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Rieske iron-sulfur protein definition

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An iron-sulfur protein of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, in which the [2Fe-2S] cluster is coordinated to two sulfur ligands from cysteine and two imidazole ligands from histidine. The term is also applied to similar proteins isolated from photosynthetic organisms and microorganisms, and other proteins containing [2Fe-2S]clusters with similar coordination.


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