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Stimulation of cytochrome c oxidase activity by detergents
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0120-7586
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3860-4988
2025 (English)In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, ISSN 0005-2728, E-ISSN 1879-2650, Vol. 1866, part 1, article id 149509Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Cytochrome c oxidase (CytcO) is an integral membrane protein, which catalyzes four-electron reduction of oxygen linked to proton uptake and pumping. Amphipathic molecules bind in sites near the so-called K proton pathway of CytcO to reversibly modulate its activity. However, purification of CytcO for mechanistic studies typically involves the use of detergents, which may interfere with binding of these regulatory molecules. Here, we investigated the CytcO enzymatic activity as well as intramolecular electron transfer linked to proton transfer upon addition of different detergents to bovine heart mitoplasts. The CytcO activity increased upon addition of alkyl glucosides (DDM and DM) and the steroid analog GDN. The maximum stimulating effect was observed for DDM and DM, and the half-stimulating effect correlated with their CMC values. With GDN the stimulation effect was smaller and occurred at a concentration higher than CMC. A kinetic analysis suggests that the stimulation of activity is due to removal of a ligand bound near the K proton pathway, which indicates that in the native membrane this site is occupied to yield a lower than maximal possible CytcO activity. Possible functional consequences are discussed.

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2025. Vol. 1866, part 1, article id 149509
Keywords [en]
Respiratory chain, Proton transfer, Kinetics, Proton pumping, Membrane protein
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Biochemistry
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-231137DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2024.149509ISI: 001317638300001PubMedID: 39251013Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85203847337OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-231137DiVA, id: diva2:1872059
Available from: 2024-06-17 Created: 2024-06-17 Last updated: 2025-11-10Bibliographically approved
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1. Exploring Membrane Proteins within the Inner Mitochondrial and Endoplasmic Reticulum Membranes: Mitochondrial respiratory complexes and ER-localized Shr3
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Exploring Membrane Proteins within the Inner Mitochondrial and Endoplasmic Reticulum Membranes: Mitochondrial respiratory complexes and ER-localized Shr3
2024 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Membrane proteins play important roles in various life processes, for example, those in the inner mitochondrial membrane (IMM), endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane, and plasma membrane (PM). Oxidative phosphorylation complexes, densely packed in the IMM are crucial for energy transduction in eukaryotes. We determined three entire II2III2 IV2 supercomplex (SC) structures with 114 lipids at 2.1-2.4 Å resolution in Perkinsus marinus (P. marinus). The structures show a complete electron transfer pathway from complex II (CII) to complex IV (CIV). These architectures also reveal rotation states of the iron sulfur protein (ISP) in complex III (CIII), from one of which we observed two novel proteins that might impair the electron transfer. We also studied how the salt concentration and detergent affect the electron transfer. We determined the SC III2 IV-cytochrome c (cyt. c) cryo-EM structure at 20 mM salt concentration condition. Together with kinetic study, these data implicate that multiple cyt. c are involved in electron transfer between CIII and CIV. Our kinetic studies of CIV also indicate a native ligand bound near its K proton pathway which could be removed by detergent, leading to an increase in electron transfer rate and the activity of the enzyme. Most biogenesis of integral membrane proteins in eukaryotes is done in ER, such as the amino acid permeases (AAP), which function as amino acid transporters in the PM. Its synthesis and functional folding in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae) requires an ER membrane-localized chaperone, Shr3. We utilized a yeast growth-based genetic assay, in conjunction with a split-ubiquitin yeast two-hybrid assay, to demonstrate the selective interaction between Shr3 and nested C-terminal AAP truncations. This interaction exhibited a distinct pattern, wherein it gradually intensified and then weakened as more transmembrane helices folded. The work presented in this thesis contributions to an increased understanding of the organization and function of SCs, the effects of protein subunits, salt concentrations, and detergents on electron transfer, as well as the mechanism of Shr3 on AAP folding in the ER membrane. Together, these works have shed light on the understanding of the structure and function of several membrane proteins.

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Stockholm: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, 2024. p. 95
Keywords
membrane proteins, cryo-EM, respiratory supercomplex, oxidative phosphorylation, inner mitochondrial membrane, endoplasmicreticulum, amino acid permease, Shr3
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Biological Sciences Biophysics Structural Biology Biochemistry Molecular Biology
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Biochemistry
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urn:nbn:se:su:diva-231140 (URN)978-91-8014-843-6 (ISBN)978-91-8014-844-3 (ISBN)
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2024-09-06, Magnélisalen, Kemiska övningslaboratoriet, Svante Arrhenius väg 16 B and online via Zoom, public link is available at the department website, Stockholm, 09:00 (English)
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Available from: 2024-08-14 Created: 2024-06-18 Last updated: 2026-03-16Bibliographically approved

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