Synthetic Fe/Cu complexes: toward understanding heme-copper oxidase structure and function

SM Adam, GB Wijeratne, PJ Rogler, DE Diaz… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Heme-copper oxidases (HCOs) are terminal enzymes on the mitochondrial or bacterial
respiratory electron transport chain, which utilize a unique heterobinuclear active site to …

Impact of hydrogen sulfide on mitochondrial and bacterial bioenergetics

VB Borisov, E Forte - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review focuses on the effects of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) on the unique bioenergetic
molecular machines in mitochondria and bacteria—the protein complexes of electron …

A 'Build and Retrieve'methodology to simultaneously solve cryo-EM structures of membrane proteins

CC Su, M Lyu, CE Morgan, JR Bolla, CV Robinson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a powerful technique in the
field of structural biology. However, the inability to reliably produce pure, homogeneous …

Redox properties of the membrane proteins from the respiratory chain

F Melin, P Hellwig - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
This review focuses on the electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical studies that gave
insight into redox potentials of the four mitochondrial complexes and their homologues from …

Cryo-EM structures of Escherichia coli cytochrome bo3 reveal bound phospholipids and ubiquinone-8 in a dynamic substrate binding site

J Li, L Han, F Vallese, Z Ding, SK Choi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Two independent structures of the proton-pumping, respiratory cytochrome bo 3 ubiquinol
oxidase (cyt bo 3) have been determined by cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) in …

Terminal Oxidase Cytochrome bd Protects Bacteria Against Hydrogen Sulfide Toxicity

VB Borisov, E Forte - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2021 - Springer
Hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) is often called the third gasotransmitter (after nitric oxide and
carbon monoxide), or endogenous gaseous signaling molecule. This compound plays …

Short-chain aurachin D derivatives are selective inhibitors of E. coli cytochrome bd-I and bd-II oxidases

M Radloff, I Elamri, TN Grund, LF Witte, KF Hohmann… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Cytochrome bd-type oxidases play a crucial role for survival of pathogenic bacteria during
infection and proliferation. This role and the fact that there are no homologues in the …

[HTML][HTML] In the respiratory chain of Escherichia coli cytochromes bd-I and bd-II are more sensitive to carbon monoxide inhibition than cytochrome bo3

E Forte, VB Borisov, SA Siletsky, M Petrosino… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bacteria can not only encounter carbon monoxide (CO) in their habitats but also produce the
gas endogenously. Bacterial respiratory oxidases, thus, represent possible targets for CO …

In Escherichia coli Ammonia Inhibits Cytochrome bo3 But Activates Cytochrome bd-I

E Forte, SA Siletsky, VB Borisov - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Interaction of two redox enzymes of Escherichia coli, cytochrome bo 3 and cytochrome bd-I,
with ammonium sulfate/ammonia at pH 7.0 and 8.3 was studied using high-resolution …

Structure of the cytochrome aa3-600 heme-copper menaquinol oxidase bound to inhibitor HQNO shows TM0 is part of the quinol binding site

J Xu, Z Ding, B Liu, SM Yi, J Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Virtually all proton-pumping terminal respiratory oxygen reductases are members of the
heme-copper oxidoreductase superfamily. Most of these enzymes use reduced cytochrome …