The absorbance coefficient of beef heart cytochrome c1. 1981

M J Tervoort, and L T Schilder, and B F Van Gelder

Isolated cytochrome c1 contains endogenous reducing equivalents. They can be removed by treating the protein with sodium dithionite followed by chromatography. This treatment has no effect on the reaction with cytochrome c, nor does it alter the optical spectrum, or the polypeptide or amino acid composition of the protein. Both the titration of dithionite-treated ferrocytochrome c1 with potassium ferricyanide and the anaerobic titration of dithionite-treated ferricytochrome c1 with NADH in the presence of phenazine methosulphate lead to the same value for the absorbance coefficient of cytochrome c1: 19.2 mM-1 . cm-1 at 552.4 nm for the reduced-minus-oxidised form. This value was also obtained when the haem content was determined by comparing the spectra of the reduced pyridine haemochromes of cytochrome c and cytochrome c1. Comparison of the optical spectra of cytochrome c and cytochrome c1 by integration shows equal transition moments for the transitions in the porphyrin systems of both proteins. A set of equations with which the concentration of the cytochromes aa3, b, c and c1 can be calculated from one reduced-minus-oxidised difference spectrum of a mixture of these proteins.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007700 Kinetics The rate dynamics in chemical or physical systems.
D008773 Methylphenazonium Methosulfate Used as an electron carrier in place of the flavine enzyme of Warburg in the hexosemonophosphate system and also in the preparation of SUCCINIC DEHYDROGENASE. Phenazine Methosulfate,5-Methylphenazinium Methyl Sulfate,5 Methylphenazinium Methyl Sulfate,Methosulfate, Methylphenazonium,Methosulfate, Phenazine,Methyl Sulfate, 5-Methylphenazinium,Sulfate, 5-Methylphenazinium Methyl
D009243 NAD A coenzyme composed of ribosylnicotinamide 5'-diphosphate coupled to adenosine 5'-phosphate by pyrophosphate linkage. It is found widely in nature and is involved in numerous enzymatic reactions in which it serves as an electron carrier by being alternately oxidized (NAD+) and reduced (NADH). (Dorland, 27th ed) Coenzyme I,DPN,Diphosphopyridine Nucleotide,Nadide,Nicotinamide-Adenine Dinucleotide,Dihydronicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide,NADH,Adenine Dinucleotide, Dihydronicotinamide,Dinucleotide, Dihydronicotinamide Adenine,Dinucleotide, Nicotinamide-Adenine,Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide,Nucleotide, Diphosphopyridine
D010084 Oxidation-Reduction A chemical reaction in which an electron is transferred from one molecule to another. The electron-donating molecule is the reducing agent or reductant; the electron-accepting molecule is the oxidizing agent or oxidant. Reducing and oxidizing agents function as conjugate reductant-oxidant pairs or redox pairs (Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, 1982, p471). Redox,Oxidation Reduction
D002417 Cattle Domesticated bovine animals of the genus Bos, usually kept on a farm or ranch and used for the production of meat or dairy products or for heavy labor. Beef Cow,Bos grunniens,Bos indicus,Bos indicus Cattle,Bos taurus,Cow,Cow, Domestic,Dairy Cow,Holstein Cow,Indicine Cattle,Taurine Cattle,Taurus Cattle,Yak,Zebu,Beef Cows,Bos indicus Cattles,Cattle, Bos indicus,Cattle, Indicine,Cattle, Taurine,Cattle, Taurus,Cattles, Bos indicus,Cattles, Indicine,Cattles, Taurine,Cattles, Taurus,Cow, Beef,Cow, Dairy,Cow, Holstein,Cows,Dairy Cows,Domestic Cow,Domestic Cows,Indicine Cattles,Taurine Cattles,Taurus Cattles,Yaks,Zebus
D003574 Cytochrome c Group A group of cytochromes with covalent thioether linkages between either or both of the vinyl side chains of protoheme and the protein. (Enzyme Nomenclature, 1992, p539) Cytochromes Type c,Group, Cytochrome c,Type c, Cytochromes
D003575 Cytochromes c1 The 30-kDa membrane-bound c-type cytochrome protein of mitochondria that functions as an electron donor to CYTOCHROME C GROUP in the mitochondrial and bacterial RESPIRATORY CHAIN. (From Enzyme Nomenclature, 1992, p545) Cytochrome c1,Cytochrome c-1,Cytochrome c 1
D003580 Cytochromes Hemeproteins whose characteristic mode of action involves transfer of reducing equivalents which are associated with a reversible change in oxidation state of the prosthetic group. Formally, this redox change involves a single-electron, reversible equilibrium between the Fe(II) and Fe(III) states of the central iron atom (From Enzyme Nomenclature, 1992, p539). The various cytochrome subclasses are organized by the type of HEME and by the wavelength range of their reduced alpha-absorption bands. Cytochrome
D004227 Dithionite Dithionite. The dithionous acid ion and its salts. Hyposulfite,Sodium Dithionite,Dithionite, Sodium
D005292 Ferricyanides Inorganic salts of the hypothetical acid, H3Fe(CN)6.

Related Publications

M J Tervoort, and L T Schilder, and B F Van Gelder
November 1986, Journal of biochemistry,
M J Tervoort, and L T Schilder, and B F Van Gelder
March 1983, Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitschrift fur physiologische Chemie,
M J Tervoort, and L T Schilder, and B F Van Gelder
January 1978, Methods in enzymology,
M J Tervoort, and L T Schilder, and B F Van Gelder
August 1971, Vision research,
M J Tervoort, and L T Schilder, and B F Van Gelder
August 1997, Current opinion in structural biology,
M J Tervoort, and L T Schilder, and B F Van Gelder
September 1970, Nature,
M J Tervoort, and L T Schilder, and B F Van Gelder
August 1982, The Journal of biological chemistry,
M J Tervoort, and L T Schilder, and B F Van Gelder
February 1982, Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes,
M J Tervoort, and L T Schilder, and B F Van Gelder
April 1987, Biophysical journal,
Copied contents to your clipboard!