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Awareness, treatment and control of type 2 diabetes among Chinese elderly and its changing trend for past decade
Unraveling the function of paralogs of the aldehyde dehydrogenase super family from Sulfolobus solfataricus
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Flavin radicals, conformational sampling and robust design principles in interprotein electron transfer: The trimethylamine dehydrogenase-electron- transferring flavoprotein complex
alpha Arg-237 in Methylophilus methylotrophus (sp W3A1) electron-transferring flavoprotein affords similar to 200-millivolt stabilization of the FAD anionic semiquinone and a kinetic block on full reduction to the dihydroquinone
Flavin radicals, conformational sampling and robust design principles in interprotein electron transfer: The trimethylamine dehydrogenase-electron- transferring flavoprotein complex
TMADH (trimethylamine dehydrogenase) is a complex iron-sulphur flavoprotein that forms a soluble electron-transfer complex with ETF (electron-transferring flavoprotein). The mechanism of electron transfer between TMADH and ETF has been studied using stopped-flow kinetic and mutagenesis methods, and more recently by X-ray crystallography. Potentiometric methods have also been used to identify key residues involved in the stabilization of the flavin radical semiquinone species in ETF. These studies have demonstrated a key role for 'conformational sampling' in the electron-transfer complex, facilitated by two-site contact of ETF with TMADH. Exploration of three-dimensional space in the complex allows the FAD of ETF to find conformations compatible with enhanced electronic coupling with the 4Fe-4S centre of TMADH. This mechanism of electron transfer provides for a more robust and accessible design principle for interprotein electron transfer compared with simpler models that invoke the collision of redox partners followed by electron transfer. The structure of the TMADH-ETF complex confirms the role of key residues in electron transfer and molecular assembly, originally suggested from detailed kinetic studies in wild-type and mutant complexes, and from molecular modelling. © 2004 Biochemical Society