Communication between R481 and CuB in cytochrome bo3 ubiquinol oxidase from Escherichia coli

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 51, 2009, Pages 12113-12124

  Egawa, Tsuyoshi ^a   Lin, Myat T ^b   Hosler, Jonathan P ^c   Gennis, Robert B ^b   Yeh, Syun Ru ^a   Rousseau, Denis L ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E. COLI; FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE; HEME-COPPER OXIDASE; HYDROGEN BONDING NETWORK; ORDERED WATER; POSITIVE CHARGES; PROTEIN MATRIX; PROTON LOADING; PROTON TRANSLOCATION; PROTON-PUMPING; RELATIVE INTENSITY; RESONANCE RAMAN; RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL DATA; UBIQUINOL; WILD-TYPE PROTEINS;

AMINO ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROGEN BONDS; PROTONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE;

PORPHYRINS;

COPPER; CYTOCHROME BO 3 UBIQUINOL OXIDASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; IRON; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN R481L; PROTEIN R481Q; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

ARGININE; COPPER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HEME; UBIQUINONE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 73149105493     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi901187u     Document Type: Article

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