Insight into the radical mechanism of phycocyanobilin-ferredoxin oxidoreductase (PcyA) revealed by X-ray crystallography and biochemical measurements

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1484-1494

  Tu, Shih Long ^a,b   Rockwell, Nathan C ^b   Lagarias, J Clark ^b   Fisher, Andrew J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BIOCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; MUTANTS; X RAY CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; COATINGS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS; SUBSTRATES; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ENZYME KINETICS;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BILIVERDIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN PCYA; RADICAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEIN FOLDING;

NOSTOC; NOSTOC SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 33846985274     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi062038f     Document Type: Article

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