Protein Information

Name Cytochrome c oxidase (protein family or complex)
Synonyms COX; cytochrome c oxidase; cytochrome c oxidases

Compound Information

Name sodium cyanide
CAS sodium cyanide (Na(CN))

Reference List

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9309676 Loffler M, Jockel J, Schuster G, Becker C: Dihydroorotat-ubiquinone oxidoreductase links mitochondria in the biosynthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides. Mol Cell Biochem. 1997 Sep;174(1-2):125-9.

The application of known enzyme inhibitors Brequinar Sodium and Leflunomide for DHODH and sodium cyanide for cytochrome c oxidase verified the specificity of the activity tests used.
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19278021 Song C, Scharf ME: Mitochondrial impacts of insecticidal formate esters in insecticide-resistant and insecticide-susceptible Drosophila melanogaster. Pest Manag Sci. 2009 Jun;65(6):697-703.

RESULTS: In initial studies investigating inhibition of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase, two proven insecticidal materials (hydramethylnon and sodium cyanide) caused significant inhibition.
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2225377 Beanlands RS, Dawood F, Wen WH, McLaughlin PR, Butany J, D'Amati G, Liu PP: Are the kinetics of technetium-99m methoxyisobutyl isonitrile affected by cell metabolism and viability?. Circulation. 1990 Nov;82(5):1802-14.

The hearts were studied after inducing irreversible damage by cytochrome c oxidase inhibitor sodium cyanide (n = 8) or sarcolemmal membrane detergent Triton X-100 (n = 8).
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6268605 Stade S, Brambl R: Mitochondrial biogenesis during fungal spore germination: respiration and cytochrome c oxidase in Neurospora crassa. J Bacteriol. 1981 Sep;147(3):757-67.

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12913298 Sugio T, Fujii M, Takeuchi F, Negishi A, Maeda T, Kamimura K: Volatilization of mercury by an iron oxidation enzyme system in a highly mercury-resistant Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strain MON-1. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2003 Jul;67(7):1537-44.

Iron oxidizing activities, 2,3,5,6-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (TMPD) oxidizing activities and cytochrome c oxidase activities of strains SUG 2-2 and MON-1 were 26.3 and 41.9 microl O2 uptake/mg/min, 15.6 and 25.0 microl O2 uptake/mg/min, and 2.1 and 6.1 mU/mg, respectively.
Mercury volatilized by the Fe (2+)-dependent mercury volatilization enzyme system of strain MON-1 was strongly inhibited by 1.0 mM sodium cyanide, but was not by 50 nM rotenone, 5 microM 2-n-heptyl-4-hydroxy-quinoline-N-oxide (HQNO), 0.5 microM antimycin A, or 0.5 microM myxothiazol, indicating that cytochrome c oxidase plays a crucial role in mercury volatilization of strain MON-1 in the presence of Fe2+.
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14559295 Haritos VS, Dojchinov G: Cytochrome c oxidase inhibition in the rice weevil Sitophilus oryzae (L.) by formate, the toxic metabolite of volatile alkyl formates. Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol. 2003 Oct;136(2):135-43.

When tested against isolated mitochondria from S. oryzae, alkyl esters, alcohols, acetate and propionate salts were not inhibitory towards cytochrome c oxidase (EC 1.9.3.1), but sodium cyanide and sodium formate were inhibitory with IC (50) values of 0.0015 mM and 59 mM, respectively.
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16566602 Fabian M, Jancura D, Bona M, Musatov A, Baran M, Palmer G: Influence of reduction of heme a and Cu (A) on the oxidized catalytic center of cytochrome c oxidase: insight from organic solvents. Biochemistry. 2006 Apr 4;45(13):4277-83.

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9399580 Sakamoto J, Handa Y, Sone N: A novel cytochrome b (o/a) 3-type oxidase from Bacillus stearothermophilus catalyzes cytochrome c-551 oxidation. J Biochem. 1997 Oct;122(4):764-71.

The oxidase activity was enhanced by the presence of salts and inhibited by sodium cyanide with a Ki value of 19 microM.
Gram-positive thermophilic Bacillus species contain cytochrome caa3-type cytochrome c oxidase as their main terminal oxidase in the respiratory chain.
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10551842 Azarkina N, Siletsky S, Borisov V, von Wachenfeldt C, Hederstedt L, Konstantinov AA: A cytochrome bb'-type quinol oxidase in Bacillus subtilis strain 168. J Biol Chem. 1999 Nov 12;274(46):32810-7.


The aerobic respiratory system of Bacillus subtilis 168 is known to contain three terminal oxidases: cytochrome caa (3), which is a cytochrome c oxidase, and cytochrome aa (3) and bd, which are quinol oxidases.
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1309979 Centeno JA: Evidence of dithionite contribution to the low-frequency resonance Raman spectrum of reduced and mixed-valence cytochrome c oxidase. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1992 Feb 1;292(2):624-8.

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12153998 Streller T, Huckstorf C, Pfeiffer C, Acker H: Unusual cytochrome a592 with low PO2 affinity correlates as putative oxygen sensor with rat carotid body chemoreceptor discharge. FASEB J. 2002 Aug;16(10):1277-9. Epub 2002 Jun 21.

Light-absorption spectra and afferent chemoreceptor discharge were simultaneously recorded on superfused rat carotid bodies (CBs) under the influence of cytochrome a3-CuB ligands (O2, CN-, CO) in order to identify the primary mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase (CCO) oxygen sensor.
The spectral weight of cytochrome a592 decreased significantly starting at high PO2 (100 mm Hg) and low sodium cyanide (CN-, 10 mM) accompanied by increasing phasic peak discharge.
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19601395 David M, Ramesh H, Deshpande SP, Chebbi SG, Krishnamurthy G: Respiratory distress and behavioral changes induced by sodium cyanide in the fresh water TELEOST, Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus). J Basic Clin Physiol Pharmacol. 2009;20(1):55-65.

Cyprinus carpio in toxic media exhibited irregular, erratic, and darting swimming movements, hyperexcitability, loss of equilibrium, and sinking to the bottom, which might be due to inhibition of cytochrome c oxidase activity and decreased blood pH.
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9571175 Stubauer G, Giuffre A, Brunori M, Sarti P: Cytochrome c oxidase does not catalyze the anaerobic reduction of NO. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1998 Apr 17;245(2):459-65.


A possible role of reduced cytochrome c oxidase in the metabolism of nitric oxide (NO) has been examined with amperometric and stopped-flow photometric techniques.
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