Structure-function aspects in the nitric oxide synthases

Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 37, Issue , 1997, Pages 339-359

  Stuehr, Dennis J ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

flavoprotein; heme protein; oxidoreductase; subunit assembly; tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

ARGININE DERIVATIVE; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGENASE; THIOUREA DERIVATIVE;

HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030988217     PISSN: 00664251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.pharmtox.37.1.339     Document Type: Review

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