Title : A cytochrome b origin of photosynthetic reaction centers: an evolutionary link between respiration and photosynthesis.

Pub. Date : 2002 Oct 4

PMID : 12367526






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1 In particular, we have identified an area of significant sequence similarity between a three contiguous membrane-spanning domain of cytochrome b, which contains binding sites for two hemes, and a three contiguous membrane-spanning domain in the photosynthetic reaction center core subunits, which contains binding sites for cofactors such as (bacterio)chlorophylls, (bacterio)pheophytin and a non-heme iron. Iron mitochondrially encoded cytochrome b Homo sapiens