scholarly journals The amino acid sequences of cytochrome c from four plant sources

1974 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Brown ◽  
Donald Boulter

Proposed amino acid sequences of cytochrome c from nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus L.), box-elder (Acer negundo L.), elder (Sambucus nigra L.) and parsnip (Pastinaca sativa L.) are presented. Because of the very limited amounts of cytochrome available from some plant sources, peptides derived from the cytochromes c have been sequenced by the semi-quantitative dansyl–Edman technique (Gray & Hartley, 1963) without supporting quantitative amino acid analyses. Because of the qualitative nature of the work, the sequences proposed must be regarded as tentative. Considerations of homology, although useful as a guide, have been kept to a minimum in the construction of sequences. Only the nasturtium sequence relies on considerations of homology for a complete ordering of the peptides. Where material permitted, each residue of a proposed sequence was determined at least once from both a tryptic and a chymotryptic peptide.

1973 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. Ambler ◽  
Margaret Wynn

The amino acid sequences of the cytochromes c-551 from three species of Pseudomonas have been determined. Each resembles the protein from Pseudomonas strain P6009 (now known to be Pseudomonas aeruginosa, not Pseudomonas fluorescens) in containing 82 amino acids in a single peptide chain, with a haem group covalently attached to cysteine residues 12 and 15. In all four sequences 43 residues are identical. Although by bacteriological criteria the organisms are closely related, the differences between pairs of sequences range from 22% to 39%. These values should be compared with the differences in the sequence of mitochondrial cytochrome c between mammals and amphibians (about 18%) or between mammals and insects (about 33%). Detailed evidence for the amino acid sequences of the proteins has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50015 at the National Lending Library for Science and Technology, Boston Spa, Yorks. LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem. J. (1973), 131, 5.


1971 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 783-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. W. Thompson ◽  
M. Richardson ◽  
D. Boulter

The amino acid sequences of buckwheat and cauliflower cytochromes c were determined on 1½μmol and 1μmol of protein respectively. The molecules consist of 111 residues and are homologous with other plant mitochondrial cytochromes c. Experimental details are given in a supplementary paper that has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50005 at the National Lending Library for Science and Technology, Boston Spa, Yorks. LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem. J. (1971), 121, 7.


1971 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 787-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. W. Thompson ◽  
B. A. Notton ◽  
M. Richardson ◽  
D. Boulter

The amino acid sequences of Abutilon and Gossypium cytochromes c were determined on 1μmol of protein. The molecules consist of 111 residues and are homologous with other mitochondrial plant cytochromes c. Experimental details are given in a supplementary paper that has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50005 at the National Lending Library for Science and Technology, Boston Spa, Yorks. LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem. J. (1971), 121, 7.


1972 ◽  
Vol 128 (4) ◽  
pp. 971-974 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. Brown ◽  
M. Richardson ◽  
D. Boulter ◽  
J. A. M. Ramshaw ◽  
R. P. S. Jefferies

The amino acid sequence of a snail cytochrome c has been determined. The molecule consists of a single polypeptide chain of 104 residues, and is homologous with other mitochondrial cytochromes c. Unlike the cytochromes c from vertebrates, there is no acetyl blocking group at the N-terminus. A change in an otherwise invariant position has been observed in position 87. Comparison with amino acid sequences of cytochromes c from other sources indicates that the point of divergence of the molluscs and the vertebrates in evolutionary time was 720 million years ago. Experimental details are given in a supplementary paper that has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50009 at the National Lending Library for Science and Technology, Boston Spa, Yorks. LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem. J. (1972), 126, 5.


1982 ◽  
Vol 205 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
C G Eley ◽  
G R Moore ◽  
R J Williams ◽  
W Neupert ◽  
P J Boon ◽  
...  

The tertiary structures of horse, tuna, Neurospora crassa, horse [Hse65,Leu67]- and horse [Hse65,Leu74]-cytochromes c were studied with high-resolution 1H n.m.r. spectroscopy. The amino acid sequences of these proteins differ at position 46, which is occupied by phenylalanine in the horse proteins but by tyrosine in the remaining two, and at positions 67, 74 and 97, which are all occupied by tyrosine residues in horse and tuna cytochrome c but in the other proteins are substituted by phenylalanine or leucine, though there is only one such substitution per protein. The various aromatic-amino-acid substitutions do not seriously affect the protein structure.


1987 ◽  
Vol 248 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
R P Ambler ◽  
M Daniel ◽  
L McLellan ◽  
T E Meyer ◽  
M A Cusanovich ◽  
...  

The amino acid sequences of the cytochromes c-554(548) and c' from the moderately halophilic bacterium Paracoccus sp., I.A.M. 203 (= A.T.C.C. 12084, N.C.I.B. 8669) have been determined. Cytochrome c-554(548) consists of a single polypeptide chain of 83 residues, and dimerizes strongly. The most similar protein of known sequence is the N-terminal half of the dihaem cytochrome c4, and other related proteins include the cytochrome c-554(547) of Thiobacillus neapolitanus and the cytochrome c-553 of Desulfovibrio vulgaris. Cytochrome c', which has a single polypeptide chain of 132 residues, is similar in sequence to cytochromes c' from phototrophic and denitrifying bacteria, but only shows about 36% sequence identity to the most similar protein of known sequence. Both of the Paracoccus proteins have a considerable excess of acidic amino acid side chains over basic ones, and a higher proportion of their basic amino acids is arginine than is usual in cytochromes c. Both these characteristics seem to be adaptations to increase the stability of the proteins in an environment of high ionic strength. Detailed evidence for the amino acid sequences of the proteins has been deposited as Supplementary Publication 50140 (24 pp.) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K. from which copies are available on prepayment.


1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 745-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Margoliash

A comparison of the amino acid sequences of the cytochromes c from horse, pig, rabbit, chicken, and man leads to the conclusion that all have derived phylogenetically from a common primordial cytochrome c. The significance of the constant and of the variable features of these sequences with regard, on the one hand, to the structural aspects of the functional activities of the protein, and on the other, to the evolutionary relations between the various cytochromes c is discussed.


1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques R. Vanfleteren ◽  
Yves Van De Peer ◽  
Mark L. Blaxter ◽  
Susan A.R. Tweedie ◽  
Clive Trotman ◽  
...  

Genome ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 1481-1489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nakao Kubo ◽  
Shin-ichi Arimura ◽  
Nobuhiro Tsutsumi ◽  
Koh-ichi Kadowaki ◽  
Masashi Hirai

Three copies of the gene that encodes cytochrome c oxidase subunit Vb were isolated from the pea (PscoxVb-1, PscoxVb-2, and PscoxVb-3). Northern Blot and reverse transcriptase-PCR analyses suggest that all 3 genes are transcribed in the pea. Each pea coxVb gene has an N-terminal extended sequence that can encode a mitochondrial targeting signal, called a presequence. The localization of green fluorescent proteins fused with the presequence strongly suggests the targeting of pea COXVb proteins to mitochondria. Each pea coxVb gene has 5 intron sites within the coding region. These are similar to Arabidopsis and rice, although the intron lengths vary greatly. A phylogenetic analysis of coxVb suggests the occurrence of gene duplication events during angiosperm evolution. In particular, 2 duplication events might have occurred in legumes, grasses, and Solanaceae. A comparison of amino acid sequences in COXVb or its counterpart shows the conservation of several amino acids within a zinc finger motif. Interestingly, a homology search analysis showed that bacterial protein COG4391 and a mitochondrial complex I 13 kDa subunit also have similar amino acid compositions around this motif. Such similarity might reflect evolutionary relationships among the 3 proteins.


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