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Ferreira MP, Castro CB, Honorato J, He S, Gonçalves Guimarães Júnior W, Esmieu C, Castellano EE, de Moura AF, Truzzi DR, Nascimento OR, Simonneau A, Marques Netto CGC. Biomimetic catalysis of nitrite reductase enzyme using copper complexes in chemical and electrochemical reduction of nitrite. Dalton Trans 2023; 52:11254-11264. [PMID: 37526523 DOI: 10.1039/d3dt01091k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
Abstract
Copper nitrite reductase mimetics were synthesized using three new tridentate ligands sharing the same N,N,N motif of coordination. The ligands were based on L-proline modifications, attaching a pyridine and a triazole to the pyrrolidine ring, and differ by a pendant group (R = phenyl, n-butyl and n-propan-1-ol). All complexes coordinate nitrite, as evidenced by cyclic voltammetry, UV-Vis, FTIR and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopies. The coordination mode of nitrite was assigned by FTIR and EPR as κ2O chelate mode. Upon acidification, EPR experiments indicated a shift from chelate to monodentate κO mode, and 15N NMR experiments of a Zn2+ analogue, suggested that the related Cu(II) nitrous acid complex may be reasonably stable in solution, but in equilibrium with free HONO under non catalytic conditions. Reduction of nitrite to NO was performed both chemically and electrocatalytically, observing the highest catalytic activities for the complex with n-propan-1-ol as pendant group. These results support the hypothesis that a hydrogen bond moiety in the secondary coordination sphere may aid the protonation step.
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- Millena P Ferreira
- Department of Chemistry, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Rod. Washington Luiz, km 235 s/n, CEP 13565905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
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- Department of Chemistry, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Rod. Washington Luiz, km 235 s/n, CEP 13565905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
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- Insitututo de Química, Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Av. Prof. Dr. Lineu Prestes, 748, CEP 05513-970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Av.João Dagnone, 1100, CEP 13563-120, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive, 30322 Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Rod. Washington Luiz, km 235 s/n, CEP 13565905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
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- LCC-CNRS, Universite de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 205 route de Narbonne, F31077 Toulouse cedex 4, France
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Av.João Dagnone, 1100, CEP 13563-120, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Rod. Washington Luiz, km 235 s/n, CEP 13565905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
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- Insitututo de Química, Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Av. Prof. Dr. Lineu Prestes, 748, CEP 05513-970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Av.João Dagnone, 1100, CEP 13563-120, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- LCC-CNRS, Universite de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 205 route de Narbonne, F31077 Toulouse cedex 4, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Rod. Washington Luiz, km 235 s/n, CEP 13565905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive, 30322 Atlanta, GA, USA
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Cortés-Antiquera R, Márquez SL, Espina G, Sánchez-SanMartín J, Blamey JM. Recombinant expression and characterization of a new laccase, bioinformatically identified, from the Antarctic thermophilic bacterium Geobacillus sp. ID17. Extremophiles 2023; 27:18. [PMID: 37428266 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-023-01299-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
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Geobacillus sp. ID17 is a gram-positive thermophilic bacterium isolated from Deception Island, Antarctica, which has shown to exhibit remarkable laccase activity in crude extract at high temperatures. A bioinformatic search using local databases led to the identification of three putative multicopper oxidase sequences in the genome of this microorganism. Sequence analysis revealed that one of those sequences contains the four-essential copper-binding sites present in other well characterized laccases. The gene encoding this sequence was cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli, partially purified and preliminary biochemically characterized. The resulting recombinant enzyme was recovered in active and soluble form, exhibiting optimum copper-dependent laccase activity at 55 °C, pH 6.5 with syringaldazine substrate, retaining over 60% of its activity after 1 h at 55 and 60 °C. In addition, this thermophilic enzyme is not affected by common inhibitors SDS, NaCl and L-cysteine. Furthermore, biodecolorization assays revealed that this laccase is capable of degrading 60% of malachite green, 54% of Congo red, and 52% of Remazol Brilliant Blue R, after 6 h at 55 °C with aid of ABTS as redox mediator. The observed properties of this enzyme and the relatively straightforward overexpression and partial purification of it could be of great interest for future biotechnology applications.
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- Rodrigo Cortés-Antiquera
- Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Alameda, 3363, Estación Central, Santiago, Chile
- Fundación Biociencia, José Domingo Cañas, 2280, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile
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- Fundación Biociencia, José Domingo Cañas, 2280, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile
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- Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Alameda, 3363, Estación Central, Santiago, Chile.
- Fundación Biociencia, José Domingo Cañas, 2280, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile.
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Ramírez CS, Tolmie C, Opperman DJ, González PJ, Rivas MG, Brondino CD, Ferroni FM. Copper nitrite reductase from Sinorhizobium meliloti 2011: Crystal structure and interaction with the physiological versus a nonmetabolically related cupredoxin-like mediator. Protein Sci 2021; 30:2310-2323. [PMID: 34562300 DOI: 10.1002/pro.4195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2021] [Revised: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We report the crystal structure of the copper-containing nitrite reductase (NirK) from the Gram-negative bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti 2011 (Sm), together with complex structural alignment and docking studies with both non-cognate and the physiologically related pseudoazurins, SmPaz1 and SmPaz2, respectively. S. meliloti is a rhizobacterium used for the formulation of Medicago sativa bionoculants, and SmNirK plays a key role in this symbiosis through the denitrification pathway. The structure of SmNirK, solved at a resolution of 2.5 Å, showed a striking resemblance with the overall structure of the well-known Class I NirKs composed of two Greek key β-barrel domains. The activity of SmNirK is ~12% of the activity reported for classical NirKs, which could be attributed to several factors such as subtle structural differences in the secondary proton channel, solvent accessibility of the substrate channel, and that the denitrifying activity has to be finely regulated within the endosymbiont. In vitro kinetics performed in homogenous and heterogeneous media showed that both SmPaz1 and SmPaz2, which are coded in different regions of the genome, donate electrons to SmNirK with similar performance. Even though the energetics of the interprotein electron transfer (ET) process is not favorable with either electron donors, adduct formation mediated by conserved residues allows minimizing the distance between the copper centers involved in the interprotein ET process.
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- Cintia Soledad Ramírez
- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL). CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry, University of the Free State (UFS), Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry, University of the Free State (UFS), Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL). CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL). CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL). CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL). CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Cristaldi JC, Ferroni FM, Duré AB, Ramírez CS, Dalosto SD, Rizzi AC, González PJ, Rivas MG, Brondino CD. Heterologous production and functional characterization of Bradyrhizobium japonicum copper-containing nitrite reductase and its physiological redox partner cytochrome c550. Metallomics 2020; 12:2084-2097. [PMID: 33226040 DOI: 10.1039/d0mt00177e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Two domain copper-nitrite reductases (NirK) contain two types of copper centers, one electron transfer (ET) center of type 1 (T1) and a catalytic site of type 2 (T2). NirK activity is pH-dependent, which has been suggested to be produced by structural modifications at high pH of some catalytically relevant residues. To characterize the pH-dependent kinetics of NirK and the relevance of T1 covalency in intraprotein ET, we studied the biochemical, electrochemical, and spectroscopic properties complemented with QM/MM calculations of Bradyrhizobium japonicum NirK (BjNirK) and of its electron donor cytochrome c550 (BjCycA). BjNirK presents absorption spectra determined mainly by a S(Cys)3pπ → Cu2+ ligand-to-metal charge-transfer (LMCT) transition. The enzyme shows low activity likely due to the higher flexibility of a protein loop associated with BjNirK/BjCycA interaction. Nitrite is reduced at high pH in a T1-decoupled way without T1 → T2 ET in which proton delivery for nitrite reduction at T2 is maintained. Our results are analyzed in comparison with previous results found by us in Sinorhizobium meliloti NirK, whose main UV-vis absorption features are determined by S(Cys)3pσ/π → Cu2+ LMCT transitions.
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- Julio C Cristaldi
- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral and CONICET, S3000ZAA Santa Fe, Argentina.
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Hira D, Matsumura M, Kitamura R, Furukawa K, Fujii T. Unique hexameric structure of copper-containing nitrite reductase of an anammox bacterium KSU-1. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020; 526:654-660. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.03.144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Opperman DJ, Murgida DH, Dalosto SD, Brondino CD, Ferroni FM. A three-domain copper-nitrite reductase with a unique sensing loop. IUCRJ 2019; 6:248-258. [PMID: 30867922 PMCID: PMC6400189 DOI: 10.1107/s2052252519000241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 01/06/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Dissimilatory nitrite reductases are key enzymes in the denitrification pathway, reducing nitrite and leading to the production of gaseous products (NO, N2O and N2). The reaction is catalysed either by a Cu-containing nitrite reductase (NirK) or by a cytochrome cd 1 nitrite reductase (NirS), as the simultaneous presence of the two enzymes has never been detected in the same microorganism. The thermophilic bacterium Thermus scotoductus SA-01 is an exception to this rule, harbouring both genes within a denitrification cluster, which encodes for an atypical NirK. The crystal structure of TsNirK has been determined at 1.63 Å resolution. TsNirK is a homotrimer with subunits of 451 residues that contain three copper atoms each. The N-terminal region possesses a type 2 Cu (T2Cu) and a type 1 Cu (T1CuN) while the C-terminus contains an extra type 1 Cu (T1CuC) bound within a cupredoxin motif. T1CuN shows an unusual Cu atom coordination (His2-Cys-Gln) compared with T1Cu observed in NirKs reported so far (His2-Cys-Met). T1CuC is buried at ∼5 Å from the molecular surface and located ∼14.1 Å away from T1CuN; T1CuN and T2Cu are ∼12.6 Å apart. All these distances are compatible with an electron-transfer process T1CuC → T1CuN → T2Cu. T1CuN and T2Cu are connected by a typical Cys-His bridge and an unexpected sensing loop which harbours a SerCAT residue close to T2Cu, suggesting an alternative nitrite-reduction mechanism in these enzymes. Biophysicochemical and functional features of TsNirK are discussed on the basis of X-ray crystallography, electron paramagnetic resonance, resonance Raman and kinetic experiments.
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- Diederik Johannes Opperman
- Department of Biotechnology, University of the Free State, 205 Nelson Mandela Drive, Bloemfontein, Free State 9300, South Africa
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física and INQUIMAE (CONICET-UBA), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pab. 2 piso 1, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1428EHA, Argentina
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- Instituto de Física del Litoral, CONICET-UNL, Güemes 3450, Santa Fe, Santa Fe S3000ZAA, Argentina
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- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Paraje El Pozo, Santa Fe, Santa Fe S3000ZAA, Argentina
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- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Paraje El Pozo, Santa Fe, Santa Fe S3000ZAA, Argentina
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Cloning, purification and characterization of novel Cu-containing nitrite reductase from the Bacillus firmus GY-49. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2017; 34:10. [DOI: 10.1007/s11274-017-2383-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2017] [Accepted: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Study of the Cys-His bridge electron transfer pathway in a copper-containing nitrite reductase by site-directed mutagenesis, spectroscopic, and computational methods. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2017; 1862:752-760. [PMID: 29051066 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2017.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2017] [Revised: 09/06/2017] [Accepted: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The Cys-His bridge as electron transfer conduit in the enzymatic catalysis of nitrite to nitric oxide by nitrite reductase from Sinorhizobium meliloti 2011 (SmNir) was evaluated by site-directed mutagenesis, steady state kinetic studies, UV-vis and EPR spectroscopic measurements as well as computational calculations. The kinetic, structural and spectroscopic properties of the His171Asp (H171D) and Cys172Asp (C172D) SmNir variants were compared with the wild type enzyme. Molecular properties of H171D and C172D indicate that these point mutations have not visible effects on the quaternary structure of SmNir. Both variants are catalytically incompetent using the physiological electron donor pseudoazurin, though C172D presents catalytic activity with the artificial electron donor methyl viologen (kcat=3.9(4) s-1) lower than that of wt SmNir (kcat=240(50) s-1). QM/MM calculations indicate that the lack of activity of H171D may be ascribed to the Nδ1H…OC hydrogen bond that partially shortcuts the T1-T2 bridging Cys-His covalent pathway. The role of the Nδ1H…OC hydrogen bond in the pH-dependent catalytic activity of wt SmNir is also analyzed by monitoring the T1 and T2 oxidation states at the end of the catalytic reaction of wt SmNir at pH6 and 10 by UV-vis and EPR spectroscopies. These data provide insight into how changes in Cys-His bridge interrupts the electron transfer between T1 and T2 and how the pH-dependent catalytic activity of the enzyme are related to pH-dependent structural modifications of the T1-T2 bridging chemical pathway.
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Horrell S, Kekilli D, Strange RW, Hough MA. Recent structural insights into the function of copper nitrite reductases. Metallomics 2017; 9:1470-1482. [DOI: 10.1039/c7mt00146k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Copper nitrite reductases (CuNiRs) catalyse the reduction of nitrite to nitric oxide as part of the denitrification pathway. In this review, we describe insights into CuNiR function from structural studies.
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- Sam Horrell
- School of Biological Sciences
- University of Essex
- Colchester
- UK
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- School of Biological Sciences
- University of Essex
- Colchester
- UK
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Prior to 1950, the consensus was that biological transformations occurred in two-electron steps, thereby avoiding the generation of free radicals. Dramatic advances in spectroscopy, biochemistry, and molecular biology have led to the realization that protein-based radicals participate in a vast array of vital biological mechanisms. Redox processes involving high-potential intermediates formed in reactions with O2 are particularly susceptible to radical formation. Clusters of tyrosine (Tyr) and tryptophan (Trp) residues have been found in many O2-reactive enzymes, raising the possibility that they play an antioxidant protective role. In blue copper proteins with plastocyanin-like domains, Tyr/Trp clusters are uncommon in the low-potential single-domain electron-transfer proteins and in the two-domain copper nitrite reductases. The two-domain muticopper oxidases, however, exhibit clusters of Tyr and Trp residues near the trinuclear copper active site where O2 is reduced. These clusters may play a protective role to ensure that reactive oxygen species are not liberated during O2 reduction.
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- Harry B Gray
- Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Insights into unknown foreign ligand in copper nitrite reductase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2015; 464:622-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.07.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2015] [Accepted: 07/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Fukuda Y, Inoue T. High-temperature and high-resolution crystallography of thermostable copper nitrite reductase. Chem Commun (Camb) 2015; 51:6532-5. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cc09553g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The structure of thermostable copper nitrite reductase in complex with nitrite was determined at 320 K.
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- Yohta Fukuda
- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Graduate School of Engineering
- Osaka University
- Suita
- Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Graduate School of Engineering
- Osaka University
- Suita
- Japan
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