Atomic resolution crystal structures, EXAFS, and quantum chemical studies of rusticyanin and its two mutants provide insight into its unusual properties

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2927-2939

  Barrett, Mark L ^a,b   Harvey, Ian ^b   Sundararajan, Mahesh ^c   Surendran, Rajeev ^c   Hall, John F ^a,b   Ellis, Mark J ^b   Hough, Michael A ^b   Strange, Richard W ^b   Hillier, Ian H ^c   Hasnain, S Samar ^a,b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; CALCULATIONS; DATA PROCESSING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MUTAGENS; PROTEINS;

ATOMIC RESOLUTION; QUANTUM CHEMICAL STUDIES OF RUSTICYANIN; RUSTICYANIN;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COPPER; CYSTEINE; HISTIDINE; METHIONINE; RUSTICYANIN; SERINE;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AZURIN; COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; COPPER; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HISTIDINE; METALLOPROTEINS; METHIONINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POINT MUTATION; SOLVENTS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THIOBACILLUS;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33644696451     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi052372w     Document Type: Article

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