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Structural Studies of Electron Transfer Proteins from Sulfate Reducing Bacteria: The Amino Acid Sequence of Two Rubredoxins Isolated from Desulfovibrio Vulgaris and Desulfovibrio Gigas

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The sulfate reducing bacteria are still able to perform today a very ancient process: the dissimilatory reduction of sulfates. Ault and Kulp (1) have shown that a biological reduction of sulfates did occur on this planet as far back as 1 to 2.5 billion years, that is to say before the appearance of the atmospheric oxygen. Sulfate reducing bacteria were for a long time thought to contain a rather truncated electron transfer chain, but recent work in this field brought to light the fact that the 8 electron pairs necessary to reduce sulfate into hydrogen sulfide necessitate the presence of a rather sophisticated set of electron carriers.

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  1. Laboratoire de Chimie Bacterienne, C.N.R.S., 13274, Marseille Cedex 2, France

    Mireille Bruschi & Jean Le Gall

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Bruschi, M., Le Gall, J. (1976). Structural Studies of Electron Transfer Proteins from Sulfate Reducing Bacteria: The Amino Acid Sequence of Two Rubredoxins Isolated from Desulfovibrio Vulgaris and Desulfovibrio Gigas . In: Yasunodu, K.T., Mower, H.F., Hayaishi, O. (eds) Iron and Copper Proteins. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 74. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3270-1_5

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