The octahaem MccA is a haem c–copper sulfite reductase

Bianca Hermann, Melanie Kern, Luigi La Pietra, Jörg Simon () and Oliver Einsle ()
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Bianca Hermann: Lehrstuhl Biochemie, Institut für Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Melanie Kern: Microbial Energy Conversion & Biotechnology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstrasse 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
Luigi La Pietra: Microbial Energy Conversion & Biotechnology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstrasse 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
Jörg Simon: Microbial Energy Conversion & Biotechnology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstrasse 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
Oliver Einsle: Lehrstuhl Biochemie, Institut für Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

Nature, 2015, vol. 520, issue 7549, 706-709

Abstract: Sulfite-reducing microbes couple the reduction of sulfite to the generation of a proton motive force that sustains organismic growth; here, two X-ray crystal structures are solved of MccA, a c-type cytochrome enzyme with eight haem groups that catalyses the six-electron reduction of sulfite to sulfide at a novel haem–copper active site.

Date: 2015
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