A needle in a haystack: The active site of the membrane-bound complex cytochrome c nitrite reductase

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 284-288

  Almeida, M Gabriela ^a   Silveira, Célia M ^a   Guigliarelli, Bruno ^b   Bertrand, Patrick ^b   Moura, José J G ^a   Moura, Isabel ^a   Léger, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cytochromes; Electron transfer; Penta heme nitrite reductase; Protein film voltammetry

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CYTOCHROME C NITRITE REDUCTASE; HEME; MEMBRANE ENZYME; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; MAGNETISM; NONHUMAN; PH; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; REDUCTION; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; CYTOCHROMES A1; CYTOCHROMES C1; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; HEME; NITRATE REDUCTASES; POTENTIOMETRY; PROTONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS;

EID: 33846273112     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.12.023     Document Type: Article

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