TY - JOUR
T1 - Subunit analysis of bovine cytochrome c oxidase by reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography
AU - Robinson, Neal C.
AU - Dale, Marsha P.
AU - Talbert, Linda H.
PY - 1990/9
Y1 - 1990/9
N2 - Bovine cytochrome c oxidase subunits were separated by reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography using a C4 column eluted with water and an acetonitrile gradient, both containing 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid. Subunits I and III precipitated in this solvent and could not be analyzed; the remaining eleven subunits were dissociated, denatured, soluble and could be resolved by elution from the column. The protein subunit eluting in each chromatographic peak was identified by a combination of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate, NH2-terminal amino acid sequencing, and amino acid analysis. Each subunit produced a single elution peak with the exception of subunit VIc (nomenclature of Kadenbach et al., 1983, Anal. Biochem. 129, 517-521), which eluted from the column as two well-resolved peaks. Sequence analysis showed that the two subunit VIc elution peaks resulted from partial chemical blockage of the α-amino serine residue of subunit VIc. The C4 reverse phase HPLC was used to document specific subunit removal from bovine cytochrome c oxidase either by tryptic digestion or by dodecyl maltoside extraction. The described HPLC method for separating cytochrome c oxidase subunits should be applicable for the analysis of other multisubunit proteins, especially other multisubunit membrane protein complexes.
AB - Bovine cytochrome c oxidase subunits were separated by reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography using a C4 column eluted with water and an acetonitrile gradient, both containing 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid. Subunits I and III precipitated in this solvent and could not be analyzed; the remaining eleven subunits were dissociated, denatured, soluble and could be resolved by elution from the column. The protein subunit eluting in each chromatographic peak was identified by a combination of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate, NH2-terminal amino acid sequencing, and amino acid analysis. Each subunit produced a single elution peak with the exception of subunit VIc (nomenclature of Kadenbach et al., 1983, Anal. Biochem. 129, 517-521), which eluted from the column as two well-resolved peaks. Sequence analysis showed that the two subunit VIc elution peaks resulted from partial chemical blockage of the α-amino serine residue of subunit VIc. The C4 reverse phase HPLC was used to document specific subunit removal from bovine cytochrome c oxidase either by tryptic digestion or by dodecyl maltoside extraction. The described HPLC method for separating cytochrome c oxidase subunits should be applicable for the analysis of other multisubunit proteins, especially other multisubunit membrane protein complexes.
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U2 - 10.1016/0003-9861(90)90438-5
DO - 10.1016/0003-9861(90)90438-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 2168156
AN - SCOPUS:0025172710
VL - 281
SP - 239
EP - 244
JO - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
JF - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
SN - 0003-9861
IS - 2
ER -