| Comment | Rusticyanin is a blue copper protein, described in an obligate acidophilic chemolithoautroph, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, as an electron transfer protein. It can constitute up to 5 percent of protein in cells grown on Fe(II) and is thought to be part of an electron chain for Fe(II) oxidation, with two c-type cytochromes, an aa3-type cytochrome oxidase, and 02 as terminal electron acceptor. It is rather closely related to sulfocyanin (TIGR03094). |
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RT Regulation of the expression of the Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans rus operon encoding two cytochromes c, a cytochrome oxidase and rusticyanin.
RA Yarzabal A, Appia-Ayme C, Ratouchniak J, Bonnefoy V
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RT Functionally specified protein signatures distinctive for each of the different blue copper proteins.
RA Giri AV, Anishetty S, Gautam P
RL BMC Bioinformatics. 2004 Sep 9;5:127. |
