Redox‐linked proton translocation in the <i>b–c</i><sub>1</sub> complex from beef‐heart mitochondria reconstituted into phospholipid vesicles

FEBS Journal - Tập 137 Số 3 - Trang 413-420 - 1983
Michele Lorusso1, Domenico L. Gatti1, Domenico Boffoli1, Elisabetta BELLOMO1, Sergio Papa1
1Istituto di Chimica Biologica, Facoltà di Medicine e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Bari, Policlinico, Piazza G. Cesare, 1-70124 Bari, Italy

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Possible involvement of polypeptides of b–c1 complex of beef‐heart mitochondria in its redox and protonmotive activity has been investigated, by means of chemical modification of amino acid residues in the soluble as well as in the phospholipid‐reconstituted b–c1 complex. Treatment of the enzyme with tetranitromethane (C(NO2)4) or with ethoxyformic anhydride (EFA), that modify reversibly tyrosyl and hystidyl residues respectively, resulted in a marked inhibition of electron transport from reduced quinols to cytochrome c. This was accompanied, in b–c1 reconstituted into phospholipid vesicles, by a parallel inhibition of respiratory‐linked proton translocation; the H+/e− stoichiometry remained unchanged. Treatment of b–c1 complex with DCCD, that specifically modifies carboxylic groups of glutammic or aspartic residues caused a marked depression of proton translocation in b–c1 vesicles, under conditions where the rate of electron flow in the coupled state, was enhanced. As a consequence the H+/e− stoichiometry was lowered.SDS gel electrophoresis and [14C]DCCD‐labelling of the polypeptides of the b–c1 complex showed a major binding of 14C‐DCCD to the 8‐kDa subunit of the complex and possible cross‐linking, induced by DCCD treatment, of polypeptide(s) in the 8‐kDa band and the 12‐kDa band, with the Fe‐S protein of the complex, with the appearance of a new polypeptide band with an apparent molecular mass of about 40 kDa.Involvement of polypeptides of low molecular mass, for which no functional role was so far described, and possibly of the Fe‐S protein in the redox‐linked proton translocation in b–c1 complex is suggested.

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FEBS Journal

Tập 137 Số 3

413-420

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