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A persulfurated cysteine promotes active site reactivity in Azotobacter vinelandii Rhodanese.
Biological chemistry - 1 Aug 2001
Bordo D, Forlani F, Spallarossa A, Colnaghi R, Carpen A, Bolognesi M, Pagani S
Abstract excerpt
Active site reactivity and specificity of RhdA, a thiosulfate:cyanide sulfurtransferase (rhodanese) from Azotobacter vinelandii, have been investigated through ligand binding, site-directed mutagenesis, and X-ray crystallographic techniques, in a combined approach. In native RhdA the active site Cys230 is found persulfurated; fluorescence and sulfurtransferase activity measurements show that phosphate anions...
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