The nature of the di-iron site in the bacterio-ferritin from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 285-290

  Macedo, Sofia ^a,b   Romão, Célia V ^a   Mitchell, Edward ^b   Matias, Pedro M ^a   Liu, Ming Y ^c   Xavier, António V ^a   LeGall, Jean ^c   Teixeira, Miguel ^a   Lindley, Peter ^a,b   Carrondo, Maria A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOFERRITIN; CERULOPLASMIN; COPROPORPHYRIN; DIIRON FERROXIDASE; HEME; HEME COFACTOR; ION CHANNEL; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CALCULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESULFOVIBRIO; IRON STORAGE; IRON TRANSPORT; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSPORT KINETICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CERULOPLASMIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DESULFOVIBRIO; ELECTROSTATICS; FERRITINS; HEME; ION CHANNELS; IRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037389839     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb909     Document Type: Article

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