title: Calorimetric studies on the interaction of horse ferricytochrome c and yeast cytochrome c peroxidase.
abstract: The binding of horse ferricytochrome c to yeast cytochrome c peroxidase at pH 6.0 in 8.7 mM phosphate buffer (0.0100 M ionic strength) is characterized by a small, unfavorable enthalpy change (+1.91 +/- 0.16 kcal mol-1) and a large, positive entropy change (+37 +/- 1 eu). The free energy of binding depends strongly upon ionic strength, increasing from -9.01 to -4.51 kcal mol-1 between 0.0100 and 0.200 M ionic strength. The increase in free energy is due solely to the change in entropy over this ionic strength range, with the entropy change decreasing from 37 +/- 1 to 22 +/- 3 eu between 0.0100 and 0.200 M ionic strength. The observed enthalpy change remains constant over the same ionic strength range. At 0.0100 M ionic strength, complex formation is accompanied by the release of 0.54 +/- 0.11 proton, causing a variation in the observed enthalpy of reaction depending upon the buffer. After accounting for proton binding to the buffer, the corrected values for the enthalpy and entropy of binding are +2.84 +/- 0.26 kcal mol-1 and +21 +/- 3 eu, respectively. At 0.05 M ionic strength, the observed change in heat capacity, delta Cp, for the reaction between horse ferricytochrome c and cytochrome c peroxidase is essentially zero, 1.6 +/- 9.6 cal mol-1 K-1. The corrected delta Cp for binding is -28 +/- 10 cal mol-1 K-1 after accounting for proton binding to the buffer. No evidence for formation of a 2:1 horse ferricytochrome c/cytochrome c peroxidase complex was obtained in this study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 60115, USA.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Kresheck
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Vitello
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Erman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002021:Buffers; D002151:Calorimetry; D003574:Cytochrome c Group / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D003578:Cytochrome-c Peroxidase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D006736:Horses; D007700:Kinetics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009994:Osmolar Concentration; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D002021:Buffers; D003574:Cytochrome c Group; D003578:Cytochrome-c Peroxidase