Functional analysis of conserved aspartate and histidine residues located around the type 2 copper site of copper-containing nitrite reductase

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 345-350

  Kataoka, Kunishige ^a   Furusawa, Hiroshi ^a   Takagi, Kohichi ^a   Yamaguchi, Kazuya ^a   Suzuki, Shinnichiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcaligenes xylosoxidans; Copper protein; Nitrite reductase; Type 1 Cu; Type 2 Cu

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; COPPER; GLUTAMIC ACID; HISTIDINE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

ALCALIGENES; ARTICLE; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034097583     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022613     Document Type: Article

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