Spin-label electron paramagnetic resonance and differential scanning calorimetry studies of the interaction between mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase and adenosine triphosphate synthase complex.
Spin-label electron paramagnetic resonance and differential scanning calorimetry studies of the interaction between mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase and adenosine triphosphate synthase complex.
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自旋标记电子顺磁共振和差示扫描量热法研究线粒体细胞色素 C 氧化酶和三磷酸腺苷合酶复合物之间的相互作用。
作者:
Qiu,ZH;Yu,L;Yu,CA
Department of Biochemistry, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078 Received August 13, 1991; Revised Manuscript Received November 15, 1991 abstract: The interaction between cytochrome c oxidase complex and adenosine triphosphate synthase (F, F0) complex in the purified, dispersed state and embedded in phospholipid vesicles was studied by differential scanning calorimetry and by spin-label electron paramagnetic resonance. The detergent-dispersed cytochrome oxidase and F [F0 complexes undergo endothermic thermodenaturation. However, when these complexes are embedded in phospholipid vesicles, they undergo exothermic thermodenaturation. The energy released is believed to result from the collapse of a strained interaction between unsaturated fatty acyl groups of phospholipids and an exposed area of the complex formed by the removal of interacting proteins. The exothermic enthalpy change of thermodenaturation of a protein-phospholipid vesicle containing both cytochrome oxidase complex and F] F0 was smaller than thatof a mixture of protein-phospholipid vesicles formed from each individual electron transfercomplex. This suggests specific interaction between cytochrome oxidase complex and F [F0 in the membrane. Further evidence for interaction between these two complexes is provided by saturation transfer EPR studies in which the rotational correlation time of spin-labeled cytochrome oxidase increases significantly when the complex is mixed with F^ o prior to being embedded in phospholipid vesicles. From these results, it is concluded that at least a part of cytochromeoxidase and a part of FjFq form a supermacromolecular complex in the inner mitochondrial membrane. No such supermacromolecular complex is detected between FjFq and ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase.