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Transient formation of ubisemiquinone radical and subsequent electron transfer process in the Escherichia coli cytochrome bo.

Abstract：

:To elucidate a unique mechanism for the quinol oxidation in the Escherichia coli cytochrome bo, we applied pulse radiolysis technique to the wild-type enzyme with or without a single bound ubiquinone-8 at the high-affinity quinone binding site (Q(H)), using N-methylnicotinamide (NMA) as an electron mediator. With the ubiquinone bound enzyme, the reduction of the oxidase occurred in two phases as judged from kinetic difference spectra. In the faster phase, the transient species with an absorption maximum at 440 nm, a characteristic of the formation of ubisemiquinone anion radical, appeared within 10 micros after pulse radiolysis. In the slower phase, a decrease of absorption at 440 nm was accompanied by an increase of absorption at 428 and 561 nm, characteristic of the reduced form. In contrast, with the bound ubiquinone-8-free wild-type enzyme, NMA radicals directly reduced hemes b and o, though the reduction yield was low. These results indicate that a pathway for an intramolecular electron transfer from ubisemiquinone anion radical at the Q(H) site to heme b exists in cytochrome bo. The first-order rate constant of this process was calculated to be 1.5 x 10(3) s(-1) and is comparable to a turnover rate for ubiquinol-1. The rate constant for the intramolecular electron transfer decreased considerably with increasing pH, though the yields of the formation of ubisemiquinone anion radical and the subsequent reduction of the hemes were not affected. The pH profile was tightly linked to the stability of the bound ubisemiquinone in cytochrome bo [Ingledew, W. J., Ohnishi, T., and Salerno, J. C. (1995) Eur. J. Biochem. 227, 903-908], indicating that electron transfer from the bound ubisemiquinone at the Q(H) site to the hemes slows down at the alkaline pH where the bound ubisemiquinone can be stabilized. These findings are consistent with our previous proposal that the bound ubiquinone at the Q(H) site mediates electron transfer from the low-affinity quinol oxidation site in subunit II to low-spin heme b in subunit I.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Kobayashi K,Tagawa S,Mogi T

doi

10.1021/bi0014094

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-12-19 00:00:00

pages

15620-5

issue

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

pii

bi0014094

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Transient formation of ubisemiquinone radical and subsequent electron transfer process in the Escherichia coli cytochrome bo.