Pseudoazurin mediates periplasmic electron flow in a mutant strain of Paracoccus denitrificans lacking cytochrome c550
- 2 April 1999
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 448 (1) , 157-159
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00345-2
Abstract
A periplasmic protein able to transfer electrons from cytoplasmic membrane to the periplasmic nitrite reductase (cytochrome cd1) has been purified from the anoxically grown cytochrome c550 mutant strain Pd2121 and shown to be pseudoazurin by several independent criteria (molecular mass, copper content, visible spectrum, N-terminal amino acid sequence). Under our assay conditions, the half-saturation of electron transport occurred at about 10 μM pseudoazurin; the reaction was retarded by increasing ionic strengthKeywords
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