Abstract
Time-resolved electronic absorption, infrared, resonance Raman, and magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopies are applied to characterization of the intermediate that is formed within 20 ps after photodissociation of CO from cytochrome a3 in reduced cytochrome oxidase. This intermediate decays with the same half-life (approximately 1 microseconds) as the post-photodissociation CU+B-CO species previously observed by time-resolved infrared. The transient UV/visible spectra, kinetics, infrared, and Raman evidence suggest that an endogenous ligand is transferred from CuB to Fea3 when CO binds to CuB, forming a cytochrome a3 species with axial ligation that differs from the reduced unliganded enzyme. The time-resolved magnetic circular dichroism results suggest that this transient is high-spin and, therefore, five-coordinate. Thus we infer that the ligand from CuB binds on the distal side of cytochrome a3 and displaces the proximal histidine imidazole. This remarkable mechanistic feature is an additional aspect of the previously proposed "ligand-shuttle" activity of the CuB/Fea3 pair. We speculate as to the identity of the ligand that is transferred between CuB and Fea3 and suggest that the ligand shuttle may play a functional role in redox-linked proton translocation by the enzyme.
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