Crystallography with Online Optical and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopies Demonstrates an Ordered Mechanism in Copper Nitrite Reductase

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 378, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 353-361

  Hough, Michael A ^a   Antonyuk, Svetlana V ^a   Strange, Richard W ^a   Eady, Robert R ^a   Hasnain, S Samar ^a  

^a DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

electron gating; nitrite reductase; ordered mechanism; radiation damage; XAS

Indexed keywords

COPPER; COPPER NIRITE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 41249101880     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.01.097     Document Type: Article

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