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Assignment and charge translocation stoichiometries of the major electrogenic phases in the reaction of cytochrome c oxidase with dioxygen.

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:The reaction of cytochrome c oxidase with dioxygen has been studied by means of time-resolved measurements of electrical membrane potential (DeltaPsi). Microsecond time resolution was achieved by starting with the CO-inhibited enzyme, which was photolyzed after addition of oxygen. The time course of the reaction could be fitted by using a five-step sequential reaction as a model. The first two phases of the reaction, which correspond in time to binding of oxygen followed by formation of the P (peroxy) intermediate, as observed spectroscopically, are not associated with net charge displacement across the membrane. After this lag, DeltaPsi develops in three phases, which correspond in time to the conversion of P to the F (ferryl) intermediate, in a single phase, and conversion of F to O (the fully oxidized enzyme), in two phases. The amplitude of DeltaPsi was approximately equal for the P --> F and F --> O portions of the reaction. When the oxygen reaction is started with incompletely reduced enzyme, it will halt at the P or F state. When the reaction was allowed to proceed to the F state, but no further, only the fast phase of DeltaPsi formation was observed, whereas no DeltaPsi was generated if the reaction was halted at P. This finding places the assignments of phases in the electrometric data on a firmer basis-they are no longer based solely on temporal correspondence with phases in the spectroscopic data. To define the number of charges transferred across the membrane during the reaction, some kind of calibration is needed. For this purpose, another type of reaction-electron transfer following CO photolysis in the absence of oxygen ("backflow")-was studied. Parallel spectroscopic and electrometric measurements showed that the fast electron transfer from the low-spin heme to CuA in the backflow process results in approximately 11 times smaller amplitude of DeltaPsi as compared with DeltaPsi generated in the reaction of the reduced enzyme with oxygen (the polarity is also reversed). If it is assumed that transfer of an electron from the low-spin heme to CuA amounts to movement of a unit charge across half of the membrane dielectric, charge translocation in the reaction of the reduced enzyme with oxygen amounts to approximately 5.5 unit charges-the value predicted if all four protons pumped during the catalytic cycle are translocated during the oxidative part of the reaction.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Jasaitis A,Verkhovsky MI,Morgan JE,Verkhovskaya ML,Wikström M

doi

10.1021/bi982275l

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-03-02 00:00:00

pages

2697-706

issue

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

pii

bi982275l

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Assignment and charge translocation stoichiometries of the major electrogenic phases in the reaction of cytochrome c oxidase with dioxygen.