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Kroneck PMH. Walking the seven lines: binuclear copper A in cytochrome c oxidase and nitrous oxide reductase. J Biol Inorg Chem 2017; 23:27-39. [PMID: 29218634 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-017-1510-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The enzymes nitrous oxide reductase (N2OR) and cytochrome c oxidase (COX) are constituents of important biological processes. N2OR is the terminal reductase in a respiratory chain converting N2O to N2 in denitrifying bacteria; COX is the terminal oxidase of the aerobic respiratory chain of certain bacteria and eukaryotic organisms transforming O2 to H2O accompanied by proton pumping. Different spectroscopies including magnetic resonance techniques, were applied to show that N2OR has a mixed-valent Cys-bridged [Cu1.5+(CyS)2Cu1.5+] copper site, and that such a binuclear center, called CuA, does also exist in COX. A sequence motif shared between the CuA center of N2OR and the subunit II of COX raises the issue of a putative evolutionary relationship of the two enzymes. The suggestion of a binuclear CuA in COX, with one unpaired electron delocalized between two equivalent Cu nuclei, was difficult to accept originally, even though regarded as a clever solution to many experimental observations. This minireview in honor of Helmut Sigel traces several of the critical steps forward in understanding the nature of CuA in N2OR and COX, and discusses its unique electronic features to some extent including the contributions made by the development of methodology and the discovery of a novel multi-copper enzyme. Left: X-band (9.130 GHz) and C-band (4.530 GHz, 1st harmonic display of experimental spectrum) EPR spectra of bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase, recorded at 20K. Right: Ribbon presentation of the CuA domain in cytochrome c oxidase and nitrous oxide reductase.
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- Peter M H Kroneck
- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstrasse 10, 78457, Konstanz, Germany.
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Savelieff MG, Lu Y. CuA centers and their biosynthetic models in azurin. J Biol Inorg Chem 2010; 15:461-83. [DOI: 10.1007/s00775-010-0625-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2009] [Accepted: 01/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Zumft WG, Kroneck PMH. Respiratory transformation of nitrous oxide (N2O) to dinitrogen by Bacteria and Archaea. Adv Microb Physiol 2006; 52:107-227. [PMID: 17027372 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2911(06)52003-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 203] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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N2O is a potent greenhouse gas and stratospheric reactant that has been steadily on the rise since the beginning of industrialization. It is an obligatory inorganic metabolite of denitrifying bacteria, and some production of N2O is also found in nitrifying and methanotrophic bacteria. We focus this review on the respiratory aspect of N2O transformation catalysed by the multicopper enzyme nitrous oxide reductase (N2OR) that provides the bacterial cell with an electron sink for anaerobic growth. Two types of Cu centres discovered in N2OR were both novel structures among the Cu proteins: the mixed-valent dinuclear Cu(A) species at the electron entry site of the enzyme, and the tetranuclear Cu(Z) centre as the first catalytically active Cu-sulfur complex known. Several accessory proteins function as Cu chaperone and ABC transporter systems for the biogenesis of the catalytic centre. We describe here the paradigm of Z-type N2OR, whose characteristics have been studied in most detail in the genera Pseudomonas and Paracoccus. Sequenced bacterial genomes now provide an invaluable additional source of information. New strains harbouring nos genes and capability of N2O utilization are being uncovered. This reveals previously unknown relationships and allows pattern recognition and predictions. The core nos genes, nosZDFYL, share a common phylogeny. Most principal taxonomic lineages follow the same biochemical and genetic pattern and share the Z-type enzyme. A modified N2OR is found in Wolinella succinogenes, and circumstantial evidence also indicates for certain Archaea another type of N2OR. The current picture supports the view of evolution of N2O respiration prior to the separation of the domains Bacteria and Archaea. Lateral nos gene transfer from an epsilon-proteobacterium as donor is suggested for Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum and Dechloromonas aromatica. In a few cases, nos gene clusters are plasmid borne. Inorganic N2O metabolism is associated with a diversity of physiological traits and biochemically challenging metabolic modes or habitats, including halorespiration, diazotrophy, symbiosis, pathogenicity, psychrophily, thermophily, extreme halophily and the marine habitat down to the greatest depth. Components for N2O respiration cover topologically the periplasm and the inner and outer membranes. The Sec and Tat translocons share the task of exporting Nos components to their functional sites. Electron donation to N2OR follows pathways with modifications depending on the host organism. A short chronology of the field is also presented.
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- Walter G Zumft
- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Division of Molecular Microbiology, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Musser SM, Stowell MH, Chan SI. Cytochrome c oxidase: chemistry of a molecular machine. ADVANCES IN ENZYMOLOGY AND RELATED AREAS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 71:79-208. [PMID: 8644492 DOI: 10.1002/9780470123171.ch3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The plethora of proposed chemical models attempting to explain the proton pumping reactions catalyzed by the CcO complex, especially the number of recent models, makes it clear that the problem is far from solved. Although we have not discussed all of the models proposed to date, we have described some of the more detailed models in order to illustrate the theoretical concepts introduced at the beginning of this section on proton pumping as well as to illustrate the rich possibilities available for effecting proton pumping. It is clear that proton pumping is effected by conformational changes induced by oxidation/reduction of the various redox centers in the CcO complex. It is for this reason that the CcO complex is called a redox-linked proton pump. The conformational changes of the proton pump cycle are usually envisioned to be some sort of ligand-exchange reaction arising from unstable geometries upon oxidation/reduction of the various redox centers. However, simple geometrical rearrangements, as in the Babcock and Mitchell models are also possible. In any model, however, hydrogen bonds must be broken and reformed due to conformational changes that result from oxidation/reduction of the linkage site during enzyme turnover. Perhaps the most important point emphasized in this discussion, however, is the fact that proton pumping is a directed process and it is electron and proton gating mechanisms that drive the proton pump cycle in the forward direction. Since many of the models discussed above lack effective electron and/or proton gating, it is clear that the major difficulty in developing a viable chemical model is not formulating a cyclic set of protein conformational changes effecting proton pumping (redox linkage) but rather constructing the model with a set of physical constraints so that the proposed cycle proceeds efficiently as postulated. In our discussion of these models, we have not been too concerned about which electron of the catalytic cycle was entering the site of linkage, but merely whether an ET to the binuclear center played a role. However, redox linkage only occurs if ET to the activated binuclear center is coupled to the proton pump. Since all of the models of proton pumping presented here, with the exception of the Rousseau expanded model and the Wikström model, have a maximum stoichiometry of 1 H+/e-, they inadequately explain the 2 H+/e- ratio for the third and fourth electrons of the dioxygen reduction cycle (see Section V.B). One way of interpreting this shortfall of protons is that the remaining protons are pumped by an as yet undefined indirectly coupled mechanism. In this scenario, the site of linkage could be coupled to the pumping of one proton in a direct fashion and one proton in an indirect fashion for a given electron. For a long time, it was assumed that at least some elements of such an indirect mechanism reside in subunit III. While recent evidence argues against the involvement of subunit III in the proton pump, subunit III may still participate in a regulatory and/or structural capacity (Section II.E). Attention has now focused on subunits I and II in the search for residues intimately involved in the proton pump mechanism and/or as part of a proton channel. In particular, the role of some of the highly conserved residues of helix VIII of subunit I are currently being studied by site directed mutagenesis. In our opinion, any model that invokes heme alpha 3 or CuB as the site of linkage must propose a very effective means by which the presumedly fast uncoupling ET to the dioxygen intermediates is prevented. It is difficult to imagine that ET over the short distance from heme alpha 3 or CuB to the dioxygen intermediate requires more than 1 ns. In addition, we expect the conformational changes of the proton pump to require much more than 1 ns (see Section V.B).
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- S M Musser
- Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, USA
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Hill BC, Peterson J. Spectral and cyanide binding properties of the cytochrome aa3 (600 nm) complex from Bacillus subtilis. Arch Biochem Biophys 1998; 350:273-82. [PMID: 9473302 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1997.0528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The cytochrome aa3 (600 nm) complex, or menaquinol oxidase, from Bacillus subtilis is a member of the cytochrome oxidase superfamily of respiratory membrane protein complexes. We have characterized some spectral properties of this enzyme and its reaction with cyanide. The magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectrum of the oxidized enzyme has a single band at 1560 nm in the near-infrared region assigned to bis-histidine-ligated, low-spin ferricytochrome a. The other heme, cytochrome a3, is presumably high-spin in the oxidized enzyme, as isolated. The absence of a trough in the MCD spectrum at 790 nm, observed previously with mammalian cytochrome c oxidase and assigned to CuA (Greenwood et al., Biochem. J. 215, 303-316, 1983), is consistent with the absence of this center from the menaquinol oxidase. When the heme ligand cyanide is added to oxidized menaquinol oxidase, a new MCD band appears at 2010 nm, while the band at 1560 nm is unperturbed. The new band is assigned to low-spin ferricytochrome a3 bound with cyanide. The long-wavelength position of this cyanide-induced band is proposed to arise from the close interaction of cytochrome a3 with the copper atom, CuB. The kinetics of cyanide binding to oxidized cytochrome aa3(600 nm) reveal a spectrally simple, yet kinetically complex process. The reaction is biphasic with second-order rate constants of 45 and 0.61 M-1s-1 at 1 mM KCN, with each phase constituting about 50% of the overall reaction. When the enzyme is subjected to a cycle of anaerobic reduction and air oxidation, the subsequent reaction with cyanide occurs in a single phase at the faster rate. This behavior is ascribed to different conformations of the binuclear center exhibiting different reactivities with cyanide, and is in keeping with that previously established for the structurally more complex mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase. However, the electronic spectral characteristics of some of the species involved in these reactions are different in the present bacterial case from those of reported eukaryotic systems.
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- B C Hill
- Department of Biochemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada.
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Orii Y. Determination and novel features of the absolute absorption spectra of the heme a moieties in cytochrome c oxidase. J Bioenerg Biomembr 1998; 30:47-53. [PMID: 9623805 DOI: 10.1023/a:1020555427215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The absolute absorption spectra of the two heme a moieties in cytochrome c oxidase were determined in the Soret region where spectral contributions from copper ions are negligible. This determination employs a set of absorption spectra of the enzyme recorded during anaerobic reduction with sodium dithionite, and does not require any other spectral data. The unique feature of the component spectra revealed in the present study suggests the existence of a specific interaction of heme a with the immediate environment as its origin. The usefulness of the absolute spectra in quantitative analysis of the spectral data is presented.
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- Y Orii
- Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
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Beinert H. Copper A of cytochrome c oxidase, a novel, long-embattled, biological electron-transfer site. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1997; 245:521-32. [PMID: 9182986 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.t01-1-00521.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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This review traces the history of understanding of the CuA site in cytochrome c oxidase (COX) from the beginnings, when few believed that there was any significant Cu in COX, to the verification of three atoms Cu/monomer and to the final identification of the site as a dinuclear, Cys-bridged average valence Cu1.5+ ... Cu1.5+ structure through spectroscopy, recombinant DNA techniques, and crystallography. The critical steps forward in understanding the nature of the CuA site are recounted and the present state (as of the end of 1996) of our knowledge of the molecular and electronic structure is discussed in some detail. The contributions made through the years by the development of methodology and concepts for solving the enigma of CuA are emphasized and impediments, often rooted in contemporary preconceptions and attitudes rather than solid data, are mentioned, which discouraged the exploitation of early valuable clues. Finally, analogies in construction principles of polynuclear Cu-S and Fe-S proteins are pointed out.
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- H Beinert
- Institute for Enzyme Research, Graduate School, and Department of Biochemistry, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53705-4098, USA
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Farrar JA, Neese F, Lappalainen P, Kroneck PMH, Saraste M, Zumft WG, Thomson AJ. The Electronic Structure of CuA: A Novel Mixed-Valence Dinuclear Copper Electron-Transfer Center. J Am Chem Soc 1996. [DOI: 10.1021/ja9618715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- J. A. Farrar
- Contribution from the School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K., Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, D-69012 Heidelberg, Germany, and Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Fridericiana, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Contribution from the School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K., Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, D-69012 Heidelberg, Germany, and Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Fridericiana, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Contribution from the School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K., Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, D-69012 Heidelberg, Germany, and Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Fridericiana, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Contribution from the School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K., Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, D-69012 Heidelberg, Germany, and Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Fridericiana, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Contribution from the School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K., Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, D-69012 Heidelberg, Germany, and Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Fridericiana, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Contribution from the School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K., Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, D-69012 Heidelberg, Germany, and Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Fridericiana, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Contribution from the School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K., Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, D-69012 Heidelberg, Germany, and Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Fridericiana, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Holm DE, Godette G, Bonaventura C, Bonaventura J, Boatright MD, Pearce LL, Peterson J. A carbon monoxide irreducible form of cytochrome c oxidase and other unusual properties of the "monomeric" shark enzyme. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1996; 114:345-52. [PMID: 8840511 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(96)00031-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Contrary to previous reports, the functional and spectral properties of "monomeric" shark cytochrome c oxidases are not entirely similar to those of the "dimeric" beef enzyme. Most significantly, unlike the behavior of beef oxidase, the fully oxidized shark enzyme is not reducible by carbon monoxide. Also, preparations of the shark enzyme, isolated at pH 7.8-8.0, lead to more than 60% of the sample always being obtained in a resting form, whereas similarly prepared beef oxidase is very often obtained, both by ourselves and others, exclusively in the pulsed form. Although the electronic absorption, magnetic circular dichroism and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra of cytochrome c oxidase obtained from several shark species are similar to those of the beef enzyme, there are some significant differences. In particular, the Soret maximum is at 422 nm in the case of the fully oxidized resting shark oxidases at physiological pH and not 418 nm as commonly found for the beef enzyme. Moreover, the resting shark oxidases do not necessarily exhibit a "g = 12" signal in their EPR spectra. The turnover numbers of recent preparations of the shark enzyme are higher than previously reported and, interestingly, do not differ within experimental uncertainty from those documented for several beef isoenzymes assayed under comparable conditions.
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- D E Holm
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 35487-0336, USA
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Wallace-Williams SE, James CA, de Vries S, Saraste M, Lappalainen P, van der Oost J, Fabian M, Palmer G, Woodruff WH. Far-Red Resonance Raman Study of Copper A in Subunit II of Cytochrome c Oxidase. J Am Chem Soc 1996. [DOI: 10.1021/ja953646d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Stacie E. Wallace-Williams
- CST-4, Los Alamos National Laboratory Mail Stop G758, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Technical University Delft, The Netherlands European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- CST-4, Los Alamos National Laboratory Mail Stop G758, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Technical University Delft, The Netherlands European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- CST-4, Los Alamos National Laboratory Mail Stop G758, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Technical University Delft, The Netherlands European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- CST-4, Los Alamos National Laboratory Mail Stop G758, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Technical University Delft, The Netherlands European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- CST-4, Los Alamos National Laboratory Mail Stop G758, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Technical University Delft, The Netherlands European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- CST-4, Los Alamos National Laboratory Mail Stop G758, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Technical University Delft, The Netherlands European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- CST-4, Los Alamos National Laboratory Mail Stop G758, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Technical University Delft, The Netherlands European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- CST-4, Los Alamos National Laboratory Mail Stop G758, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Technical University Delft, The Netherlands European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- CST-4, Los Alamos National Laboratory Mail Stop G758, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Technical University Delft, The Netherlands European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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Berks BC, Ferguson SJ, Moir JW, Richardson DJ. Enzymes and associated electron transport systems that catalyse the respiratory reduction of nitrogen oxides and oxyanions. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1995; 1232:97-173. [PMID: 8534676 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(95)00092-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 390] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- B C Berks
- Centre for Metalloprotein Spectroscopy and Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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Farrar JA, Lappalainen P, Zumft WG, Saraste M, Thomson AJ. Spectroscopic and mutagenesis studies on the CuA centre from the cytochrome-c oxidase complex of Paracoccus denitrificans. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1995; 232:294-303. [PMID: 7556164 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1995.tb20811.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Cytochrome-c oxidase contains an unusual copper centre (CuA) located in subunit II. This centre mediates one-electron transfer from cytochrome c to low-spin heme a. Recent spectroscopic and biochemical studies have shown that this centre is a valence delocalised dinuclear [Cu(+1.5)-Cu(+1.5)] centre. We have measured the absorption, EPR and variable-temperature magnetic circular dichroism spectra of the CuA-binding domain isolated from Paracoccus denitrificans cytochrome aa3. The EPR spectrum showed the following signals: gparallel = 2.18; gperpendicular = 2.03. gparallel exhibited a seven-line hyperfine splitting pattern, with an intensity ratio showing that the single unpaired electron interacted equally with two copper nuclei. The magnetic circular dichroism spectrum was identical to those from CuA in bovine heart cytochrome-c oxidase and centre A of nitrous-oxide reductase, showing the close structural similarity between the three centres. To identify the ligands of CuA, all the conserved putative ligands in the P. denitrificans CuA domain were substituted. Only five residues, Cys244, Cys248, His209, His252, and Met255, were required for correct assembly of the CuA centre. Replacement of Met255 caused protein misfolding. Hence, methionine may have a structural role for the folding of the protein rather than being a CuA ligand. Given that both copper ions must have identical coordination geometries, the number of possible structures is limited. Two models are proposed: one involves the thiolate side-chains of Cys244 and Cys248 bridging a pair of copper ions with one histidine coordinating each copper ion, and the other has terminal ligation of each copper ion by one cysteine and one histidine residue. In both models, the metal-metal distance can be sufficiently short to permit direct d-orbital overlap of the copper ions. The magnetic circular dichroism transitions at 475 nm and 525 nm are assigned to thiolate-to-copper charge-transfer processes polarised perpendicular to one another, although the magnetic circular dichroism intensities show that the excited states were heavily mixed with copper d-orbitals. These intensities can be interpreted in the thiolate bridged model in terms of transitions within a Cu2(SR)2 rhomb. In the model involving terminal cysteine ligation, exciton coupling of two thiolate-to-copper charge-transfer transitions of similar energy, polarised along the Cu-S bonds, would contribute two transitions perpendicular to one another. This requires that the cysteine ligands have a cis orientation relative to one another.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- J A Farrar
- Centre for Metalloprotein Spectroscopy and Biology, School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
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- O Einarsdóttir
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
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Lappalainen P, Aasa R, Malmström BG, Saraste M. Soluble CuA-binding domain from the Paracoccus cytochrome c oxidase. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)74330-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Haltia T. Reduction of CuA induces a conformational change in cytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1098:343-50. [PMID: 1310624 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(09)91016-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Cytochrome c oxidase (cytochrome aa3) from Paracoccus denitrificans contains a tightly bound manganese(II) ion, which responds to reduction of the enzyme by a change in its EPR signal (Seelig et al. (1981) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 636, 162-167). In this paper, the nature of this phenomenon is studied and the bound manganese is used as a reporter group to monitor a redox-linked conformational change in the protein. A reductive titration of the cyanide-inhibited enzyme shows that the change in the manganese EPR signal is associated with reduction of CuA. The change appears to reflect a rearrangement in the rhombic octahedral coordination environment of the central Mn2+ atom and is indicative of a redox-linked conformational transition in the enzyme. The manganese is likely to reside at the interface of subunits I and II, near the periplasmic side of the membrane. One of its ligands may be provided by the transmembrane segment X of subunit I, which has been suggested to contribute ligands to cytochrome a and CuB as well. Another manganese ligand is a water oxygen, as indicated by broadening of the manganese EPR signal in the presence of H2(17)O.
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- T Haltia
- Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Chapter 9 Cytochrome oxidase: notes on structure and mechanism. MOLECULAR MECHANISMS IN BIOENERGETICS 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7306(08)60177-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Cytochrome oxidase genes from Thermus thermophilus. Nucleotide sequence and analysis of the deduced primary structure of subunit IIc of cytochrome caa3. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)67751-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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This article tries to be a compact summary of some recent research on cytochromecoxidase (EC 1.9.3.1), an important enzyme in membrane bioenergetics. Cytochrome oxidase is the terminal catalyst of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. It uses the electrons flowing through the chain to reduce oxygen molecules to water. Four electrons and four protons are consumed in the reduction of O2to two molecules of water (Fig. 1). Cytochrome oxidase contains four redoxactive metal centres. Two of these are copper atoms, two haem A groups. These four centres are employed in the dioxygen-binding site and in the electron-transferring pathways from cytochromec. The enzyme is also called cytochromeaa3, because the protein-bound haems are functionally and spectroscopically different.
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- M Saraste
- Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland
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