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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 131, Issue 35, Pages 12536-+Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja905171c
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- NIH [GM-77387, GM-38323]
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The ligand-binding properties of the unique heme c(n) of the cyt b(6)f complex, which is bridged to the heme b(n), are studied with EPR spectroscopy. Despite an open coordination site, high-spin heme c(n) in the oxidized state does not bind typical heme ligands such as cyanide, indicating their inaccessibility to the heme. In the reduced state, heme c(n) binds the O-2 surrogate NO to give a five-coordinate S = 1/2 [FeNO](7) complex, indicating that the site is accessible in the reduced state of the protein. The binding of NO implies that the heme c(n) can also bind O-2. Given the significant number of experimentally documented pathways for which a plastoquinol oxidase has been proposed, but the actual oxidase not identified, it is proposed that one of the functions of heme c(n), the only prosthetic group in the electron transport chain with oxidase-like properties, is the putative oxidase.
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