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Query: EC:1.6.5.3 (complex I)
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The hydrolytic stability of phosphorylated pigeon breast muscle succinyl-CoA synthetase within a wide pH range was studied. It was found that within complex I the phosphate-protein bond is hydrolyzed at alkaline values of pH (11.0 and 13.0); at acidic pH values this bond is hydrolyzed by 50%. Within complex II the phosphate-protein bond is hydrolyzed at acidic pH values and is stable at alkaline pH values. The reaction of the phosphorylated enzyme with hydroxylamine and diisopropylfluorophosphate results in protein dephosphorylation by 50%. Ion-exchange chromatography of the radioactive phosphorylated enzyme II alkaline hydrolyzate (3 n NaOH, 3 hours, 100 degrees C) revealed that the radioactivity was distributed between 1-N-, 3-N-phosphohistidine and 1.3-N-diphosphohistidine fractions. The experimental results suggest that in the phosphorylated enzyme I phosphate is bound to the protein to form an acyl phosphate and phosphoester bonds, while in the phosphorylated enzyme II phosphate binding to the protein occurs with the formation of phosphoamide bonds.
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PMID:[The nature of phosphate residue binding in the phosphorylated form of succinyl-CoA-synthetase from pigeon breast muscle]. 373 Apr 43

The NADH:ubiquinone, but not the NADH:ferricyanide, reductase activity of mitochondrial complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) is inhibited by incubation of the enzyme at pH 6.0 and 0 degree C with ethoxyformic anhydride (EFA), and the inhibition is partially reversed by subsequent incubation of EFA-treated complex I with hydroxylamine. These results and spectral changes of EFA-treated complex I in the u.v. region are consistent with modification of essential histidyl or tyrosyl residues between the primary NADH dehydrogenase and the site of ubiquinone reduction. Treatment of complex I with EFA in the presence of high concentrations of Seconal or Demerol did not protect against EFA inactivation, suggesting that the site of EFA modification may not be the same as the inhibiton sites of Seconal and Demerol. However, the presence of NADH during incubation of complex I with EFA greatly enhanced the inhibition rate, indicating that the reduced conformation of complex I is more susceptible to attack by EFA.
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PMID:Inhibition of mitochondrial NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase by ethoxyformic anhydride. 644 75

The process of nitrate reduction via nitrite controls the fate and bioavailability of mineral nitrogen within ecosystems; i.e., whether it is retained as ammonium (ammonification) or lost as nitrous oxide or dinitrogen (denitrification). Here, we present experimental evidence for a novel pathway of microbial nitrate reduction, the reverse hydroxylamine:ubiquinone reductase module (reverse-HURM) pathway. Instead of a classical ammonia-forming nitrite reductase that performs a 6 electron-transfer process, the pathway is thought to employ two catalytic redox modules operating in sequence: the reverse-HURM reducing nitrite to hydroxylamine followed by a hydroxylamine reductase that converts hydroxylamine to ammonium. Experiments were performed on Nautilia profundicola strain AmH, whose genome sequence led to the reverse-HURM pathway proposal. N. profundicola produced ammonium from nitrate, which was assimilated into biomass. Furthermore, genes encoding the catalysts of the reverse-HURM pathway were preferentially expressed during growth of N. profundicola on nitrate as an electron acceptor relative to cultures grown on polysulfide as an electron acceptor. Finally, nitrate-grown cells of N. profundicola were able to rapidly and stoichiometrically convert high concentrations of hydroxylamine to ammonium in resting cell assays. These experiments are consistent with the reverse-HURM pathway and a free hydroxylamine intermediate, but could not definitively exclude direct nitrite reduction to ammonium by the reverse-HURM with hydroxylamine as an off-pathway product. N. profundicola and related organisms are models for a new pathway of nitrate ammonification that may have global impact due to the wide distribution of these organisms in hypoxic environments and symbiotic or pathogenic associations with animal hosts.
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PMID:Nitrate ammonification by Nautilia profundicola AmH: experimental evidence consistent with a free hydroxylamine intermediate. 2384 4