Reduction midpoint potentials of bifurcating electron transfer flavoproteins.
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| Abstract | :
Recently, a variety of enzymes have been found to accept electrons from NAD(P)H yet reduce lower-potential carriers such as ferredoxin and flavodoxin semiquinone, in apparent violation of thermodynamics. The reaction is favorable overall, however, because these enzymes couple the foregoing endergonic one-electron transfer to exergonic transfer of the other electron from each NAD(P)H, in a process called "flavin-based electron bifurcation." The reduction midpoint potentials (E°s) of the multiple flavins in these enzymes are critical to their mechanisms. We describe methods we have found to be useful for measuring each of the E°s of each of the flavins in bifurcating electron transfer flavoproteins. |
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| Journal | :
Methods in enzymology
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| Volume | :
620
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| Number of Pages | :
365-398
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| Date Published | :
2019
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| ISSN Number | :
0076-6879
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| URL | :
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0076-6879(19)30098-9
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| DOI | :
10.1016/bs.mie.2019.03.017
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| Short Title | :
Methods Enzymol
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