Fig. 1.
Q-cycle scheme. A monomer of the bc1 complex is shown with the Qo-site in the ES-complex configuration, and with antimycin bound at the Qi-site (in the uninhibited complex, the Qi-site would be occupied by a quinone). In the ES-complex, QH2 is bound to oxidized ISPox; H152 of the ISP-subunit ligands Fe2 of the 2Fe2S cluster (shown as space-filling spheres), and H-bonds to QH2. Redox centers are highlighted as stick models, with QH2 in orange, antimycin in yellow, and others in CPK colors, and residues in the cyt b-subunit of importance in proton exit (E295, Y147, N279, R94, see text for discussion) are similarly shown.