title: Binding of horse heart cytochrome c to yeast porphyrin cytochrome c peroxidase: a fluorescence quenching study on the ionic strength dependence of the interaction.
abstract: The binding of horse heart cytochrome c to yeast cytochrome c peroxidase in which the heme group was replaced by protoporphyrin IX was determined by a fluorescence quenching technique. The association between ferricytochrome c and cytochrome c peroxidase was investigated at pH 6.0 in cacodylate/KNO3 buffers. Ionic strength was varied between 3.5 mM and 1.0 M. No binding occurs at 1.0 M ionic strength although there was a substantial decrease in fluorescence intensity due to the inner filter effect. After correcting for the inner filter effect, significant quenching of porphyrin cytochrome c peroxidase fluorescence by ferricytochrome c was observed at 0.1 M ionic strength and below. The quenching could be described by 1:1 complex formation between the two proteins. Values of the equilibrium dissociation constant determined from the fluorescence quenching data are in excellent agreement with those determined previously for the native enzyme-ferricytochrome c complex at pH 6.0 by difference spectrophotometry (J. E. Erman and L. B. Vitello (1980) J. Biol. Chem. 225, 6224-6227). The binding of both ferri- and ferrocytochrome c to cytochrome c peroxidase was investigated at pH 7.5 as functions of ionic strength in phosphate/KNO3 buffers using the fluorescence quenching technique. The binding in independent of the redox state of cytochrome c between 10 and 20 mM ionic strength, but ferricytochrome c binds with greater affinity at 30 mM ionic strength and above.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 60115.
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Vitello
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Erman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003574:Cytochrome c Group / Q000378:metabolism*; D003578:Cytochrome-c Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism*; D006736:Horses; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D009994:Osmolar Concentration; D010544:Peroxidases / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D003574:Cytochrome c Group; D010544:Peroxidases; C053958:porphyrin cytochrome c peroxidase; D003578:Cytochrome-c Peroxidase