Hunting oxygen complexes of nitric oxide synthase at low temperature and high pressure

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 529-535

  Marchal, Stéphane ^a   Gorren, Antonius C F ^b   Andersson, K Kristoffer ^c   Lange, Reinhard ^a  

^a University of Montpellier   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

EPR spectroscopy; High pressure; Low temperature; Nitric oxide synthase; Oxycomplex; Rapid scan stopped flow spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXYGEN DERIVATIVE; RADICAL; SUPEROXIDE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

COMPLEX FORMATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; FLOW KINETICS; HYPERBARISM; LOW TEMPERATURE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN AFFINITY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; THERMOSTABILITY;

ANIMALS; COLD; HUMANS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXYGEN; PRESSURE;

EID: 27544447412     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.08.090     Document Type: Review

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