Conformational and thermodynamic control of electron transfer in neuronal nitric oxide synthase

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 5018-5029

  Dunford, Adrian J ^a   Rigby, Stephen E J ^b   Hay, Sam ^a   Munro, Andrew W ^c   Scrutton, Nigel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; NEURONS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REDUCTION; SUBSTRATES;

ELECTRON TRANSFER; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASES; REDOX COUPLES;

ENZYMES;

CALMODULIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; QUERCETIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SEMIQUINONE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; FLUORESCENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34247626781     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi7001339     Document Type: Article

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