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Query: EC:1.6.5.3 (
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An
NADH dehydrogenase
possessing a specific activity 3-5 times that of membrane-bound enzyme was obtained by extraction of Acholeplasma laidlawii membranes with 9.0% ethanol at 43 degrees C. This dehydrogenase contained only trace amounts of iron (suggesting an uncoupled respiration), a flavin ratio of 1:2 FAD to FMN and 30-40% lipid. Its resistance to sedimentation is probably due to the high flotation density of the lipids. It efficiently utilized ferricyanide, menadione and dichlorophenol indophenol as electron acceptors, but not O2, ubiquinone Q10 or cytochrome c. Lineweaver-Burk plots of the dehydrogenase were altered to linear functions upon extraction with 9.0% ethanol. A secondary site of ferricyanide reduction could not be explained by the presence of cytochromes, which these membranes lack. In comparison to other respiratory chain-linked NADH dehydrogenases in cytochrome-containing respiratory chains, this dehydrogenase was characterized by similar Km's with ferricyanide, dichlorophenol indophenol, menadione as electron acceptors, but considerably smaller V's with ferricyanide, dichlorophenol indophenol, menadione as electron acceptors, and smaller specific activities. It was not stimulated or reactivated by the addition of FAD, FMN, Mg2+,
cysteine
or membrane lipids, and was less sensitive to respiratory inhibitors than unextracted enzyme. The ineffectiveness of ADP stimulation on O2 uptake, the insensitivity to oligomycin and the very low iron content of A. laidlawii membranes were considered in relation to conservation of energy by these cells. Some kinetic properties of the dehydrogenation, the uniquely high glycolipid content and apparently uncoupled respiration at Site I were noteworthy characteristics of this
NADH dehydrogenase
from the truncated respiratory chain of A. laidlawii.
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PMID:The reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide "oxidase" of Acholeplasma laidlawii membranes. 17 76
The maxicircle of Trypanosoma brucei encodes components of the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation system, as do other mitochondrial DNAs, but maxicircle gene identification is complicated by extensive editing of some transcripts. We found that transcripts from the CR1 region were extensively edited, as are other transcripts from maxicircle regions which exhibit strong G versus C strand bias. Editing added 259 uridines and removed 46 uridines to produce an approximately 574-nucleotide mature mRNA. Partially edited cDNAs and potential guide RNAs were also characterized. Initiation and termination codons were created, and they defined an open reading frame encoding a predicted protein of 145 amino acids. This protein contains two iron-sulfur
cysteine
motifs and is homologous to a subunit of
NADH dehydrogenase
and to other electron-carrier proteins. Higher levels of both edited and unedited CR1 transcripts accumulated in bloodstream forms of the parasite than in procyclic forms, suggesting developmental regulation of CR1 gene expression.
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PMID:Maxicircle CR1 transcripts of Trypanosoma brucei are edited and developmentally regulated and encode a putative iron-sulfur protein homologous to an NADH dehydrogenase subunit. 137 7
FNR is an iron-binding transcriptional regulator for anaerobic gene expression in Escherichia coli. Footprinting studies with the purified protein have confirmed that it is a site-specific DNA-binding protein. Transcription tests with the positively-regulated FFmelR promoter and the negatively-regulated ndh promoter likewise demonstrated that FNR can activate or repress transcription in vitro. Reducing conditions were not required but activity was abolished by substituting an essential
cysteine
residue with alanine (C122A) and the affinity for DNA was reduced by iron-depletion. The start point(s) for transcription of the FNR-repressed
NADH dehydrogenase
II gene (ndh) were identified by transcript mapping and the corresponding promoter (-35 and -10 sequences) was located immediately downstream of the FNR-binding site.
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PMID:FNR activates and represses transcription in vitro. 168 45
The sequence of a 19 kDa subunit of
NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase
(complex I) from bovine heart mitochondria has been determined by a new strategy based on the polymerase chain reaction. The subunits of the enzyme were resolved in a polyacrylamide gel by two-dimensional isoelectric focusing and electrophoresis under denaturing conditions, transferred to a poly(vinylidene difluoride) membrane, and the N-terminal sequence was determined on the stained 19 kDa protein up to residue 27. This information was used to design two mixed oligonucleotide primers and a mixed oligonucleotide probe. With total bovine heart cDNA as template, overlapping cDNAs extending to sequences corresponding to both the 5' and 3' extremities of the mRNA coding for the 19 kDa subunit were synthesized in three polymerase chain reactions. These cDNAs were cloned and sequenced and encode a 171-amino-acid mature protein preceded by a methionine residue. The mature protein contains eight
cysteine
residues spaced at regular intervals through the protein, but the
cysteine
-rich motifs that are often associated with tetranuclear or binuclear centres in other proteins are not present. However, all eight
cysteine
residues are strictly conserved in a related protein from Neurospora crassa, suggesting that they have structural and/or functional significance in
complex I
.
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PMID:NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase from bovine mitochondria. cDNA sequence of a 19 kDa cysteine-rich subunit. 183 Feb 4
In cattle, 7 of the 30 or more subunits of the respiratory enzyme NADH:
ubiquinone reductase
(complex I) are encoded in mitochondrial DNA, and potential genes (open reading frames, orfs) for related proteins are found in the chloroplast genomes of Marchantia polymorpha and Nicotiana tabacum. Homologues of the nuclear-coded 49- and 23-kDa subunits are also coded in chloroplast DNA, and these orfs are clustered with four of the homologues of the mammalian mitochondrial genes. These findings have been taken to indicate that chloroplasts contain a relative of
complex I
. The present work provides further support. The 30-kDa subunit of the bovine enzyme is a component of the iron-sulfur protein fraction. Partial protein sequences have been determined, and synthetic oligonucleotide mixtures based on them have been employed as hybridization probes to identify cognate cDNA clones from a bovine library. Their sequences encode the mitochondrial import precursor of the 30-kDa subunit. The mature protein of 228 amino acids contains a segment of 57 amino acids which is closely related to parts of proteins encoded in orfs 169 and 158 in the chloroplast genomes of M. polymorpha and N. tabacum. Moreover, the chloroplast orfs are found near homologues of the mammalian mitochondrial genes for subunit ND3. Therefore, the plant chloroplast genomes have at least two separate clusters of potential genes encoding homologues of subunits of mitochondrial
complex I
. The bovine 30-kDa subunit has no extensive sequences of hydrophobic amino acids that could be folded into membrane-spanning alpha-helices, and although it contains two
cysteine
residues, there is no clear evidence in the sequence that it is an iron-sulfur protein.
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PMID:The 30-kilodalton subunit of bovine mitochondrial complex I is homologous to a protein coded in chloroplast DNA. 189 21
The chloroplast genomes of Marchantia polymorpha, Nicotiana tabacum, and Oryza sativa contain open reading frames (ORFs or potential genes) encoding homologues of some of the subunits of mitochondrial
NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase
(complex I). Seven of these subunits (ND1-ND4, ND4L, ND5, and ND6) are products of the mitochondrial genome, and two others (the 49- and 30-kDa components of the iron-sulfur protein fraction) are nuclear gene products. These findings have been taken to indicate the presence in chloroplasts of an enzyme related to
complex I
, possibly an NAD(P)H:plastoquinone oxidoreductase, participating in chlororespiration. This view is reinforced by the present work in which we have shown that chloroplast genomes encode a homologue of the 23-kDa subunit, another nuclear-encoded component of bovine
complex I
. The 23-kDa subunit is in the hydrophobic protein fraction of the enzyme, the residuum after removal of the flavoprotein and iron-sulfur protein fractions. The sequence motif CysXXCysXXCysXXXCysPro, which provides ligands for tetranuclear iron-sulfur centers in ferredoxins, occurs twice in its polypeptide chain and is evidence of two associated 4Fe-4S clusters. This is the only iron-sulfur protein identified so far in the hydrophobic protein fraction of
complex I
, and so it is possible that one of these centers is that known as N-2, the donor of electrons to ubiquinone. The sequence of the 23-kDa subunit is closely related to potential proteins, which also contain the
cysteine
-rich sequence motifs, encoded in the frxB ORFs in chloroplast genomes.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:A homologue of a nuclear-coded iron-sulfur protein subunit of bovine mitochondrial complex I is encoded in chloroplast genomes. 190 Oct 22
The amino acid sequence of the 10 kDa subunit of the flavoprotein (FP) fragment of
complex I
from bovine heart mitochondria has been determined by protein sequence analysis, thereby completing the sequence of the FP fragment. The calculated molecular weight of the 10 kDa subunit agrees exactly with the value of 8438 determined by electrospray mass spectrometry, and further confirmation of the sequence has been obtained by sequencing cDNAs amplified from total bovine heart cDNA by the polymerase chain reaction, using mixed oligonucleotides based upon the protein sequence as primers and hybridization probes. The sequence of the 10 kDa subunit is not related to that of any known protein. Being devoid of
cysteine
residues, it has none of the characteristic features of known iron-sulfur proteins and it is improbable that it is involved in liganding Fe-S centers in the FP fragment.
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PMID:NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase from bovine heart mitochondria. Complementary DNA sequence of the import precursor of the 10 kDa subunit of the flavoprotein fragment. 190 1
Mitochondrial
NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase
(complex I) is the most complicated system in the respiratory chain. It consists of many subunits, some of which hold iron-sulfur clusters, but structural information is still limited. The amino acid sequences of two 13 kDa polypeptides, 13 kDa-A and 13 kDa-B polypeptides, of iron-sulfur protein fraction (IP) of bovine heart mitochondrial
complex I
were determined by a combination of protease digestion, Edman degradation, and carboxypeptidase digestion. The 13 kDa-A polypeptide was composed of 96 amino acids with a molecular weight of 10,536. The 13 kDa-B polypeptide consisted of 114 amino acids and had an acetylated amino terminus. The molecular weight of this protein was calculated to be 13,130 including the acetyl group. These proteins had no obvious sequence similarity to other known proteins. The partial amino acid sequence of 30 kDa-B polypeptide of IP was also determined to reveal a characteristic arrangement of
cysteine
residues that could be involved in iron-sulfur cluster formation.
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PMID:The amino acid sequences of two 13 kDa polypeptides and partial amino acid sequence of 30 kDa polypeptide of complex I from bovine heart mitochondria: possible location of iron-sulfur clusters. 190 66
A large Queensland family has an extreme form of Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) in which several neurological abnormalities and an infantile encephalopathy are present in addition to the characteristic ophthalmological changes. Sequence analysis of the seven mitochondrial genes encoding subunits of respiratory chain
complex I
(
NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase
) reveals two novel features of the etiology of this mitochondrial genetic disease. The first conclusion from these studies is that the ophthalmological and neurological deficits in this family are produced by a mutation at nucleotide 4160 of the ND1 gene. This nucleotide alteration results in the substitution of proline for the highly conserved leucine residue at position 285 of the ND1 protein. Secondary-structure analysis predicts that the proline replacement disrupts a small alpha helix in a hydrophilic loop. All nine family members analyzed were homoplasmic for this mutation. The second major result from these studies is that the members of one branch of this family carry, at nucleotide 4136 of the same gene, a second mutation, also homoplasmic, which produces a
cysteine
-for-tyrosine replacement at position 277. The clinical and biochemical phenotypes of the family members indicate that this second nucleotide substitution may function as an intragenic suppressor mutation which ameliorates the neurological abnormalities and
complex I
deficiency.
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PMID:Leber hereditary optic neuropathy: involvement of the mitochondrial ND1 gene and evidence for an intragenic suppressor mutation. 173 27
A lambda gt11 cDNA expression library was screened with antibodies directed against individual subunits of
complex I
from Neurospora crassa. Clones encoding cytoplasmically synthesized polypeptides with apparent molecular masses of 22, 29, 31, and 33 kDa were isolated. Northern blot analysis revealed that the corresponding genes are transcribed into mRNA species of about 0.85, 0.95, 1.3, and 1.4 kilobases, respectively. Further characterization of clones encoding the 22-kDa subunit was performed. A cDNA insert of 755 base pairs containing the complete coding sequence was used to express the polypeptide in vitro. A precursor of the protein is synthesized on cytoplasmic ribosomes without a cleavable signal sequence. Our data indicate that after import into the organelle and before assembly into
complex I
, the 22-kDa polypeptide forms intramolecular disulfide bridge(s). Nucleotide sequencing revealed an open reading frame coding for a protein of 183 amino acids. A molecular mass of 20,828 daltons was calculated. The polypeptide is hydrophilic and contains no obvious membrane-spanning domains. Eight
cysteine
residues arranged in a regular pattern are found in the primary structure of the protein. Therefore, this subunit is a good candidate to bind at least one of the iron-sulfur centers present in
complex I
of the respiratory chain.
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PMID:Molecular cloning of subunits of complex I from Neurospora crassa. Primary structure and in vitro expression of a 22-kDa polypeptide. 214 43
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