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Bacterial NADH-quinone oxidoreductases: iron-sulfur clusters and related problems
V D Sled1, T Friedrich, H Leif
1Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.
Abstract:
Many bacteria contain proton-translocating membrane-bound NADH-quinone oxidoreductases (NDH-1), which demonstrate significant genetic, spectral, and kinetic similarity with their mitochondrial counterparts. This review is devoted to the comparative aspects of the iron-sulfur cluster composition of NDH-1 from the most well-studied bacterial systems to date.: Paracoccus denitrificans, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, Escherichia coli, and Thermus thermophilus. These bacterial systems provide useful models for the study of coupling Site I and contain all the essential parts of the electron-transfer and proton-translocating machinery of their eukaryotic counterparts.