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HOQNO interaction with cytochrome b in succinate:menaquinone reductase from Bacillus subtilis

Smirnova, Irina A. ; Hägerhäll, Cecilia ; Konstantinov, Alexander A. and Hederstedt, Lars LU (1995) In FEBS Letters 359(1). p.23-26
Abstract
2-n-Heptyl4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide (HOQNO) inhibits the succinate:quinone oxidoreductase activity of isolated and membrane-bound succinate:menaquinone oxidoreductase of B. subtilis. The inhibition pattern resembles closely that observed for α-thenoyltrifluoroacetone and carboxins in the mitochondrial succinate:ubiquinone oxidoreductase: ca. 90% of the activity is highly sensitive to HOQNO (K i ca. 0.2 μM for the isolated enzyme) whereas the rest 10% proves to be resistant to the inhibitor. HOQNO binding is shown to perturb the absorption spectrum of the ferrous di-heme cytochrome b of the B. subtilis succinate:quinone oxidoreductase both in the α and Soret bands. In addition, the inhibitor is shown to bring about a negative shift of E m... (More)
2-n-Heptyl4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide (HOQNO) inhibits the succinate:quinone oxidoreductase activity of isolated and membrane-bound succinate:menaquinone oxidoreductase of B. subtilis. The inhibition pattern resembles closely that observed for α-thenoyltrifluoroacetone and carboxins in the mitochondrial succinate:ubiquinone oxidoreductase: ca. 90% of the activity is highly sensitive to HOQNO (K i ca. 0.2 μM for the isolated enzyme) whereas the rest 10% proves to be resistant to the inhibitor. HOQNO binding is shown to perturb the absorption spectrum of the ferrous di-heme cytochrome b of the B. subtilis succinate:quinone oxidoreductase both in the α and Soret bands. In addition, the inhibitor is shown to bring about a negative shift of E m of the low-potential heme b. It is suggested that HOQNO interacts with a menasemiquinone binding site near the low-potential heme and suppresses the MQ.−-to-MQH2 step of the quinone reductase reaction but allows partly for the MQ-to-MQ.− transition to occur; dismutation of MQ. formed in the latter reaction to MQ and MQH2 may account for the 10% of the enzyme activity insensitive to HOQNO. (Less)
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10.1016/0014-5793(94)01442-4
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  abstract     = {{2-n-Heptyl4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide (HOQNO) inhibits the succinate:quinone oxidoreductase activity of isolated and membrane-bound succinate:menaquinone oxidoreductase of B. subtilis. The inhibition pattern resembles closely that observed for α-thenoyltrifluoroacetone and carboxins in the mitochondrial succinate:ubiquinone oxidoreductase: ca. 90% of the activity is highly sensitive to HOQNO (K i  ca. 0.2 μM for the isolated enzyme) whereas the rest 10% proves to be resistant to the inhibitor. HOQNO binding is shown to perturb the absorption spectrum of the ferrous di-heme cytochrome b of the B. subtilis succinate:quinone oxidoreductase both in the α and Soret bands. In addition, the inhibitor is shown to bring about a negative shift of E m of the low-potential heme b. It is suggested that HOQNO interacts with a menasemiquinone binding site near the low-potential heme and suppresses the MQ.−-to-MQH2 step of the quinone reductase reaction but allows partly for the MQ-to-MQ.− transition to occur; dismutation of MQ. formed in the latter reaction to MQ and MQH2 may account for the 10% of the enzyme activity insensitive to HOQNO.}},
  author       = {{Smirnova, Irina A. and Hägerhäll, Cecilia and Konstantinov, Alexander A. and Hederstedt, Lars}},
  issn         = {{1873-3468}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1}},
  pages        = {{23--26}},
  publisher    = {{Wiley-Blackwell}},
  series       = {{FEBS Letters}},
  title        = {{HOQNO interaction with cytochrome b in succinate:menaquinone reductase from <em>Bacillus subtilis</em>}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(94)01442-4}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/0014-5793(94)01442-4}},
  volume       = {{359}},
  year         = {{1995}},
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