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Human Cytochrome C Oxidase Isoenzymes From Heart and Skeletal Muscle; Purification and Properties

Human Cytochrome C Oxidase Isoenzymes From Heart and Skeletal Muscle; Purification and Properties

K M Sinjorgo, T B Hakvoort, I Durak, J W Draijer, J K Post, A O Muijsers

Biochim Biophys Acta. 1987 Feb 11;890(2):144-50.

PMID: 3026470

Abstract:

Human cytochrome c oxidase was isolated in an active form from heart and from skeletal muscle by a fast, small-scale isolation method. The procedure involves differential solubilisation of the oxidase from mitochondrial fragments by laurylmaltoside and KCl, followed by size-exclusion high-performance liquid chromatography. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulphate showed differences between the subunit VI region of cytochrome c oxidases from human heart and skeletal muscle, suggesting different isoenzyme forms in the two organs. This finding might be of importance in explaining mitochondrial myopathy which shows a deficiency of cytochrome c oxidase in skeletal muscle only. In SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis most human cytochrome c oxidase subunits migrated differently from their bovine counterparts. However, the position of subunits III and IV was the same in the human and in the bovine enzymes. The much higher mobility of human cytochrome c oxidase subunit II is explained by a greater hydrophobicity of this polypeptide than of that of the subunit II of the bovine enzyme.

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