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A high resolution structure is described of the lumen-side domain of cytochrome f. This structure is the first for a polypeptide subunit of cytochrome or bc1 or b6f complexes, and has at least three unique or unprecedented features for a c-type cytochrome: (i) more than one structural domain; (ii) predominantly β-strand; and (iii) the N-terminal α-amino group is the orthogonal (6th) ligand, which is unprecedented for a heme protein.
2,3 Å at the time of the writing of the article, now 1.96 Å.
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Martinez, S.E., Huang, D., Smith, J.L., Cramer, W.A. (1996). Some Consequences of the High Resolution X-Ray Structure Analysis of Cytochrome f. In: Ort, D.R., Yocum, C.F., Heichel, I.F. (eds) Oxygenic Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48127-8_22
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