Identification of two domains and distal histidine ligands to the four haems in the bacterial c-type cytochrome NapC; the prototype connector between quinol/quinone and periplasmic oxido-reductases

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 368, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 425-432

  Cartron, Michaël L ^a,b   Roldán, M Dolores ^a   Ferguson, Stuart J ^b   Berks, Ben C ^b   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial respiration; NapC NirT family; Periplasmic nitrate reductase; Quinol oxidase; Tetra haem cytochrome

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ELECTRON TRANSFER;

ENZYMES;

CYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROME NAPC; HEME; HISTIDINE; LIGAND; OXIDOREDUCTASE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PARACOCCUS; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PARACOCCUS PANTOTROPHUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZOQUINONES; BINDING SITES; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEME; HISTIDINE; HYDROQUINONES; IRON; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PARACOCCUS; PERIPLASM; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PARACOCCUS PANTOTROPHUS;

EID: 0036903356     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20020865     Document Type: Article

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