Pseudospecific docking surfaces on electron transfer proteins as illustrated by pseudoazurin, cytochrome c550 and cytochrome cd1 nitrite reductase

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 975-982

  Williams, Pamela A ^a   Fulop, Vilmos ^a,b   Leung, Yun Chung ^b   Chan, Christopher ^c   Moir, James W B ^c,d   Howlett, Geoffrey ^e   Ferguson, Stuart J ^c   Radford, Sheena E ^b   Hajdu, Janos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE BINDING; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AZURIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROMES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GRAM-NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC BACTERIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NITRITE REDUCTASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028799023     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb1195-975     Document Type: Article

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