The octaheme protein from Shewanella oneidensis is a tetrathionate reductase apparently involved in anaerobic respiration. We probed the roles of active site residues using site-directed mutagenesis along with kinetic analysis, crystallographic structure determination and spectroscopy to show the key role of Cys64 in substrate binding and catalysis, including covalent modification of the cysteine.
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