| Literature DB >> 17560537 |
Haibo Zhang1, Artur Osyczka, P Leslie Dutton, Christopher C Moser.
Abstract
Complex III Qo site semiquinone has been assigned pivotal roles in productive energy-conversion and destructive superoxide generation. After a 30-year search, a genetic heme bH knockout arrests this transient semiquinone EPR radical, revealing the natural engineering balance pitting energy-conserving, short-circuit minimizing, split electron transfer and catalytic speed against damaging oxygen reduction.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17560537 PMCID: PMC3554237 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2007.04.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta ISSN: 0006-3002