摘要:Cardiolipin (CL) is a lipid that is found in the membranes of bacteria and the inner membranes of mitochondria. CL can increase the activity of integral membrane proteins, in particular components of respiratory pathways. We here report that CL activated detergent-solubilized cytochrome
bd, a terminal oxidase from
Escherichia coli. CL enhanced the oxygen consumption activity ~ twofold and decreased the apparent
K
M value for ubiquinol-1 as substrate from 95 µM to 35 µM. Activation by CL was also observed for cytochrome
bd from two Gram-positive species,
Geobacillus thermodenitrificans and
Corynebacterium glutamicum, and for cytochrome
bo
3 from
E. coli. Taken together, CL can enhance the activity of detergent-solubilized cytochrome
bd and cytochrome
bo
3.