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Despite high sequence conservation between mouse and human cytochrome <jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic>, this phenotype is not recapitulated in mice for the sole mutant (G41S) that has been investigated. The effect of the G41S mutation on the in vitro activities of cytochrome <jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic> is also not conserved between human and mouse. Peroxidase activity is increased in both mouse and human G41S variants, whereas apoptosome activation is increased for human G41S cytochrome <jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic> but decreased for mouse G41S cytochrome <jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic>. These apoptotic activities of cytochrome <jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic> are regulated at least in part by conformational dynamics of the main chain. Here we use computational and in vitro approaches to understand why the impact of the G41S mutation differs between mouse and human cytochromes <jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic>. The G41S mutation increases the inherent entropy and main chain mobility of human but not mouse cytochrome <jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic>. Exclusively in human G41S cytochrome <jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic> this is accompanied by a decrease in occupancy of H-bonds between protein and heme during simulations. 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