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BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 48, 期 21, 页码 4448-4454出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi802288m
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- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (Canada)
- Canadian Foundation for innovation
BsSco is a member of the Sco protein family involved in the assembly of the Cu-A center within cytochrome c oxidase. BsSco forms a complex with Cu(II) that has properties consistent with dithiolate ligation. Stopped-flow UV-visible absorbance and fluorescence coupled with multiwavelength analysis reveal biphasic binding kinetics between BsSco and Cu(II). An initial species appears with absorbance centered at 382 nm at a copper concentration-dependent rate (2.9 x 10(4) M-1 s(-1)). The initial species decays at a first-order rate (1.5 s(-1)) to the equilibrium form with a maximum at 352 rim. Formation of the BsSco-Cu (II) complex is accompanied by quenching of protein fluorescence. The copper concentration-dependent phase gives 70% of the total quenching.. while the final 30% develops during the second phase of the absorbance change. The pH dependence of copper binding shows that the copper-dependent rate increases by 50-fold as the pH decreases from 8.5 to 5.5 with an apparent pK(a) of 6.7. The slower phase rate is independent of pH. Comparison of circular dichroism spectra between apo-BsSco and the BsSco-Cu(II) complex reveals a small change in the UV region consistent with a subtle conformational change upon copper binding. There is formation of a distinctive visible CD spectrum in the BsSco-Cu(II) complex. A model is presented in which the kinetic and thermodynamic stability of the BsSco-Cu(II) complex results from a two-step mechanism. Release of copper would be facilitated in the intermediate form of BsSco, and attaining such a low-Cu(II) affinity state may be important for BsSco's function in Cu-A assembly.
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