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. 2022 Sep;596(18):2418-2424.
doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.14482. Epub 2022 Sep 4.

E. coli cytochrome bd-I requires Asp58 in the CydB subunit for catalytic activity

Jan Kägi  1 , Iryna Makarchuk  2 , Daniel Wohlwend  1 , Frédéric Melin  2 , Thorsten Friedrich  1 , Petra Hellwig  2
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E. coli cytochrome bd-I requires Asp58 in the CydB subunit for catalytic activity

Jan Kägi et al. FEBS Lett. 2022 Sep.
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Abstract

The reduction of oxygen to water is crucial to life and a central metabolic process. To fulfil this task, prokaryotes use among other enzymes cytochrome bd oxidases (Cyt bds) that also play an important role in bacterial virulence and antibiotic resistance. To fight microbial infections by pathogens, an in-depth understanding of the enzyme mechanism is required. Here, we combine bioinformatics, mutagenesis, enzyme kinetics and FTIR spectroscopy to demonstrate that proton delivery to the active site contributes to the rate limiting steps in Cyt bd-I and involves Asp58 of subunit CydB. Our findings reveal a previously unknown catalytic function of subunit CydB in the reaction of Cyt bd-I.

Keywords: Escherichia coli; FTIR spectroscopy; cytochrome; cytochrome bd; oxygen reaction; proton transfer.

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