Abstract
Beef heart cytochrome c oxidase has been depleted of subunit III by treatment with chymotrypsin. The removal of subunit III has been evaluated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and gel fluorography of preparations of the oxidase labeled with [14C]dicyclohexylcarbodiimide prior to proteolysis. Removal of subunit III resulted in a perturbation of the visible spectrum of reduced cytochrome oxidase. Subunit III-depleted oxidase is spectroscopically very similar to the oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans. When reconstituted into liposomes, the depleted enzyme still pumped protons in response to a pulse of reduced cytochrome c. The H+/e- stoichiometry averaged 0.5. Redox-linked proton translocation could be observed only when respiratory control ratios were higher than 3 and the reductant pulse was of a magnitude that allowed for no more than 5 turnovers of the oxidase.
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