Guanidine hydrochloride-induced unfolding of the three heme coordination states of the CO-sensing transcription factor, CooA

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 28, 2009, Pages 6585-6597

  Lee, Andrea J ^a   Clark, Robert W ^a   Youn, Hwan ^a   Ponter, Sarah ^a   Burstyn, Judith N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION STATE; DENATURATION PROCESS; DIMER INTERFACE; DNA-BINDING; DNA-BINDING DOMAIN; EFFECTOR BINDING; GUANIDINE HYDROCHLORIDE; HEME DOMAIN; HEME LIGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAINS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; STRUCTURAL STABILITIES; UNFOLDING PROCESS;

BINDING ENERGY; CONFORMATIONS; DNA; GENES; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON COMPOUNDS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

PORPHYRINS;

DIMER; FERRIC ION; GUANIDINE; HEME; PROTEIN COOA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENERGY TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CARBON MONOXIDE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; GUANIDINE; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; IRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 67650458070     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi801827j     Document Type: Article

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