Probing the reactivity of different forms of azurin by flavin photoreduction

FEBS Journal

Volumn 278, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1506-1521

  Alagaratnam, Sharmini ^a   Meeuwenoord, Nico J ^a   Navarro, José A ^b   Hervás, Manuel ^b   De La Rosa, Miguel A ^b   Hoffmann, Maren ^c   Einsle, Oliver ^c   Ubbink, Marcellus ^a   Canters, Gerard W ^a,d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cu protein; electron transfer; flash photolysis; flavin; protein cavity

Indexed keywords

AZURIN; COPPER; COPPER PROTEIN; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; IMIDAZOLE; LIGAND; QUERCETIN; RIBOFLAVIN DERIVATIVE; WATER;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMOREACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; GENE MUTATION; PHOTOLYSIS; PHOTOREDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 79955075757     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08067.x     Document Type: Article

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