Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/2225
Title: Photolytic activity of early intermediates in dioxygen activation and reduction by cytochrome oxidase
Authors: Babcock, Gerald T. 
Varotsis, Constantinos 
Major Field of Science: Natural Sciences
Field Category: Chemical Sciences
Keywords: Cytochrome oxidase;Enzymes;Photochemistry;Heme;Ligands
Issue Date: 1995
Source: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1995, vol. 117, no. 45, pp. 11260-11269
Volume: 117
Issue: 45
Start page: 11260
End page: 11269
Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society 
Abstract: Time-resolved resonance Raman spectra have been recorded during the reaction of fully reduced (a2+a32+) cytochrome oxidase with dioxygen at room temperature. We have monitored the Fe2+-O2 vibration at 571 cm-1 and the time course of reaction photolability. Our results indicate that, in addition to the a32+-O2 species, the following intermediate in the reaction sequence, which can be described as a peroxy species with a total of three reducing equivalents in the binuclear center, is also photolabile and can be photolyzed to regenerate the fully reduced enzyme. The apparent rate constant that we observe for the decay of photolytic activity is ∼104 s-1, which correlates with other relaxation phenomena that have been observed in the O2 reduction reaction. We suggest that the underlying process that governs these phenomena is an input/output configurational transition associated with the proton-pumping activity of the enzyme. These results on the kinetics of the photolytic activity of the early intermediates in the cytochrome/O2 reaction resolve apparent differences between our earlier results and interpretation of the oxidase/O2 reaction time course and those of Blackmore, Greenwood, and Gibson (J. Biol. Chem. 1991, 266, 19245). We have also recorded Raman spectra in the low-frequency (200-500 cm-1) region during the oxidase/O2 reaction that show the V(Fe2+-his) stretching vibration in photoproducts that result from CO, O2, and peroxy adduct photolysis. The photolysis products that can be generated during the Ch reduction reaction have vibrational properties similar to those of the CO photolysis product, which suggests that the relaxation dynamics of heme O3 following ligand photolysis are independent of ligand
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/2225
ISSN: 15205126
DOI: 10.1021/ja00150a025
Rights: © American Chemical Society
Type: Article
Affiliation: University of Crete 
Affiliation : University of Crete 
Michigan State University 
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed
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