Crystallographic and online spectral evidence for role of conformational change and conserved water in cytochrome oxidase proton pump

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1284-1289

  Liu, Jian ^a   Qin, Ling ^a   Ferguson Miller, Shelagh ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational gating; Membrane protein structure; Proton path mutants; Water chain; X ray reduction

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE ION; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; PROTON PUMP; WATER;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; WILD TYPE; X RAY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTON PUMPS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 79952133576     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012846108     Document Type: Article

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