Electron-transport chains of phototrophically and chemotrophically grown Chloroflexus aurantiacus

R. Max Wynn, Thomas E. Redlinger, John M. Foster, Robert E. Blankenship, R. Clinton Fuller, Robert W. Shaw, David B. Knaff

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Abstract

The membrane-bound electron-transfer chain components of both phototrophically and chemotrophically grown Chloroflexus aurantiacus have been characterized. Membranes isolated from chemotrophically grown Chloroflexus have been shown to contain at least three c-type cytochromes and at least three b-type cytochromes. In addition, these cells appear to lack a photochemical reaction center and the high potential (Em = +260 mV) cytochrome c-554 that serves as the immediate donor to the reaction center in phototrophically grown Chloroflexus. Phototrophically grown cells contain a CO-binding c-type cytochrome, apparently absent in the chemotrophically grown cells. However, a different CO-binding component, which may function as the terminal oxidase, is present in chemotrophically grown cells.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)216-226
Number of pages11
JournalBBA - Bioenergetics
Volume891
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - May 6 1987

Keywords

  • (C. aurantiacus)
  • CO binding
  • Chemotrophic bacterium
  • Cytochrome b
  • Cytochrome c
  • Electron-transport chain

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biophysics
  • Biochemistry
  • Cell Biology

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