Functional implications of the proximal site hydrogen bonding network in Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb): Role of Tyr95 (G5) and Tyr126 (H12)

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 23-24, 2008, Pages 3494-3500

  Kaur, Ramandeep ^a   Ahuja, Sandhya ^b   Anand, Arvind ^a   Singh, Balwinder ^a   Stark, Benjamin C ^b   Webster, Dale A ^b   Dikshit, Kanak L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial hemoglobin; Distal heme site; Flavohemoglobin; Ligand binding; Molecular modeling; Proximal heme site; Vitreoscilla hemoglobin

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HISTONE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; OXYGENASE; PHENYLALANINE; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL GROWTH; DIFFUSION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; HYDROGEN BOND; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VITREOSCILLA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BONDING; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TRUNCATED HEMOGLOBINS; TYROSINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VITREOSCILLA;

EID: 53049091676     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.09.018     Document Type: Article

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