PMID- 25241981 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150224 LR - 20211021 IS - 1470-8728 (Electronic) IS - 0264-6021 (Print) IS - 0264-6021 (Linking) VI - 464 IP - 3 DP - 2014 Dec 15 TI - Comparisons of subunit 5A and 5B isoenzymes of yeast cytochrome c oxidase. PG - 335-42 LID - 10.1042/BJ20140732 [doi] AB - Subunit 5 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) is essential for assembly and has two isoforms, 5A and 5B. 5A is expressed under normoxic conditions, whereas 5B is expressed at very low oxygen tensions. As a consequence, COX5A-deleted strains (Deltacox5A) have no or only low levels of CcO under normoxic conditions rendering them respiratory deficient. Previous studies have reported that respiratory growth could be restored by combining Deltacox5A with mutations of ROX1 that encodes a repressor of COX5B expression. In these mutants, 5B isoenzyme expression level was 30-50% of wild-type (5A isoenzyme) and exhibited a maximum catalytic activity up to 3-fold faster than that of 5A isoenzyme. To investigate the origin of this effect, we constructed a mutant strain in which COX5B replaced COX5A downstream of the COX5A promoter. This strain expressed wild-type levels of the 5B isoenzyme, without the complication of additional effects caused by mutation of ROX1. When produced this way, the isoenzymes displayed no significant differences in their maximum catalytic activities or in their affinities for oxygen or cytochrome c. Hence the elevated activity of the 5B isoenzyme in the rox1 mutant is not caused simply by exchange of isoforms and must arise from an additional effect that remains to be resolved. FAU - Dodia, Raksha AU - Dodia R AD - *Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K. FAU - Meunier, Brigitte AU - Meunier B AD - daggerCentre de Genetique Moleculaire du CNRS, UPR 3404, avenue de la Terrasse, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex 91198, France. FAU - Kay, Christopher W M AU - Kay CW AD - *Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K. FAU - Rich, Peter R AU - Rich PR AD - *Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K. LA - eng GR - BB/F016948/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Biochem J JT - The Biochemical journal JID - 2984726R RN - 0 (Isoenzymes) RN - 0 (Protein Subunits) RN - 0 (Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins) RN - EC 1.9.3.1 (Cox5a protein, S cerevisiae) RN - EC 1.9.3.1 (Cox5b protein, S cerevisiae) RN - EC 1.9.3.1 (Electron Transport Complex IV) RN - S88TT14065 (Oxygen) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Electron Transport Complex IV/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic MH - Horses MH - Isoenzymes MH - Kinetics MH - Oxygen/metabolism MH - Protein Subunits MH - Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*enzymology/genetics/growth & development MH - Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism PMC - PMC4255728 EDAT- 2014/09/23 06:00 MHDA- 2015/02/25 06:00 PMCR- 2014/12/05 CRDT- 2014/09/23 06:00 PHST- 2014/09/23 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/09/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/02/25 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2014/12/05 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - BJ20140732 [pii] AID - 10.1042/BJ20140732 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochem J. 2014 Dec 15;464(3):335-42. doi: 10.1042/BJ20140732.