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Amicyanin and Complexes of Amicyanin with Methylamine Dehydrogenase and Cytochrome c551i

F Scott Mathews

F Scott Mathews

Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

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First published: 15 December 2011

Abstract

Amicyanin is the key component of a soluble periplasmic electron transfer chain in the bacterium Paracoccus denitrificans that passes electrons from an amine substrate to a terminal oxidase in the periplasmic membrane. It directly and specifically transfers electrons from methylamine dehydrogenase (MADH) to an inducible c-type cytochrome, c551i. Amicyanin is a 12.5-kDa monomeric cupredoxin, MADH is a 124-kDa heterotetramer oxidizing enzyme, and c551i is a 17.5-kDa monomeric cytochrome. Crystal structures of amicyanin, a binary MADH–amicyanin complex and a ternary MADH–amicyanin–cytochrome c551i complex, are described and correlated with their kinetic and electron transfer properties in solution.

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Ribbon diagram of AMI viewed down the central axis of the β-sandwich. The colors of the nine β-strands progress from strand 1 on the left in blue to strand 9 at the upper right in red. The four ligands to the copper atom in the upper right are also shown. This diagram was made with MOLSCRIPT21 and RASTER3D.22 PDB code: 1AAC

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