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Abstract

Cytochrome is a respiratory oxidase in and many other bacteria. It contains cytochromes and as redox centres, and is thus unrelated to the haem-copper super-family of terminal oxidases. The apparent affinities ) for oxygen uptake by respiring cells and membranes from a mutant lacking the alternative oxidase cytochrome were determined by deoxygenation of oxyleghaemoglobin as a sensitive reporter of dissolved oxygen concentration. Respiration rates were maximal at oxygen concentrations of 25-50 nM, but the kinetics were complex and indicative of substrate (i.e. oxygen) inhibition. values were in the range 3-8 nM (the lowest recorded for a respiratory oxidase), and values between 0.5 and 1.8 μM were obtained. Low temperature photodissociation of anoxic, CO-ligated membranes confirmed the absence of cytochrome and revealed a high-spin -type cytochrome identified as cytochrome of the cytochrome complex. Photodissociation in the presence of oxygen revealed binding of a ligand (presumably oxygen) to cytochrome at a rate much greater than that of CO binding, and formation of the oxygenated form of cytochrome . The results confirm that both high-spin haems in the cytochrome complex bind CO and demonstrate that oxygen can also react with both haems. Substrate inhibition of oxidase activity, in addition to transcriptional regulation of oxidase synthesis, may play a crucial role in the regulation of partitioning of electron flux between the cytochrome and -terminated respiratory pathways.

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