Ascaris haemoglobin is a nitric oxide-activated 'deoxygenase'

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6752, 1999, Pages 497-502

  Minning, Dena M ^a   Gow, Andrew J ^a,b   Bonavetura, Joseph ^b,c   Braun, Rod ^b   Dewhirst, Mark ^b   Goldberg, Daniel E ^d   Stamler, Jonathan S ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ASCARIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEME; HEMOGLOBINS; LIGANDS; MUTAGENESIS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROSO COMPOUNDS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN; S-NITROSOTHIOLS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SWINE;

ASCARIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES;

EID: 0033619223     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46822     Document Type: Article

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