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Abortive assembly of succinate-ubiquinone reductase (complex II) in a ferrochelatase-deficient mutant of Escherichia coli.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 May 2001
Nihei C, Nakayashiki T, Nakamura K, Inokuchi H, Gennis R B, Kojima S, Kita K
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Heme molecules play important roles in electron transfer by redox proteins such as cytochromes. In addition, a structural role for heme in protein folding and the assembly of enzymes has been suggested. Previous results obtained using Escherichia coli hemA mutants, which are unable to synthesize 5-aminolevulinic acid, a precursor of porphyrins and hemes, have demonstrated a requirement for heme biosynthesis in...
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