019, Acc. Chem. Res. 52, 1380-1390) affects O2 and NO binding and the ability of CuB to act as an electron donor during O-O bond splitting. The CO recombination, NO binding, and the reaction of mixed-valence Tt ba3 with O2 were investigated by time-resolved optical absorption spectroscopy using the CO flow-flash approach and photolabile O2 and NO carriers. No electron backflow was detected after photolysis of the mixed-valence CO-bound Tt ba3. The rate of O2 and NO binding was two times slower than in the fully reduced enzyme in the presence of CO and 20 times slower than in the absence of CO. The purported long-lived CuB+-CO complex did not prevent O-O bond splitting and the resulting PM formation, which was significantly faster (5-10 times) than in the bovine heart enzyme. We propose that O2 binding to heme a3 in Tt ba3 causes CO to dissociate from CuB+ in a concerted manner through steric and/or electronic effects, thus allowing CuB+ to act as an electron donor in the mixed-valence enzyme. The significantly faster O2 binding and O-O bond cleavage in Tt ba3 compared to analogous steps in the aa3 oxidases could reflect evolutionary adaptation of the enzyme to the microaerobic conditions of the T. thermophilus HB8 species.
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- Istvan Szundi
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California
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- Deparment of Chemical Sciences, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California.
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Einarsdóttir O, McDonald W, Funatogawa C, Szundi I, Woodruff WH, Dyer RB. The pathway of O₂to the active site in heme-copper oxidases. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1847:109-18. [PMID: 24998308 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2014] [Accepted: 06/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The route of O₂to and from the high-spin heme in heme-copper oxidases has generally been believed to emulate that of carbon monoxide (CO). Time-resolved and stationary infrared experiments in our laboratories of the fully reduced CO-bound enzymes, as well as transient optical absorption saturation kinetics studies as a function of CO pressure, have provided strong support for CO binding to CuB⁺ on the pathway to and from the high-spin heme. The presence of CO on CuB⁺ suggests that O₂binding may be compromised in CO flow-flash experiments. Time-resolved optical absorption studies show that the rate of O₂and NO binding in the bovine enzyme (1 × 10⁸M⁻¹s⁻¹) is unaffected by the presence of CO, which is consistent with the rapid dissociation (t½ = 1.5μs) of CO from CuB⁺. In contrast, in Thermus thermophilus (Tt) cytochrome ba3 the O₂and NO binding to heme a3 slows by an order of magnitude in the presence of CO (from 1 × 10⁹ to 1 × 10⁸M⁻¹s⁻¹), but is still considerably faster (~10μs at 1atm O₂) than the CO off-rate from CuB in the absence of O₂(milliseconds). These results show that traditional CO flow-flash experiments do not give accurate results for the physiological binding of O₂and NO in Tt ba3, namely, in the absence of CO. They also raise the question whether in CO flow-flash experiments on Tt ba3 the presence of CO on CuB⁺ impedes the binding of O₂to CuB⁺ or, if O₂does not bind to CuB⁺ prior to heme a3, whether the CuB⁺-CO complex sterically restricts access of O₂to the heme. Both possibilities are discussed, and we argue that O₂binds directly to heme a3 in Tt ba3, causing CO to dissociate from CuB⁺ in a concerted manner through steric and/or electronic effects. This would allow CuB⁺ to function as an electron donor during the fast (5μs) breaking of the OO bond. These results suggest that the binding of CO to CuB⁺ on the path to and from heme a3 may not be applicable to O₂and NO in all heme-copper oxidases. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Vibrational spectroscopies and bioenergetic systems.
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- Olöf Einarsdóttir
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Krebs C, Dassama LMK, Matthews ML, Jiang W, Price JC, Korboukh V, Li N, Bollinger JM. Novel Approaches for the Accumulation of Oxygenated Intermediates to Multi-Millimolar Concentrations. Coord Chem Rev 2013; 257:10.1016/j.ccr.2012.06.020. [PMID: 24368870 PMCID: PMC3870000 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2012.06.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Metalloenzymes that utilize molecular oxygen as a co-substrate catalyze a wide variety of chemically difficult oxidation reactions. Significant insight into the reaction mechanisms of these enzymes can be obtained by the application of a combination of rapid kinetic and spectroscopic methods to the direct structural characterization of intermediate states. A key limitation of this approach is the low aqueous solubility (< 2 mM) of the co-substrate, O2, which undergoes further dilution (typically by one-third or one-half) upon initiation of reactions by rapid-mixing. This situation imposes a practical upper limit on [O2] (and therefore on the concentration of reactive intermediate(s) that can be rapidly accumulated) of ∼1-1.3 mM in such experiments as they are routinely carried out. However, many spectroscopic methods benefit from or require significantly greater concentrations of the species to be studied. To overcome this problem, we have recently developed two new approaches for the preparation of samples of oxygenated intermediates: (1) direct oxygenation of reduced metalloenzymes using gaseous O2 and (2) the in situ generation of O2 from chlorite catalyzed by the enzyme chlorite dismutase (Cld). Whereas the former method is applicable only to intermediates with half lives of several minutes, owing to the sluggishness of transport of O2 across the gas-liquid interface, the latter approach has been successfully applied to trap several intermediates at high concentration and purity by the freeze-quench method. The in situ approach permits generation of a pulse of at least 5 mM O2 within ∼ 1 ms and accumulation of O2 to effective concentrations of up to ∼ 11 mM (i.e. ∼ 10-fold greater than by the conventional approach). The use of these new techniques for studies of oxygenases and oxidases is discussed.
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- Carsten Krebs
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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Giuffrè A, Borisov VB, Mastronicola D, Sarti P, Forte E. Cytochromebdoxidase and nitric oxide: From reaction mechanisms to bacterial physiology. FEBS Lett 2011; 586:622-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.07.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2011] [Revised: 07/20/2011] [Accepted: 07/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Toepke MW, Brewer SH, Vu DM, Rector KD, Morgan JE, Gennis RB, Kenis PJA, Dyer RB. Microfluidic Flow-Flash: Method for Investigating Protein Dynamics. Anal Chem 2006; 79:122-8. [PMID: 17194129 DOI: 10.1021/ac061193x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We report a new method, microfluidic flow-flash, for measuring protein reaction kinetics. The method couples a microscope imaging detection system with a microfluidic flow cell to reduce data acquisition times and sample consumption. This combination allows for the simultaneous collection of spectral and temporal information. The microfluidic flow cell design utilizes three-dimensional sheath flow to reduce sample dispersion and minimize sample consumption. The ability to alter the flow rates in the microfluidic flow cells allows a variety of time scales to be studied with submillisecond time resolution. The imaging detection system can be coupled with several spectroscopic probes including fluorescence and UV/visible absorbance spectroscopy. Here, we utilize the microfluidic flow-flash method to probe the kinetics of CO recombination or O2 binding to myoglobin after the laser-induced photolysis of CO from myoglobin by UV/visible absorbance spectral imaging.
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- Michael W Toepke
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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Liu JG, Naruta Y, Tani F. A functional model of the cytochrome c oxidase active site: unique conversion of a heme-mu-peroxo-Cu(II) intermediate into heme- superoxo/Cu(I). Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2006; 44:1836-40. [PMID: 15723432 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200462582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Jin-Gang Liu
- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan
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Bollinger JM, Krebs C. Stalking intermediates in oxygen activation by iron enzymes: motivation and method. J Inorg Biochem 2006; 100:586-605. [PMID: 16513177 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2006.01.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2006] [Accepted: 01/16/2006] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The study of high-valent-iron enzyme intermediates began in the mid-1900s with the discovery of compounds I (or ES) and II in the heme peroxidases, progressed to non-heme-diiron enzymes in the 1990s with the detection and characterization of the Fe(III)-Fe(IV) complex, X, and the Fe(IV)-Fe(IV) complex, Q, in O(2) activation by ribonucleotide reductase R2 (RNR-R2) and soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO), respectively, and was most recently extended to mononuclear non-heme-iron oxygenases with the trapping and spectroscopic characterization of the Fe(IV)-oxo intermediate, J, in the reaction of taurine:alpha-ketoglutarate dioxygenase (TauD). Individually, each of these landmark studies helped reveal the chemical logic of that particular enzyme system. Collectively, they have significantly advanced our understanding of Nature's strategies for oxidative transformation of biomolecules (both natural and "xenobiotic"). With high-valent complexes now having been described in representatives of three major classes of iron enzymes, it is an appropriate time to ask whether and what additional insights might be gleaned from further stalking of related intermediates in other systems. In this review, we advocate that there is still much to be learned from this pursuit and summarize the insight provided by two of the landmark discoveries mentioned above (the latter two) and the subsequent studies that they spurred to support our contention. In addition, we attempt to provide, to the extent that it is possible to do so, a "how-to" guide for detection and characterization of such intermediates, focusing primarily on enzymes in which they form by activation of molecular oxygen. In this latter objective, we have drawn from an earlier review by Johnson (Enzymes, third ed. vol. 20, 1992, pp. 1-61) covering, more generally, dissection of enzyme reaction pathways by transient-state kinetic methods. That work elegantly illustrated that, although it may be impossible to develop a true algorithm for the process, a synthesis of guidelines and general principles can be of considerable value.
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- J Martin Bollinger
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, 306 South Frear Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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Szundi I, Rose MJ, Sen I, Eroy-Reveles AA, Mascharak PK, Einarsdóttir O. A New Approach for Studying Fast Biological Reactions Involving Nitric Oxide: Generation of NO Using Photolabile Ruthenium and Manganese NO Donors. Photochem Photobiol 2006; 82:1377-84. [PMID: 17421079 DOI: 10.1562/2006-07-25-rc-984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is recognized as one of the major players in various biochemical processes, including blood pressure, neurotransmission and immune responses. However, experimental studies involving NO are often limited by difficulties associated with the use of NO gas, including its toxicity and precise control over NO concentration. Moreover, the reactions of NO with biological molecules, which frequently occur on time scales of microseconds or faster, are limited by the millisecond time scale of conventional stopped-flow techniques. Here we present a new approach for studying rapid biological reactions involving NO. The method is based on designed ruthenium and manganese nitrosyls, [Ru(PaPy3)(NO)](BF4)2 and [Mn(PaPy3)(NO)](ClO4) (PaPy3H = N,N-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)amine-N-ethyl-2-pyridine-2-carboxamide), which upon photolysis produce NO on a fast time scale. The kinetics of the binding of the photogenerated NO to reduced cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) and myoglobin (Mb) was investigated using time-resolved optical absorption spectroscopy. The NO was found to bind to reduced CcO with an apparent lifetime of 77 micros using the [Mn(PaPy3)(NO)]+ complex; the corresponding rate is 10-20 times faster than can be detected by conventional stopped-flow methods. Second-order rate constants of approximately 1 x 10(8) M(-1) s(-1) and approximately 3 x 10(7) M(-1) s(-1) were determined for NO binding to reduced CcO and Mb, respectively. The generation of NO by photolysis of these complexes circumvents the rate limitation of stopped-flow techniques and offers a novel alternative to study other fast biological reactions involving NO.
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- Istvan Szundi
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Liu JG, Naruta Y, Tani F. A Functional Model of the Cytochromec Oxidase Active Site: Unique Conversion of a Heme-?-peroxo-CuII Intermediate into Heme- superoxo/CuI. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2005. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200462582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Pilet E, Jasaitis A, Liebl U, Vos MH. Electron transfer between hemes in mammalian cytochrome c oxidase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:16198-203. [PMID: 15534221 PMCID: PMC528948 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0405032101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Fast intraprotein electron transfer reactions associated with enzymatic catalysis are often difficult to synchronize and therefore to monitor directly in non-light-driven systems. However, in the mitochondrial respiratory enzyme cytochrome oxidase aa(3), the kinetics of the final electron transfer step into the active site can be determined: reverse electron flow between the close-lying and chemically identical hemes a(3) and a can be initiated by flash photolysis of CO from reduced heme a(3) under conditions where heme a is initially oxidized. To follow this reaction, we used transient absorption spectroscopy, with femtosecond time resolution and a time window extending to 4 ns. Comparison of the picosecond heme a(3)-CO photodissociation spectra under different redox states of heme a shows significant spectral interaction between both hemes, a phenomenon complicating the interpretation of spectral studies with low time resolution. Most importantly, we show that the intrinsic electron equilibration, corresponding to a DeltaG(0) of 45-55 meV, occurs in 1.2 +/- 0.1 ns. This is 3 orders of magnitude faster than the previously established equilibration phase of approximately 3 mus, which we suggest to reflect a change in redox equilibrium closely following CO migration out of the active site. Our results allow testing a number of conflicting predictions regarding this reaction between both experimental and theoretical studies. We discuss the potential physiological relevance of fast equilibration associated with this low-driving-force redox reaction.
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- Eric Pilet
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U451, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7645, Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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Einarsdóttir O, Szundi I. Time-resolved optical absorption studies of cytochrome oxidase dynamics. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2004; 1655:263-73. [PMID: 15100041 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2003.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2003] [Accepted: 07/31/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Time-resolved spectroscopic studies in our laboratory of bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase dynamics are summarized. Intramolecular electron transfer was investigated upon photolysis of CO from the mixed-valence enzyme, by pulse radiolysis, and upon light-induced electron injection into the cytochrome c/cytochrome oxidase complex from a novel photoactivatable dye. The reduction of dioxygen to water was monitored by a gated multichannel analyzer using the CO flow-flash method or a synthetic caged dioxygen carrier. The pH dependence of the intermediate spectra suggests a mechanism of dioxygen reduction more complex than the conventional unidirectional sequential scheme. A branched model is proposed, in which one branch produces the P form and the other branch the F form. The rate of exchange between the two branches is pH-dependent. A cross-linked histidine-phenol was synthesized and characterized to explore the role of the cross-linked His-Tyr cofactor in the function of the enzyme. Time-resolved optical absorption spectra, EPR and FTIR spectra of the compound generated after UV photolysis indicated the presence of a radical residing primarily on the phenoxyl ring. The relevance of these results to cytochrome oxidase function is discussed.
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- Olöf Einarsdóttir
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
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Gilderson G, Aagaard A, Gomes CM, Adelroth P, Teixeira M, Brzezinski P. Kinetics of electron and proton transfer during O(2) reduction in cytochrome aa(3) from A. ambivalens: an enzyme lacking Glu(I-286). BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1503:261-70. [PMID: 11115638 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(00)00195-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Acidianus ambivalens is a hyperthermoacidophilic archaeon which grows optimally at approximately 80 degrees C and pH 2.5. The terminal oxidase of its respiratory system is a membrane-bound quinol oxidase (cytochrome aa(3)) which belongs to the heme-copper oxidase superfamily. One difference between this quinol oxidase and a majority of the other members of this family is that it lacks the highly-conserved glutamate (Glu(I-286), E. coli ubiquinol oxidase numbering) which has been shown to play a central role in controlling the proton transfer during reaction of reduced oxidases with oxygen. In this study we have investigated the dynamics of the reaction of the reduced A. ambivalens quinol oxidase with O(2). With the purified enzyme, two kinetic phases were observed with rate constants of 1.8&z.ccirf;10(4) s(-1) (at 1 mM O(2), pH 7.8) and 3. 7x10(3) s(-1), respectively. The first phase is attributed to binding of O(2) to heme a(3) and oxidation of both hemes forming the 'peroxy' intermediate. The second phase was associated with proton uptake from solution and it is attributed to formation of the 'oxo-ferryl' state, the final state in the absence of quinol. In the presence of bound caldariella quinol (QH(2)), heme a was re-reduced by QH(2) with a rate of 670 s(-1), followed by transfer of the fourth electron to the binuclear center with a rate of 50 s(-1). Thus, the results indicate that the quinol donates electrons to heme a, followed by intramolecular transfer to the binuclear center. Moreover, the overall electron and proton-transfer kinetics in the A. ambivalens quinol oxidase are the same as those in the E. coli ubiquinol oxidase, which indicates that in the A. ambivalens enzyme a different pathway is used for proton transfer to the binuclear center and/or other protonatable groups in an equivalent pathway are involved. Potential candidates in that pathway are two glutamates at positions (I-80) and (I-83) in the A. ambivalens enzyme (corresponding to Met(I-116) and Val(I-119), respectively, in E. coli cytochrome bo(3)).
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- G Gilderson
- Department of Biochemistry, The Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden
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Adelroth P, Ek M, Brzezinski P. Factors determining electron-transfer rates in cytochrome c oxidase: investigation of the oxygen reaction in the R. sphaeroides enzyme. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1367:107-17. [PMID: 9784618 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(98)00142-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We have investigated the kinetics of the single-turnover reaction of fully reduced solubilised cytochrome c oxidase (cytochrome aa3) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides with dioxygen using the flow-flash methodology and compared the results to those obtained with the well-characterised bovine mitochondrial enzyme. The overall reaction sequence was the same in the two enzymes, but the extents and rates of the electron-transfer reactions differed, implying differences in redox potentials, and/or interaction energies between electrons and protons during oxygen reduction. As with the bovine enzyme, the R. sphaeroides enzyme displayed two major kinetic phases of proton uptake with rate constants of approximately 5000 s-1 and approximately 500 s-1 at pH 7.9, concomitant with the peroxy to oxoferryl and oxoferryl to oxidised states. The net number of protons taken up in the R. sphaeroides enzyme was about approximately 1.9, which implies that upon reduction, the enzyme has to pick up approximately 2.1 H+ from the medium. On the basis of the comparison of electron-transfer reactions in the two enzymes, we conclude that the transfer rate of the fourth electron to the binuclear centre is not only determined by the electron-transfer rate from haem a to the binuclear centre, but also by the electron equilibrium between CuA and haem a. In addition, in contrast to the bovine enzyme, where the electron- and proton-transfer rates during oxidation of the fully reduced enzyme by O2 are all faster than the overall turnover rate, in the R. sphaeroides enzyme, the slowest kinetic phase was rate limiting for the overall turnover. Moreover, the comparison of the reactions in the two systems shows that in the R. sphaeroides enzyme, the electrons are more evenly distributed among the redox centres during oxygen reduction. This enables investigations of effects also of minor perturbations on, e.g., the electron-transfer characteristics in mutant enzymes, for which this study forms the basis.
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- P Adelroth
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Göteborg University, P.O. Box 462, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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Michel H, Behr J, Harrenga A, Kannt A. Cytochrome c oxidase: structure and spectroscopy. ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE 1998; 27:329-56. [PMID: 9646871 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.27.1.329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 371] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Cytochrome c oxidase, the terminal enzyme of the respiratory chains of mitochondria and aerobic bacteria, catalyzes electron transfer from cytochrome c to molecular oxygen, reducing the latter to water. Electron transfer is coupled to proton translocation across the membrane, resulting in a proton and charge gradient that is then employed by the F0F1-ATPase to synthesize ATP. Over the last years, substantial progress has been made in our understanding of the structure and function of this enzyme. Spectroscopic techniques such as EPR, absorbance and resonance Raman spectroscopy, in combination with site-directed mutagenesis work, have been successfully applied to elucidate the nature of the cofactors and their ligands, to identify key residues involved in proton transfer, and to gain insight into the catalytic cycle and the structures of its intermediates. Recently, the crystal structures of a bacterial and a mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase have been determined. In this review, we provide an overview of the crystal structures, summarize recent spectroscopic work, and combine structural and spectroscopic data in discussing mechanistic aspects of the enzyme. For the latter, we focus on the structure of the oxygen intermediates, proton-transfer pathways, and the much-debated issue of how electron transfer in the enzyme might be coupled to proton translocation.
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- H Michel
- Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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Crouch SR, Cullen TF, Scheeline A, Kirkor ES. Kinetic Determinations and Some Kinetic Aspects of Analytical Chemistry. Anal Chem 1998. [DOI: 10.1021/a1980005s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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