A Rearranging Ligand Enables Allosteric Control of Catalytic Activity in Copper-containing Nitrite Reductase

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 358, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1081-1093

  Wijma, Hein J ^a   MacPherson, Iain ^b   Alexandre, Maxime ^a   Diederix, Rutger E M ^a   Canters, Gerard W ^a   Murphy, Michael E P ^b   Verbeet, Martin Ph ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

catalytic activity; copper; crystal structure; ligand; nitrate reductase

Indexed keywords

COPPER; LIGAND; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN;

ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GEOMETRY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SPECTRUM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALCALIGENES FAECALIS;

EID: 33646085537     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.02.042     Document Type: Article

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