Abstract:
:Microbial redox reactions of inorganic sulfur compounds play a vital role in balancing the turnover of this element in the environment. These vital reactions are carried out by the enzyme system encoded by the sox operon. The central player of the sulfur oxidation biochemistry is the SoxY-Z protein complex. Another protein called SoxF having sulfide dehydrogenase activity has the ability to reactivate the inactivated SoxY-Z protein complex. This SoxF protein is obtained from the sox operon of Chlorobium tepidium. In the present work an attempt has been made to understand the structural details of the activity of SoxF protein. A plausible biochemical mechanism has been predicted regarding the involvement of the SoxF protein in biological sulfur anion oxidation process. Since this is the first report regarding the structural biology of SoxF protein this study may shed light in the hitherto unknown molecular biochemistry of sulfur anion oxidation by sox operon.
journal_name
Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Bagchi Adoi
10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.09.101subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-10-22 00:00:00pages
409-11issue
2eissn
0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
S0006-291X(11)01705-0journal_volume
414pub_type
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