PMID- 15100055 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20040617 LR - 20161126 IS - 0006-3002 (Print) IS - 0006-3002 (Linking) VI - 1655 IP - 1-3 DP - 2004 Apr 12 TI - The bacterial cytochrome cbb3 oxidases. PG - 388-99 AB - Cytochrome cbb(3) oxidases are found almost exclusively in Proteobacteria, and represent a distinctive class of proton-pumping respiratory heme-copper oxidases (HCO) that lack many of the key structural features that contribute to the reaction cycle of the intensely studied mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase (CcO). Expression of cytochrome cbb(3) oxidase allows human pathogens to colonise anoxic tissues and agronomically important diazotrophs to sustain N(2) fixation. We review recent progress in the biochemical characterisation of these distinctive oxidases that lays the foundation for understanding the basis of their proposed high affinity for oxygen, an apparent degeneracy in their electron input pathways and whether or not they acquired the ability to pump protons independently of other HCOs. FAU - Pitcher, Robert S AU - Pitcher RS AD - Centre for Metalloprotein Spectroscopy and Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK. FAU - Watmough, Nicholas J AU - Watmough NJ LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review PL - Netherlands TA - Biochim Biophys Acta JT - Biochimica et biophysica acta JID - 0217513 RN - 0 (Ligands) RN - 0 (Proton Pumps) RN - 42VZT0U6YR (Heme) RN - 7U1EE4V452 (Carbon Monoxide) RN - EC 1.9.3.- (cbb3 oxidase) RN - EC 1.9.3.1 (Electron Transport Complex IV) SB - IM MH - Bacteria/*enzymology/genetics MH - Carbon Monoxide/metabolism MH - Electrochemistry MH - Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy MH - Electron Transport Complex IV/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism MH - Gene Expression MH - Genes, Bacterial MH - Heme/chemistry MH - Kinetics MH - Ligands MH - Proton Pumps/chemistry/metabolism MH - Pseudomonas stutzeri/enzymology/genetics RF - 100 EDAT- 2004/04/22 05:00 MHDA- 2004/06/18 05:00 CRDT- 2004/04/22 05:00 PHST- 2003/04/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2003/09/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2003/09/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2004/04/22 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/06/18 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/04/22 05:00 [entrez] AID - S0005272803002123 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbabio.2003.09.017 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochim Biophys Acta. 2004 Apr 12;1655(1-3):388-99. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2003.09.017.