Probing the heme-binding site of the cytochrome c maturation protein CcmE

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1820-1828

  Harvat, Edgar M ^a   Redfield, Christina ^a   Stevens, Julie M ^a   Ferguson, Stuart J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LIGATIONS; BACTERIAL SPECIES; C-TYPE CYTOCHROMES; CYTOCHROME C; HEME BINDINGS; HEME CHAPERONES; HEME IRONS; HEME POCKETS; PLANT MITOCHONDRION; POINT MUTATIONS; PROTEIN FOLDS; REDUCTION POTENTIALS;

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; BINDING ENERGY; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; MITOCHONDRIA; ORGANIC ACIDS; PROTEIN FOLDING;

PORPHYRINS;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; CCME PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; CYTOCHROME C; HEME; HISTIDINE; IRON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECRETION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APOPROTEINS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CYTOCHROMES C; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; LIGANDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METHIONINE; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POTENTIOMETRY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TYROSINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 64349090263     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi801609a     Document Type: Article

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