Structural basis for dynamic mechanism of nitrate/nitrite antiport by NarK

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Fukuda, Masahiro ^a,b   Takeda, Hironori ^a,b   Kato, Hideaki E ^a,b,d   Doki, Shintaro ^a,b   Ito, Koichi ^a   Maturana, Andrés D ^c   Ishitani, Ryuichiro ^a,b   Nureki, Osamu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; ARGININE; NARK PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITRITE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; LIPOSOME; NITRATE TRANSPORTERS; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO ACID; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITRATE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI;

ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIPOSOMES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NITRATES; NITRITES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84929207365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8097     Document Type: Article

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