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Reviews on structure and function of cytochrome c oxidase

Reviews

  1. Achim, C., Bominaar, E.L. and Münck, E. (1998) Aspects of valence delocalization relevant to the kinetic properties of electron­transfer chains. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 3, 126-134.
  2. Azzi, A. (1980) Cytochrome c oxidase. Towards a clarification of its structure, interactions and mechanism. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 594, 231-252.
  3. Azzi, A. (1984) Mitochondria: the utilization of oxygen for cell life. Experientia 40, 901-906.
  4. Azzi, A. and Casey, R.P. (1979) Molecular aspects of cytochrome c oxidase: structure and dynamics. Mol. Cell Biochem. 28, 169-184.
  5. Babcock, G.T. and Varotsis, C. (1993) Discrete steps in dioxygen activation - The cytochrome oxidase/O2 reaction. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 25, 71-80.
  6. Babcock, G.T. and Wikström, M. (1992) Oxygen activation and the conservation of energy in cell respiration. Nature 356, 301-309.
  7. Beinert, H. (1995) Crystals and structures of cytochrome c oxidases - The end of an arduous road. Chemistry & Biology 2, 781-785.
  8. Beinert, H. (1997) Copper A of cytochrome c oxidase, a novel, long­embattled, biological electron­transfer site. Eur. J. Biochem. 245, 521-532.
  9. Brown, S., Moody, A.J., Mitchell, R. and Rich, P.R. (1993) Binuclear centre structure of terminal protonmotive oxidases. FEBS Lett. 316, 216-223.
  10. Brunori, M. and Wilson, M.T. (1995) Electron transfer and proton pumping in cytochrome oxidase. Biochimie 77, 668-676.
  11. Brunori, M., Antonini, G., Malatesta, F., Sarti, P. and Wilson, M.T. (1987) Cytochrome­c oxidase. Subunit structure and proton pumping. Eur. J. Biochem. 169, 1-8.
  12. Brunori, M., Antonini, G., Malatesta, F., Sarti, P. and Wilson, M.T. (1988) Structure and function of cytochrome oxidase: a second look. In Eichhorn, G.L. and Marzilli, L.G., Eds. Advances in Inorganic Biochemistry, vol. 7: Heme Proteins. Elsevier, New York, pp. 93-153.
  13. Brunori, M., Antonini, G., Malatesta, F., Sarti, P. and Wilson, M.T. (1992) The oxygen reactive species of cytochrome­c­oxidase: an alternative view. FEBS Lett. 314, 191-194.
  14. Brunori, M., Antonini, G., Giuffre, A., Malatesta, F., Nicoletti, F., Sarti, P. and Wilson, M.T. (1994) Electron transfer and ligand binding in terminal oxidases. Impact of recent structural information. FEBS Lett. 350, 164-168.
  15. Brzezinski, P. (1996) Internal electron­transfer reactions in cytochrome c oxidase. Biochemistry 35, 5612-5615.
  16. Brzezinski, P. and Adelroth, P. (1998) Pathways of proton transfer in cytochrome c oxidase. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 30, 99-107.
  17. Buse, G. and Steffens, G.C. (1991) Cytochrome c oxidase in Paracoccus denitrificans. Protein, chemical, structural, and evolutionary aspects. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 23, 269-289.
  18. Calhoun, M.W., Thomas, J.W. and Gennis, R.B. (1994) The cytochrome oxidase superfamily of redox­driven proton pumps. Trends Biochem. Sci. 19, 325-330.
  19. Capaldi, R.A. (1990) Structure and function of cytochrome c oxidase. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 59, 569-596.
  20. Capaldi, R.A., Halphen, D.G., Zhang, Y.Z. and Yanamura, W. (1988) Complexity and tissue specificity of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 20, 291-311.
  21. Casey, R.P. and Azzi, A. (1983) An evaluation of the evidence for H+ pumping by reconstituted cytochrome c oxidase in the light of recent criticism. FEBS Lett. 154, 237-242.
  22. Castresana, J., Lübben, M., Saraste, M. and Higgins, D.G. (1994) Evolution of cytochrome oxidase, an enzyme older than atmospheric oxygen. EMBO J. 13, 2516-2525.
  23. Caughey, W.S., Dong, A., Sampath, V., Yoshikawa, S. and Zhao, X.J. (1993) Probing heart cytochrome c oxidase structure and function by infrared spectroscopy. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 25, 81-91.
  24. Cooper, C.E. and Springett, R. (1997) Measurement of cytochrome oxidase and mitochondrial energetics by near­infrared spectroscopy. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 352, 669-676.
  25. Copeland, R.A. (1993) Long­distance cofactor interactions in terminal oxidases studied by second­derivative absorption spectroscopy. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 25, 93-102.
  26. Denis, M. (1986) Structure and function of cytochrome­c oxidase. Biochimie 68, 459-470.
  27. DiMauro, S., Zeviani, M., Rizzuto, R., Lombes, A., Nakase, H., Bonilla, E., Miranda, A. and Schon, E. (1988) Molecular defects in cytochrome oxidase in mitochondrial diseases. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 20, 353-364.
  28. Fee, J.A., Yoshida, T., Surerus, K.K. and Mather, M.W. (1993) Cytochrome caa3 from the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus: a member of the heme-copper oxidase superfamily. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 25, 103-114.
  29. Ferguson­Miller, S. and Babcock, G.T. (1996) Heme/copper terminal oxidases. Chem. Rev. 96, 2889-2907.
  30. Filatov, I.A., Kulish, M.A. and Mironov, A.F. (1988) Structure and properties of cytochrome oxidase. Bioorg. Khim. (Moscow) 14, 725-745.
  31. Freedman, J.A. and Chan, S.H. (1978) Biosynthesis of mitochondrial membrane proteins: co­ordination with special reference to cytochrome c oxidase. Mol. Cell. Biochem. 19, 135-146.
  32. Freedman, J.A. and Chan, S.H. (1984) Interactions in cytochrome oxidase: functions and structure. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 16, 75-100.
  33. Garcia­Horsman, J.A. and Escamilla, E. (1990) Structural and functional properties of cytochrome aa3 from bacteria. Bol. Estud. Med. Biol. 38, 29-40.
  34. Garcia­Horsman, J.A., Barquera, B., Rumbley, J., Ma, J. and Gennis, R.B. (1994) The superfamily of heme-copper respiratory oxidases. J. Bacteriol. 176, 5587-5600.
  35. Gelles, J., Blair, D.F. and Chan, S.I. (1986) The proton­pumping site of cytochrome c oxidase: A model of its structure and mechanism. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 853, 205-236.
  36. Gennis, R.B. (1991) Some recent advances relating to prokaryotic cytochrome c reductases and cytochrome c oxidases. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1058, 21-24.
  37. Gennis, R.B. (1992) Site­directed mutagenesis studies on subunit I of the aa3­type cytochrome c oxidase of Rhodobacter sphaeroides: a brief review of progress to date. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1101, 184-187.
  38. Gennis, R.B. and Ferguson­Miller, S. (1995) Structure of cytochrome c oxidase, energy generator of aerobic life. Science 269, 1063-1064.
  39. Gennis, R.B. and Ferguson­Miller, S. (1996) Proton­pumping oxidases. Curr. Biol. 6, 36-38.
  40. Grossman, L.I. and Lomax, M.I. (1997) Nuclear genes for cytochrome c oxidase. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1352, 174-192.
  41. Haltia, T. and Wikström, M. (1992) Cytochrome oxidase: notes on structure and mechanism. In Ernster, L., Ed. Molecular Mechanisms in Bioenergetics. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 217-239.
  42. Haltia, T. and Freire, E. (1995) Forces and factors that contribute to the structural stability of membrane proteins. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1228, 1-27.
  43. Hendler, R.W. (1991) Can ferricyanide oxidize carbon monoxide­liganded cytochrome a3? J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 23, 805-817.
  44. Hendriks, J., Gohlke, U. and Saraste, M. (1998) From NO to OO: nitric oxide and dioxygen in bacterial respiration. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 30, 15-24.
  45. Hill, B.C. (1993) The sequence of electron carriers in the reaction of cytochrome c oxidase with oxygen. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 25, 115-120.
  46. Hoganson, C.W., Pressler, M.A., Proshlyakov, D.A. and Babcock, G.T. (1998) From water to oxygen and back again: mechanistic similarities in the enzymatic redox conversions between water and dioxygen. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1365, 170-174.
  47. Hosler, J.P., Ferguson­Miller, S., Calhoun, M.W., Thomas, J.W., Hill, J., Lemieux, L., Ma, J., Georgiou, C., Fetter, J., Shapleigh, J.P., Tecklenburg, M.M.J., Babcock, G.T. and Gennis, R.B. (1993) Insight into the active­site structure and function of cytochrome oxidase by analysis of site­directed mutants of bacterial cytochrome aa3 and cytochrome bo. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 25, 121-136.
  48. Iwata, S. (1998) Structure and function of bacterial cytochrome c oxidase. J. Biochem. (Tokyo) 123, 369-375.
  49. Kadenbach, B. and Reimann, A. (1992) Cytochrome c oxidase: tissue­specific expression of isoforms and regulation of activity. In Ernster, L., Ed. Molecular Mechanisms in Bioenergetics. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 241-263.
  50. Kannt, A., Lancaster, C.R.D. and Michel, H. (1998) The role of electrostatic interactions for cytochrome c oxidase function. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 30, 81-87.
  51. Krab, K. and Wikström, M. (1987) Principles of coupling between electron transfer and proton translocation with special reference to proton­translocation mechanisms in cytochrome oxidase. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 895, 25-39.
  52. Larsen, R.W., Pan, L.P., Musser, S.M., Li, Z.Y. and Chan, S.I. (1992) Could CuB be the site of redox linkage in cytochrome c oxidase? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 723-727.
  53. Laskowska­Klita, T. (1973) Oksydaza cytochromowa, budowa i funkcja. [Cytochrome oxidase, structure and function] Postepy Biochem. 19, 261-278.
  54. Lemberg, M.R. (1969) Cytochrome oxidase. Physiol. Rev. 49, 48-121.
  55. Malatesta, F., Antonini, G., Sarti, P. and Brunori, M. (1995) Structure and function of a molecular machine: cytochrome c oxidase. Biophys. Chem. 54, 1-33.
  56. Malmström, B.G. (1979) Cytochrome c oxidase. Structure and catalytic activity. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 549, 281-303.
  57. Malmström, B.G. (1982) Enzymology of oxygen. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 51, 21-59.
  58. Malmström, B.G. (1988) Redox loops and proton pumps. FEBS Lett. 231, 268-269.
  59. Malmström, B.G. (1998) Cytochrome oxidase: pathways for electron tunneling and proton transfer. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 3, 339-343.
  60. Mason, H.S. (1976) Binuclear copper clusters as active sites for oxidases. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 74, 464-469.
  61. Michel, H., Behr, J., Harrenga, A. and Kannt, A. (1998) Cytochrome c oxidase: structure and spectroscopy. Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 27, 329-356.
  62. Mitchell, P. (1987) A new redox loop formality involving metal­catalysed hydroxide­ion translocation. A hypothetical Cu loop mechanism for cytochrome oxidase. FEBS Lett. 222, 235-245.
  63. Mitchell, P. and Moyle, J. (1983) Alternative hypotheses of proton ejection in cytochrome oxidase vesicles. Transmembrane proton pumping or redox­linked deprotonation of phospholipid-cytochrome c complex(es). FEBS Lett. 151, 167-178.
  64. Mitchell, P., Mitchell, R., Moody, A.J., West, I.C., Baum, H. and Wrigglesworth, J.M. (1985) Chemiosmotic coupling in cytochrome oxidase. Possible protonmotive O loop and O cycle mechanisms. FEBS Lett. 188, 1-7.
  65. Mogi, T., Saiki, K. and Anraku, Y. (1994) Biosynthesis and functional role of haem o and haem a. Mol. Microbiol. 14, 391-398.
  66. Moody, A.J. (1996) `As prepared' forms of fully oxidised haem/Cu terminal oxidases. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1276, 6-20.
  67. Morgan, J.E., Verkhovsky, M.I. and Wikström, M. (1994) The histidine cycle: a new model for proton translocation in the respiratory heme-copper oxidases. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 26, 599-608.
  68. Müller, M. and Azzi, A. (1991) Cytochrome c oxidase metal centers: location and function. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 23, 291-302.
  69. Musser, S.M. and Chan, S.I. (1995) Understanding the cytochrome c oxidase proton pump: Thermodynamics of redox linkage. Biophys. J. 68, 2543-2555.
  70. Musser, S.M. and Chan, S.I. (1998) Evolution of the cytochrome c oxidase proton pump. J. Mol. Evol. 46, 508-520.
  71. Musser, S.M., Stowell M.H. and Chan, S.I. (1993a) Comparison of ubiquinol and cytochrome c terminal oxidases. An alternative view. FEBS Lett. 327, 131-136.
  72. Musser, S.M., Stowell M.H. and Chan, S.I. (1993b) Further comparison of ubiquinol and cytochrome c terminal oxidases. FEBS Lett. 335, 296-298 [published erratum FEBS Lett. 339, 314 (1994)].
  73. Musser, S.M., Stowell M.H. and Chan, S.I. (1995) Cytochrome c oxidase: chemistry of a molecular machine. Adv. Enzymol. Relat. Areas Mol. Biol. 71, 79-208.
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  75. Ostermeier, C. and Michel, H. (1997) Crystallization of membrane proteins. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 7, 697-701.
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  77. Palmer, G. (1993) Current issues in the chemistry of cytochrome c oxidase. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 25, 145-151.
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  81. Poulos, T.L., Li, H. and Raman, C.S. (1999) Heme­mediated oxygen activation in biology: cytochrome c oxidase and nitric oxide synthase. Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 3, 131-137.
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Books

  1. Wikström, M., Krab, K. and Saraste, M. (1981) Cytochrome Oxidase - A Synthesis. Academic Press, London.

Nobel Prizes

  1. Mitchell, P. (Chemistry 1978) "for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory".
  2. Warburg, O.H. (Physiology or Medicine 1931) "for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme".
Bibliography on structural studies of cytochrome c oxidase