Selected references on cytochrome b₅ reductases

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• Bagnaresi, P., Thoiron, S., Mansion, M., Rossignol, M., Pupillo, P. and Briat, J.-F. (1999) Cloning and characterization of a maize cytochrome-b₅ reductase with Fe³⁺-chelate reduction capability. Biochem. J. 338, 499-505.
• Bewley, M.C., Marohnic, C.C. and Barber, M.J. (2001) The structure and biochemistry of NADH-dependent cytochrome b₅ reductase are now consistent. Biochemistry 40, 13574-13582.
• Borgese, N., D'Arrigo, A., De Silvestris, M. and Pietrini, G. (1993a) NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase and cytochrome b₅ isoforms as models for the study of post-translational targeting to the endoplasmic reticulum. FEBS Lett. 325, 70-75.
• Borgese, N., D'Arrigo, A., De Silvestris, M. and Pietrini, G. (1993b) NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase and cytochrome b₅. The problem of posttranslational targeting to the endoplasmic reticulum. Subcell. Biochem. 21, 313-341.
• Fujimoto, Y., Shirabe, K., Nagai, T., Yubisui, T. and Takeshita, M. (1993) Role of Lys-110 of human NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase in NADH binding as probed by site-directed mutagenesis. FEBS Lett. 322, 30-32.
• Hyde, G.E., Crawford, N.M. and Campbell, W.H. (1991) The sequence of squash NADH:nitrate reductase and its relationship to the sequences of other flavoprotein oxidoreductases. A family of flavoprotein pyridine nucleotide cytochrome reductases. J. Biol. Chem. 266, 23542-23547.
• Iyanagi, T. (1977) Redox properties of microsomal reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide-cytochrome b₅ reductase and cytochrome b₅. Biochemistry 16, 2725-2730.
• Iyanagi, T., Watanabe, S. and Anan, K.F. (1984) One-electron oxidation-reduction properties of hepatic NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase. Biochemistry 23, 1418-1425.
• Kobayashi, Y., Fukumaki, Y., Yubisui, T., Inoue, J. and Sakaki, Y. (1990) Serine-proline replacement at residue 127 of NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase causes hereditary methemoglobinemia, generalized type. Blood 75, 1408-1413.
• Leroux, A., Mota Vieira, L. and Kahn A. (2001) Transcriptional and translational mechanisms of cytochrome b₅ reductase isoenzyme generation in humans. Biochem. J. 355, 529-535.
• Mansouri, A. and Lurie, A.A. (1993) Concise review: methemoglobinemia. Am. J. Hematol. 42, 7-12.
• Mota Vieira, L., Kaplan, J.C., Kahn, A. and Leroux, A. (1995) Four new mutations in the NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase gene from patients with recessive congenital methemoglobinemia type II. Blood 85, 2254-2262.
• Murakami, K., Yubisui, T., Takeshita, M. and Miyata, T. (1989) The NH₂-terminal structures of human and rat liver microsomal NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase. J. Biochem. (Tokyo) 105, 312-317.
• Ozols, J., Korza, G., Heinemann, F.S., Hediger, M.A. and Strittmatter, P. (1985) Complete amino acid sequence of steer liver microsomal NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase. J. Biol. Chem. 270, 11953-11961.
• Pietrini, G., Carrera, P. and Borgese, N. (1988) Two transcripts encode rat cytochrome b₅ reductase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85, 7246-7250.
• Pietrini, G., Aggujaro, D., Carrera, P., Malyszko, J., Vitale, A. and Borgese, N. (1992) A single mRNA, transcribed from an alternative, erythroid-specific, promoter, codes for two non-myristylated forms of NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase. J. Cell Biol. 117, 975-986.
• Ratnam, K., Shiraishi, N., Campbell, W.H. and Hille, R. (1995) Spectroscopic and kinetic characterization of the recombinant wild-type and C242S mutant of the cytochrome b reductase fragment of nitrate reductase. J. Biol. Chem. 270, 24067-24072.
• Ratnam, K., Shiraishi, N., Campbell, W.H. and Hille, R. (1997) Spectroscopic and kinetic characterization of the recombinant cytochrome c reductase fragment of nitrate reductase. Identification of the rate-limiting catalytic step. J. Biol. Chem. 272, 2122-2128.
• Shirabe, K., Yubisui, T., Nishino, T. and Takeshita, M. (1991) Role of cysteine residues in human NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase studied by site-directed mutagenesis. Cys-273 and Cys-283 are located close to the NADH-binding site but are not catalytically essential. J. Biol. Chem. 266, 7531-7536.
• Shirabe, K., Landi, M.T., Takeshita, M., Uziel, G., Fedrizzi, E. and Borgese, N. (1995) A novel point mutation in a 3´ splice site of the NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase gene results in immunologically undetectable enzyme and impaired NADH-dependent ascorbate regeneration in cultured fibroblasts of a patient with type II hereditary methemoglobinemia. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 57, 302-310.
• Strittmatter, P., Kittler, J.M., Coghill, J.E. and Ozols, J. (1992) Characterization of lysyl residues of NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase implicated in charge-pairing with active-site carboxyl residues of cytochrome b₅ by site-directed mutagenesis of an expression vector for the flavoprotein. J. Biol. Chem. 267, 2519-2523.
• Toyoda, A., Fukumaki, Y., Hattori, M. and Sakaki, Y. (1995) Mode of activation of the GC box/Sp1-dependent promoter of the human NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase-encoding gene. Gene 164, 351-355.
• Trimboli, A.J., Quinn, G.B., Smith, E.T. and Barber, M.J. (1996) Thiol modification and site-directed mutagenesis of the flavin domain of spinach NADH:nitrate reductase. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 331, 117-126.
• Utecht, R.E. and Kurtz, D.M., Jr. (1988) Cytochrome b₅ and NADH-cytochrome-b₅ reductase from sipunculan erythrocytes. A methemerythrin reduction system from Phascolopsis gouldii. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 953, 164-178.
• Zhou, J. and Kleinhofs, A. (1996) Molecular evolution of nitrate reductase genes. J. Mol. Evol. 42, 432-442.

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