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Spectrophotometric studies of the alkaline isomerization of horse heart and yeast cytochrome c show that the haemoproteins from Saccharomyces cerevisiae differ significantly from the mammalian cytochrome c. Apparent pKa values of 8.41, 8.40 and 8.73 for isol-1-(the methylated and unmethylated forms) and iso-2-cytochrome c respectively, from baker's yeast were determined and compared with the value of 9.40 found for horse heart cytochrome c. The transitions, measured by observing the decrease of the absorbance at 695 nm as the pH increases, have been found to strictly parallel the decrease in amplitude of the negative circular dichroism band centered at 417 nm. This observation gives additional evidence that this negative band is closely related to the ligation of the heme iron by the sulfur atom of methionine 8u for each of the four haemoproteins examined.
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