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The purification of cytochrome P-450-dependent 14 alpha-sterol demethylase (P-450DM) from the important opportunistic fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, is described. Optimal purification (875-fold) was achieved by extracting the cytochrome from microsomes with sodium cholate followed by hydroxyapatite, octyl-Sepharose and CM-Sepharose chromatographies, giving a cytochrome preparation of 17.5 nmol/mg of protein. By the use of SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis the cytochrome was judged to be highly purified on the basis of Coomassie Brilliant Blue staining of protein. The Mr of P-450DM was estimated to be 51,000. The absorption spectrum of oxidized P-450DM was characteristic of a low-spin cytochrome, and its reduced CO complex had a Soret absorption peak at 447 nm. When reconstituted in a model membrane system of dilauroylphosphatidylcholine with NADPH and O2, P-450DM catalysed the complete 14 alpha-demethylation of lanosterol, which was inhibited by CO. The cytochrome appeared to have a high degree of substrate specificity; it was unable to oxidize a number of xenobiotic compounds in the reconstituted assay.
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PMID:Purification and properties of cytochrome P-450-dependent 14 alpha-sterol demethylase from Candida albicans. 255 99

The expression of cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Hildenborough) was examined in Escherichia coli transformed with either of two plasmids, pJ8 and pJ81. The former has an 840 bp insert of D. vulgaris DNA, containing the structural gene for cytochrome c3 (387 bp) and its promoter region. Plasmid pJ81 was generated from pJ8 by deoxyoligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis to direct the synthesis of a protein with an altered signal peptidase cleavage site [Ala(-1)----Asp(-1)]. Synthesis of the 14 kDa precursor, which was partly processed to the 12 kDa mature protein, was observed in cells of E. coli TG2(pJ8) by SDS gel electrophoresis and Western blotting. Analysis of spheroplasts revealed that the processed polypeptide was present in the periplasm while the precursor was found only in the membrane/cytoplasmic fraction. No processing was observed in E. coli TG2(pJ81) cells, due to the mutation of the signal peptide cleavage site. No insertion of haem into the E. coli product could be detected in E. coli TG2(pJ8) cells by post-electrophoretic protohaem fluorescence analysis. The sensitivity of the cytochrome c3 synthesized in E. coli TG2(pJ8) to digestion by chymotrypsin also indicated that the apoprotein was formed. The results indicate that E. coli is capable of synthesizing and exporting the cytochrome c3 polypeptide, but fails to insert the haems.
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PMID:Expression of the gene encoding cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Hildenborough) in Escherichia coli: export and processing of the apoprotein. 256 Dec 88

Cytochrome b-245 from neutrophil plasma membranes contains two types of subunit with apparent molecular masses from gel electrophoresis in the presence of SDS of 23 kDa and 76-92 kDa. Radiation-inactivation analysis revealed a single-exponential decay process for the visible absorption of the haem chromophore in the membrane, corresponding to a molecular mass of 21 +/- 5 kDa for the haem-containing polypeptide chain. Sedimentation equilibrium of the cytochrome solubilized by the detergent Triton N101 showed that the protein was polydisperse, with a molecular mass of approx. 350 kDa for the smallest detectable species. In another detergent, n-octyl beta-O-glucopyranoside (octyl glucoside), the molecular mass of the haem-containing particle was found to be 20-30 kDa. Thus the quaternary structure of the protein breaks down in this detergent. The haem group is inferred to be attached to the smaller subunit.
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PMID:Identification of the haem-binding subunit of cytochrome b-245. 261 19

A cytochrome-o complex was isolated from chromatophores of photoheterotrophically grown Rhodospirillum rubrum FR1. The enzyme was extracted with the non-denaturating detergent taurodeoxycholate and subsequently purified by sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation and gel-permeation HPLC. The complex contains two types of cytochromes, one of them cytochrome o, and two copper atoms. It catalyzes the reduction of molecular oxygen, when N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine or ubiquinol 10 are offered as electron donors. The oxidase activity is inhibited by cyanide, carbon monoxide and 2-heptyl-2-hydroxyquinoline N-oxide. The molecular mass of the protein is 136 +/- 15 kDa. The subunit analysis, by SDS continuous and gradient gels, revealed four subunits with molecular mass 66 kDa (subunit I), 36 kDa (subunit II), 20 kDa (subunit III) and 11 kDa (subunit IV).
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PMID:Isolation and partial characterization of a cytochrome-o complex from chromatophores of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum FR1. 265 47

Rats were injected intraperitoneally with phenobarbital (PB) and 3-methylcholanthrene (MC) which are microsomal enzyme inducers, and methyl iodide (MeI), cobalt chloride (CoCl2) and tri-o-cresyl phosphate (TOCP) which are inhibitors of the enzymes glutathione transferase, cytochrome (cyt) P-450 and carboxylesterase, respectively, and then challenged with soman (i.p.) to know its LD50. Pretreatment with PB and MC increased and TOCP decreased, whereas MeI as well as CoCl2 did not alter the LD50 value of soman in rats. The 1/2 LD50 dose of soman did not affect the liver microsomal cyt P-450 level, but significantly lowered carboxylesterase (CaE) and cholinesterase (ChE) activities in liver microsomes and in blood plasma. Induction of plasma CaE was more important than microsomal CaE in PB-mediated protection against soman toxicity. Gel filtration of plasma into four protein fractions for their relative soman binding capacity showed that a high-molecular-weight protein fraction (180,000 daltons on SDS-PAGE) which had no CaE activity could bind soman 6 times more than the low-molecular-weight CaE-containing protein fraction (60,000 daltons on SDS-PAGE).
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PMID:Role of carboxylesterase in protection against soman toxicity. 276 74

The topography of chloroplast cytochromes f and b6 was probed with proteases carboxypeptidase A (CpA), trypsin, and Staph, aureus V8. The cytochrome and its proteolytic products were detected by heme stain and, in most experiments, by immunoreaction. In thylakoids, the only protease that significantly affected the intactness of cytochrome f was CpA that caused a small (delta Mr = -1-2000) decrease in the apparent molecular weight. In SDS-treated thylakoids, both trypsin and V8 degraded cytochrome f. The inferred topography of cytochrome f., with the COOH-terminus on the stromal (n) side, one membrane-spanning alpha-elix near the COOH-terminus, and most of the Cyt f mass on the lumen (p) side, is consistent with that previously inferred by others. Cytochrome b6 was not sensitive to CpA, but was more sensitive to trypsin and V8 protease than cytochrome f, cytochrome b-559, or the 17 kDa OEC extrinsic protein. Trypsin caused a small decrease in size of cytochrome b6, which was observed using whole protein antibody as a single smaller band (delta Mr approximately 2000) or two smaller discrete bands (delta Mr = -1000 and 2500, respectively) which, unlike the untreated protein, did not react with antibody generated to a peptide mimicking Asp-5-Gln-14 near the NH2-terminus. These shortened tryptic fragments were attributed to cleavage after R-10 and K-23 near the NH2-terminus, implying an orientation with the NH2-terminus on the stromal side of the membrane. The sensitivity of cytochrome b6 toward this trypsin cleavage was increased if the membranes were first incubated with CpA, showing that the NH2-terminal region of cytochrome b6 is masked by the COOH-terminal domain of one or more thylakoid proteins.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Topography of the chloroplast cytochrome b6: orientation of the cytochrome and accessibility of the lumen-side interhelix loops. 276 55

The results presented indicate that purified cytochrome P-45021 which migrated upon SDS gel electrophoresis essentially as a single band, is further separable into different species by ion-exchange chromatography. The P-450 eluted from the CM-Sephadex column at different points along the buffer concentration gradient, exhibited significant differences in (1) the 21-hydroxylation of 17 alpha-OH-progesterone compared to progesterone and (2) the Type I spectral change produced by 17 alpha-OH-progesterone compared to that due to delta 4-androstenedione. These results indicate that the purified P-450 which appeared homogeneous contains different species differing in net charge and steroid preferences for 21-hydroxylation and binding. The ratio, 21-hydroxylation of 17 alpha-OH-progesterone/progesterone ranged between 2.6 and 0.86 suggesting that the purified preparation is a mixture of 17 alpha-OH-progesterone preferring and progesterone preferring species. Possible molecular bases for the heterogeneity of the 21-hydroxylase are discussed.
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PMID:Heterogeneity of the bovine adrenal steroid 21-hydroxylase. 278 82

Anionic amphiphiles such as long chain unsaturated fatty acids and SDS were shown to activate the superoxide (O2-) producing NADPH oxidase in a cell-free system derived from sonically disrupted phagocytes (macrophages and granulocytes). O2- production required the cooperation of a membrane associated component sedimenting at 48,000 X g (pi) and a cytosolic factor (sigma). The purpose of the present investigation was to find out whether components pi and sigma were also present in non-phagocytic cells that do not produce O2- when stimulated. It was found that the 48,000 X g pellets of guinea pig lymph node and thymus cell sonicates contained significant amounts of component pi, as shown by their ability to support SDS-elicited NADPH-dependent O2- production when supplemented with macrophage cytosol. Lymph node and thymus pi could be extracted from the membrane by 30 mM octyl glucoside, just as its macrophage-derived equivalent. Combining lymph node and thymus 48,000 X g pellet with autologous cytosol did not yield an active enzyme preparation. Also, cytosol from lymph node and thymus cells could not cooperate with macrophage 48,000 X g pellet, indicating that component sigma was lacking in lymphoid cells. Neither pi nor sigma could be detected in guinea pig kidney, the mouse myeloma cell line MOPC 315 and the canine cell line Cf2Th. The 48,000 X g pellet of all nonphagocytic cells examined contained a b-cytochrome that resembled, by its spectral characteristics, the cytochrome b559 thought to be characteristic of phagocytes. In macrophages, cytochrome b559 represented 80% of b-cytochrome content of the 48,000 X g pellet, whereas in non-phagocytic cells, the equivalent material represented only 50 to 60%. There was no correlation between the presence and quantity of the cytochrome b559-like chromophore in the 48,000 X g pellet of a particular cell type and its ability to cooperate with macrophage cytosol in SDS-elicited O2- production.
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PMID:Certain lymphoid cells contain the membrane-associated component of the phagocyte-specific NADPH oxidase. 283 Dec 70

Cytochrome c4 was isolated from cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas stutzeri and Azotobacter vinelandii. The dihaem nature, Mr of approx. 20,000 and ferrohaem spectra in the region of the alpha- and beta-peaks define this family of cytochromes c. The behaviour of the holocytochromes in SDS was atypical, but removal of the haem groups resulted in a normal migration. In all three organisms most of the cytochrome c4 was tightly bound to the membrane, but some free cytochrome was detected. The membrane-attached cytochrome could be extracted with butanol, and this solubilized form was then indistinguishable in properties from the free form. Denitrifying rather than aerobic growth conditions hardly affected the total cytochrome c4 in the two pseudomonads, but there was slightly more free form and less membrane-attached form in denitrifying growth. The nature of the attachment of cytochrome c4 to the membrane is discussed and a model is proposed for the process of solubilization.
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PMID:Free and membrane-bound forms of bacterial cytochrome c4. 284 69

New photoreactive analogues of cardiolipin have been chemically synthesized. Photoreactive aryl azido acyl groups were placed at two different locations within the cardiolipin molecule: at the 2-sn position of the 2-sn glycerol of cardiolipin; at the 2-sn position of the 3-sn-phosphatidyl group; or at both locations to provide a dual labeled analogue. Thus three different cardiolipin analogues distinguished by the positions of the aryl azido acyl groups were prepared. Two different aryl azido acyl groups were employed in the above syntheses and the site of acylation was stereospecifically identified using several phospholipids of known specificity for cardiolipin. Acylation of cardiolipin with the symmetrical anhydride of either acyl aryl azido fatty acid analogue, 2-(N-4-azido-2-nitrophenyl)beta-alanine or 12-(N-4-azido-2-nitrophenyl)aminododecanoic acid provided 1-(3-sn-phosphatidyl)-2-(acyl aryl azido)-3-(3-sn-phosphatidyl)-sn-glycerol. Acylation of monolysocardiolipin (1-(3-sn-phosphatidyl)-3-(1-acyl-2-lyso-glycero(3)phospho)-sn-glyce++ + rol provided two products. 1-(3-sn-phosphatidyl)-3-(1-acyl-2-(acyl aryl azido)-glycero(3)phospho)-sn-glycerol and the doubly labeled 1-(3-sn-phosphatidyl)-2-(acyl aryl azido)-3-(1-acyl-2-(acyl aryl azido)glycero(3)phospho)-sn-glycerol. These are the first reported photoreactive analogues for cardiolipin. The analogues were positive effectors for cytochrome P-450sec, and as shown by SDS-PAGE, they labeled the single subunit of cytochrome P-450sec and the smallest subunits of cytochrome c oxidase from beef heart.
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PMID:Photoreactive cardiolipin analogues. 284 77


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