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Bibliography on structural studies of nitrile hydratase

  1. Brennan, B.A., Cummings, J.G., Chase, D.B., Turner, I.M., Jr. and Nelson, M.J. (1996a) Resonance Raman spectroscopy of nitrile hydratase, a novel iron-sulfur enzyme. Biochemistry 35, 10068-10077.
  2. Brennan, B.A., Alms, G., Nelson, M.J., Durney, L.T. and Scarrow, R.C. (1996b) Nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1 contains a non­corrin cobalt ion with two sulfur ligands. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118, 9194-9195.
  3. DeRose, V.J. and Hoffman, B.M. (1995) Protein structure and mechanism studied by electron nuclear double resonance spectroscopy. Methods Enzymol. 246, 554-589.
  4. Honda, J., Teratani, Y., Kobayashi, Y., Nagamune, T., Sasabe, H., Hirata, A., Ambe, F. and Endo, I. (1992) Light­induced oxidation of iron atoms in a photosensitive nitrile hydratase. FEBS Lett. 301, 177-180.
  5. Honda, J., Kandori, H., Okada, T., Nagamune, T., Shichida, Y., Sasabe, H. and Endo, I. (1994) Spectroscopic observation of the intramolecular electron transfer in the photoactivation processes of nitrile hydratase. Biochemistry 33, 3577-3583.
  6. Huang, W., Jia, J., Cummings, J., Nelson, M.J., Schneider, G. and Lindqvist, Y. (1997) Crystal structure of nitrile hydratase reveals a novel iron centre in a novel fold. Structure 5, 691-699.
  7. Jin, H., Turner, I.M., Jr., Nelson, M.J., Gurbiel, R.J., Doan, P.E. and Hoffman, B.M. (1993) Coordination sphere of the ferric ion in nitrile hydratase. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 115, 5290-5291.
  8. Kopf, M.­A., Bonnet, D., Artaud, I., Pétré, D. and Mansuy, D. (1996) Key role of alkanoic acids on the spectral properties, activity, and active­site stability of iron­containing nitrile hydratase from Brevibacterium R312. Eur. J. Biochem. 240, 239-244.
  9. Nagamune, T., Honda, J., Cho, W.D., Kamiya, N., Teratani, Y., Hirata, A., Sasabe, H. and Endo, I. (1991) Crystallization of a photosensitive nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. N­771. J. Mol. Biol. 220, 221-222.
  10. Nagasawa, T., Nanba, H., Ryuno, K., Takeuchi, K. and Yamada, H. (1987) Nitrile hydratase of Pseudomonas chlororaphis B23. Purification and characterization. Eur. J. Biochem. 162, 691-698.
  11. Nagashima, S., Nakasako, M., Dohmae, N., Tsujimura, M., Takio, K., Odaka, M., Yohda, M., Kamiya, N. and Endo, I. (1998) Novel non­heme iron center of nitrile hydratase with a claw setting of oxygen atoms. Nature Struct. Biol. 5, 347-352.
  12. Nelson, M.J., Jin, H., Turner, I.M., Jr., Grove, G., Scarrow, R.C., Brennan, B.A. and Que, L., Jr. (1991) A novel iron-sulfur center in nitrile hydratase from Brevibacterium sp. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 113, 7072-7073.
  13. Noguchi, T., Honda, J., Nagamune, T., Sasabe, H., Inoue, Y. and Endo, I. (1995) Photosensitive nitrile hydratase intrinsically possesses nitric oxide bound to the non­heme iron center: Evidence by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. FEBS Lett. 358, 9-12.
  14. Noguchi, T., Hoshino, M., Tsujimura, M., Odaka, M., Inoue, Y. and Endo, I. (1996) Resonance Raman evidence that photodissociation of nitric oxide from the non­heme iron center activates nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. N­771. Biochemistry 35, 16777-16781.
  15. Odaka, M., Noguchi, T., Nagashima, S., Yohda, M., Yabuki, S., Hoshino, M., Inoue, Y. and Endo, I. (1996) Location of the non­heme iron center on the alpha subunit of photoreactive nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. N­771. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 221, 146-150.
  16. Odaka, M., Fujii, K., Hoshino, M., Noguchi, T., Tsujimura, M., Nagashima, S., Yohda, M., Nagamune, T., Inoue, Y. and Endo, I. (1997) Activity regulation of photoreactive nitrile hydratase by nitric oxide. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 119, 3785-3791.
  17. Payne, M.S., Wu, S., Fallon, R.D., Tudor, G., Stieglitz, B., Turner, I.M., Jr. and Nelson, M.J. (1997) A stereoselective cobalt­containing nitrile hydratase. Biochemistry 36, 5447-5454.
  18. Scarrow, R.C., Brennan, B.A., Cummings, J.G., Jin, H., Duong, D.J., Kindt, J.T. and Nelson, M.J. (1996) X­ray spectroscopy of nitrile hydratase at pH 7 and 9. Biochemistry 35, 10078-10088.
  19. Scarrow, R.C., Strickler, B.S., Ellison, J.J., Shoner, S.C., Kovacs, J.A., Cummings, J.G. and Nelson, M.J. (1998) X­ray spectroscopy of nitric oxide binding to iron in inactive nitrile hydratase and a synthetic model compound. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120, 9237-9245.
  20. Sugiura, Y., Kuwahara, J., Nagasawa, T. and Yamada, H. (1988) Significant interaction between low­spin iron(III) site and pyrroloquinoline quinone in active center of nitrile hydratase. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 154, 522-528.
  21. Tsujimura, M., Odaka, M., Nagashima, S., Yohda, M. and Endo, I. (1996) Photoreactive nitrile hydratase: the photoreaction site is located on the alpha subunit. J. Biochem. (Tokyo) 119, 407-413.
  22. Tsujimura, M., Dohmae, N., Odaka, M., Chijimatsu, M., Takio, K., Yohda, M., Hoshino, M., Nagashima, S. and Endo, I. (1997) Structure of the photoreactive iron center of the nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. N­771. Evidence of a novel post­translational modification in the cysteine ligand. J. Biol. Chem. 272, 29454-29459.
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