Structural and redox plasticity in the heterodimeric periplasmic nitrate reductase

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 928-934

  Arnoux, Pascal ^a   Sabaty, Monique ^a   Alric, Jean ^a   Frangioni, Bettina ^b   Guigliarelli, Bruno ^b   Adriano, Jean Marc ^a   Pignol, David ^a  

^a IRFM   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLYBDENUM; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PROTEIN NAPA; PROTEIN NAPB; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOPLASM; DENITRIFICATION; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

DIMERIZATION; KINETICS; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

NEGIBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0242490547     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb994     Document Type: Article

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