Redox-coupled proton transfer mechanism in nitrite reductase revealed by femtosecond crystallography

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

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2928-2933

  Fukuda, Yohta ^a,b   Tse, Ka Man ^a   Nakane, Takanori ^c   Nakatsu, Toru ^d,e   Suzuki, Mamoru ^a,e   Sugahara, Michihiro ^e   Inoue, Shigeyuki ^e,f   Masuda, Tetsuya ^d,e   Yumoto, Fumiaki ^g   Matsugaki, Naohiro ^g   Nango, Eriko ^e   Tono, Kensuke ^h   Joti, Yasumasa ^h   Kameshima, Takashi ^h   Song, Changyong ^e,i   Hatsui, Takaki ^e   Yabashi, Makina ^e   Nureki, Osamu ^e,j   Murphy, Michael E P ^d   Inoue, Tsuyoshi ^a   Iwatae, So ^d,e   Mizohata, Eiichi ^a   more..

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e RIKEN SPring 8 Center   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^h Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

ⁱ RIKEN   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; HYDROXYL GROUP; NITRITE REDUCTASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COPPER; HYBRID PROTEIN; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE, COPPER-CONTAINING; PROTON;

ANION EXCHANGE; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; FEMTOSECOND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN BOND; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON COUPLED ELECTRON TRANSFER; PROTON TRANSPORT; REDUCTION; STEREOSPECIFICITY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POINT MUTATION; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; COPPER; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTONS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84962320904     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1517770113     Document Type: Article

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