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Structure of cytochrome b5 unique to tardigrades
Yohta Fukuda1, JeeEun Kim1, Tsuyoshi Inoue1
1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
Abstract:
Cytochrome b5 is an essential electron transfer protein, which is ubiquitously found in living systems and involved in wide variety of biological processes. Tardigrades (also known as water bears), some of which are famous for desiccation resistance, have many proteins unique to them. Here, we report spectroscopic and structural characterization of a cytochrome b5 like protein from one of the desiccation-tolerant tardigrades, Ramazzottius varieornatus strain YOKOZUNA-1 (RvCytb5 ). A 1.4 Å resolution crystal structure revealed that RvCytb5 is a new cytochrome b5 protein specific to tardigrades.
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