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  • Title: Oxido-reductive titrations of cytochrome c oxidase followed by EPR spectroscopy.
    Author: Hartzell CR, Beinert H.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1976 Feb 16; 423(2):323-38. PubMed ID: 174747.
    Abstract:
    Experiments are described on oxido-reductive titrations of cytochrome c oxidase as followed by low-temperature EPR and reflectance spectroscopy. The reductants were cytochrome c or NADH and the oxidant ferricyanide. Experiments were conducted in the presence and absence of either cytochrome c or carbon monoxide, or both. An attempt is made to provide a complete quantitative balance of the changes observed in the major EPR signals. During reduction, the maximal quantity of heme represented in the high-spin ferric heme signals (g approximately 6; 2) is 25% of the total heme present, and during reoxidation 30%. With NADH reduction there is little difference between the pattern of disappearance of the low-spin ferric heme signals in the absence or presence of cytochrome c. The copper and high-spin heme signals, however, disappear at higher titrant concentrations in the presence of cytochrome c than in its absence. In these titrations, as well as in those with ferrocytochrome c, the quantitative balance indicates that, in addition to EPR-detectable components, EPR-undetectable components are also reduced, increasingly so at higher titrant concentrations. The quantity of EPR-undectable components reduced appears to be inverely related to pH. A similar inverse relationship exists between pH and appearance of high-spin signals during yhe titration. At pH 9.3 the quantity of heme represented in the high-spin signals is less than 5%, whereas it approximately doubles from pH 7.4 to pH 6.1. In the presence of CO less of the low-spin heme and copper signals disappears for the same quantity of titrant consumed, again implying reduction of EPR undetectable components. At least one of these components is represented in a broad absorption band centered at 655 nm. The stoichiometry observed on reoxidation, particularly in the presence of CO, is not compatible with the notion that the copper signal represents 100% of the active copper of the enzyme as a pair of interacting copper atoms.
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