Kinetic Mechanism of Quinol Oxidation by Cytochrome bd Studied with Ubiquinone-2 Analogs
- 1 April 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 139 (4) , 779-788
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jb/mvj087
Abstract
Cytochrome bd is a heterodimeric terminal ubiquinol oxidase of Escherichia coli under microaerophilic growth conditions. The oxidase activity shows sigmoidal concentration-dependence with low concentrations of ubiquinols, and a marked substrate inhibition with high concentrations of ubiquinol-2 analogs [Sakamoto, K., Miyoshi, H., Takegami, K., Mogi, T., Anraku, Y., and Iwamura H. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 29897–29902]. Kinetic analysis of the oxidation of the ubiquinol-2 analogs, where the 2- or 3-methoxy group has been substituted with an azido or ethoxy group, suggested that its peculiar enzyme kinetics can be explained by a modified ping-pong bi-bi mechanism with the formation of inactive binary complex FS in the one-electron reduced oxygenated state and inactive ternary complex (E2S)Sn on the oxidation of the second quinol molecule. Structure-function studies on the ubiquinol-2 analogs suggested that the 6-diprenyl group and the 3-methoxy group on the quinone ring are involved in the substrate inhibition. We also found that oxidized forms of ubiquinone-2 analogs served as weak noncompetitive inhibitors. These results indicate that the mechanism for the substrate oxidation by cytochrome bd is different from that of the heme-copper terminal quinol oxidase and is tightly coupled to dioxygen reduction chemistry.Keywords
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