PMID- 24840065 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140805 LR - 20220408 IS - 1520-4995 (Electronic) IS - 0006-2960 (Print) IS - 0006-2960 (Linking) VI - 53 IP - 22 DP - 2014 Jun 10 TI - How hydrogen peroxide is metabolized by oxidized cytochrome c oxidase. PG - 3564-75 LID - 10.1021/bi401078b [doi] AB - In the absence of external electron donors, oxidized bovine cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) exhibits the ability to decompose excess H2O2. Depending on the concentration of peroxide, two mechanisms of degradation were identified. At submillimolar peroxide concentrations, decomposition proceeds with virtually no production of superoxide and oxygen. In contrast, in the millimolar H2O2 concentration range, CcO generates superoxide from peroxide. At submillimolar concentrations, the decomposition of H2O2 occurs at least at two sites. One is the catalytic heme a3-CuB center where H2O2 is reduced to water. During the interaction of the enzyme with H2O2, this center cycles back to oxidized CcO via the intermediate presence of two oxoferryl states. We show that at pH 8.0 two molecules of H2O2 react with the catalytic center accomplishing one cycle. In addition, the reactions at the heme a3-CuB center generate the surface-exposed lipid-based radical(s) that participates in the decomposition of peroxide. It is also found that the irreversible decline of the catalytic activity of the enzyme treated with submillimolar H2O2 concentrations results specifically from the decrease in the rate of electron transfer from heme a to the heme a3-CuB center during the reductive phase of the catalytic cycle. The rates of electron transfer from ferrocytochrome c to heme a and the kinetics of the oxidation of the fully reduced CcO with O2 were not affected in the peroxide-modified CcO. FAU - Jancura, Daniel AU - Jancura D AD - Department of Biophysics, University of P. J. Safarik , Kosice, Slovak Republic. FAU - Stanicova, Jana AU - Stanicova J FAU - Palmer, Graham AU - Palmer G FAU - Fabian, Marian AU - Fabian M LA - eng GR - GM 080575/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - GM 084348/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20140530 PL - United States TA - Biochemistry JT - Biochemistry JID - 0370623 RN - 0 (Peroxides) RN - BBX060AN9V (Hydrogen Peroxide) RN - EC 1.9.3.1 (Electron Transport Complex IV) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Catalysis MH - Cattle MH - Electron Transport MH - Electron Transport Complex IV/antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Hydrogen Peroxide/chemistry/*metabolism/pharmacology MH - Oxidation-Reduction MH - Oxidative Stress MH - Peroxides/chemistry PMC - PMC4059527 EDAT- 2014/05/21 06:00 MHDA- 2014/08/06 06:00 PMCR- 2015/05/19 CRDT- 2014/05/21 06:00 PHST- 2014/05/21 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/05/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/08/06 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2015/05/19 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1021/bi401078b [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochemistry. 2014 Jun 10;53(22):3564-75. doi: 10.1021/bi401078b. Epub 2014 May 30.