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. 1981 Mar 15;194(3):713–720. doi: 10.1042/bj1940713

Reactivity of photoreduced cytochrome aa3 complexes with molecular oxygen.

P Nicholls, G A Chanady
PMCID: PMC1162806  PMID: 6272737

Abstract

Cytochrome c oxidase (ox heart cytochrome aa3) is reduced on illumination in the presence of a photocatalyst system containing deazaflavin and EDTA. The photo-reduced enzyme reacts with oxygen at neutral pH to give a form of ferric enzyme, whereas a corresponding sample partially reduced by light in the absence of any photocatalyst reacts with oxygen to give an oxyferri species ('oxygenated' enzyme). Reduction by the photocatalyst system at an alkaline pH value (9.0) also gives rise to fully reduced oxidase (both haem groups ferrous). At these pH values the immediate product after oxygen addition is a species with a 605-606 nm absorption band, not identical with ferrous cytochrome a, but capable of oxidizing added cytochrome c. This intermediate, which is unstable at neutral pH, may be analogous to the 'compound B' obtained by Chance and co-workers [Chance, Saronio & Leigh (1975) J. Biol. Chem. 250, 9226-9237; Chance, Saronio & Leigh (1979) Biochem. J. 177, 931-941] at low temperatures.

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