Article
Redox-controlled ligand exchange of the heme in the CO-sensing transcriptional activator CooA.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 2 Oct 1998
Aono S, Ohkubo K, Matsuo T, Nakajima H
Abstract excerpt
The transcriptional activator CooA from Rhodospirillum rubrum contains a b-type heme that acts as a CO sensor in vivo. CooA is the first example of a transcriptional regulator containing a heme as a prosthetic group and of a hemeprotein in which CO plays a physiological role. In this study, we co...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Carbon Monoxide
- Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy
- Genes, Reporter
- Heme
- Hemeproteins
- Lac Operon
- Ligands
- Mutation
- Oxidation-Reduction
- Recombinant Proteins
- Rhodospirillum rubrum
- Spectrophotometry
- Trans-Activators
- Transcriptional Activation
