Component of the ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase complex (complex III or cytochrome b-c1 complex), which is a respiratory chain that generates an electrochemical potential coupled to ATP synthesis.The transit peptide of the Rieske protein seems to form part of the bc1 complex and is considered to be the subunit 11/IX of that complex
[1] "The primary structure of human Rieske iron-sulfur protein of mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex deduced from cDNA analysis."Nishikimi M., Hosokawa Y., Toda H., Suzuki H., Ozawa T.Biochem. Int. 20:155-160(1990) [2] "Structure, sequence and locatio