Proton linkage in formation of the cytochrome c-cytochrome c peroxidase complex: electrostatic properties of the high- and low-affinity cytochrome binding sites on the peroxidase.
Proton linkage in formation of the cytochrome c-cytochrome c peroxidase complex: electrostatic properties of the high- and low-affinity cytochrome binding sites on the peroxidase.
复制标题
细胞色素 c-细胞色素 c 过氧化物酶复合物形成中的质子连接:过氧化物酶上高亲和力和低亲和力细胞色素结合位点的静电特性。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00208a011
复制
发表时间:
1994
期刊:
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Mauk,AG
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Mauk,MR;Ferrer,JC;Mauk,AG
Revised Manuscript Received July 25, 1994® abstract: The electrostatic character of cytochrome c-cytochrome c peroxidase complex formation has been studied by potentiometric titration between pH 5.5 and 7.75. Potentiometric data obtained at ionic strength> 100 mM were adequately analyzed in terms of 1: 1 complex formation while the simplest model capable of fitting similar data obtained at lower ionic strength involves the assumption of two inequivalent binding sites for the cytochrome on the peroxidase. The stability of cytochrome c binding at the high-affinity site is ca. three orders of magnitude greater than that observed for the low-affinity site and is optimal between pH 6.75 and 7. The electrostatic properties of the two binding sites are distinctly different because, at most values of pH, binding of cytochrome c to the high-affinity site results in proton release while binding of the cytochrome to the low-affinity site results in proton uptake. Furthermore, binding of the cytochrome to the low-affinity site appears to be least stable in the pH range where binding to the high-affinity site is optimal. Interestingly, the binding parameters derived from these measurements were independent of temperature, consistent with a substantial entropic contribution to complex stability. Ferricytochrome c binds to the peroxidase with a slightly greater affinity than does ferrocytochrome c, and no evidence for specific anion effects on complex stability was observed. At low ionic strength (< 50 mM) and highpH (7.75), the interaction of the two proteins is more complex and cannot be adequately analyzed in terms of the two-site model.Since the pioneering work by Mochan and Nichols (Mochan & Nichols, 1971; Mochan, 1970) and Yonetani and co-workers (Yonetani & Leonard, 1973; Gupta & Yonetani, 1973), the complex formed by cytochrome c and cytochrome c peroxidase has served as a paradigm for similar complexes formed by other electron transfer proteins. Particular attention was focused on this complex by development of the hypothetical structure for this complex proposed by Poulos and Kraut (1980) on the basis of the three-dimensional structures of the two component proteins. While the recent determination of three-dimensional structures for crystallized forms of the cytochrome c-cytochrome c peroxidase complex (Pelletier & Kraut, 1992) constitutes a major advance in our understanding of this complex, a variety of functional studies provide