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  • Title: Calorimetric studies of cytochrome oxidase-phospholipid interactions.
    Author: Semin BK, Saraste M, Wikström M.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1984 Jan 11; 769(1):15-22. PubMed ID: 6318820.
    Abstract:
    Thermotropic phase transitions in phospholipid vesicles reconstituted with mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase (EC 1.9.3.1) were studied using differential scanning calorimetry. Both dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and mixtures of DMPC and cardiolipin were used at different lipid-to-protein ratios. The incorporated protein reduces the energy absorbed during phase transitions of DMPC vesicles, and causes a small decrease in the transition temperature (tm). delta H depends on the amount of protein in the vesicles. This dependence indicates that about 72 DMPC molecules are influenced per cytochrome alpha alpha 3 monomer. The transition parameters remain unaffected by changes in ionic strength or by reduction of the enzyme. Incorporation of cytochrome oxidase depleted of subunit III into DMPC liposomes resulted in a larger decrease of tm, but the amount of perturbed phospholipids remains similar to that in the case of the intact enzyme. Incorporation of cytochrome oxidase into DMPC/cardiolipin vesicles counteracts the effect of cardiolipin in decreasing the enthalpy of the DMPC transition. Thus cytochrome oxidase segregates the phospholipids by attracting cardiolipin from the bulk lipid. Cytochrome c does not significantly affect this apparent cardiolipin 'shell' around membranous cytochrome oxidase.
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