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Leland B Gee1, Igor Leontyev2, Alexei Stuchebrukhov1, Aubrey D Scott1, Vladimir Pelmenschikov3, Stephen P Cramer1,4.
Abstract
Evidence of a CO docking site near the FeMo cofactor in nitrogenase has been obtained by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy-monitored low-temperature photolysis. We investigated the possible migration paths for CO from this docking site using molecular dynamics calculations. The simulations support the notion of a gas channel with multiple internal pockets from the active site to the protein exterior. Travel between pockets is gated by the motion of protein residues. Implications for the mechanism of nitrogenase reactions with CO and N2 are discussed.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25919807 PMCID: PMC4522414 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00216
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochemistry ISSN: 0006-2960 Impact factor: 3.162