IRON-SULFUR COMPONENTS OF SUCCINATE-DEHYDROGENASE - STOICHIOMETRY AND KINETIC-BEHAVIOR IN ACTIVATED PREPARATIONS
IRON-SULFUR COMPONENTS OF SUCCINATE-DEHYDROGENASE - STOICHIOMETRY AND KINETIC-BEHAVIOR IN ACTIVATED PREPARATIONS
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10.1111/j.1432-1033.1975.tb04128.x
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发表时间:
1975-01-01
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SINGER, TP
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BEINERT, H;ACKRELL, BAC;SINGER, TP
Extensively or completely activated preparations of beef heart succinate dehydrogenase have been investigated by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) techniques at 6 to 97 K. Reductive titrations with dithionite and rapid kinetic studies were performed with various types of soluble and membrane‐bound preparations of the enzyme. The following components were detected and their behavior analyzed: a free radical, presumably arising from the covalently bound flavin on reduction, two iron‐sulfur centers of the ferredoxin type, the signals of which appear on reduction, and a high‐potential iron‐sulfur component, detectable in the oxidized state. The high‐potential component was only detected in complex II and inner‐membrane preparations. This component and one of the ferredoxin‐type centers were present in amounts close to stoichiometric with the flavin and were reduced by substrate. The other ferredoxin‐type center was present in amounts between 0.1 and 0.5 times that of the flavin and was reduced only by dithionite. Of the components reduced by succinate. however, only a fraction (up to 50% of the high‐potential iron‐sulfur center and 40–60% of the ferredoxin‐type iron‐sulfur center) was reduced within the turnover time of the enzymes. In complex II not more than about 10% of the flavin appeared in the semiquinone form at any time. Soluble, purified preparations behaved similarly except that the high‐potential component was nearly or completely absent and extensive accumulation of the free radical occurred (up to 70 to 80% of the flavin) in titration and kinetic experiments. No significant difference was observed between the rates of semiquinone formation and the reduction of the ferredoxin‐type or high‐potential centers by the substrate. Also no qualitative differences in the properties studied in this work became apparent between preparations containing 4 or 8 iron atoms, respectively.