Abstract
Bacillus subtilis cytochrome b-558 was expressed in high amounts in Escherichia coli, solubilized from membranes with detergent and purified free from other hemoproteins. The cytochrome possibly contains two heme groups. To determine the axial ligands to the low-spin heme and the heme rhombicity, the cytochrome was analyzed using low-temperature electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy. The combined results exclude bis-methionine, bis-lysine and histidine-methionine coordination. Bis-histidine coordination of the heme(s) with a near perpendicular orientation of the imidazole planes is strongly suggested by the highly axial low-spin EPR signals and the intense near infrared MCD spectrum (Δϵ=380 M −1·cm −1 at 4.2 K and 5 T) of the charge-transfer band at 1600 nm.
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