Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) of acetic acid bacteria functions as the primary dehydrogenase of the ethanol oxidase respiratory chain, where it donates electrons to ubiquinone. ADH is a membrane-bound quinohemoprotein-cytochrome c complex which consists of subunits I (78 kDa), II (48 kDa), and III (14 kDa) and contains several hemes c as well as pyrroloquinoline quinone as prosthetic groups. To understand the role of the heme c moieties in the intramolecular electron transport and the ubiquinone reduction, the ADH complex of Gluconobacter suboxydans was separated into a subunit I/III complex and subunit II, then reconstituted into the complex. The subunit I/III complex, probably subunit I, contained 1 mol each of pyrroloquinoline quinone and heme c and exhibited significant ferricyanide reductase, but no Q reductase activities. Subunit II was a triheme cytochrome c and had no enzyme activity, but it enabled the subunit I/III complex to reproduce the Q and ferricyanide reductase activities. Hybrid ADH consisting of the subunit I/III complex of G. suboxydans ADH and subunit II of Acetobacter aceti ADH was constructed and it had showed a significant Q reductase activity, indicating that subunit II has a ubiquinone-binding site. Inactive ADH from G. suboxydans exhibiting only 10% of the Q and ferricyanide reductase activities of the active enzyme has been isolated separately from active ADH (Matsushita, K., Yakushi, T., Takaki, Y., Toyama, H., and Adachi, O(1995) J. Bacteriol. 177, 6552-6559). Using these active and inactive ADHs and also isolated subunit I/III complex, we performed kinetic studies which suggested that ADH contains four ferricyanide-reacting sites, one of which was detected in subunit I and the others in subunit II. One of the three ferricyanide-reacting sites in subunit II was defective in inactive ADH. The ferricyanide-reacting site remained inactive even after alkali treatment of inactive ADH and also after reconstituting the ADH complex from the subunits, in contrast to the restoration of Q reductase activity and the other ferricyanide reductase activities. Thus, the data suggested that the heme c in subunit I and two of the three heme c moieties in subunit II are involved in the intramolecular electron transport of ADH into ubiquinone, where one of the two heme c sites may work at, or close to, the ubiquinone-reacting site and another between that and the heme c site in subunit I. The remaining heme c moiety in subunit II may have a function other than the electron transfer from ethanol to ubiquinone in ADH.

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