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Glutamate 107 in subunit I of cytochrome bd from Escherichia coli is part of a transmembrane intraprotein pathway conducting protons from the cytoplasm to the heme b595/heme d active site.
Biochemistry - 29 Jul 2008
Borisov Vitaliy B, Belevich Ilya, Bloch Dmitry A, Mogi Tatsushi, Verkhovsky Michael I
Abstract excerpt
Cytochrome bd is a terminal quinol:O 2 oxidoreductase of the respiratory chain of Escherichia coli. The enzyme generates protonmotive force without proton pumping and contains three hemes, b 558, b 595, and d. A highly conserved glutamic acid residue of transmembrane helix III in subunit I, E107, was suggested to be part of a transmembrane pathway delivering protons from the cytoplasm to the oxygen-reducing site....
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