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Active site of cytochrome cbb3.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 24 Apr 2009
Rauhamäki Virve, Bloch Dmitry A, Verkhovsky Michael I, Wikström Mårten
Abstract excerpt
Cytochrome cbb(3) is the most distant member of the heme-copper oxidase family still retaining the following major feature typical of these enzymes: reduction of molecular oxygen to water coupled to proton translocation across the membrane. The thermodynamic properties of the six redox centers, five hemes and a copper ion, in cytochrome cbb(3) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides were studied using optical and EPR...
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