Cytochrome bd Displays Significant Quinol Peroxidase Activity

Sinan Al-Attar*, Yuanjie Yu, Martijn Pinkse, Jo Hoeser, Thorsten Friedrich, Dirk Bald, Simon De Vries

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Abstract

Cytochrome bd is a prokaryotic terminal oxidase that catalyses the electrogenic reduction of oxygen to water using ubiquinol as electron donor. Cytochrome bd is a tri-haem integral membrane enzyme carrying a low-spin haem b558, and two high-spin haems: b595 and d. Here we show that besides its oxidase activity, cytochrome bd from Escherichia coli is a genuine quinol peroxidase (QPO) that reduces hydrogen peroxide to water. The highly active and pure enzyme preparation used in this study did not display the catalase activity recently reported for E. coli cytochrome bd. To our knowledge, cytochrome bd is the first membrane-bound quinol peroxidase detected in E. coli. The observation that cytochrome bd is a quinol peroxidase, can provide a biochemical basis for its role in detoxification of hydrogen peroxide and may explain the frequent findings reported in the literature that indicate increased sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide and decreased virulence in mutants that lack the enzyme.

Original languageEnglish
Article number27631
JournalScientific Reports
Volume6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Jun 2016

Keywords

  • Bacterial pathogenesis
  • Oxidoreductases

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