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. 1969 Mar;44(3):413–421. doi: 10.1104/pp.44.3.413

The Respiratory Chain of Plant Mitochondria. III. Oxidation Rates of the Cytochromes c and b in Mung Bean Mitochondria Reduced With Succinate

Bayard T Storey a
PMCID: PMC396100  PMID: 16657077

Abstract

Oxidation rates of the 2 cytochromes c and the 3 cytochromes b in mitochondria from the hypocotyls of etiolated mung beans (Phaseolus aureus) have been measured with a rapid mixing flow apparatus coupled to a dual wavelength spectrophotometer. The mitochondria were depleted with uncoupler and ADP prior to starting the experiments to minimize the complications caused by energy-linked processes on electron transport. The half-time for oxidation and absorbance change at a given wavelength for the rapidly oxidized cytochromes was plotted as a function of wavelength, with 570 mμ as reference, to yield a spectrum in which absorbance maxima and half-times were correlated. The 2 cytochrome c components have oxidation half-times of 2 milliseconds for c549 and 3 milliseconds for c547. (The subscripts refer to the difference absorbance maxima observed for these cytochromes in reduced-minus-oxidized difference spectra obtained at −196°. The maxima observed at room temperature are 550 mμ for c547 and 552 mμ for c549.) Cytochrome b557 (room temperature maximum 560 mμ) was oxidized with a half-time of 8 milliseconds, while b553 (room temperature maximum 556 mμ) was oxidized relatively slowly with a half-time of 0.5 sec. Cytochrome b562 (room temperature maximum 565 mμ) was oxidized with half-times in the range 15 to 35 milliseconds, depending on mitochondrial preparation. It was shown that b562 is only partially reduced by succinate in anaerobic mitochondria previously depleted with uncoupler and ADP; this cytochrome can be fully reduced by succinate in coupled mitochondria under conditions where endogenous pyridine nucleotide is also reduced. Both b553 and b557 in depleted mitochondria are reduced in anaerobiosis by succinate. With ascorbate plus N,N′-tetramethylphenylenediamine as substrate, b553 is only partially reduced in anaerobiosis, while b557 is completely reduced in depleted mitochondria. This observed difference in ease of reducibility provides another method for differentiating the 3 cytochromes b of mitochondria isolated from plant tissues.

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