title: Characterizing the proton loading site in cytochrome c oxidase.
abstract: Cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) uses the energy released by reduction of O2 to H2O to drive eight charges from the high pH to low pH side of the membrane, increasing the electrochemical gradient. Four electrons and protons are used for chemistry, while four more protons are pumped. Proton pumping requires that residues on a pathway change proton affinity through the reaction cycle to load and then release protons. The protonation states of all residues in CcO are determined in MultiConformational Continuum Electrostatics simulations with the protonation and redox states of heme a, a3, Cu(B), Y288, and E286 used to define the catalytic cycle. One proton is found to be loaded and released from residues identified as the proton loading site (PLS) on the P-side of the protein in each of the four CcO redox states. Thus, the same proton pumping mechanism can be used each time CcO is reduced. Calculations with structures of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, Paracoccus denitrificans, and bovine CcO derived by crystallography and molecular dynamics show the PLS functions similarly in different CcO species. The PLS is a cluster rather than a single residue, as different structures show 1-4 residues load and release protons. However, the proton affinity of the heme a3 propionic acids primarily determines the number of protons loaded into the PLS; if their proton affinity is too low, less than one proton is loaded.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031.
authors.forename: Jianxun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031 gunner@sci.ccny.cuny.edu.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Gunner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D001665:Binding Sites; D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D002417:Cattle; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D004579:Electron Transport; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D006418:Heme / Q000737:chemistry; D008958:Models, Molecular; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010231:Paracoccus denitrificans / Q000201:enzymology; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011522:Protons; D012242:Rhodobacter sphaeroides / Q000201:enzymology; D055672:Static Electricity
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D011522:Protons; D006418:Heme; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV
keywords: MCCE; bioenergetics; pKa; proton transfer
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