Voltammetric Studies of the Catalytic Mechanism of the Respiratory Nitrate Reductase from Escherichia coli: How Nitrate Reduction and Inhibition Depend on the Oxidation State of the Active Site

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 799-807

  Elliott, Sean J ^a,c   Hoke, Kevin R ^a   Heffron, Kerensa ^b   Palak, Monica ^b   Rothery, Richard A ^b   Weiner, Joel H ^b   Armstrong, Fraser A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; ELECTRODES; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAPHITE; MOLYBDENUM; NITRATES; OXIDATION; PH EFFECTS; PYROLYSIS; REDOX REACTIONS; REDUCTION;

PYROLYTIC GRAPHITE EDGE (PGE); VOLTAMMOGRAMS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

NITRATE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; CATALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ELECTRODE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION;

AZIDES; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; CHLORIDES; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLYBDENUM; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POTENTIOMETRY; THIOCYANATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1642453844     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi035869j     Document Type: Article

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