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Bibliography on structural studies of cytochrome b/b6 (bHbL)

  1. Antaramian, A., Funes, S., Vázquez­Acevedo, M., Atteia, A., Coria, R. and González­Halphen, D. (1998) Two unusual amino acid substitutions in cytochrome b of the colorless alga Polytomella spp.: Correlation with the atypical spectral properties of the bH heme. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 354, 206-214.
  2. Degli Esposti, M., Palmer, G. and Lenaz, G. (1989) Circular dichroic spectroscopy of membrane haemoproteins. The molecular determinants of the dichroic properties of the b cytochromes in various ubiquinol:cytochrome c reductases. Eur. J. Biochem. 182, 27-36.
  3. Gao, F., Qin, H., Simpson, M.C., Shelnutt, J.A., Knaff, D.B. and Ondrias, M.R. (1996) Isolation and characterization of vibrational spectra of individual heme active sites in cytochrome bc1 complexes from Rhodobacter capsulatus. Biochemistry 35, 12812-12819.
  4. Gao, F., Qin, H., Knaff, D.B., Zhang, L., Yu, L., Yu, C.­A. and Ondrias, M.R. (1998) Q­band resonance Raman spectra of oxidized and reduced mitochondrial bc1 complexes. Biochemistry 37, 9751-9758.
  5. Gutiérrez­Cirlos, E.­B., Gómez­Lojero, C., Vázquez­Acevedo, M., Pérez­Martínez, X. and González­Halphen, D. (1998) An atypical cytochrome b in the colorless alga Polytomella spp.: The high potential bH heme exhibits a double transition in the alpha­peak of its absorption spectrum. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 353, 322-330.
  6. Howell, N. and Robertson, D.E. (1993) Electrochemical and spectral analysis of the long­range interactions between the Qo and Qi sites and the heme prosthetic groups in ubiquinol-cytochrome c oxidoreductase. Biochemistry 32, 11162-11172.
  7. Matsuno­Yagi, A. and Hatefi, Y. (1997) Ubiquinol:cytochrome c oxidoreductase. The redox reactions of the bis­heme cytochrome b in unenergized and energized submitochondrial particles. J. Biol. Chem. 272, 16928-16933.
  8. Mosser, G., Breyton, C., Olofsson, A., Popot, J.L. and Rigaud, J.L. (1997) Projection map of cytochrome b6f complex at 8 Å resolution. J. Biol. Chem. 272, 20263-20268.
  9. Mulkidjanian, A.Ya., Mamedov, M.D. and Drachev, L.A. (1991) Slow electrogenic events in the cytochrome bc1­complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The electron transfer between cytochrome b hemes can be non­electrogenic. FEBS Lett. 284, 227-231.
  10. Palmer, G. and Degli Esposti, M. (1994) Application of exciton coupling theory to the structure of mitochondrial cytochrome b. Biochemistry 33, 176-185.
  11. Rich, P.R., Jeal, A.E., Madgwick, S.A. and Moody, A.J. (1990) Inhibitor effects on redox­linked protonations of the b haems of the mitochondrial bc1 complex. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1018, 29-40.
  12. Saribas, A.S., Ding, H., Dutton, P.L. and Daldal, F. (1995) Tyrosine 147 of cytochrome b is required for efficient electron transfer at the ubihydroquinone oxidase site (Qo) of the cytochrome bc1 complex. Biochemistry 34, 16004-16012.
  13. Saribas, A.S., Ding, H., Dutton, P.L. and Daldal, F. (1997) Substitution at position 146 of cytochrome b affect drastically the properties of heme bL and the Qo site of Rhodobacter capsulatus cytochrome bc1 complex. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1319, 99-108.
  14. Tian, H., Yu, L., Mather, M.W. and Yu, C.­A. (1997) The involvement of serine 175 and alanine 185 of cytochrome b of Rhodobacter sphaeroides cytochrome bc1 complex in interaction with iron-sulfur protein. J. Biol. Chem. 272, 23722-23728.
  15. Tron, T., Crimi, M., Colson, A.M. and Degli Esposti, M. (1991) Structure/function relationships in mitochondrial cytochrome b revealed by the kinetic and circular dichroic properties of two yeast inhibitor­resistant mutants. Eur. J. Biochem. 199, 753-760.
  16. Wang, Y. and Beattie, D.S. (1993) Topographical organization of cytochrome b6 in the thylakoid membrane of spinach chloroplasts determined by fluorescence studies with N­cyclohexyl­N'­[4­(dimethylamino)naphthyl]carbodiimide. Biochemistry 32, 9586-9591.
  17. Xia, D., Yu, C.­A., Kim, H., Xia, J.Z., Kachurin, A.M., Zhang, L., Yu, L. and Deisenhofer, J. (1997) Crystal structure of the cytochrome bc1 complex from bovine heart mitochondria. Science 277, 60-66 [published erratum Science 278, 2037 (1997)].
Bibliography on structural studies of cytochrome bc1 complex
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