Formation and properties of [4Fe-4S] clusters on the IscU scaffold protein

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 6804-6811

  Chandramouli, Kala ^a   Unciuleac, Mihaela Carmen ^b   Naik, Sunil ^c   Dean, Dennis R ^b   Boi, Hanh Huynh ^c   Johnson, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL BONDS; DIMERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

CLUSTER-LOADED FORMS; SCAFFOLD PROTEINS;

PROTEINS;

DITHIONITE; FERREDOXIN; HOMODIMER; IRON DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN; REDUCING AGENT; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; SULFUR DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FERREDOXINS; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; KINETICS; NUCLEAR MATRIX-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY, MOSSBAUER;

EID: 34250192575     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi6026659     Document Type: Article

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