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The Chloroplast b Cytochromes: Crosslinks, Topography, and Functions

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Heme cross-linking of membrane cytochromes as a structural principle: cytochrome b-559, b 6 , and cytochrome oxidase. After the Mr 9,000 protein of cyt b–559 was purified and its NH2-terminus sequenced (1), its psbE gene and the downstream psbF gene located and sequenced on the spinach chloroplast genome (2), an intermolecular heme cross-linked dimeric structure of cytochrome b–559 was proven by the findings that (a) each polypeptide contains only one histidine (2), (b) the psbE and psbF gene products are present in the purified protein in a 1:1 stoichiometry (3), and (c) the heme coordination is bis-histidine (Fig. la; ref. 4). Thus, a dimer would be required to provide two His residues for heme coordination. There are several reasons, including the 1:1 stoichiometry, for believing that the heme-binding unit is an α-β heterodimer (5), but this has not been rigorously proven.

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Cramer, W.A., Furbacher, P.N., Szczepaniak, A., Tae, GS. (1990). The Chloroplast b Cytochromes: Crosslinks, Topography, and Functions. In: Baltscheffsky, M. (eds) Current Research in Photosynthesis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0511-5_489

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