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  • Title: Heat treatment of cytochrome c oxidase perturbs the CuA site and affects proton pumping behavior.
    Author: Li PM, Morgan JE, Nilsson T, Ma M, Chan SI.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1988 Sep 20; 27(19):7538-46. PubMed ID: 2462905.
    Abstract:
    It has been previously reported that mild heat treatment (43 degrees C for ca. 60 min) abolishes the proton pumping activity of cytochrome c oxidase while leaving the oxidase activity and cytochromes a and a3 unperturbed [Sone, N., & Nicholls, P. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 6550-6554]. We herein describe the effects of this heat treatment on the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and optical absorption signatures of the redox-active metal centers in the enzyme. We find that heat treatment of the oxidized enzyme causes a local structural perturbation at the CuA site. After heat treatment, the enzyme sample contains three subpopulations, each of which has a different structure at CuA. These include (i) native CuA, (ii) a type 2 copper species similar to the one produced by chemical modification by p-(hydroxymercuri)benzoate (pHMB) [Gelles, J., & Chan, S. I. (1985) Biochemistry 24, 3963-3972], and (iii) a novel type 1 copper species. In addition to changes at the CuA site, we find that heat treatment results in accelerated cyanide binding and the removal of subunit III. If the cytochrome c oxidase is heat treated while fully reduced, none of these changes are observed except for subunit III depletion. Furthermore, partial (CO mixed-valence derivative) reduction of the enzyme as well as ligand binding to cytochrome a3 also protects the enzyme against the heat-induced changes, indicating that the oxygen binding site plays a role in stabilizing the CuA site against structural perturbations.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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