Publication Date:
2010-07-24
Description:
The ubiquinol-cytochrome c oxidoreductases, central to cellular respiration and photosynthesis, are homodimers. High symmetry has frustrated resolution of whether cross-dimer interactions are functionally important. This has resulted in a proliferation of contradictory models. Here, we duplicated and fused cytochrome b subunits, and then broke symmetry by introducing independent mutations into each monomer. Electrons moved freely within and between monomers, crossing an electron-transfer bridge between two hemes in the core of the dimer. This revealed an H-shaped electron-transfer system that distributes electrons between four quinone oxidation-reduction terminals at the corners of the dimer within the millisecond time scale of enzymatic turnover. Free and unregulated distribution of electrons acts like a molecular-scale bus bar, a design often exploited in electronics.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4073802/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4073802/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Swierczek, Monika -- Cieluch, Ewelina -- Sarewicz, Marcin -- Borek, Arkadiusz -- Moser, Christopher C -- Dutton, P Leslie -- Osyczka, Artur -- 076488/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- R01 GM027309/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM041048/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Jul 23;329(5990):451-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1190899.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20651150" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Bacterial Proteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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Cytochromes c/metabolism
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*Electron Transport
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Electron Transport Complex III/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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*Electrons
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Models, Molecular
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Mutant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Point Mutation
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Multimerization
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Protein Subunits/chemistry/metabolism
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Rhodobacter capsulatus/*enzymology
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Ubiquinone/analogs & derivatives/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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