Functions of Alternative Terminal Oxidases

Febs Federation of European Biochemical Societies 11Th Meeting Copenhagen 1977

Hans Degn, David K. Lloyd, George C. Hill

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780080226309
• eBook ISBN: 9781483145860
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Chemistry
• Index: Chemistry

Functions of Alternative Terminal Oxidases is a collection of papers from the 11th meeting of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies in Copenhagen in 1977. The book opens with a review of the alternate electron transport mechanism to the main phosphorylating respiratory chain. One paper presents the respiration of mutant stains of Neurospora crassa treated with chloramphenicol that results in three distinct pathways distinguishable by the use of inhibitors. Another paper outlines the testing methods to determine the parameters controlling cyanide-insensitive respiration in Acanthamoeba castellanii and notes the physiological function of this insensitivity. The book then explains that this phenomenon of cyanide-insensitive respiration is common among yeasts, and such pathway of electron transport to oxygen that is insensitive to cyanide or antimycin is well founded in many higher plants and microorganisms. One paper then investigates the terminal oxidases found in two stages in the life cycle of trypanosomes, which cause African sleeping sickness. Another paper notes that a study of the energy metabolism of End. magnusii, a kind of yeast, showed no glucose repression, no alternative oxidation pathway, and no cyanide-insensitive pathway was normally present. The text will be of interest to those whose work involves these organisms, and to researchers, professors, and students whose disciplines are in developmental biology, micro-biology, or cellular biology.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Functions of Alternative Terminal Oxidases
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PROCEEDINGS
• CHAPTER 1. ELECTRON TRANSPORT PATHWAYS ALTERNATIVE TO THE MAIN
• CHAPTER 2. FUNCTION OF P-450 AND OTHER CYTOCHROMES IN RHIZOBIUM RESPIRATION
• CHAPTER 3. CYANIDE-INSENSITIVE RESPIRATORY SYSTEMS IN NEUROSPORA
• CHAPTER 4. CYANIDE-INSENSITIVE RESPIRATION IN ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII
• CHAPTER 5. A NEW TYPE OF ANTIMYCIN, CYANIDE AND HYDROXAMATE-INSENSITIVE BUT AZIDE-SENSITIVE RESPIRATION IN THE YEAST
• CHAPTER 6. PARTICIPATION OF UBIQUINONE IN THE CYANIDE-INSENSITIVE RESPIRATION OF MONILIELLA TOMENTOSA
• CHAPTER 7. BIOGENESIS AND PROPERTIES OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL CYANIDE-INSENSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RESPIRATORY PATHWAY IN THE YEAST SACCHAROMYCOPSIS LIPOLYTICA
• CHAPTER 8. CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ELECTRON TRANSPORT SYSTEMS PRESENT DURING DIFFERENTIATION OF AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMES
• CHAPTER 9. CYTOCHROME a1 AS AN OXIDASE?
• CHAPTER 10. BACTERIAL CYTOCHROME OXIDASES AND RESPIRATORY CHAIN ENERGY CONSERVATION
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• CHAPTER 11. THE CYTOCHROME OXIDASE REACTION IN AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII AND OTHER BACTERIA
• CHAPTER 12. CYANIDE SENSITIVITY OF RESPIRATION IN KURTHIA ZOPFII
• CHAPTER 13. EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON CYANIDE-SENSITIVE AND CYANIDE-RESISTANT PLANT MITOCHONDRIA
• CHAPTER 14. AN EVALUATION OF H+ TRANSLOCATION VIA THE ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY IN MUNG BEAN MITOCHONDRIA
• CHAPTER 15. THE NATURE AND LOCATION OF CYANIDE AND ANTIMYCIN RESISTANT RESPIRATION IN HIGHER PLANTS
• CHAPTER 16. THE FUNCTION OF AN ALTERNATIVE TERMINAL OXIDASE IN NEUROSPORA
• CHAPTER 17. THE BRANCHED RESPIRATORY SYSTEM OF THE FACULTATIVE PHOTOSYNTHETIC BACTERIUM RHODOPSEUDOMONAS CAPSULATA
• CHAPTER 18. AN ANTIMYCIN A- AND CYANIDE- RESISTANT VARIANT OF ENDOMYCES MAGNUSII
• CHAPTER 19. TERMINAL OXIDASES : A SUMMARY
• INDEX