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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 270, Issue 18, Pages 3787-3794Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03766.x
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alternative oxidase; immutans; iron center; plastoquinone; quinol oxidase
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The plastid terminal oxidase (PTOX) encoded by the Arabidopsis IMMUTANS gene was expressed in Escherichia coli cells and its quinone/oxygen oxidoreductase activity monitored in isolated bacterial membranes using NADH as an electron donor. Specificity for plastoquinone was observed. Neither ubiquinone, duroquinone, phylloquinone nor benzoquinone could substitute for plastoquinone in this assay. However, duroquinol (fully reduced chemically) was an accepted substrate. Iron is also required and cannot be substituted by Cu2+, Zn2+ or Mn2+. This plastoquinol oxidase activity is independent of temperature over the 15-40degreesC range but increases with pH (from 5.5 to 9.0). Unlike higher plant mitochondrial alternative oxidases, to which PTOX shows sequence similarity (but also differences, especially in a putative quinone binding site and in cysteine conservation), PTOX activity does not appear to be regulated by pyruvate or any other tested sugar, nor by AMP. Its activity decreases, however, with increasing salt (NaCl or KCl) concentration. Various quinone analogues were tested for their inhibitory activity on PTOX. Pyrogallol analogues were found to be inhibitors, especially octyl gallate (I-50=0.4 muM) that appears far more potent than propyl gallate or gallic acid. Thus, octyl gallate is a useful inhibitor for future in vivo or in organello studies aimed at studying the roles of PTOX in chlororespiration and as a cofactor for carotenoid biosynthesis.
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