Characterization of Drosophila nitric oxide synthase: A biochemical study

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 306, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 590-597

  Sengupta, Rajib ^a   Sahoo, Rupam ^a   Mukherjee, Shaeri ^a,d   Regulski, Michael ^b   Tully, Tim ^b   Stuehr, Dennis J ^c   Ghosh, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine; Calmodulin; Drosophila nitric oxide synthase; Griess assay; Tetrahydrobiopterin; Trypsin hydrolysis; Urea gradient gel

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; HEMOPROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TRYPSIN; UREA;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038546393     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(03)01003-9     Document Type: Article

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