The reaction intermediates of reduced bovine Cytochrome c Oxidase (CcO) were trapped following its reaction with oxygen at 50 micros-6 ms by innovative freeze-quenching methods and studied by EPR. When the enzyme was reduced with either ascorbate or dithionite, distinct radicals were generated; X-band (9 GHz) and D-band (130 GHz) CW-EPR measurements support the assignments of these radicals to ascorbyl and sulfur dioxide anion radical (SO2(-.)), respectively. The X-band spectra show a linewidth of 12 G for the ascorbyl radical and 11 G for the SO2(-.) radical and an isotropic g-value of 2.005 for both species. The D-band spectra reveal clear distinctions in the g-tensors and powder patterns of the two species. The ascorbyl radical spectrum displays approximate axial symmetry with g-values of g(x)=2.0068, g(y)=2.0066, and g(z)=2.0023. The SO2(-.) radical has rhombic symmetry with g-values of g(x)=2.0089, g(y)=2.0052, and g(z)=2.0017. When the contributions from the ascorbyl and SO2(-.) radicals were removed, no protein-based radical on CcO could be identified in the EPR spectra.
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