Cytochromes metal chelate enzyme

D-Lactate cytochrome c reductase is inhibited by p-mercuriphenyl sulfonate salts, metal chelators, and dicarboxylic acids such as oxalate and oxaloacetate (Table XVI) (312, 314, 315). According to Nygaard (314), salts (cations) inhibit at the acceptor site, and dicarboxylic acids at the substrate site. Cremona and Singer (315) have studied the inhibitions by metal chelators and by oxalate. They recognized two types of inhibition. One type of inhibition is that which is caused by EDTA or oxalate. This kind of inhibition is reversed immediately upon dilution of the enzyme-inhibitor mixture. The second is that which results from addition of o-phenanthroline. Enzyme preparations treated with o-phenanthroline bind 2 moles of the chelator per mole of Zn . This complex is stable and inactive, and does not result in the release of Zri . The inactive... 

It was discovered in 1958 that anaerobically grown yeast contains a form of lactate dehydrogenase which is different from the d- and L-lac-tate cytochrome c reductases of aerobic yeast (306, 319). The enzyme has been partially purified (320, 321), and shown to contain flavin (320-322). Gel filtration studies have suggested a molecular weight of about 100,000 (320, 321). Preparations of the enzyme oxidize several d-2-hydroxyacids to the respective keto acids in a reversible manner (320). For the forward reaction, ferricyanide, 2,6-dichloroindophenol, menadione, and methylene blue have been used as electron acceptors, and for the reverse reaction leucomethyl viologen and FMNHa are effective electron donors (320). A number of L-2-hydroxyacids and 2-keto acids have been shown to be competitive inhibitors. Oxalate, cyanide, o-phenanthro-line, and EDTA are also potent inhibitors (320, 321, 323, 324). The inhibition by metal chelators develops slowly and is reversed by addition of Zn, Co, Mn +, or Fe + (320, 323-326). Substrates prevent the inhibition by chelators at concentrations considerably lower than their respective Km values (327). It has been suggested that EDTA inactivation involves the removal of a metal, most probably Zn +, from the substrate binding site of the enzyme (325, 326, 328, 329). However, others have... 

Metal ion chelates of various porphyrins, differing in their substituents at positions 1-8, are intimately involved in a great number of life processes. Iron protoporphyrin (13) is the most common form and serves as the cofactor of a large number of enzymes. Usually (13) is non-covalently bound to its conjugate apoenzymes. Examples of covalently attached (13) are provided by c-type cytochromes, the attachment being between two vinyl side chains of (13) and two cysteine residues of the protein. Other biologically important derivatives of porphyrin include chlorophyll a (14), bacteriochlorophyll a and heme a (B-79MI11002). 

As important as calcium is probably iron [122]. Iron is the metal center of many essential proteins and enzymes, such as hemoglobin, an oxygen carrier, or peroxidase, that oxidizes hydrogen peroxide, or even the large family of cytochromes, which act as electron transfer proteins in many important biochemical processes [85]. New families of MRI contrast agents have been designed such that their relaxivity is iron concentration dependent [128-130]. The two latest are based on Gd(III) chelates (Fig. 20) but differ by the mechanism responsible for their iron sensitivity and will be described further. 

Like pesticides, heavy metals are traditionally tested by enzyme inhibition or modulation of catalytic activity. Several metalloproteins behave as chelators for specific metals with no known catalytic reactions. Such heavy metal binding sites exist in metallothioneins and in various protein elements of bacterial heavy metal mechanisms and have been exploited for specific detection through affinity events. Nevertheless and as previously mentioned, bacterial resistance mechanisms can also be linked to catalytic pathways. For instance, c5rtochromes c3 and hydrogenases from sulfate and sulfur reducing bacteria [284,285] are well suited for bioremediation purposes because they can reduce various metals such as U(V) and Cr(VI) [286,287]. Cytochrome c3 has been reported to catalyse Cr(VI) and U(VI) reduction in Desulfovibrio vulgaris [288,289], suggesting... 

Table 11. Enzymic activity of different Cu2+ and/or Zn2+ apoerythrocuprein chelates. The reciprocal concentrations of these different metal apoprotein complexes were compared under equilibrium conditions ( Cyt credl X Cyt cox]-1 = 1)- For each metal protein 4 different assays were performed. Incubations were carried out at 25°. The assay mixture was composed of xanthine, 3.3 x 10 AM beef-heart cytochrome cox, 2.7 X 10 5M catalase, 1.6 x 10 SM xanthine oxidase, 2.1 x 10 1M HEPES buffer, 5 x 10 2M, pH 7.8 (78, 122)...

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