Characterization of the Redox and Metal Binding Activity of BsSco, a Protein Implicated in the Assembly of Cytochrome <i>c</i> Oxidase
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Members of the Sco protein family are implicated in the assembly of the respiratory complex cytochrome c oxidase. Several possible roles have been proposed for Sco: a copper delivery agent, a site-specific thiol reductase, and an indicator of cellular redox status. Two cysteine residues (C45 and C49) in the sequence CXXXCP and a histidine (H135) approximately 90 residues toward the C-terminus are conserved in Sco from bacteria, yeast, and humans. The soluble domain of Sco has a thioredoxin fold that is suggestive of redox activity for this protein. We have characterized the soluble domain of the Sco protein from Bacillus subtilis (i.e., sBsSco) for its redox reactivity and metal binding capacity. In oxidized sBsSco, the cysteines are present as an intramolecular disulfide. Oxidized sBsSco does not bind metal, but can be reduced in vitro to a metal-binding form. Reduction of the disulfide in sBsSco is accompanied by increased intrinsic fluorescence. The reducibility of the cystine is unchanged when the conserved histidine is mutated to alanine. Tight binding by reduced sBsSco is observed for Cu(II) by electronic absorption, intrinsic fluorescence, and EPR spectroscopies, and isothermal titration calorimetry with an observed stoichiometry of one Cu(II) ion per sBsSco and a KD of approximately 50 nM. Tight binding of Cu(I) and Ag(I) is observed by quenching of intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence. Cobalt(II) exhibits weak binding, whereas Ni(II) and Zn(II) do not appear to bind. The high-affinity binding of metals by BsSco is triggered by its redox state, and this property could be important for its function in vivo.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
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