The respiratory arsenite oxidase: structure and the role of residues surrounding the rieske cluster.

The arsenite oxidase (Aio) from the facultative autotrophic Alphaproteobacterium Rhizobium sp. NT-26 is a bioenergetic enzyme involved in the oxidation of arsenite to arsenate. The enzyme from the distantly related heterotroph, Alcaligenes faecalis, which is thought to oxidise arsenite for detoxific...

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Main Authors: Thomas P Warelow, Muse Oke, Barbara Schoepp-Cothenet, Jan U Dahl, Nicole Bruselat, Ganesh N Sivalingam, Silke Leimkühler, Konstantinos Thalassinos, Ulrike Kappler, James H Naismith, Joanne M Santini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3758308?pdf=render