期刊
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS
卷 1857, 期 9, 页码 1594-1606出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2016.06.005
关键词
Cytochrome c oxidase; Proton pumping mechanism; Proton transport; Water exit pathway; Molecular dynamics; Computer simulation
资金
- NIH [R01 GM100934]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) [201306820006]
- National Science Foundation [ACI-1053575]
- San Diego Supercomputer Center [TG-CHE130010]
- NIH National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) [P41 GM103426]
Cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) is a vital enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of molecular oxygen to water and pumps protons across mitochondria( and bacterial membranes. While proton uptake channels as well as water exit channels have been identified for A-type CcOs, the means by which water and protons exit B-type CcOs remain unclear. In this work, we investigate potential mechanisms for proton transport above the dinuclear center (DNC) in ba(3)-type CcO of Thermus thermophilus. Using long-time scale, all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for several relevant protonation states, we identify a potential mechanism for proton transport that involves propionate A of the active site heme a(3) and residues Asp372, His376 and Glul 26(II), with residue His376 acting as the proton-loading site. The proposed proton transport process involves a rotation of residue His376 and is in line with experimental findings. We also demonstrate how the strength of the salt bridge between residues Arg225 and Asp287 depends on the protonation state and that this salt bridge is unlikely to act as a simple electrostatic gate that prevents proton backfiow. We identify two water exit pathways that connect the water pool above the DNC to the outer P-side of the membrane, which can potentially also act as proton exit transport pathways. Importantly, these water exit pathways can be blocked by narrowing the entrance channel between residues Gln151(II) and Arg449/Arg450 or by obstructing the entrance through a conformational change of residue Tyr136, respectively, both of which seem to be affected by protonation of residue His376. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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