Evidence that bacterial cyanide oxygenase is a pterin-dependent hydroxylase

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 287, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 514-518

  Kunz, Daniel A ^a   Fernandez, Ruby F ^a   Parab, Preeti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial cyanide assimilation; Cyanide oxygenase; Pseudomonas fluorescens; Pterin hydroxylase; Tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

BIOPTERIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CYANIDE; OXYGEN; OXYGENASE; POTASSIUM; PTERIN DERIVATIVE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RADIOACTIVITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0035929274     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5611     Document Type: Article

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