Carbon monoxide-insensitive respiratory chain of Pseudomonas carboxydovorans.
AUTOR(ES)
Cypionka, H
RESUMO
Experiments employing electron transport inhibitors, room- and low-temperature spectroscopy, and photochemical action spectra have led to a model for the respiratory chain of Pseudomonas carboxydovorans. The chain is branched at the level of b-type cytochromes or ubiquinone. One branch (heterotrophic branch) contained cytochromes b558, c, and a1; the second branch (autotrophic branch) allowed growth in the presence of CO and contained cytochromes b561 and o (b563). Electrons from the oxidation of organic substrates were predominantly channelled into the heterotrophic branch, whereas electrons derived from the oxidation of CO or H2 could use both branches. Tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine was oxidized via cytochromes c and a exclusively. The heterotrophic branch was sensitive to antimycin A, CO, and micromolar concentrations of cyanide. The autotrophic branch was sensitive to 2-n-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide, insensitive to CO, and inhibited only by millimolar concentrations of cyanide. The functioning of cytochrome a1 as a terminal oxidase was established by photochemical action spectra. Reoxidation experiments established the functioning of cytochrome o as an alternative CO-insensitive terminal oxidase of the autotrophic branch.
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