Flavohemoglobin: Structure and reactivity

IUBMB Life

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-28

  Bonamore, Alessandra ^a   Boffi, Alberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alkylhydroperoxide reductase activity; Flavohemoglobin; NO scavenging; NO dioxygenase activity; NO reductase activity; Repair of the lipid membrane oxidative damage

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALKYLHYDROPEROXIDE REDUCTASE; DIOXYGENASE; FLAVOHEMOGLOBIN; GLOBIN; HEME; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROPEROXIDE DERIVATIVE; LIPID BINDING PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FERRIC ION; FERROUS ION; HEMOPROTEIN; HMPX PROTEIN, BACTERIA; LIGAND; NITRIC OXIDE DIOXYGENASE; NITRIC-OXIDE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGENASE; PEROXIREDOXIN;

CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; LIPID MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; HEMEPROTEINS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGENASES; PEROXIREDOXINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 42949138420     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.9     Document Type: Review

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