Metalloproteins diversified: The auracyanins are a family of cupredoxins that stretch the spectral and redox limits of blue copper proteins

Biochemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 8267-8275

  King, Jeremy D ^a   McIntosh, Chelsea L ^a   Halsey, Christopher M ^b   Lada, Bryan M ^b   Niedzwiedzki, Dariusz M ^a   Cooley, Jason W ^b   Blankenship, Robert E ^a,b,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c WESTMINSTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE-COPPER PROTEINS; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; ELECTRON TRANSFER PROTEINS; ELECTRON-TRANSFER REACTIONS; METALLO-PROTEINS; MIDPOINT POTENTIALS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; UV-VIS ABSORPTION SPECTRA;

COPPER; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

PROTEINS;

AURACYANIN A; AURACYANIN B; AURACYANIN C; AURACYANIN D; COPPER PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEIN; NITRITE REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PHOTOTROPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AZURIN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLOROFLEXUS; COPPER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; METALLOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84888215080     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi401163g     Document Type: Article

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