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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

In addition to the two species of ferredoxin-type iron-sulfur centers (Centers S-1 and S-2), a third iron-sulfur center (Center S-3), which is paramagnetic in the oxidezed state analogous to the bacterial high potential iron-sulfur protein, has bwen detected in the reconstitutively active soluble succinate dehydrogenase preparation. Midpoint potential (at pH 7.4) of Center S-3 determined in a particulate succinate-cytochrome c reductase is +60 +/- 15 mV. In soluble form, Center S-3 becomes extremely labile towards oxygen or ferricyanide plus phenazine methosulfate similar to reconstitutive activity of the dehydrogenase. Thus, even freshly prepared reconstitutively active enzyme preparations show EPR spectra of Center S-3 which correspond approximately to 0.5 eq per flavin; in particulate preparations this component was found in a 1:1 ratio to flavin. All reconstitutively inactive dehydrogenase preparations that Center S-3 is an innate constituent of succinate dehydrogenase and plays an important role in mediating electrons from the flavoprotein subunit to most probably ubiquinone and then to the cytochrome chain.
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PMID:Thermodynamic and EPR characteristics of a HiPIP-type iron-sulfur center in the succinate dehydrogenase of the respiratory chain. 17 56

Preparations of NADH-ubiquinone reductase from bovine heart mitochondria (Complex I) were shown to contain at least 16 polypeptides by gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulphate. 2. High-molecular-weight soluble NADH dehydrogenase prepared from Triton X-100 extracts of submitochondrial particles [Baugh & King (1972) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 49, 1165-1173] was similar to Complex I in its polypeptide composition. 3. Solubilization of Complex I by phospholipase A treatment and subsequent sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation did not alter the polypeptide composition. 4. Lysophosphatidylcholine treatment of Complex I caused some selective solubilization of a polypeptide of mol.wt. 33000 previosuly postulated to be the transmembrane component of Complex I in the mitochondrial membrane [Ragan (1975) in Energy Transducing Membranes: Structure, Function and Reconstitution (Bennun, Bacila & Najjar, eds.), Junk, The Hague, in the press]. 5. Chaotropic resolution of Complex I caused solubilization of polypeptides of molecular weights 75000, 53000, 29000, 26000 and 15500 and traces of others in the 10000-20000-mol.wt.range. 6. The major components of the iron-protein fraction from chaotropic resolution had molecular weights of 75000, 53000 and 29000, whereas the flavoprotein contained polypeptides of molecular weights 53000 and 26000 in a 1:1 molar ratio. 7. Iodination of Complex I by lactoperoxidase indicated that the water-soluble polypeptides released by chaotropic resolution, in particular those of the flavoprotein fraction, were largely buried in the intact Complex. 8. The polypeptides of molecular weights 75000, 53000, 42000, 39000, 33000, 29000 and 26000 were present in 1:2:1:1:1:1:1 molar proportions. The two subunits of molecular weight 53000 are probably non-identical.
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PMID:The structure and subunit composition of the particulate NADH-ubiquinone reductase of bovine heart mitochondria. 18 Sep 73

The coordination structure of the iron-sulfur center of the nitrotyrosine and the aminotyrosine derivates of bovine adrenodoxin was investigated by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The reduced form of both modified samples exhibited signals identical with those for the native protein at g= 1.94 and g=2.01. From these results together with optical absorption and chemical analyses, it was concluded that the coordination structure of the iron-sulfur chromophore for both the derivatives was identical with the binuclear tetrahedral structure of native adrenodoxin. The configuration of the iron-binding area in nitro- and amino-adrenodoxin was studied by ovserving the circular dichroism spectra between 350 and 600 nm. The maxima for the nitro or amino derivatives were all identical with those for the native protein but different in the magnitude of their molar ellipticity. The molar ellipticities at 440 nm were 45.8 X 10(3), 14.5 X 10(3), and 9.5 X 10(6) deg cm2 per mol of iron for native adrenodoxin, nitro or amino derivative, respectively. These results suggest that the chemical modification of the tyrosine residue causes a conformational change in the iron-binding area. We have previously reported that the enzymatic activities of these reconstituted nitro and amino derivatives toware cytochrome c reduction in the presence of adrenodoxin reductase and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate were 19 and 7% of native adrenodoxin, respectively. The cytochrome c reductase activities of nitro- and aminoadrenodixin were drastically affected by the ionic strength of the assay medium, as found in native adrenodoxin. Fluorometric titration of the reductase with aminoadrenodoxin revealed that aminoadrenodoxin forms a 1:1 molar complex with the reductase. These results suggest that both the nitro and amino derivatives form a complex with the reductase. The dissociation constants of nitro- and aminoadrenodoxin for the reductase were 6.1 X 10(-7)M and 3.3 X 10(-7) M at mu = 0.04 and 1.9 X 10(-6) M and 2.0 X 10(-6) M at mu = 0.20, respectively. Comparison of these values with those of native adrenodoxin (approximately 10(-9) M at mu = 0.04 and 2.2 X 10(-7) M at mu = 0.20) suggests that an increase in the dissociation constant for the reductase is responsible for the decreased electron transferring activity of the modified adrenodoxins.
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PMID:Studies on nitrotyrosine-82 and aminotyrosine-82 derivatives of adrenodoxin. Effects of chemical modification on the complex formation with adrenodoxin reductase. 18 Oct 49

(1) The steady-state kinetics of the NADH dehydrogenase activity of Type-II (low molecular weight) NADH dehydrogenase with the acceptors ferricyanide, cytochrome c and 2,6-dichloroindophenol are consistent with the simultaneous operation of an ordered and a ping-pong mechanism. Thus, depending on the acceptor concentration, the reduced enzyme is preferentially oxidized before or after NAD+ disociates from it. (2) The acceptors are able to oxidize the reduced enzyme and its NAD+ complex equally well. In contrast to the kinetics of the Type-I (high molecular weight) enzyme, double substrate inhibition is not found, implying that the site of oxidation of the reduced enzyme by acceptors and the NADH-binding site are remote. (3) With the indophenol, in the concentration range measured, the ordered mechanism is mainly operative. At infinite NADH and acceptor concentrations the rate constant of the reduction of enzyme by bound NADH is measured. (4) With ferricyanide and cytochrome c, in the concentration range measured, erroneous conclusions may be drawn from extrapolations owing to the fact that extrapolated lines in double-reciprocal plots of turnover number against acceptor concentration, at different NADH concentrations, intersect in the third quadrant. A method is described that allows the extrapolation of these data to zero acceptor concentrations. (5) The relation between activity and NADH concentration is sigmoidal (h = 2.0) with ferricyanide or cytochrome c as acceptor, but hyperbolic with 2,6-dichloroindophenol. The latter is also an inhibitor, competitive with respect to NADH. It is concluded that this two-electron acceptor, like ubiquinone, acts as an allosteric effector. (6) Type II is isolated from Type I without gross changes in tertiary structure, as judged by the unaltered rate constants of dissociation of NADH (k-1) and NAD+ (k4) and association of NADH (k1). (7) Type II differs from Type I in two respects, (a) The accessibility of the acceptors is greater by at least two orders of magnitude (k3). (b) The redox potential of the prosthetic group FMN is 120 mV less, as judged by a drop in the value of k2 by four orders of magnitude. It is suggested that one or more of the iron-sulphur proteins present in Type-I but lacking in Type-II dehydrogenase functions as an effector, regulating the redox potential of the FMN.
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PMID:Steady-state kinetics of low molecular weight (type-II) NADH dehydrogenase. 18 Oct 90

We have examined the effects of total body iron deficiency on the function of mitochondria isolated from rat hearts. Male Wistar rats were weaned at 21 days and divided into an experimental iron-deficient group and a control group. Both groups received identical diet but an iron supplement (180 mg of ferrous sulfate per kg of diet) was added for the control group. Rats were studied at 7 and 14 weeks. Iron-deficient rats weighed less than controls but showed significantly increased ventricle to body weight ratio at both 7 and 14 weeks, indicating relative cardiac hypertrophy. Isolated mitochondrial fractions from iron-deficient and control rats contained similar proportions of whole homogenate protein and succinic cytochrome c reductase activity, indicating that the fractions isolated from the experimental and control rats were comparable. In iron-deficient rats NADH cytochrome c reductase, succinic cytochrome c reductase, succinic dehydrogenase, and NADH ferricyanide oxidoreductase activities were all significantly reduced at 7 and 14 weeks. Cytochrome c oxidase activity was significantly reduced only at 14 weeks as were the concentrations of cytochromes a3, c1, and b. The rate of oxygen uptake by mitochondria was significantly lower at both 7 and 14 weeks but the P/O ratio was unaltered. We conclude that iron deficiency is associated with impairment of myocardial mitochondrial electron transport.
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PMID:The effects of iron deficiency on the respiratory function and cytochrome content of rat heart mitochondria. 18 77

The soluble hydrogenase (hydrogen: NAD+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.12.1.2) from Alcaligenes eutrophus H 16 was purified 68-fold with a yield of 20% and a final specific activity (NAD reduction) of about 54 mumol H2 oxidized/min per mg protein. The enzyme was shown to be homogenous by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Its molecular weight and isoelectric point were determined to be 205 000 and 4.85 respectively. The oxidized hydrogenase, as purified under aerobic conditions, was of high stability but not reactive. Reductive activation of the enzyme by H2, in the presence of catalytic amounts of NADH, or by reducing agents caused the hydrogenase to become unstable. The purified enzyme, in its active state, was able to reduce NAD, FMN, FAD, menaquinone, ubiquinone, cytochrome c, methylene blue, methyl viologen, benzyl viologen, phenazine methosulfate, janus green, 2,6-dichlorophenoloindophenol, ferricyanide and even oxygen. In addition to hydrogenase activitiy, the enzyme exhibited also diaphorase and NAD(P)H oxidase activity. The reversibility of hydrogenase function (i.e. H2 evolution from NADH, methyl viologen and benzyl viologen) was demonstrated. With respect to H2 as substrate, hydrogenase showed negative cooperativity; the Hill coefficient was n = 0.4. The apparent Km value for H2 was found to be 0.037 mM. The absorption spectrum of hydrogenase was typical for non-heme iron proteins, showing maxima (shoulders) at 380 and 420 nm. A flavin component could be extracted from native hydrogenase characterized by its absorption bands at 375 and 447 nm and a strong fluorescense at 526 nm.
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PMID:Purification and properties of soluble hydrogenase from Alcaligenes eutrophus H 16. 18 26

A new simple method for the purification of the bc1-complex has been developed. The polypeptide composition of the complex was analysed by dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The content of chain components and phospholipids was determined. The b-type cytochromes were further characterized by their absorbance spectra and midpoint potentials. (1) Starting from a Triton X-100 extract of submitochondrial particles supplemented with antimycin, the bc1-complex is purified by adsorption chromatography on hydroxyapatite with citrate as specific eluant. (2) The complex splits in dodecyl sulfate into five main polypeptides with apparent molecular weight of 47, 44, 31, 11 and less than 10 kdalton. (3) The purified complex has a heme-b content of 8.0 mumol/g protein and a cytochrome c1 content of 3.8 mumol/g protein. (4) The cytochromes show the typical absorbance spectra of cytochromes b-562 and b-565 and are present in approximately equal amounts with midpoint potentials of Em7 = + 100 mV and Em7 = + mV respectively. Carbon monoxide does not bind to the cytochromes. (5) The nonheme iron protein content of the complex is diminished to 0.6 mumol/g protein. (6) The use of the nonionic surfactant Triton X-100 leads to a complete loss of lipids and ubiquinone of the bc1-complex. (7) The complex contains no succinate dehydrogenase as indicated by the absence of the 69 kdalton subunit in the dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis. In addition, it lacks an ubiquinone cytochrome c reductase activity and other electron transferring activities. This may be inferred from an inhibition by antimycin and depletion of ubiquinone and phospholipids. The highly purified and relative stable complex can be prepared giving 50% yield and may be suitable for protein chemistry studies.
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PMID:bc1-Complex from beef heart. One-step purification by hydroxyapatite chromatography in Triton X-100, polypeptide pattern and respiratory chain characteristics. 18 10

1) An isolation and purification procedure is reported for an active cytochrome b-c1 complex from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The complex acts as an antimycin A-sensitive duroquinone-cytochrome c reductase and contains cytochromes b and c1 at a concentration of 8 nmol/mg protein and non-heme iron at a concentration of 15 nmol/mg protein. 2) Difference spectra at room temperature and at 70 degrees K show that the preparation is free from contamination with cytochromes c or aa3. Assays of enzyme activity indicate the absence of any of the other catalytic functions normally associated with the mitochondrial respiratory chain. 3) On dissociation and separation on sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gels the complex gives rise to seven bands corresponding to subunit polypeptide molecular weights of 43 000, 40 000, 32 000, 24 000, 22 000, 20 000 and 18 000. These appear in a regular stoichiometry of 1:1:3:1:1:1:1.
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PMID:Structure of a cytochrome b-c 1 complex from Saccharomyces cerevisiae YF. 20 May 45

1. The electron paramagnetic resonance spectra at 15 K of reduced membrane particles of Paracoccus denitrificans exhibit resonance signals with g values, line shapes and temperature profile which are similar to the signals of the iron-sulfur centers observed in the NADH-ubiquinone segment of mitochondrial respiratory chains. These iron-sulfur centers are reducible with NADH, NADPH as well as chemically with dithionite. 2. Sulphate-limited growth of Paracoccus denitrificans results in the loss of an electron paramagnetic resonance signal (gz approximately 2.05, gy approximately gx approximately 1.92) which has properties similar to those of iron-sulfur center 2 of the NADH dehydrogenase of mitochondrial origin. The loss of this signal is accompanied by a decrease in the NADH oxidase and NADH ferricyanide oxidoreductase activities to respectively 30 and 40% of the values found for succinate-limited growth conditions. In addition respiration in membrane particles from sulphate-limited cells loses its sensitivity to rotenone. 3. Since sulphate-limited growth of Paracoccus denitrificans induces loss of site I phosphorylation [Arch. Microbiol. (1977) 112, 25-34] these observations suggest a close correlation between site I phosphorylation, rotenone-sensitivity and the presence of an electron paramagnetic resonance signal with gz approximately 2.05 and gy approximately gx approximately 1.92.
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PMID:The role of iron-sulfur center 2 in electron transport and energy conservation in the NADH-ubiquinone segment of the respiratory chain in Paracoccus denitrificans. 20 53


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