Nitric oxide synthase domain interfaces regulate electron transfer and calmodulin activation

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

Volumn 110, Issue 38, 2013, Pages

  Smith, Brian C ^a   Underbakke, Eric S ^a   Kulp, Daniel W ^a   Schief, William R ^a   Marletta, Michael A ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flavin; Hemoprotein; INOS; NO signaling

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; HEME; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DEUTERIUM HYDROGEN EXCHANGE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

FLAVIN; HEMOPROTEIN; INOS; NO SIGNALING;

ANIMALS; CALMODULIN; DEUTERIUM EXCHANGE MEASUREMENT; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE; FLAVIN-ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; FLUORESCENCE; HEME; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84884294241     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313331110     Document Type: Article

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