Electron sweep across four b-hemes of cytochrome bc1 revealed by unusual paramagnetic properties of the Qi semiquinone intermediate.

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Dimeric cytochromes bc are central components of photosynthetic and respiratory electron transport chains. In their catalytic core, four hemes b connect four quinone (Q) binding sites. Two of these sites, Qi sites, reduce quinone to quinol (QH2) in a step-wise reaction, involving a stable semiquinone intermediate (SQi). However, the interaction of the SQi with the adjacent hemes remains largely unexplored. Here,...

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