Atomically defined mechanism for proton transfer to a buried redox centre in a protein

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6788, 2000, Pages 814-817

  Chen, Kaisheng ^a   Hirst, Judy ^b,d   Camba, Raul ^b   Bonagura, Christopher A ^a   Stout, C David ^c   Burgess, Barbara K ^a   Armstrong, Fraser A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERREDOXIN; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; M PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ASPARTIC ACID; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; FERREDOXINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTON PUMPS; PROTONS;

EID: 0034659779     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35015610     Document Type: Article

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