Laser-flash photolysis indicates that internal electron transfer is triggered by proton uptake by Alcaligenes xylosoxidans copper-dependent nitrite reductase

FEBS Journal

Volumn 279, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2174-2181

  Leferink, Nicole G H ^a   Eady, Robert R ^b   Hasnain, S Samar ^b   Scrutton, Nigel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

inter copper electron transfer; laser flash photolysis; nitrite reductase; proton uptake; proton coupled electron transfer

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARAGINE; COPPER DEPENDENT NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; LASER FLASH PHOTOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PH; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTON TRANSPORT; STEADY STATE; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ALCALIGENES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NITRITE REDUCTASES; PHOTOLYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTONS;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS;

EID: 84861907161     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2012.08601.x     Document Type: Article

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