Search Results - "Verbeet, Martin"
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A Random-sequential Mechanism for Nitrite Binding and Active Site Reduction in Copper-containing Nitrite Reductase
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (16-06-2006)“…The homotrimeric copper-containing nitrite reductase (NiR) contains one type-1 and one type-2 copper center per monomer. Electrons enter through the type-1…”
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Sensing Nitrite through a Pseudoazurin-Nitrite Reductase Electron Transfer Relay
Published in Chemphyschem (13-06-2005)“…Nitrite is converted to nitric oxide by haem or copper‐containing enzymes in denitrifying bacteria during the process of denitrification. In designing an…”
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Role Played by the α-Helix in the Unfolding Pathway and Stability of Azurin: Switching Between Hierarchic and Nonhierarchic Folding
Published in Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology (05-11-2007)“…The role played by the α-helix in determining the structure, the stability and the unfolding mechanism of azurin was addressed by studying a helix-depleted…”
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The Substrate-Bound Type 2 Copper Site of Nitrite Reductase: The Nitrogen Hyperfine Coupling of Nitrite Revealed by Pulsed EPR
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (22-11-2005)“…A pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance study has been performed on the type 2 copper site of nitrite reductase (NiR) from Alcaligenes faecalis. The H145A…”
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Bidirectional Catalysis by Copper-Containing Nitrite Reductase
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (17-08-2004)“…The copper-containing nitrite reductase from Alcaligenes faecalis S-6 was found to catalyze the oxidation of nitric oxide to nitrite, the reverse of its…”
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Effect of the Methionine Ligand on the Reorganization Energy of the Type-1 Copper Site of Nitrite Reductase
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (24-01-2007)“…Copper-containing nitrite reductase harbors a type-1 and a type-2 Cu site. The former acts as the electron acceptor site of the enzyme, and the latter is the…”
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Enzyme therapy for Pompe disease: from science to industrial enterprise
Published in European journal of pediatrics (01-10-2002)“…Pompe disease or glycogen storage disease type II (OMIM 232300) is a metabolic myopathy with a broad clinical spectrum. Generalised muscle weakness combined…”
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Enzyme therapy for Pompe disease: from science to industrial enterprise
Published in European journal of pediatrics (01-01-2002)“…Pompe disease or glycogen storage disease type II (OMIM 232300) is a metabolic myopathy with a broad clinical spectrum. Generalised muscle weakness combined…”
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Reconstitution of the Type-1 Active Site of the H145G/A Variants of Nitrite Reductase by Ligand Insertion
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (15-04-2003)“…Variants of the copper-containing nitrite reductase (NiR) of Alcaligenes faecalis S6 were constructed by site-directed mutagenesis, by which the C-terminal…”
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Calorimetric and spectroscopic investigations of the thermal denaturation of wild type nitrite reductase
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (31-08-2005)“…Nitrite reductase (NiR) is a multicopper protein, with a trimeric structure containing two types of copper site: type 1 is present in each subunit whereas type…”
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A model for the thermal unfolding of amicyanin
Published in European biophysics journal (01-02-2002)“…In the present study the thermal unfolding of amicyanin has been addressed using differential scanning calorimetry, fluorescence emission, optical density,…”
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Protein Film Voltammetry of Copper-Containing Nitrite Reductase Reveals Reversible Inactivation
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (11-07-2007)“…The Cu-containing nitrite reductase from Alcaligenes faecalis S-6 catalyzes the one-electron reduction of nitrite to nitric oxide (NO). Electrons enter the…”
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Towards Protein Field-Effect Transistors: Report and Model of a Prototype
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (04-04-2005)“…A protein field‐effect transistor (Pro‐FET) based on the blue‐copper protein azurins (see Figure) and operating at room temperature and ambient pressure is…”
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Protonation of a Histidine Copper Ligand in Fern Plastocyanin
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (11-04-2007)“…Plastocyanin is a small blue copper protein that shuttles electrons as part of the photosynthetic redox chain. Its redox behavior is changed at low pH as a…”
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Thermal stability effects of removing the type-2 copper ligand His306 at the interface of nitrite reductase subunits
Published in European biophysics journal (01-09-2007)“…Nitrite reductase (NiR) is a highly stable trimeric protein, which denatures via an intermediate, N(3)<--(k)-->U(3)--(k)-->F (N-native, U-unfolded and…”
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Role of the Surface-Exposed and Copper-Coordinating Histidine in Blue Copper Proteins: The Electron-Transfer and Redox-Coupled Ligand Binding Properties of His117Gly Azurin
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (13-12-2000)“…In many reduced blue copper proteins the C-terminal surface-exposed active-site histidine protonates at low pH and dissociates from the Cu atom. In this state,…”
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A Rearranging Ligand Enables Allosteric Control of Catalytic Activity in Copper-containing Nitrite Reductase
Published in Journal of molecular biology (12-05-2006)“…In Cu-containing nitrite reductase from Alcaligenes faecalis S-6 the axial methionine ligand of the type-1 site was replaced (M150G) to make the copper ion…”
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Generalized glycogen storage and cardiomegaly in a knockout mouse model of Pompe disease
Published in Human molecular genetics (1998)“…Glycogen storage disease type II (GSDII; Pompe disease), caused by inherited deficiency of acid alpha-glucosidase, is a lysosomal disorder affecting heart and…”
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Thermal stability of wild type and disulfide bridge containing mutant of poplar plastocyanin
Published in Biophysical chemistry (01-12-2004)“…A comparative study of the thermal stability of wild type poplar plastocyanin and of a mutant form containing a disulfide bridge between residues 21 and 25 was…”
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Effects of Dimerization on Protein Electron Transfer
Published in Chemistry : a European journal (01-06-2001)“…In order to investigate the relationship between the rate of protein–protein electron transfer and the structure of the association complex, a dimer of the…”
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