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[摘要]：Heliobacterium modesticaldum is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, anoxygenic photoheterotrophic bacterium. Its cytochrome bc complex (Rieske/cyt b complex) has some similarities to cytochrome b(6)f complexes from cyanobacteria and chloroplasts, and also shares some characteristics of typical bacterial cytochrome bc, complexes. One of the unique factors of the heliobacterial cytochrome bc complex is the presence of a diheme cytochrome c instead of the monoheme cytochrome f in the cytochrome b(6)f complex or the monoheme cytochrome c, in the bc, complex. To understand the structure and function of this diheme cytochrome c protein, we expressed the N-terminal transmembrane-helix-truncated soluble H. modesticaldum diheme cytochrome c in Escherichia coil. This 25 kDa recombinant protein possesses two c-type hemes, confirmed by mass spectrometry and a variety of biochemical techniques. Sequence analysis of the H. modesticaldum diheme cytochrome c indicates that it may have originated from gene duplication and subsequent gene fusion, as in cytochrome c(4) proteins. The recombinant protein exhibits a single redox midpoint potential of +71 mV versus NHE, which indicates that the two hemes have very similar protein environments. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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