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- * Rieske iron-sulfur protein signatures *
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- Ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase (EC 1.10.2.2) (also known as the bc1 complex
- or complex III) is one of the electron transport chains of mitochondria and
- of some aerobic prokaryotes; it catalyzes the oxidoreduction of ubiquinol and
- cytochrome c. In the chloroplast of plants and in cyanobacteria plastoquinone-
- plastocyanin reductase (EC 1.10.99.1) (also known as the b6f complex) is
- functionally similar and catalyzes the oxidoreduction of plastoquinol and
- cytochrome f.
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- One of the components of these electron transfer systems is an iron-sulfur
- protein with a 2Fe-2S cluster, which is called the Rieske protein [1,2]. The
- Rieske protein contains approximately 190 amino acid residues. The iron-sulfur
- cluster is complexed to the protein through cysteine and histidine residues.
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- It is not known with certitude which cysteine and histidine residues are
- involved in binding the iron-sulfur cluster. However there are two perfectly
- conserved regions in Rieske proteins, which each contain two cysteines and an
- histidine. It has been proposed that the two cysteines in the first region,
- and the first cysteine and the histidine of the second region are the 2Fe-2S
- ligands. We have selected the two conserved regions as signature patterns.
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- -Consensus pattern: C-T-H-L-G-C-[LIV]
- [The two C's may be 2Fe-2S ligands]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
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- -Consensus pattern: C-P-C-H-G-S
- [The first C and the H may be 2Fe-2S ligands]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
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- -Last update: December 1991 / Patterns and text revised.
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- [ 1] Gatti F.L., Meinhardt S.W., Ohnishi T., Tzagoloff A.
- J. Mol. Biol. 205:421-435(1989).
- [ 2] Kallas T., Spiller S., Malkin R.
- Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 85:5794-5798(1988).
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