Oxygen-linked equilibrium CuB-CO species in cytochrome ba3 oxidase from thermus thermophilus. Implications for an oxygen channel ar the CuB site.
Oxygen-linked equilibrium CuB-CO species in cytochrome ba3 oxidase from thermus thermophilus. Implications for an oxygen channel ar the CuB site.
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嗜热栖热菌细胞色素 ba3 氧化酶中的氧连接平衡 CuB-CO 物种。
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10.1074/jbc.m210293200
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2003
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C. Varotsis
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Konstantinos Koutsoupakis;S. Stavrakis;T. Soulimane;C. Varotsis
We report the first study of O(2) migration in the putative O(2) channel of cytochrome ba(3) and its effect to the properties of the binuclear heme a(3)-Cu(B) center of cytochrome ba(3) from Thermus thermophilus. The Fourier transform infrared spectra of the ba(3)-CO complex demonstrate that in the presence of 60-80 micro m O(2), the nu(C-O) of Cu(B)1+-C-O at 2053 cm(-1) (complex A) shifts to 2045 cm(-1) and remains unchanged in H(2)O/D(2)O exchanges and in the pH 6.5-9.0 range. The frequencies but not the intensities of the C-O stretching modes of heme a(3)-CO (complex B), however, remain unchanged. The change in the nu(C-O) of complex A results in an increase of k(-2), and thus in a higher affinity of Cu(B) for exogenous ligands. The time-resolved step-scan Fourier transform infrared difference spectra indicate that the rate of decay of the transient Cu(B)1+-CO complex at pH 6.5 is 30.4 s(-1) and 28.3 s(-1) in the presence of O(2). Similarly, the rebinding to heme a(3) is slightly affected and occurs with k(2) = 26.3 s(-1) and 24.6 s(-1) in the presence of O(2). These results provide solid evidence that in cytochrome ba(3), the ligand delivery channel is located at the Cu(B) site, which is the ligand entry to the heme a(3) pocket. We suggest that the properties of the O(2) channel are not limited to facilitating ligand diffusion to the active site but are extended in controlling the dynamics and reactivity of the reactions of ba(3) with O(2) and NO.