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The cytochrome bd respiratory oxygen reductases

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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS
Volume 1807, Issue 11, Pages 1398-1413

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ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.06.016

Keywords

Metabolism; Molecular bioenergetics; Oxidoreduction; Bacterial physiology; Microbe; Disease

Funding

  1. Russian Foundation for Basic Research [11-04-00031-a]
  2. National Institutes of Health [HL16101]
  3. Biocentrum Helsinki
  4. Sigrid Juselius Foundation
  5. Academy of Finland

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Cytochrome bd is a respiratory quinol:O-2 oxidoreductase found in many prokaryotes, including a number of pathogens. The main bioenergetic function of the enzyme is the production of a proton motive force by the vectorial charge transfer of protons. The sequences of cytochromes bd are not homologous to those of the other respiratory oxygen reductases, i.e., the heme-copper oxygen reductases or alternative oxidases (AOX). Generally, cytochromes bd are noteworthy for their high affinity for O-2 and resistance to inhibition by cyanide. In E. coli, for example, cytochrome bd (specifically, cytochrome bd-I) is expressed under O-2-limited conditions. Among the members of the bd-family are the so-called cyanide-insensitive quinol oxidases (CIO) which often have a low content of the eponymous heme d but, instead, have heme b in place of heme d in at least a majority of the enzyme population. However, at this point, no sequence motif has been identified to distinguish cytochrome bd (with a stoichiometric complement of heme d) from an enzyme designated as CIO. Members of the bd-family can be subdivided into those which contain either a long or a short hydrophilic connection between transmembrane helices 6 and 7 in subunit I, designated as the Q-loop. However, it is not clear whether there is a functional consequence of this difference. This review summarizes current knowledge on the physiological functions, genetics, structural and catalytic properties of cytochromes bd. Included in this review are descriptions of the intermediates of the catalytic cycle, the proposed site for the reduction of O-2, evidence for a proton channel connecting this active site to the bacterial cytoplasm, and the molecular mechanism by which a membrane potential is generated. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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