Molecular and mechanistic properties of the membrane-bound mitochondrial monoamine oxidases

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 4220-4230

  Edmondson, Dale E ^a,c   Binda, Claudia ^b   Wang, Jin ^a   Upadhyay, Anup K ^a   Mattevi, Andrea ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SITE; BIOCHEMICAL DATA; CRYSTALLINE FORM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATA; MECHANISTIC PROPERTIES; MEMBRANE PREPARATION; MEMBRANE-BOUND; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; OUTER MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; PULSED EPR; SEQUENCE IDENTITY; SPECIFIC INHIBITORS; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS; TRANSMEMBRANE HELICES;

CATALYSTS; CELL MEMBRANES;

ENZYMES;

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME B;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALLYL COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; BUTYLAMINES; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; KINETICS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS;

EID: 66149173641     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi900413g     Document Type: Article

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