Open AccessMembrane‐bound Bacillus cytochromes c and their phylogenetic position among bacterial class I cytochromes c
Author(s) -
Sone Nobuhito,
Toh Hiroyuki
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
fems microbiology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1574-6968
pISSN - 0378-1097
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1994.tb07168.x
Subject(s) - periplasmic space , phylogenetic tree , cytochrome , biochemistry , cytochrome c oxidase , cytochrome c , biology , bacteria , protein subunit , escherichia coli , enzyme , genetics , mitochondrion , gene
Gram‐positive bacteria lack a periplasmic compartment and contain only membrane‐bound cytochromes c . There are at least two types. One is found in subunit II of cytochrome oxidase, and the other is small cytochrome c which is also membrane‐bound because of an unprocessed signal sequence or post‐translational acylation at the N‐terminal end of the protein. These Bacillus cytochromes c are compared with known class I cytochromes c , and a phylogenetic tree has been constructed by the neighbour‐joining method.