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A new decoration for nitric oxide synthase - a Zn(Cys)4 site
1Biophysics Research Division, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, MI, USA. ludwig@biop.umich.edu
Structure (London, England : 1993)
|April 13, 1999
Abstract:
Intense interest in the action and synthesis of nitric oxide has fueled structural studies of nitric oxide synthase (NOS). The monomeric and dimeric heme domains of inducible NOS were the first NOS structures to be described. A recent independent analysis of the corresponding heme domains from endothelial NOS confirms most of the features found earlier and also reveals a novel Zn(Cys)4 center - a new feature for NOS.