Conformational changes in the cytochrome b6f complex induced by inhibitor binding

Autor: Cécile Breyton
Přispěvatelé: Thomas, Frank, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics [Frankfurt am Main] (MPIBP), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Journal of Biological Chemistry
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2000, 275 (18), pp.13195-201
ISSN: 0021-9258
1083-351X
Popis: International audience; Binding of stigmatellin, an inhibitor of the Q(o) site of the bc-type complexes, has been shown to induce large conformational changes of the Rieske protein in the respiratory bc(1) complex (Kim, H., Xia, D., Yu, C. A., Xia, J. Z., Kachurin, A. M., Zhang, L., Yu, L., and Deisenhofer, J. (1998) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 95, 8026-8033; Iwata, S., Lee, J. W., Okada, K., Lee, J. K., Iwata, M., Rasmussen, B., Link, T. A., Ramaswamy, S., and Jap, B. K. (1998) Science 281, 64-71; Zhang, Z., Huang, L., Shulmeister, V. M., Chi, Y. I., Kim, K. K., Hung, L. W., Crofts, A. R., Berry, E. A., and Kim, S. H. (1998) Nature 392, 677-684). Such a movement seems necessary to shuttle electrons from the membrane-soluble quinol to the extramembrane heme of cytochrome c(1). To see whether similar changes occur in the related photosynthetic b(6)f complex, we have studied the effect of the binding of stigmatellin to the eukaryotic b(6)f complex by electron crystallography. Comparison of projection maps of thin three-dimensional crystals prepared with or without stigmatellin, and either negatively stained or embedded in glucose, reveals a similar type of movement to that observed in the bc(1) complex and suggests also the occurrence of conformational changes in the transmembrane region.
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