Insights into redox partner interactions and substrate binding in nitrite reductase from Alcaligenes xylosoxidans: Crystal structures of the Trp138His and His313Gln mutants

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 51, 2004, Pages 16311-16319

  Barrett, Mark L ^a,b   Harris, Roger L ^c   Antonyuk, Svetlana ^b   Hough, Michael A ^b   Ellis, Mark J ^b   Sawers, Gary ^c   Eady, Robert R ^b,c   Hasnain, S Samar ^a,b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; DENITRIFICATION; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROTEINS;

COPPER NITRITE REDUCTASE (CUNIRS); NITRITE REDUCTASE CATALYSES; REDOX PARTNER INTERACTIONS;

ENZYME KINETICS;

AZURIN; COPPER; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; LIGAND; MACROGOL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; PARAQUAT; TRYPTOPHAN;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CATALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODEL; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ALCALIGENES; AZURIN; BINDING SITES; COPPER; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NITRITE REDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TIME FACTORS; TRYPTOPHAN; WATER;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ALCALIGENES;

EID: 11144298974     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi048682g     Document Type: Article

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