Electron and proton transfer in the arginine-54-methionine mutant of cytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans

Biochemistry
Audrius JasaitisM K Wikstrom

Abstract

Arginine 54 in subunit I of cytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans interacts with the formyl group of heme a. Mutation of this arginine to methionine (R54M) dramatically changes the spectral properties of heme a and lowers its midpoint redox potential [Kannt et al. (1999) J. Biol. Chem. 274, 37974-37981; Lee et al. (2000) Biochemistry 39, 2989-2996; Riistama et al. (2000) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1456, 1-4]. During anaerobic reduction of the mutant enzyme, a small fraction of heme a is reduced first along with heme a(3), while most of heme a is reduced later. This suggests that electron transfer is impaired thermodynamically due to the low redox potential of heme a but that it still takes place from Cu(A) via heme a to the binuclear site as in wild-type enzyme, with no detectable bypass from Cu(A) directly to the binuclear site. Consistent with this, the proton translocation efficiency is unaffected at 1 H(+)/e(-) in the mutant enzyme, although turnover is strongly inhibited. Time-resolved electrometry shows that when the fully reduced enzyme reacts with O(2), the fast phase of membrane potential generation during the P(R )()--> F transition is unaffected by the mutation, whereas the slow phase (F --> O transition) is...Continue Reading

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