Primary Citation of Related Structures: 5KKZ, 5KLI, 5KLV
PubMed Abstract:
Complex III or the cytochrome (cyt) bc 1 complex constitutes an integral part of the respiratory chain of most aerobic organisms and of the photosynthetic apparatus of anoxygenic purple bacteria. The function of cyt bc 1 is to couple the reaction of electron transfer from ubiquinol to cytochrome c to proton pumping across the membrane ...
Complex III or the cytochrome (cyt) bc 1 complex constitutes an integral part of the respiratory chain of most aerobic organisms and of the photosynthetic apparatus of anoxygenic purple bacteria. The function of cyt bc 1 is to couple the reaction of electron transfer from ubiquinol to cytochrome c to proton pumping across the membrane. Mechanistically, the electron transfer reaction requires docking of its Rieske iron-sulfur protein (ISP) subunit to the quinol oxidation site (Q P ) of the complex. Formation of an H-bond between the ISP and the bound substrate was proposed to mediate the docking. Here we show that the binding of oxazolidinedione-type inhibitors famoxadone, jg144, and fenamidone induces docking of the ISP to the Q P site in the absence of the H-bond formation both in mitochondrial and bacterial cyt bc 1 complexes, demonstrating that ISP docking is independent of the proposed direct ISP-inhibitor interaction. The binding of oxazolidinedione-type inhibitors to cyt bc 1 of different species reveals a toxophore that appears to interact optimally with residues in the Q P site. The effect of modifications or additions to the toxophore on the binding to cyt bc 1 from different species could not be predicted from structure-based sequence alignments, as demonstrated by the altered binding mode of famoxadone to bacterial cyt bc 1 .
Organizational Affiliation:
From the Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, xiad@mail.nih.gov.
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