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Chinese Physics, 2002, Vol. 11(5): 506-508    DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/11/5/318
CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES Prev  

A switch in the electron transfer from heme a to binuclear centre of cytochrome c oxidase

Wang Ao-Jin (王敖金), Xu Jian-Xing (徐建兴)
National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Center for Molecular Biology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Abstract  New experimental evidence that a switch controls the reduction of the heme a3-CuB binuclear centre has been observed in the N2-dried thin film of purified cytochrome oxidase. When immersing the enzyme film into the acid phosphate buffer with extremely low concentration of dithionite, a spectrum was given to show a reduction of heme a with no electrons resting on CuA. By increasing dithionite, electrons could be accumulated gradually on CuA, but the binuclear centre still remains in the oxidized state. When the accumulation of electrons on CuA and/or heme a exceeded a threshold, a turnover of reduction of the binuclear centre and oxidation of heme a occurred abruptly. This switch-like action is pH-dependent.
Keywords:  switch      electron transfer      cytochrome c oxidase      film  
Received:  11 July 2001      Revised:  28 December 2001      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  82.39.Jn (Charge (electron, proton) transfer in biological systems)  
  87.14.E- (Proteins)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 39900029).

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Wang Ao-Jin (王敖金), Xu Jian-Xing (徐建兴) A switch in the electron transfer from heme a to binuclear centre of cytochrome c oxidase 2002 Chinese Physics 11 506

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