Electron transfer in a human inducible nitric oxide synthase oxygenase/FMN construct co-expressed with the N-terminal globular domain of calmodulin

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 4335-4338

  Feng, Changjian ^a   Fan, Weihong ^a   Dupont, Andrea ^b   Guy Guillemette, J ^b   Ghosh, Dipak K ^c   Tollin, Gordon ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Calmodulin; Heme FMN electron transfer; Intraprotein kinetics; Laser flash photolysis; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN; EDETIC ACID; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; HEME; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM DEPLETION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

BINDING SITES; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; CHELATING AGENTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EDETIC ACID; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS;

EID: 77957769373     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.09.028     Document Type: Article

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