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Title: Characterization of the residues modified when the bovine mitochondrial F/sub 1/-ATPase is inactivated with 7-chloro-4-nitrobenzofurazan

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:6640398

When bovine heart mitochondrial F/sub 1/-ATPase (MF/sub 1/), taken as ..cap alpha../sub 3/b/sub 3/..gamma..deltaepsilon with a molecular weight of 375,000, was inactivated by greater than 90% with a 4-fold molar excess of 7-chloro-4-nitro(/sup 14/C)benzofurazan ((/sup 14/C)Nbf-Cl) at pH 7.4, a total of 1.42 mol (/sup 14/C)Nbf was incorporated per mol of enzyme. Treatment of the inactivated enzyme with dithiothreitol led to restoration of the lost activity and removed 0.99 mol (/sup 14/C)Nbf per mol of MF/sub 1/, indicating that this much was present as (/sup 14/C)Nbf-O-Tyr derivatives. The major radioactive tryptic peptide derived from the ..beta.. subunit was purified by gel filtration on Sephadex G-75 followed by reverse phase HPLC on a C-18 column and sequence analysis of it demonstrated that the /sup 14/C was released at the position corresponding to ..beta..-Tyr-311. In another experiment, when MF/sub 1/ was inactivated with (/sup 14/C)Nbf-Cl as described above, the enzyme incorporated a total of 1.15 mol (/sup 14/C)Nbf per mol of enzyme, 0.82 mol/mol of which was present as (/sup 14/C)Nbf-O-Tyr derivatives and 0.33 mol/mol of which was present as (/sup 14/C)Nbf-N/sup epsilon/-Lys derivatives. Incubation of the modified enzyme at pH 9.0 for 18 hr at room temperature led to an increase of 0.64 mol of (/sup 14/C)Nbf-N/sup epsilon/-Lys per mol of F/sub 1/ that was due to an O ..-->.. N migration of the (/sup 14/C)Nbf group. A single major radioactive tryptic peptide resulted as a consequence of the O ..-->.. N migration, the sequence analysis of which demonstrated that ..beta..-Lys-162 was the residue specifically labelled.

Research Organization:
California Univ., San Diego (USA)
OSTI ID:
6640398
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English