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Cytochrome b/c-FeS complexes function as quinol-cytochrome c (or plastocyanin) oxidoreductases in the electron transport chains of many bacteria, of mitochondria and chloroplasts (Fig. 1). The bc1-type, with its characteristic sensitivity towards antimycin, occurs in mitochondria, respiratory and non-oxygenic, photosynthetic bacteria. The antimycin-insensitive b6f-type is functioning in oxygenic photosynthesis of chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. In the latter as well as in the non-oxygenic Rhodospirillaceae the b/c-FeS complex also operates in a respiratory pathway under aerobic growth conditions in the dark (s. Fig. 1; Binder, 1982; Baccarini-Melandri and Zannoni, 1979).
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Hauska, G., Hurt, E., Gabellini, N., Davenport, J.W., Lockau, W. (1984). Organization and Function of Photosynthetic and Respiratory Cytochrome b/c-FeS Complexes. In: Sybesma, C. (eds) Advances in Photosynthesis Research. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4973-2_55
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