whose activity can be regulated by a redox-sensitive intersubunit sulfhydryl/disulfide system
and by α-keto acids. After determining that theArabidopsis alternative oxidase possesses the
redox-sensitive sulfhydryl/disulfide system, site-directed mutagenesis of an Arabidopsis
cDNA clone was used to individually change the two conserved Cys residues, Cys-128 and
Cys-78, to Ala. Using diamide oxidation and chemical cross-linking of the protein expressed …