Microbiology With Diseases By Taxonomy (6th Edition)
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Chapter 5, Problem 9CT
Cyanide is a potent poison because it irreversibly blocks cytochrome a3. What effect would its action have on the rest of the electron transport chain? What would be the redox state (reduced or oxidized) of ubiquinone in the presence of cyanide?
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