Multifunctional Cytochrome c: Learning New Tricks from an Old Dog

D Alvarez-Paggi, L Hannibal, MA Castro… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Cytochrome c (cyt c) is a small soluble heme protein characterized by a relatively flexible
structure, particularly in the ferric form, such that it is able to sample a broad conformational …

Direct electrochemistry of redox enzymes as a tool for mechanistic studies

C Léger, P Bertrand - Chemical Reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
This review regards the use of dynamic electrochemistry to study the mechanism of redox
enzymes, with exclusive emphasis on the configuration where the protein is adsorbed onto …

The chemistry and biochemistry of heme c: functional bases for covalent attachment

SEJ Bowman, KL Bren - Natural product reports, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to July 2008 A discussion of the literature concerning the synthesis, function,
and activity of hemec-containing proteins is presented. Comparison of the properties of …

Biological Significance and Applications of Heme c Proteins and Peptides

JG Kleingardner, KL Bren - Accounts of chemical research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Hemes are ubiquitous in biology and carry out a wide range of functions. The
heme group is largely invariant across proteins with different functions, although there are a …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-heme proteins: Nature's electronic multi-purpose tool

KD Bewley, KE Ellis, MA Firer-Sherwood… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2013 - Elsevier
While iron is often a limiting nutrient to Biology, when the element is found in the form of
heme cofactors (iron protoporphyrin IX), living systems have excelled at modifying and …

NMR and DFT Investigation of Heme Ruffling: Functional Implications for Cytochrome c

MD Liptak, X Wen, KL Bren - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Out-of-plane (OOP) deformations of the heme cofactor are found in numerous heme-
containing proteins and the type of deformation tends to be conserved within functionally …

Spin cascade and doming in ferric hemes: Femtosecond X-ray absorption and X-ray emission studies

C Bacellar, D Kinschel, GF Mancini… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The structure–function relationship is at the heart of biology, and major protein deformations
are correlated to specific functions. For ferrous heme proteins, doming is associated with the …

Quantitative photo-crosslinking mass spectrometry revealing protein structure response to environmental changes

F Müller, A Graziadei, J Rappsilber - Analytical chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Protein structures respond to changes in their chemical and physical environment. However,
studying such conformational changes is notoriously difficult, as many structural biology …

[HTML][HTML] A simple method for the determination of reduction potentials in heme proteins

I Efimov, G Parkin, ES Millett, J Glenday, CK Chan… - FEBS letters, 2014 - Elsevier
We describe a simple method for the determination of heme protein reduction potentials. We
use the method to determine the reduction potentials for the PAS-A domains of the …

Heme–protein interactions and functional relevant heme deformations: the cytochrome c case

R Schweitzer-Stenner - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Heme proteins are known to perform a plethora of biologically important functions. This
article reviews work that has been conducted on various class I cytochrome c proteins over a …