Revealing various coupling of electron transfer and proton pumping in mitochondrial respiratory chain

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 526-538

  Sun, Fei ^a   Zhou, Qiangjun ^c   Pang, Xiaoyun ^a,d   Xu, Yingzhi ^a,d   Rao, Zihe ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; PROTON PUMP;

ALLOSTERISM; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTON PUMPING; PROTON TRANSPORT; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL RESPIRATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTON PUMPS; PROTONS;

EID: 84881100615     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2013.06.013     Document Type: Review

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