TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cabrera-Orefice, Alfredo
A1  - Galemou Yoga, Etienne
A1  - Wirth, Christophe
A1  - Siegmund, Karin
A1  - Zwicker, Klaus
A1  - Guerrero-Castillo, Sergio
A1  - Zickermann, Volker
A1  - Hunte, Carola
A1  - Brandt, Ulrich
T1  - Locking loop movement in the ubiquinone pocket of complex I disengages the proton pumps
T2  - Nature Communications
N2  - Complex I (proton-pumping NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) is the largest enzyme of the mitochondrial respiratory chain and a significant source of reactive oxygen species (ROS). We hypothesized that during energy conversion by complex I, electron transfer onto ubiquinone triggers the concerted rearrangement of three protein loops of subunits ND1, ND3, and 49-kDa thereby generating the power-stoke driving proton pumping. Here we show that fixing loop TMH1-2ND3 to the nearby subunit PSST via a disulfide bridge introduced by site-directed mutagenesis reversibly disengages proton pumping without impairing ubiquinone reduction, inhibitor binding or the Active/Deactive transition. The X-ray structure of mutant complex I indicates that the disulfide bridge immobilizes but does not displace the tip of loop TMH1-2ND3. We conclude that movement of loop TMH1-2ND3 located at the ubiquinone-binding pocket is required to drive proton pumping corroborating one of the central predictions of our model for the mechanism of energy conversion by complex I proposed earlier.
KW  - Enzyme mechanisms
KW  - Mitochondrial proteins
KW  - X-ray crystallography
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47821
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-478213
SN  - 2041-1723
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VL  - 9
IS  - 1, Art. 4500
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - Nature Publishing Group UK
CY  - [London]
ER  -