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Bibliography on structural studies of cytochrome bc1 complex

  1. Akiba, T., Toyoshima, C., Matsunaga, T., Kawamoto, M., Kubota, T., Fukuyama, K., Namba, K. and Matsubara, H. (1996) Three­dimensional structure of bovine cytochrome bc1 complex by electron cryomicroscopy and helical image reconstruction. Nature Struct. Biol. 3, 553-561.
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  5. Degli Esposti, M., Crimi, M., Samworth, C.M., Solaini, G. and Lenaz, G. (1987) Resolution of the circular dichroism spectra of the mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 892, 245-252.
  6. Ding, H., Daldal, F. and Dutton, P.L. (1995) Ion pair formation between basic residues at 144 of the Cyt b polypeptide and the ubiquinones at the Qo site of the Cyt bc1 complex. Biochemistry 34, 15997-16003.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Gatti, D.L. and Tzagoloff, A. (1990) Structure and function of the mitochondrial bc1 complex. Properties of the complex in temperature­sensitive cor1 mutants. J. Biol. Chem. 265, 21468-21475.
  10. Gennis, R.B., Barquera, B., Hacker, B., Van Doren, S.R., Arnaud, S., Crofts, A.R., Davidson, E., Gray, K.A. and Daldal, F. (1993) The bc1 complexes of Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodobacter capsulatus. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr. 25, 195-209.
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  12. Hayer­Hartl, M., Schägger, H., von Jagow, G. and Beyer, K. (1992) Interactions of phospholipids with the mitochondrial cytochrome­c reductase studied by spin­label ESR and NMR spectroscopy. Eur. J. Biochem. 209, 423-430.
  13. Hobbs, D.D., Kriauciunas, A., Guner, S., Knaff, D.B. and Ondrias, M.R. (1990) Resonance Raman spectroscopy of cytochrome bc1 complexes from Rhodospirillum rubrum: initial characterization and reductive titrations. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1018, 47-54.
  14. Hovmöller, S., Leonard, K. and Weiss, H. (1981) Membrane crystals of a subunit complex of mitochondrial cytochrome reductase containing the cytochromes b and c1. FEBS Lett. 123, 118-122.
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  16. Iwata, S., Lee, J.W., Okada, K., Lee, J.K., Iwata, M., Rasmussen, B., Link, T.A., Ramaswamy, S. and Jap, B.K. (1998) Complete structure of the 11­subunit bovine mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex. Science 281, 64-71.
  17. Jungas, C., Ranck, J.­L., Rigaud, J.­L., Joliot, P. and Verméglio, A. (1999) Supramolecular organization of the photosynthetic apparatus of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. EMBO J. 18, 534-542.
  18. Karlsson, B., Hovmöller, S., Weiss, H. and Leonard, K. (1983) Structural studies of cytochrome reductase. Subunit topography determined by electron microscopy of membrane crystals of a subcomplex. J. Mol. Biol. 165, 287-302,
  19. Kawamoto, M., Kubota, T., Matsunaga, T., Fukuyama, K., Matsubara, H., Shinzawa­Itoh, K. and Yoshikawa, S. (1994) New crystal forms and preliminary X­ray diffraction studies of mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex from bovine heart. J. Mol. Biol. 244, 238-241.
  20. Kim, C.H., Yencha, A.J., Bunker, G., Zhang, G., Chance, B. and King, T.E. (1989) Effect of the hinge protein on the heme iron site of cytochrome c1. Biochemistry 28, 1439-1441.
  21. Kim, H., Xia, D., Yu, C.­A., Xia, J.­Z., Kachurin, A.M., Zhang, L., Yu, L. and Deisenhofer, J. (1998) Inhibitor binding changes domain mobility in the iron-sulfur protein of the mitochondrial bc1 complex from bovine heart. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 8026-8033.
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  24. Kuras, R., Guergova­Kuras, M. and Crofts, A.R. (1998) Steps toward constructing a cytochrome b6f complex in the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides: An example of the structural plasticity of a membrane cytochrome. Biochemistry 37, 16280-16288.
  25. Lee, J.W., Chan, M., Law, T.V., Kwon, H.J. and Jap, B.K. (1995) Preliminary cryocrystallographic study of the mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex: Improved crystallization and flash­cooling of a large membrane protein. J. Mol. Biol. 252, 15-19.
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  27. Le Moigne, C., Schoepp, B., Othman, S., Verméglio, A. and Desbois, A. (1999) Distinct structures and environments for the three hemes of the cytochrome bc1 complex from Rhodospirillum rubrum. A resonance Raman study using B­band excitations. Biochemistry 38, 1066-1076.
  28. Leonard, K., Wingfield, P., Arad, T. and Weiss, H. (1981) Three­dimensional structure of ubiquinol:cytochrome c reductase from Neurospora mitochondria determined by electron microscopy of membrane crystals. J. Mol. Biol. 149, 259-274.
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  31. Miki, T., Yu, L. and Yu, C.A. (1991) Hematoporphyrin­promoted photoinactivation of mitochondrial ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase: Selective destruction of the histidine ligands of the iron-sulfur cluster and protective effect of ubiquinone. Biochemistry 30, 230-238.
  32. Montoya, G., te Kaat, K., Rodgers, S., Nitschke, W. and Sinning, I. (1999) The cytochrome bc1 complex from Rhodovulum sulfidophilum is a dimer with six quinones per monomer and an additional 6­kDa component. Eur. J. Biochem. 259, 709-718.
  33. Murakami, S., Shinzawa­Itoh, K. and Yoshikawa, S. (1998) Crystals of bovine heart ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase diffracting X­rays up to 2.8 Å resolution at 276 K. Acta Crystallogr. D54, 146-147.
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  36. Ozawa, T., Tanaka, M. and Shimomura, Y. (1983) Crystallization of cytochrome bc1 complex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 80, 921-925.
  37. Perkins, S.J. and Weiss, H. (1983) Low­resolution structural studies of mitochondrial ubiquinol:cytochrome c reductase in detergent solutions by neutron scattering. J. Mol. Biol. 168, 847-866.
  38. Robertson, D.E., Ding, H., Chelminski, P.R., Slaughter, C., Hsu, J., Moomaw, C., Tokito, M., Daldal, F. and Dutton, P.L. (1993) Hydroubiquinone-cytochrome c2 oxidoreductase from Rhodobacter capsulatus: Definition of a minimal, functional isolated preparation. Biochemistry 32, 1310-1317.
  39. Salerno, J.C. (1984) Cytochrome electron spin resonance line shapes, ligand fields, and components stoichiometry in ubiquinol-cytochrome c oxidoreductase. J. Biol. Chem. 259, 2331-2336.
  40. Salerno, J.C., McCurley, J.P., Dong, J.H., Doyle, M.F., Yu, L. and Yu, C.­A. (1986) The EPR spectra of the cytochrome b-c1 complex of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 136, 616-621.
  41. 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.
  42. 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.
  43. Saribas, A.S., Valkova­Valchanova, M., Tokito, M.K., Zhang, Z., Berry, E.A. and Daldal, F. (1998) Interactions between the cytochrome b, cytochrome c1, and Fe-S protein subunits at the ubihydroquinone oxidation site of the bc1 complex of Rhodobacter capsulatus. Biochemistry 37, 8105-8114.
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  45. 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.
  46. Tian, H., Yu, L., Mather, M.W. and Yu, C.­A. (1998) Flexibility of the neck region of the Rieske iron-sulfur protein is functionally important in the cytochrome bc1 complex. J. Biol. Chem. 273, 27953-27959.
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  48. Van Doren, S.R., Gennis, R.B., Barquera, B. and Crofts, A.R. (1993) Site­directed mutations of conserved residues of the Rieske iron-sulfur subunit of the cytochrome bc1 complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides blocking or impairing quinol oxidation. Biochemistry 32, 8083-8091.
  49. Weiss, H., Hovmöller, S. and Leonard, K. (1986) Preparation of membrane crystals of ubiquinol-cytochrome­c reductase from Neurospora mitochondria and structure analysis by electron microscopy. Methods Enzymol. 126, 191-201.
  50. Wingfield, P., Arad, T., Leonard, K. and Weiss, H. (1979) Membrane crystals of ubiquinone:cytochrome c reductase from Neurospora mitochondria. Nature 280, 696-697.
  51. 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)].
  52. Yang, X.H. and Trumpower, B.L. (1986) Purification of a three­subunit ubiquinol-cytochrome c oxidoreductase complex from Paracoccus denitrificans. J. Biol. Chem. 261, 12282-12289 [published erratum J. Biol. Chem. 261, 15813 (1986)].
  53. Yu, C.­A., Xia, D., Deisenhofer, J. and Yu, L. (1994) Crystallization of mitochondrial cytochrome b-c1 complex from gel with or without reduced pressure. J. Mol. Biol. 243, 802-805.
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  55. Yu, C.­A., Xia, D., Kim, H., Deisenhofer, J., Zhang, L., Kachurin, A.M. and Yu, L. (1998) Structural basis of functions of the mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1365, 151-158.
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  57. Zhang, Z., Huang, L., Shulmeister, V.M., Chi, Y.­I., Kim, K.K., Hung, L.­W., Crofts, A.R., Berry, E.A. and Kim, S.­H. (1998) Electron transfer by domain movement in cytochrome bc1. Nature 392, 677-684.
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