Partial steps of charge translocation in the nonpumping N139l mutant of rhodobacter sphaeroides cytochrome c oxidase with a blocked d-channel

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3060-3073

  Siletsky, Sergey A ^a   Zhu, Jiapeng ^b   Gennis, Robert B ^b   Konstantinov, Alexander A ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS PHASE; BACTERIAL ENZYMES; BINUCLEAR SITE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME OXIDASE; D-CHANNEL; DIELECTRIC THICKNESS; OXIDIZED ENZYME; PHOTO-REDUCTION; PROTON-PUMPING; PROTONIC; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; REPROTONATION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; S-PHASE; SIDE CHAINS; SINGLE ELECTRON; TIME-RESOLVED ABSORPTION; TRANSMEMBRANE TRANSFER; TURNOVER NUMBER; TWO-COMPONENT; VECTORIAL ELECTRON TRANSFER; WILD TYPES;

CYANIDES; ENZYMES; HEMOGLOBIN; PORPHYRINS; REACTION INTERMEDIATES;

PROTONS;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYANIDE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; FRIEDELIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PROTON PUMP;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME METABOLISM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOVEMENT [(]PHYSIOLOGY[)]; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; HEME; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 77950646226     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi901719e     Document Type: Article

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