How do heme-protein sensors exclude oxygen? Lessons learned from cytochrome c′, nostoc puntiforme heme nitric oxide/oxygen-binding domain, and soluble guanylyl cyclase

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1246-1263

  Tsai, Ah Lim ^a   Martin, Emil ^a   Berka, Vladimir ^a   Olson, John S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CYTOCHROME C; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HEMOPROTEIN; IRON; ISOLEUCINE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; TYROSINE;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ATOM; AUTOOXIDATION; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOSENSOR; CHEMICAL REACTION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOYBEAN; THERMOANAEROBACTER;

CYTOCHROMES C'; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; OXYGEN; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR;

NOSTOC; THERMOANAEROBACTER TENGCONGENSIS;

EID: 84865620451     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: 15577716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2012.4564     Document Type: Review

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