Mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase: Mechanism of action and role in regulating oxidative phosphorylation: Reply to Pannala, Beard, and Dash (2015)

Letters to the EditorMitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase: Mechanism of action and role in regulating oxidative phosphorylation: Reply to Pannala, Beard, and DashDavid F. Wilson and Sergei A. VinogradovDavid F. WilsonDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Sergei A. VinogradovDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPublished Online:15 Jul 2015https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00349.2015MoreSectionsPDF (29 KB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations to the editor: We are pleased that the authors have read our paper (2) and consider it of sufficient importance to critique it (1). There is an error in our program: the rate constants k4a and k4b are interchanged in Eq. A15. The error was introduced before fitting of the equations to the cytochrome c oxidase data. Fortunately, Eq. A15 is only used for calculating the turnover number for cytochrome c, and the turnover number is not used in any other calculations.When Eq. A15 is corrected and the model is refitted to the cytochrome c oxidase data, the values of 5 of the rate constants are slightly decreased (Table 1). The original equation and constants (column 2) fit to the cytochrome c oxidase data is the same, within experimental error, as the corrected equation and the constants in column 3. Because the two different calculations yield the same dependence of cytochrome c oxidase activity on energy state, pH, and Po2, application of the fitted equations to other metabolic systems is not affected.The same equations were fit to similar data, so why are the values of the constants obtained by Pannala et al. so different from ours? The principal reason is our requirement that any constant used in fitting be consistent with available experimental data. For example, the value of k2, the rate constant for the bimolecular reaction of O2 with cytochrome c oxidase, has been experimentally measured to be between 108 and 109 M−1s−1 so k2 was constrained to values within this range. Their table shows a k2 value of 5.8 × 1011 M−1s−1, exceeding the measured values by ∼1,000-fold and the diffusion limit by 50-fold.We apologize for the error in Eq. A15 but assure readers that correcting it introduces only the small changes in the values assigned to the rate constants as shown in Table 1. The calculated dependence of cytochrome oxidase activity on its regulatory parameters and the evidence for its central role in setting and maintaining metabolic homeostasis is unchanged. Discussion is encouraged ([email protected]med.upenn.edu).Table 1. Original and re-estimated constants for fit to the dataConstantValue in Our PaperValue after Correctionk18 × 109 M−1s−18 × 109 M−1s−1k1r8 × 107 M−1s−18 × 107 M−1s−1k26 × 108 M−1s−16 × 108 M−1s−1k2r1 × 101 s−11 × 101 s−1K32 × 106 M−12 × 106 M−1K51 × 10251 × 1025k4a2.5 × 108 M−1s−12 × 107 M−1s−1k4b8 × 107 M−1s−13 × 108 M−1s−1Also, the sign for k4a·cr·III in eq. A1 should be − and not + (typing error).AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONSAuthor contributions: D.F.W. and S.A.V. conception and design of research; D.F.W. performed experiments; D.F.W. analyzed data; D.F.W. drafted manuscript; D.F.W. edited and revised manuscript; D.F.W. and S.A.V. approved final version of manuscript.DISCLOSURESConflict of interest statement: No conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, are declared by the author(s).REFERENCES1. Pannala VR, Beard DA, Dash RK. Letter to the Editor: Mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase: mechanism of action and role in regulating oxidative phosphorylation. J Appl Physiol; doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00290.2015.Link | ISI | Google Scholar2. Wilson DF, Vinogradov SA. Mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase: mechanism of action and role in regulating oxidative phosphorylation. J Appl Physiol 117: 1431–1439, 2014.Link | ISI | Google ScholarAUTHOR NOTESAddress for reprint requests and other correspondence: D. F. Wilson, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, 901 Stellar-Chance Bldg., 422 Curie Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059 (e-mail: [email protected]med.upenn.edu). 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