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1. Submitochondrial particles from Neurospora strain inl-89601 have been analyzed by electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR). Numerous signals due to iron-sulfur proteins are observed at low temperatures. Analysis of these ESR signals at various temperatures allows the assignment of resonances to iron-sulfur centers 1-5 that have been described in other organisms. There are no discrepancies between the signals seen in Neurospora and those described in other organisms and it is likely that Neurospora mitochondria contain the same iron-sulfur centers that are observed elsewhere. 2. NADPH and NADH act to reduce the iron-sulfur centers of respiratory complex I. 3. The drug pyrrolnitrin [3-chloro-4-(2'-nitro-3'-chlorphenyl)pyrrole] is an effective inhibitor of both NADH-supported and succinate-supported electron transport in Neurospora. 4. Analysis of pyrrolnitrin inhibition curves, respiration studies, ESR spectra, and the steady-state level of reduction of cytochrome b in the presence and absence of the drug shows that pyrrolnitrin acts to inhibit electron transport in Neurospora mitochondria at multiple sites in the region between ubiquinone and cytochrome b.
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PMID:Electron spin resonance investigations of mitochondrial electron transport in Neurospora crassa. Characterization of paramagnetic intermediates in a standard strain. 1 65

This paper clarifies the role of cytochrome c in Pseudomonas AM1 by measuring the stoicheiometry of proton translocation driven by respiration of endogenous or added substrates in wild-type bacteria and in a mutant lacking cytochrome c (mutant PCT76). The maximum -->H(+)/O ratio (protons translocated out of the bacteria per atom of oxygen consumed during respiration) was about 4 and, except when respiration was markedly affected, this ratio was similar in mutant and wild-type bacteria. The -->H(+)/O ratios were unaltered when the usual oxidase (cytochrome a(3)) was inhibited by 300mum-KCN and respiration involved the single cytochrome b functioning as an alternative oxidase. Ratios measured in cells respiring endogenous substrate and in cells loaded with malate or 3-hydroxybutyrate suggest that there are two proton-translocating segments operating during the oxidation of NADH. By contrast, during oxidation of formaldehyde or methylamine only one pair of protons is translocated. Proton translocation could not be measured with methanol as substrate, because its oxidation was inhibited (90-95%) by 5mm-KSCN. It is tentatively proposed that the electron-transport chain for NADH oxidation in Pseudomonas AM1 is arranged such that the NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase forms one proton-translocating segment and the second segment consists of ubiquinone and cytochromes b and a/a(3). The cytochrome c appears to be essential only for respiration and proton translocation from methanol (and possibly from methylamine); there is no conclusive evidence that cytochrome c ever mediates between cytochromes b and a/a(3) in Pseudomonas AM1.
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PMID:The microbial metabolism of Cl compounds. The stoicheiometry of respiration-driven proton translocation in Pseudomonas AM1 and in a mutant lacking cytochrome c. 2 51

1. Respiration of chemotrophically and phototrophically grown Rhodospirillum rubrum is inhibited by 2-hydroxydiphenyl. 2. Membrane-bound NADH oxidase and NADH: cytochrome c reductase are inhibited also. The inhibitor constant for both reactions (Ki) is 0.075 plus or minus 0.012 mM. NADH dehydrogenase is not inhibited significantly. 3. The inhibition of succinate:cytochrome c reductase is associated for chemotrophic membranes with Ki equals 0.22 plus or minus 0.03 mM and for phototrophic membranes with Ki equals 0.49 plus or minus 0.09 mM. Succinate dehydrogenase is not affected by 2-hydroxydiphenyl. 4. Cytochrome oxidase is inhibited only slightly. 5. While NADH-dependent reactions in both phototrophic and chemotrophic membranes are inhibited maximally more than 95 percent, succinate-dependent reactions can be inhibited more than 95 percent only in chemotrophic membranes. In phototrophic membranes the maximum inhibition of succinate-dependent reactions is about 70 percent. 6. The type of inhibition in both cases 2 and 3 is non-competitive. 7. While the reduction of b-type cytochrome is inhibited by 2-hydroxydiphenyl, the degree of ubiquinone reduction is not influenced. The data suggest that the site of inhibition is localized between ubiquinone and cytochrome b. 8. Implications of these data for the respiratory electron transport system in R. rubrum are discussed.
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PMID:Separation of respiratory reactions in Rhodospirillum rubrum: inhibition studies with 2-hydroxydiphenyl. 16 37

1. Electron transport particles obtained from cell-free extracts of Propionibacterium shermanii by centrifugation at 105000 times g for 3 hrs oxidized NADH, D,L-lactate, L-glycerol-3-phosphate and succinate with oxygen and, except for succinate, with fumarate, too. 2. Spectral investigation of the electron transport particles revealed the presence of cytochromes b, d and o, and traces of cytochrome alpha1 and a c-type cytochrome. Cytochrome b was reduced by succinate to about 50%, and by NADH, lactate or glycerol-3-phosphate to 80--90%. 3. The inhibitory effects of amytal and rotenone on NADH oxidation, but not on the oxidation of the other substrates, indicated the presence of the NADH dehydrogenase complex, or "site I region", in the electron transport system of P. shermanii. 4. NQNO inhibited substrate oxidations by oxygen and fumarate, as well as equilibration of the flavoproteins of the substrate dehydrogenases by way of menaquinone. The inhibition occurred at low concentrations of the inhibitor and reached 80--100%, depending on the substrate tested. The site of inhibition of the respiratory activity was located between menaquinone and cytochrome b. In addition, inhibition of flavoprotein equilibration suggested that NQNO acted upon the electron transfer directed from menaquinol towards the acceptor to be reduced, either cytochrome b or the flavoproteins, which would include fumarate reductase. 5. In NQNO-inhibited particles, cytochrome b was not oxidized by oxygen-free fumarate, but readily oxidized by oxygen. It was concluded from this and the above evidence that the branching-point of the electron transport chain towards fumarate reductase was located at the menaquinone in P. shermanii. It was further concluded that all cytochromes were situated in the oxygen-linked branch of the chain, which formed a dead end of the system under anaerobic conditions. 6. Antimycin A inhibited only oxygen-linked reactions of the particles to about 50% at high concentrations of the inhibitor. Inhibitors of terminal oxidases were inactive, except for carbon monoxide.
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PMID:The electron transport system of the anaerobic Propionibacterium shermanii: cytochrome and inhibitor studies. 16 27

Two distinct ferredosin-type iron-sulfur centers (designated as Centers S-1 and S-2) are present in the soulble succinate dehydrogenase in approximately equivalent concentrations to that of bound flavin. Both Centers S-1 and S-2 exhibit electron paramagnetic resonance absorbance in the reduced state at the same magnetic field (gz = 2.03, gy = 1.93, and gx = 1.91) with similar line shape. Center S-2 is reducible only chemically with dithionite and remains oxidized under physiological conditions. Thus, its functional role is unknown; however, thermodynamic and EPR characterization of this iron-sulfur center has revealed important molecular events related to this dehydrogenase. The midpoint potentials of Centers S-1 and S-2 determined in the soluble succinate dehydrogenase preparations are -5 +/- 15 mV and -400 +/- 15 mV, respectively, while corresponding midpoint potentials determined in particulate preparations, such as succinate-cytochrome c reductase or succinate-ubiquinone reductase, are 0 +/- 15 mV and -260 +/- 15 mV. Reconstitution of soluble succinate dehydrogenase with the cytochrome b-c1 complex is accompanied by a reversion of the Center S-I midpoint from -400 +/- 15 mV to -250 +/- 15 mV with a concomitant restoration of antimycin A-sensitive succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity. There observations indicate that, during the reconstitution process, Center S-I is restored to its original molecular environment. In the reconstitutively active succinate dehydrogenase, the relaxation time of Center S-2 is much shorter than that of S-1, thus Center S-2 spectra are well discernible only below 20 K (at 1 milliwatt of power), while the resonance absorbance of Center S-1 is detectable at higher temperatures and readily saturates below 15 K. Over a wide temperature range the power saturation of Center S-1 resonance absorbance is relieved by Center S-2 in the paramagnetic state, and the Center S-2 central resonance absorbance is broadened by Center S-1 spins, due to a spin-spin interaction between these centers. These observations indicate an adjacent location of these centers in the enzyme molecule. In reconstitutively inactive enzymes, subtle modification of the enzyme structure appears to shift the temperature dependence of Center S-2 relaxation to the higher temperature. Thus the EPR signals of Center S-2 are also detectable at higher temperature. In this system a splitting of the central peak of the Center S-2 spectrum due to spin-spin interaction was observed at extremely low temperatures, while this was not observed in reconstitutively active enzymes or in paritculate preparations. This spin-spin interaction phenomena of inactive enzymes disappeared upon chemical reactivation with concomitant appearance of the reconstitutive activity. These observations provide a close correlation between the molecular integrity of the enzyme and its physiological function.
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PMID:Thermodynamic and EPR characteristics of two ferredoxin-type iron-sulfur centers in the succinate-ubiquinone reductase segment of the respiratory chain. 17 55

1. The NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase complex (Complex I) and the ubiquinol-cytochrome c oxidoreductase complex (Complex III) combine in a 1:1 molar ratio to give NADH-cytochrome c oxidoreductase (Complex I-Complex III). 2. Experiments on the inhibition of the NADH-cytochrome c oxidoreductase activity of mixtures of Complexes I and III by rotenone and antimycin indicate that electron transfer between a unit of Complex I-Complex III and extra molecules of Complexes I or III does not contribute to the overall rate of cytochrome c reduction. 3. The reduction by NADH of the cytochrome b of mixtures of Complexes I and III is biphasic. The extents of the fast and slow phases of reduction are determined by the proportion of the total Complex III specifically associated with Complex I. 4. Activation-energy measurements suggest that the structural features of the Complex I-Complex III unit promote oxidoreduction of endogenous ubiquinone-10.
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PMID:The interaction between mitochondrial NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase and ubiquinol-cytochrome c oxidoreductase. Evidence for stoicheiometric association. 21 22

Oxidation factor, a protein required for electron transfer from succinate to cytochrome c in the mitochondrial respiratory chain, has been purified from isolated succinate . cytochrome c reductase complex. Purification of the protein has been followed by a reconstitution assay in which restoration of ubiquinol . cytochrome c reductase activity is proportional to the amount of oxidation factor added back to depleted reductase complex. The purified protein is a homogeneous polypeptide on acrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate and migrates with an apparent Mr = 24,500. Purified oxidation factor restores succinate . cytochrome c reductase and ubiquinol . cytochrome c reductase activities to depleted reductase complex. It is not required for succinate dehydrogenase nor for succinate . ubiquinone reductase activities of the reconstituted reductase complex. Oxidation factor co-electrophoreses with the iron-sulfur protein polypeptide of ubiquinol . cytochrome c reductase complex. The purified protein contains 56 nmol of nonheme iron and 36 nmol of acid-labile sulfide/mg of protein and possesses an EPR spectrum with the characteristic "g = 1.90" signal identical to that of the iron-sulfur protein of the cytochrome b . c1 complex. In addition, the optimal conditions for extraction of oxidation factor, including reduction with hydrosulfite and treatment of the b . c1 complex with antimycin, are identical to those which facilitate extraction of the iron-sulfur protein from the b . c1 complex. These results indicate that oxidation factor is a reconstitutively active form of the iron-sulfur protein of the cytochrome b . c1 complex first discovered by Rieske and co-workers (Rieske, J.S., Maclennan, D.H., and Coleman, R. (1964) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 15, 338-344) and thus demonstrate that this iron-sulfur protein is required for electron transfer from ubiquinol to cytochrome c in the mitochondrial respiratory chain.
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PMID:Purification of a reconstitutively active iron-sulfur protein (oxidation factor) from succinate . cytochrome c reductase complex of bovine heart mitochondria. 22 62

The electron transfer complexes, succinate: ubiquinone reductase, ubiquinone: cytochrome c reductase, and cytochrome c: O2 oxidase were isolated from the mitochondrial membranes of Neurospora crassa by the following steps. Modification of the contents of the complexes in mitochondria by growing cells on chloramphenicol; solubilisation of the complexes by Triton X-100; affinity chromatography on immobilized cytochrome c and ion exchange and gel chromatography. Ubiquinone reductase was obtained in a monomeric form (Mr approximately 130 000) consisting of a flavin subunit (Mr 72 000) an iron-sulfur subunit (Mr 28 000) and a cytochrome b subunit (Mr probably 14 000). Cytochrome c reductase was obtained in a dimeric form (Mr approximately 550 000), the monomeric unit comprising the cytochromes b (Mr each 30 000), a cytochrome c1 (Mr 31 000), the iron-sulfur subunit (Mr 25 000), and six subunits without known prosthetic groups (Mr 9000, 11 000, 14 000, 45 000, 45 000, and 52 000). Cytochrome c oxidase was also isolated in a dimeric form (Mr approximately 320 000) comprising two copies each of seven subunits (Mr 9000, 12 000, 14 000, 18 000, 21 000, 29 000, and 40 000). The complexes were essentially free of phospholipid. Each bound one micelle of Triton X-100 (Mr approximately 90 000). After isolation, the bound Triton X-100 could be replaced by other nonionic detergents such as: alkylphenyl polyoxyethylene ethers, alkyl polyoxyethylene ethers and acyl polyoxyethylene sorbitan esters.
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PMID:Isolation of mitochondrial succinate: ubiquinone reductase, cytochrome c reductase and cytochrome c oxidase from Neurospora crassa using nonionic detergent. 22 65

1. Whole cells of Methylomonas Pl1 contained ubiquinone, identified as ubiquinone-8. No naphthaquinone was detected. Ubiquinone was located predominantly in the particulate fraction, which also contained most of the NADH oxidase activity. 2. Aerobic incubation of cells with formaldehyde or methanol resulted in about 20% reduction of ubiquinone, irrespective of the presence or absence of dinitrophenol. On inhibition of the respiration by cyanide, ubiquinone became partly reduced by endogenous substrates (15--25%), and a further reduction occurred only in the presence of formaldehyde (up to 60%). When endogenous substrates were completely exhausted, then 44 and 23% of ubiquinone was reduced by formaldehyde or methanol respectively. 3. The difference spectra at room and liquid-N2 temperatures revealed the presence of cytochrome b and two cytochromes c (c-552.5 and c-549) all tightly bound to the membrane. Cytochrome c-552.5 was also found in the soluble fraction. 4. Redox changes of cytochromes b and c, with methanol or formaldehyde as substrates, respond to the aerobic and anaerobic states of the cell and to KCN inhibition in a manner characteristic of the electron carriers of the respiratory chain. 5. The merging point for electron transport from NADH dehydrogenase and formaldehyde dehydrogenase is suggested to be at the level of ubiquinone.
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PMID:The respiratory chain of a newly isolated Methylomonas Pl1. 41 43

A strain carrying a point mutation affecting the NADH dehydrogenase complex of Escherichia coli has been isolated and its properties examined. The gene carrying the mutation (designated ndh) was located on the E. coli chromosome at about minute 23 and was shown to be cotransducible with the pyrC gene. Strain carrying the ndh- allele were found to be unable to grow on mannitol and to grow very poorly on glucose unless the medium was supplemented with succinate, acetate or casamino acids. The following properties of strains carrying the ndh- allele were established which suggest that the mutation affects the NADH dehydrogenase complex but apparently not the primary dehydrogenase. Membrane preparations possess normal to elevated levels of D-lactate oxidase and succinate oxidase activities but NADH oxidase is absent. NADH is unable to reduce ubiquinone in the aerobic steady state and reduces cytochrome b very slowly when the membranes become anaerobic. NADH dehydrogenase, measured as NADH-dichlorophenolindophenol reductase is reduced but not absent. NADH oxidase is stimulated by menadione although not by Q-3 or MK-1 and in the presence of menadione, cytochrome b is reduced normally by NADH. Further mutants affected in NADH oxidase were isolated using a screening procedure based on the growth characteristics of the original ndh- strain. The mutantions carried by these strains were all cotransducible with the pyrC gene and the biochemical properties of the additional mutants were similar to those of the original mutant. The properties of the group of ndh- mutants established so far suggest that they are affected in the transfer of reducing equivalents from the NADH dehydrogenase complex to ubiquinone.
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PMID:Mutations affecting the reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase complex of Escherichia coli. 79 16


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