Glutamic acid 242 is a valve in the proton pump of cytochrome c oxidase

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 6255-6259

  Kaila, Ville R I ^a   Verkhovsky, Michael I ^a   Hummer, Gerhard ^b   Wikström, Mårten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell respiration; Gating mechanism; Proton leak; Proton translocation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROTON PUMP; PROTON;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ISOMERISM; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GLUTAMIC ACID; ISOMERISM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTON PUMPS; PROTONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 44049096214     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0800770105     Document Type: Article

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