Circular dichroic spectroscopy of membrane haemoproteins. The molecular determinants of the dichroic properties of the b cytochromes in various ubiquinol:cytochrome c reductases.
Circular dichroic spectroscopy of membrane haemoproteins. The molecular determinants of the dichroic properties of the b cytochromes in various ubiquinol:cytochrome c reductases.
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膜血蛋白的圆二向色光谱。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-1033.1989.tb14796.x
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发表时间:
1989
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Lenaz,G
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作者:
DegliEsposti,M;Palmer,G;Lenaz,G
The circular dichroism (CD) of dihaem cytochromebfrom mitochondrial and bacterial ubiquinol:cytochrome‐creductase (bc1 complex) has been characterized. The dichroic properties of the yeast purified cytbare very similar to those of the native cytbwithin the mitochondrialbc1 complex. The CD spectra in the Soret region of the native cytochromebpresent in all species studied show an intense bisignate Cotton effect having a zero‐crossing wavelength close to the absorbance maximum.In preparations partially or completely depleted of the low‐potentialbhaem (b1) the CD spectra exhibit a single positive Cotton effect resembling the corresponding absorption spectrum. This is particularly evident in the purified cytochromeb‐562 fromRhodobacter sphaeroidesR26, which contains only the high‐potentialbhaem (bh). These spectral features together with the reconstitution of the cytochromeb1haem have been used to resolve the CD contribution of each haem to the CD spectra of cytochromeb.The mechanisms which might be responsible for the optical activity have been examined. It appears that the CD spectra of cytochromebderive from both the mutual interaction of its two haems (giving rise to exciton coupling) and to the interaction of each haem with nearby aromatic residues, other than the pairs of histidines which coordinate the iron. The dipole coupling between haem and aromatic residues appears to be more important than exciton coupling in the CD spectra of oxidizedbcytochromes and correlations have been made between the CD features and the proposed structure of cytochromeb.