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Reduction midpoint potentials of bifurcating electron transfer flavoproteins.

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Recently, a variety of enzymes have been found to accept electrons from NAD(P)H yet reduce lower-potential carriers such as ferredoxin and flavodoxin semiquinone, in apparent violation of thermodynamics. The reaction is favorable overall, however, because these enzymes couple the foregoing endergonic one-electron transfer to exergonic transfer of the other electron from each NAD(P)H, in a process called "flavin-based electron bifurcation." The reduction midpoint potentials (E°s) of the multiple flavins in these enzymes are critical to their mechanisms. We describe methods we have found to be useful for measuring each of the E°s of each of the flavins in bifurcating electron transfer flavoproteins.

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0
Journal
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Methods in enzymology
Volume
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620
Number of Pages
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365-398
Date Published
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2019
ISSN Number
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0076-6879
URL
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https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0076-6879(19)30098-9
DOI
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10.1016/bs.mie.2019.03.017
Short Title
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Methods Enzymol
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