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Characterization of mutants that change the hydrogen bonding of the semiquinone radical at the QH site of the cytochrome bo3 from Escherichia coli.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 23 Mar 2007
Yap Lai Lai, Samoilova Rimma I, Gennis Robert B, Dikanov Sergei A
Abstract excerpt
The cytochrome bo3 ubiquinol oxidase catalyzes the two-electron oxidation of ubiquinol in the cytoplasmic membrane of Escherichia coli, and reduces O2 to water. This enzyme has a high affinity quinone binding site (QH), and the quinone bound to this site acts as a cofactor, necessary for rapid electron transfer from substrate ubiquinol, which binds at a separate site (QL), to heme b. Previous pulsed EPR studies...
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