The transcription regulator RcoM-2 from Burkholderia xenovorans is a cysteine-ligated hemoprotein that undergoes a redox-mediated ligand switch

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 9016-9028

  Marvin, Katherine A ^a   Kerby, Robert L ^a   Youn, Hwan ^a   Roberts, Gary P ^a   Burstyn, Judith N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOCHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS ABSORPTION; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON COMPOUNDS; LIGANDS; MAMMALS; NONMETALS; OXYGEN; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; PORPHYRINS; PROTEINS; SENSORS; TRANSCRIPTION;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; BURKHOLDERIA XENOVORANS; ELECTRONIC ABSORPTIONS; FE(III); HEMOPROTEIN; IN-VIVO; LIGAND DISPLACEMENT; OXIDATION STATES; RESONANCE RAMAN; SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATIONS; THIOLATE;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON MONOXIDE; CYSTEINE; FERRIC ION; HEMOPROTEIN; HISTIDINE; LIGAND; METHIONINE; NITRIC OXIDE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATOR RCOM2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA XENOVORANS; CARBON METABOLISM; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTRONIC ABSORPTION; ENZYME BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BURKHOLDERIA; CARBON MONOXIDE; CYSTEINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HEMEPROTEINS; HISTIDINE; IRON; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN BINDING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA XENOVORANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 50249155967     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi800486x     Document Type: Article

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