Experimental evidence for a link among cupredoxins: Red, blue, and purple copper transformations in nitrous oxide reductase

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

Volumn 105, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 7919-7924

  Savelieff, Masha G ^a   Wilson, Tiffany D ^a   Elias, Youssef ^a   Nilges, Mark J ^a   Garner, Dewain K ^a   Lu, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue type 1 copper; Folding; Kinetics; Purple copper CuA; Red type 2 copper

Indexed keywords

COPPER PROTEIN; NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE; AZURIN; COPPER; CUPREDOXIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

LYCAENINAE; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS;

AZURIN; COPPER; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 45849144736     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711316105     Document Type: Article

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