Multifunctional Cytochrome c: Learning New Tricks from an Old Dog

D Alvarez-Paggi, L Hannibal, MA Castro… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Cytochrome c (cyt c) is a small soluble heme protein characterized by a relatively flexible
structure, particularly in the ferric form, such that it is able to sample a broad conformational …

Acrylamide-induced hepatotoxicity through oxidative stress: mechanisms and interventions

L Zhang, L Yang, Y Luo, L Dong… - Antioxidants & Redox …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Acrylamide (AA) widely exists in the environment. Studies have demonstrated
that AA has neurotoxicity and potential carcinogenicity in humans, and genotoxicity and …

Nitrogen-vacancy magnetic relaxometry of nanoclustered cytochrome C proteins

S Lamichhane, R Timalsina, C Schultz, I Fescenko… - Nano …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) magnetometry offers an alternative tool to detect paramagnetic
centers in cells with a favorable combination of magnetic sensitivity and spatial resolution …

Multi-wavelength Raman microscopy of nickel-based electron transport in cable bacteria

B Smets, HTS Boschker, MT Wetherington… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cable bacteria embed a network of conductive protein fibers in their cell envelope that
efficiently guides electron transport over distances spanning up to several centimeters. This …

Extended cardiolipin anchorage to cytochrome c: a model for protein–mitochondrial membrane binding

F Sinibaldi, BD Howes, MC Piro, F Polticelli… - JBIC Journal of …, 2010 - Springer
Two models have been proposed to explain the interaction of cytochrome c with cardiolipin
(CL) vesicles. In one case, an acyl chain of the phospholipid accommodates into a …

Role of Lysines in Cytochrome c–Cardiolipin Interaction

F Sinibaldi, BD Howes, E Droghetti, F Polticelli… - Biochemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
Cytochrome c undergoes structural variations during the apoptotic process; such changes
have been related to modifications occurring in the protein when it forms a complex with …

Nitration of solvent-exposed tyrosine 74 on cytochrome c triggers heme iron-methionine 80 bond disruption: nuclear magnetic resonance and optical spectroscopy …

LA Abriata, A Cassina, V Tortora, M Marín… - Journal of Biological …, 2009 - jbc.org
Cytochrome c, a mitochondrial electron transfer protein containing a hexacoordinated heme,
is involved in other physiologically relevant events, such as the triggering of apoptosis, and …

Active Site Structure and Peroxidase Activity of Oxidatively Modified Cytochrome c Species in Complexes with Cardiolipin

DA Capdevila, S Oviedo Rouco, F Tomasina… - Biochemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report a resonance Raman and UV–vis characterization of the active site structure of
oxidatively modified forms of cytochrome c (Cyt-c) free in solution and in complexes with …

Ligand-based regulation of dynamics and reactivity of hemoproteins

ES Turilli-Ghisolfi, M Lualdi, M Fasano - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hemoproteins include several heme-binding proteins with distinct structure and function.
The presence of the heme group confers specific reactivity and spectroscopic properties to …

Mimicking Tyrosine Phosphorylation in Human Cytochrome c by the Evolved tRNA Synthetase Technique

A Guerra‐Castellano, A Díaz‐Quintana… - … A European Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Phosphorylation of tyrosine 48 of cytochrome c is related to a wide range of human diseases
due to the pleiotropic role of the heme‐protein in cell life and death. However, the structural …