期刊
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS
卷 1817, 期 11, 页码 2087-2094出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.06.009
关键词
Metabolism; Molecular bioenergetics; Spectroscopy; Excitonic coupling; Chlorin; Thermophilic bacterium
资金
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [11-04-00031-a]
Cytochromes bd are terminal oxidases in the respiratory chains of many prokaryotic organisms. They reduce O-2 to 2H(2)O at the expense of electrons extracted from quinol. The oxidases can be divided into two subfamilies, L and S. based on the presence of either a long or a short hydrophilic connection between transmembrane helices 6 and 7 in subunit I designated as 'Q-loop'. The L-subfamily members, e.g. the enzyme from Escherichia coli, are relatively well-studied and were shown to generate proton-motive force. The S-subfamily comprises the majority of cytochromes bd including the enzyme from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans but is very poor studied. We compared the properties of cytochromes bd from G. thermodenitrificans and E. coli at room temperature using a combination of absorption. CD and MCD spectroscopy. The G. thermodenitrificans enzyme does contain the high-spin heme b(Hs) (b(595)) despite the fact that its characteristic Q(00)-band (alpha-band) at 595 nm is not seen in the absorption spectra: stoichiometry of hemes b(LS), b(HS) and d per the enzyme complex is suggested to be 1:1:1. At 1 mM CO, 20-25% of ferrous heme b(HS) in the G. thermodenitrificans oxidase binds the ligand, while in case of the E. coli enzyme such a reaction is minor. In the G. thermodenitrificans oxidase, the excitonic interaction between ferrous hemes b(HS) and d decreased as compared to that in the E. coli bd. The latter may suggest that the two enzymes differ in the distance between heme d and heme b(HS) and/or in the angle between their porphyrin planes. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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