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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 May 20.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2007 May 4;46(21):6239–6248. doi: 10.1021/bi700173w

Table 3.

Effect of Zinc on the Catalytic Life Span of Wild-Type CcO Containing Subunit III and CcO Lacking Subunit III

average number of catalytic cycles required to inactivate the enzymea

addition WT III(+) WT III(−)
none ∼1.6 × 106 (6.2 ± 0.9) × 103
400 μM ZnSO4 (105 ± 4) × 103 (8.3 ± 0.4) × 103
a

No cholic acid, arachidonic acid, or soybean phospholipid was added to the assays. One catalytic cycle = 1O2 + 4e + 4H+ → 2H2O.