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Query: EC:1.9.3.1 (cytochrome oxidase)
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Rats were fed a semipurified diet providing 10% casein supplemented with methionine for 2 wk, at which time some animals received the same diet without the methionine for 4 d. Animals that received linamarin were given a single oral dose containing 500 or 250 mg per kilogram of body weight. At the higher linamarin dose all animals died within 5 h after dosing. Biochemical and physiological changes observed in these rats included severe metabolic acidosis, decreased cytochrome oxidase activities, atrial fibrillation, and decreased respiratory rates. In general, the cardiac adenosinetriphosphatase enzymes were inhibited by linamarin. None of these changes were moderated by dietary methionine supplementation. At the lower linamarin dose dietary supplementation with methionine appeared to reduce incidences of clinical toxicity signs and fatalities. No methionine effect was observed in the other biochemical and physiological measurements in rats given this amount of linamarin. The results suggest that dietary supplementation with methionine provided some protection against the toxicity of the lower level of linamarin administered.
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PMID:Influence of dose level and methionine intake on the effects of linamarin administration to rats. 627 76

1. The assembly of rat liver cytochrome oxidase was studied in isolated hepatocytes and isolated liver mitochondria labelled with L-[35S]methionine. 2. Labelled subunits II and III appeared in the immunoabsorbed holoenzyme within minutes after the initiation of a pulse label. In contrast, labelled subunit I appeared in immunoabsorbed holoenzyme only after a subsequent 2 h chase or after an additional 2 h of labelling. Subunit I was heavily labelled, however, in intact mitochondria after 10 min. 3. A similar pattern of labelling was observed in holo-cytochrome oxidase which was chemically isolated by a small scale procedure adapted for this purpose. The appearance of subunit I in the holoenzyme was delayed for 1.5-2 h after a 60 min pulse with labelled methionine. 4. Incubation of hepatocytes for 4 h in the presence of cycloheximide had no effect on the labelling pattern described above. 5. Methods were developed in which newly translated, presumably unassembled, subunits of cytochrome oxidase could be separated from the holoenzyme by fractionation in Triton X-114. Short-term pulse experiments indicate that subunits II and III are associated with the holoenzyme fraction immediately after their completion, whereas subunit I is not. 6. The data are consistent with a model in which cytochrome oxidase assembly is viewed as an ordered and sequential event.
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PMID:Studies on the assembly of cytochrome oxidase in isolated rat hepatocytes. 628 13

The complete amino acid sequence of the cytoplasmic polypeptide VIa of cytochrome c oxidase from beef heart is described. The primary structure of this component of complex IV of the respiratory chain is elucidated by isolation and sequencing of overlapping glutamic acid, arginine, tryptophan and methionine fragments obtained by cleavage with Staphylococcus aureus protease, protease from submaxillaris glands of mice, 2-iodosylbenzoic acid and cyanogen bromide. The chain length of polypeptide VIa is 98 amino acids, the resulting molecular mass of 10670 Da. The hydrophilic protein does not contain a hydrophobic membrane penetrating sequence domain. Its function in the respiratory complex IV is unknown.
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PMID:Studies on cytochrome c oxidase, IX. The primary structure of polypeptide VIa. 629 69

The interaction between the oxidized forms of cytochrome c and cytochrome c oxidase (EC 1.9.3.1) has been investigated by 1H-NMR longitudinal relaxation measurements. It is found that relaxation of methyl groups on the heme ring of cytochrome c markedly deviates from a simple exponential behavior in the presence of small amounts of cytochrome oxidase. A comparison with the relaxation behavior of cytochrome c modified by 4-carboxy-3,5-dinitrophenyl at Lys-13 shows that the oxidase induces a conformation in native cytochrome c that is closely related to that of the derivative. It is suggested that this change in conformation consists of a rupture of the salt bridge between Lys-13 and Glu-90 and a concomitant perturbation of the methionine ligand.
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PMID:A 1H-NMR longitudinal relaxation study of the interaction between cytochrome c and cytochrome c oxidase. 630 52

Leucine can be utilized efficiently as a precursor for lipid biosynthesis by adipose tissue, especially in the presence of glucose or glucose and insulin. During the differentiation of 3T3-L1 fibroblasts to adipocytes, the rate of lipid biosynthesis from L-[U-14C]leucine increases at least 30-fold and lipogenesis, with [U-14C] acetate as the precursor, increases by 10- to 15-fold. The specific activities of two mitochondrial dehydrogenases in the leucine oxidative pathway, the branched chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase and isovaleryl-CoA dehydrogenase, as well as of leucine:alpha-ketoglutarate transaminase, increase at least 20-fold during the adipose conversion. Isovaleryl-CoA dehydrogenase was assayed in crude extracts using a specific fluorimetric method employing electron transfer flavoprotein as the electron acceptor for the flavoprotein dehydrogenase. The specific activity of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA lyase, the mitochondrial enzyme catalyzing the terminal reaction in the leucine degradation pathway, increases 4-fold during differentiation. The increases in the specific activities of the mitochondrial enzymes occur without a change in the specific activity of cytochrome oxidase, indicating that the increases do not simply reflect proliferation of mitochondria. The biosynthesis of at least 20 soluble mitochondrial polypeptides is enhanced during the adipose conversion of the fibroblasts as determined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis following incubation of the cells with [35S] methionine. The results provide a conservative estimate of the extent of changes in mitochondrial soluble proteins during the adipose conversion. They also establish that differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes metabolize leucine like mature adipose tissue and illustrate the roles of the branched chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase and isovaleryl-CoA dehydrogenase in lipogenesis.
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PMID:Leucine catabolism during the differentiation of 3T3-L1 cells. Expression of a mitochondrial enzyme system. 630 77

The assembly of cytochrome oxidase was studied in isolated rat liver mitochondria and isolated rat hepatocytes labelled in vitro with L-[35S]methionine. This was achieved by studying the temporal association of radioactive subunits which are immunoabsorbed with antibodies against subunits I, II and the holoenzyme. Antibodies against the holoenzyme were shown to be highly specific for subunit V. The results show that subunit I appears in the holoenzyme late in the assembly process. No radioactive subunit I is absorbed with antiserum against subunit II or the holoenzyme (subunit V) after a 30 min pulse in either isolated mitochondria or hepatocytes. However, both antisera absorb radioactive subunits I after a 150 min chase in isolated hepatocytes. This was confirmed using antibodies against subunit I, which absorbed only radioactive subunit I after a 30 min pulse but absorbed radioactive subunits I-III and VI after a 150 min chase. Thus, the late assembly of radioactive subunit I is explained by a temporal sequence in the assembly process and not by the presence of a large, non-radioactive pool of subunit I. Using the above approach and the three specific antisera, the following temporal sequence in the assembly of cytochrome oxidase was established. Subunits II and III assemble rapidly with each other or with cytoplasmically translated subunit VI. This complex of three peptides in turn assembles slowly with subunit I or with the other cytoplasmically translated subunits. The early association of subunit VI with the mitochondrially translated subunits II and III suggests a possible role of the former in integration of the holoenzyme.
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PMID:Evidence for the sequential assembly of cytochrome oxidase subunits in rat liver mitochondria. 630 54

The region of yeast mitochondrial DNA between 10.7 and 17.9 map units has been characterized by restriction analysis and DNA sequencing. The DNA sequence was obtained from the partially overlapping genomes of the two rho- mutants DS200/A1 and DS302. Two tRNA genes have been found in the sequence upstream of the oxi1 gene. The deduced secondary structures indicate that the genes code for the methionine (5'-CAU-3') and the asparagine (5'-GUU-3') tRNAs of yeast mitochondria. The region between 10.7 and 17.9 units contains two reading frames. One of these corresponds to the oxi1 gene previously shown to code for subunit 2 of cytochrome oxidase (Coruzzi, G., and Tzagoloff, A. (1979) J. Biol. Chem. 254,. 9324-9330; Fox, T. D. (1979) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76, 6534-6538). The second reading frame can potentially code for a basic protein with 386 amino acid residues. It is not known at present if this putative gene is translated in vivo. Northern blots of wild type mitochondrial RNA were hybridized to single-stranded probes from the oxi1 gene and flanking regions. The results of these analyses indicate that the primary transcript of the oxi1 region is a high molecular weight RNA (larger than 3 kilobase pairs) which is processed in discrete steps to a mature 850-nucleotide messenger. The 5' leader of the messenger has been established to be 54 nucleotides long and to have a sequence identical with that of the genomic DNA immediately upstream of the oxi1 gene.
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PMID:Assembly of the mitochondrial membrane system. Analysis of the nucleotide sequence and transcripts in the oxi1 region of yeast mitochondrial DNA. 703 Oct 51

The effect of the chronic intramuscular administration of some agents related to the S-adenosyl-L-methionine system on the hyperammonemia syndrome was evaluated. This experimental syndrome was induced in the rat by intraperitoneal administration of high doses of ammonium acetate (33, 100 and 300 mg/kg/day, 6 days a week for 80 days) followed by the assay of the activities of some cerebral enzymes involved in energy transduction. The enzymatic activities studied in the homogenate and in the mitochondrial fractions of brain tissue were: lactate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase, malate dehydrogenase, total NADH-cytochrome c reductase and cytochrome oxidase. All three doses of ammonium acetate induced significant modifications in the cerebral enzymatic activities. These doses reduced the activity of the total NADH-cytochrome c reductase both in the homogenate and in the mitochondrial fraction. On the other hand the activity of malate dehydrogenase was reduced limited to the two lower doses in the homogenate only. The simultaneous daily treatment (i.m.) with equimolar doses of substances involved in the S-adenosyl-L-methionine system (adenosine, methionine and S-adenosyl-L-methionine) did not cause any significant modification of the cerebral enzymatic activities associated with the administration of ammonium acetate at the three dose levels, thus confirming our previous results.
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PMID:Cerebral enzymatic activities during chronic hyperammonemia and treatment with S-adenosyl-L-methionine, adenosine and methionine in the rat. 725 Mar 59

Although 13 lysines of horse cytochrome c are invariant, and three more are extremely conserved, the modification of their side-chain epsilon-amino groups by beta-thiopropionylation caused important changes in protein properties for only three of them; lysines 72,73 and 79. Optical spectroscopy, electron and nuclear paramagnetic resonance, electron spin echo envelope modulation, and molecular weight studies, as well as the unique features of their reaction with cytochrome-c oxidase, indicate that in the oxidized state the modification of these lysines resulted in equilibria between two different states of iron ligation: the native state, in which the metal is coordinated by the methionine-80 sulfur, and a new state in which this ligand is displaced by the sulfhydryl groups of the elongated side chains. The reduction potentials of the TP Lys-72 and the TP Lys-79 derivatives were 201 and 196 millivolt, respectively, indicating that the equilibria favored the sulfhydryl ligated state by 1.5 and 1.7 kcal/mol, respectively. In the ferric state, the protein modified at lysine 72 remained stable as a monomer, but that modified at lysine 73 dimerized rapidly through disulfide bond formation, while the TP Lys-79 cytochrome c dimerized with a half-time of approx. 3 h, both recovering the native-like iron ligation. By contrast, in the ferrous state the monomeric state and the native ligation were preserved in all cases, indicating that the affinity of the cytochrome-c ferrous iron for the methionine-80 sulfur is particularly strong. The dimerized derivatives lost most, but not all, of the capability of the native protein for electron transfer from ascorbate-TMPD to cytochrome-c oxidase.
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PMID:A chemical modification of cytochrome-c lysines leading to changes in heme iron ligation. 754 52

Cytochrome-c oxidase contains an unusual copper centre (CuA) located in subunit II. This centre mediates one-electron transfer from cytochrome c to low-spin heme a. Recent spectroscopic and biochemical studies have shown that this centre is a valence delocalised dinuclear [Cu(+1.5)-Cu(+1.5)] centre. We have measured the absorption, EPR and variable-temperature magnetic circular dichroism spectra of the CuA-binding domain isolated from Paracoccus denitrificans cytochrome aa3. The EPR spectrum showed the following signals: gparallel = 2.18; gperpendicular = 2.03. gparallel exhibited a seven-line hyperfine splitting pattern, with an intensity ratio showing that the single unpaired electron interacted equally with two copper nuclei. The magnetic circular dichroism spectrum was identical to those from CuA in bovine heart cytochrome-c oxidase and centre A of nitrous-oxide reductase, showing the close structural similarity between the three centres. To identify the ligands of CuA, all the conserved putative ligands in the P. denitrificans CuA domain were substituted. Only five residues, Cys244, Cys248, His209, His252, and Met255, were required for correct assembly of the CuA centre. Replacement of Met255 caused protein misfolding. Hence, methionine may have a structural role for the folding of the protein rather than being a CuA ligand. Given that both copper ions must have identical coordination geometries, the number of possible structures is limited. Two models are proposed: one involves the thiolate side-chains of Cys244 and Cys248 bridging a pair of copper ions with one histidine coordinating each copper ion, and the other has terminal ligation of each copper ion by one cysteine and one histidine residue. In both models, the metal-metal distance can be sufficiently short to permit direct d-orbital overlap of the copper ions. The magnetic circular dichroism transitions at 475 nm and 525 nm are assigned to thiolate-to-copper charge-transfer processes polarised perpendicular to one another, although the magnetic circular dichroism intensities show that the excited states were heavily mixed with copper d-orbitals. These intensities can be interpreted in the thiolate bridged model in terms of transitions within a Cu2(SR)2 rhomb. In the model involving terminal cysteine ligation, exciton coupling of two thiolate-to-copper charge-transfer transitions of similar energy, polarised along the Cu-S bonds, would contribute two transitions perpendicular to one another. This requires that the cysteine ligands have a cis orientation relative to one another.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Spectroscopic and mutagenesis studies on the CuA centre from the cytochrome-c oxidase complex of Paracoccus denitrificans. 755 64


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