Comparative Kinetic-Ionic Strength Study of Two Differently Charged Cytochromes C: Effects are Limited to Overall Charge

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

7 p.

Publication Date

12-7-1977

Publisher

Elsevier

Source Publication

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Source ISSN

0006-291X

Abstract

The reduction kinetics of two differently charged cytochromes c, horse cytochrome c and Rhodosprillum [sic] rubrum cytochrome c2, by ferrous EDTA2− were studied as a function of ionic strength. Since both proteins have nearly the same heme edge region, but have very different overall surface charge, this comparative study served as a direct test of the utility of small nonbinding non-physiological redox agents in the study of the charge of electron transfer sites of redox proteins. Calculations based on the ionic strength-kinetic data yielded protein charges of +10 and +2.3 for cytochrome c and cytochrome c2 respectively and compared well with values of +9 and +3 for the overall charge of the proteins based on acidic and basic amino acid residues. It is concluded that ionic strength effects upon the redox kinetics with such nonbinding nonphysiological redox agents reflect the influence of the overall protein charge and not the localized charge of the presumed site of electron transfer.

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Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Vol. 79, No. 3 (December 7, 1977): 769-775. DOI.

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