Direct electrochemical analyses of a thermophilic thioredoxin reductase: Interplay between conformational change and redox chemistry

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 37, 2008, Pages 9738-9746

  Hamill, Michael J ^a   Chobot, Sarah E ^a,c   Hernandez, Hector H ^b   Drennan, Catherine L ^b   Elliott, Sean J ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATIONS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD ADDITIVES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEINS; SEPARATION;

ARCHAEON; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDIES; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; ELECTROCHEMICAL RESPONSES; FLAVIN COFACTOR; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOW-MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NAD(P)H; PEAK SEPARATIONS; PEAK WIDTHS; PROTEIN ELECTROCHEMISTRY; REDOX CHEMISTRY; SOLUBLE PROTEINS; THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASES; VOLTAMMETRIC DATA; VOLTAMMETRIC RESPONSES;

REDUCTION;

FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOPLASMA ACIDOPHILUM;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FLAVINS; KINETICS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMOPLASMA; THIOREDOXIN-DISULFIDE REDUCTASE; THIOREDOXINS;

ARCHAEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMOPLASMA ACIDOPHILUM;

EID: 51849117298     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi800676g     Document Type: Article

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