Physical characteristics of proteins of the electron transfer system and interpretation of the structure of the mitochondrion.
Physical characteristics of proteins of the electron transfer system and interpretation of the structure of the mitochondrion.
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电子传递系统蛋白质的物理特性和线粒体结构的解释。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00911a015
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发表时间:
1962
期刊:
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
H. Tisdale
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文献类型:
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作者:
R. Criddle;R. Bock;D. E. Green;H. Tisdale
A protein has been isolated in largeamounts from beef heart mitochondria which satisfies various criteria for a structural protein. The homogeneity of the isolated structural protein has been established by ultracentrifugal, electrophoretic, and end-group anal-ysis. At neutral pH the structural protein forms a water-insoluble polymeric aggregate, but at pH 11, or in the presence of anionic detergents, a monomeric form of the protein can be demonstrated (mw 2 X 10X 104). Cytochromes a, b, and Ci show analogous behavior with respect to the polymer-monomer transition. Structural pro-tein forms one-to-one water-soluble complexes with each of the cytochromes, which are soluble in aqueous media at pH 7; the identity of these complexes has been rigorously established. The hydrophobic bond is thepredominant type responsible both for the polymerization phenomenon and for complex formation between the monomeric species of the structural protein and of the cytochromes. Structural protein is capable of binding phospholipid; this property is shared by the three cytochromes. The interactions between structuralprotein and cytochromes and between structural protein and lipid have considerable relevance to the problem of mitochondrial organization.For many years it has been recognized that the oxidation of substrates of the citric acid cycle by molecular oxygen depends on the structural in-tegrity of a catalytic unit constituting a multi-enzyme system (Green, 1956-1957). Several ob-servations have ledto the postulate that the transfer of electrons involved in this oxidation takes place within an array of oxidation-reduction enzymes that are organized not only in an enzy-matic sense but also in a structural sense. The very fact of an organized system of enzymes sug-gests a complex in which specific chemical inter-actions at the molecular level stabilize the molec-ular array. The study of mitochondrial proteins can, therefore, yield information on both the structure of the organized enzyme system and
影响因子:
3
作者:
Hughes,J;Joshi,S;Torok,K;Sanadi,DR
通讯作者:
Sanadi,DR