Designing a functional type 2 copper center that has nitrite reductase activity within α-helical coiled coils

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

Volumn 109, Issue 52, 2012, Pages 21234-21239

  Tegoni, Matteo ^a   Yu, Fangting ^b   Bersellini, Manuela ^a   Penner Hahn, James E ^b   Pecoraro, Vincent L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

NiR; NO; TRI peptides

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; COPPER; HISTIDINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; WATER;

ALPHA HELIX; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; OXIDATION KINETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCORBIC ACID; BINDING SITES; COPPER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRITE REDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SODIUM NITRITE; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 84871833446     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212893110     Document Type: Article

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