Iron-sulfur proteins Rieske

Rieske proteins are constituents of the be complexes that are hydro-quinone-oxidizing multisubunit membrane proteins. All be complexes, that is, bci complexes in mitochondria and bacteria, b f complexes in chloroplasts, and corresponding complexes in menaquinone-oxidizing bacteria, contain three subunits cytochrome b (cytochrome 6e in b f complexes), cytochrome Ci (cytochrome f in b(,f complexes), and the Rieske iron sulfur protein. Cytochrome 6 is a membrane protein, whereas the Rieske protein, cytochrome Ci, and cytochrome f consist of water-soluble catalytic domains that are bound to cytochrome b through a membrane anchor. In Rieske proteins, the membrane anchor can be identified as an N-terminal hydrophobic sequence (13). 

R)-2-METHYLMALATE DEHYDRATASE NICOTINATE DEHYDROGENASE NITRATE REDUCTASE NITRITE REDUCTASE PHENYLALANINE MONOOXYGENASE PROLYL 3-HYDROXYLASE PROLYL 4-HYDROXYLASE PROTOCATECHUATE 3,4-DIOXYGENASE PROTOCATECHUATE 4,5-DIOXYGENASE RIESKE IRON-SULFUR PROTEIN RUBREDOXIN... 

RIBULOSE-5-PHOSPHATE 4-EPIMERASE RIESKE IRON-SULFUR PROTEIN Ring reversal (or ring inversion),... 

FIGURE 19-11 Cytochrome be, complex (Complex III). The complex is a dimer of identical monomers, each with 11 different subunits. (a) Structure of a monomer. The functional core is three subunits cytochrome b (green) with its two hemes (bH and foL, light red) the Rieske iron-sulfur protein (purple) with its 2Fe-2S centers (yellow) and cytochrome ci (blue) with its heme (red) (PDB ID 1BGY). (b) The dimeric functional unit. Cytochrome c, and the Rieske iron-sulfur protein project from the P surface and can interact with cytochrome c (not part of the functional complex) in the intermembrane space. The complex has two distinct binding sites for ubiquinone, QN and QP, which correspond to the sites of inhibition by two drugs that block oxidative phosphorylation. Antimycin A, which blocks electron flow from heme bH to Q, binds at QN, close to heme bH on the N (matrix) side of the membrane. Myxothiazol, which prevents electron flow from... 

QH2 to the Rieske iron-sulfur protein, binds at QP, near the 2Fe-2S center and heme bL on the P side. The dimeric structure is essential to the function of Complex III. The interface between monomers forms two pockets, each containing a QP site from one monomer and a QN site from the other. The ubiquinone intermediates move within these sheltered pockets. 

Functions of iron-sulfur enzymes. Numerous iron-sulfur clusters are present within the membrane-bound electron transport chains discussed in Chapter 18. Of special interest is the Fe2S2 cluster present in a protein isolated from the cytochrome be complex (complex III) of mitochondria. First purified by Rieske et al.,307 this protein is often called the Rieske iron-sulfur protein 308 Similar proteins are found in cytochrome be complexes of chloroplasts.125 300 309 310 In... 

Complex III (ubiquinol-cytochrome c oxido-reductase or cytochrome bct complex). Mitochondrial complex III is a dimeric complex, each subunit of which contains 11 different subunits with a total molecular mass of 240 kDa per monomer.104-107 However, in many bacteria the complex consists of only three subunits, cytochrome b, cytochrome c , and the high potential ( 0.3 V) Rieske iron-sulfur protein, which is discussed in Chapter 16, Section A,7. These three proteins are present in all bc1 complexes. 

An unusual [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin with unique spectroscopic properties exists in association with cytochromes b and c, and is involved in respiratory electron transport in mitochondria, chloroplasts and certain bacteria. When isolated, the complex contains two b hemes, one c, heme and the 2Fe-2S protein. The 2Fe-2S protein from the bct complex (Sections 62.1.5.2.3 and 62.1.5.2.5) was purified from bovine mitochondria by Rieske et al.,162 and is referred to as the Rieske iron-sulfur protein. The properties of this protein have been reviewed763 and its topography in mitochondrial ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase has been described.764 They have high redox potentials in the range+150-330 mV. 

Plate 21 Model and portion of electron-density map of bovine Rieske iron-sulfur protein (PDB lrie). The map is contoured around selected residues only. (For discussion, see Chapter 11.) Image SPV/POV-Ray. 

Layer sandwich Rieske iron-sulfur protein... 

Engstrom G, Xiao K, Yu C-A, Yu L, Durham B, Millett F. Photoinduced electron transfer between the Rieske iron-sulfur protein and cytochrome bcr complex. J Biol Chem 2002 277 31072-8. 

De Vitry, C., Oyuang, Y., Finazzi, G., Wollman, F.A. and Kallas, T., 2004, The chloroplast Rieske iron-sulfur protein - at the crossroad of electron transport and signal transduction. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 44621-44627. 

ISP , Rieske" iron-sulfur protein Cyt. c Cytochrome c Cyt. Ci Cytochrome c,... 

The be complexes from mitochondria, chloroplasts, and bacteria all contain three catalytic subunits harboring the four redox centers cytochrome b, the high-potential cytochrome C or /, and the Rieske iron sulfur protein. These subunits are required and sufficient to support electron transport since most bacterial bci complexes only consist of these three subunits. However, some bacterial bc complexes contain a fourth subunit with yet unknown function. Mitochondrial bc complexes contain in addition to the three catalytic subunits 7-8 subunits without redox centers two large core proteins which are peripherally located and which are members of the family of matrix proeessing peptidases (MPP), and 5-6 small subunits. In cytochrome complexes, cytochrome b is split into cytochrome b(, and subunit IV containing the C-terminal part of cytochrome b in addition, 3 small hydrophobic subimits are present [18]. 

The bcf complexes form dimers in the membrane with molecular masses of approximately 480 kDa (mitochondria) and 130 kDa (bacteria), respectively. Each monomer has 10-13 membrane spanning helices, depending on the number of noncatalytic subunits. The membrane spanning helices of cytochrome b are in the center of the structure and form the dimer interface while the other membrane spanning helices are located around cytochrome b. Cytochrome c and the Rieske iron sulfur protein both have water soluble domains containing the redox centers, heme ci and the [2Fe-2S] cluster, respectively. These domains are at the outside of the iimer mitochondrial membrane, i.e., in the intermembrane space, and bound to the membrane via membrane spanning helices acting as membrane anchors. 

Beckmann, J. D., Ljungdahl, P. O., and Trumpower, B. L., 1989, Mutational analysis of the mitochondrial Rieske iron-sulfur protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. I. Construction of a RIPl deletion strain and isolation of temperature-sensitive mutants, J. Biol. Chem. 264 3717n3722. 

Denke, E., Merbitz-Zahradnik, T., Hatzfeld, O. M., Snyder, C. H., Link, T. A., and Trumpower, B. L., 1998, Alteration of the midpoint potential and catalytic activity of the rieske iron-sulfur protein by changes of amino acids forming hydrogen bonds to the iron-sulfur cluster, J. Biol. Chem. 273 9085n9093. 

Gatti, D. L., Meinhardt, S. W., Ohnishi, T., and Tzagoloff, A., 1989, Structure and function of the mitochondrial hcj complex. A mutational analysis of the yeast Rieske iron-sulfur protein, J. Mol. Biol. 205 421n435. 

Link, T. A., Saynovits, M., Assmann, C., Iwata, S., Ohnishi, T., and von Jagow, G., 1996. Isolation, characterization, and crystallization of a water-soluble fragment of the Rieske iron-sulfur protein of bovine heart mitochondrial bcl complex, Eur. J. Biochem. 237 71n75. 

Tian, H., White, S., Yu, L., and Yu, C. A., 1999, Evidence for the head domain movement of the rieske iron-sulfur protein in electron transfer reaction of the cytochrome bcl complex, J. Biol. Chem. 274 7146n7152. 

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