title: Resonance Raman spectra for catalytic intermediates of cytochrome c oxidase detected with a mixed flow transient apparatus.
abstract: A novel technique was employed to collect resonance Raman spectra of an oxygenated intermediate of cytochrome c oxidase. Instead of laser pulses of high peak power, which may cause photodissociation, a continuous wave laser and a mixed flow apparatus were used. An intermediate formed within 450 microseconds after the reaction of cytochrome c oxidase with molecular oxygen could be detected. From the spectra it could be deduced that the most likely candidate for the intermediate would be a transient oxygenated species having the Fe2+ - O2 or Fe4+ = O heme in cytochrome a3 and the Fe2+ heme in cytochrome a.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002248:Carbon Monoxide; D002384:Catalysis; D002417:Cattle; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV; D010100:Oxygen; D010777:Photochemistry; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman
chemical_list: D002248:Carbon Monoxide; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV; D010100:Oxygen