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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2010

Pulsed EPR determination of the distance between heme iron and FMN centers in a human inducible nitric oxide synthase.

Andrei V Astashkin, Bradley O Elmore, Weihong Fan, J Guy Guillemette, Changjian Feng

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Detection of a clamp-shaped conformation of a neuronal nitric oxide synthase construct by pulsed EPR.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2025
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  3. Analyzing the FMN-heme interdomain docking interactions in neuronal and inducible NOS isoforms by pulsed EPR experiments and conformational distribution modeling.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2024
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  11. Exploring the conformations of nitric oxide synthase with fluorescence.Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) · 2018
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  17. Elucidating nitric oxide synthase domain interactions by molecular dynamics.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Andrei V AstashkinDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
Bradley O Elmore
Weihong Fan
J Guy Guillemette
Changjian Feng
University of New Mexico · USUniversity of Waterloo · CAUniversity of Arizona · US

Funding

ZUNI HEALTH INITIATIVE-PILOT STUDYP20RR016480 · NCRR · NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LAS CRUCES · PI GRIFFITH, JEFFREY K · 2001 to 2011
$33.7M
Mechanisms of Electron Transfer in Nitric Oxide Synthases: the Output State in NiR15GM081811 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI FENG, CHANGJIAN · 2007 to 2016
$1.0M
Regulation of Nitric Oxide Synthase through Formation of the Output StateR21HL091280 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI FENG, CHANGJIAN · 2008 to 2009
$400k
NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR016480NCRR NIH HHS P20RR016480NHLBI NIH HHS HL091280NHLBI NIH HHS R21 HL091280NIGMS NIH HHS GM081811NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM081811
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mammalian nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is a homodimeric flavo-hemoprotein that catalyzes the oxidation of L-arginine to nitric oxide (NO). Regulation of NO biosynthesis by NOS is primarily through control of interdomain electron transfer (IET) processes in NOS catalysis. The IET from the flavin mononucleotide (FMN) to heme domains is essential in the delivery of electrons required for O(2) activation in the heme domain and the subsequent NO synthesis by NOS. The NOS output state for NO production is an IET-competent complex of the FMN-binding domain and heme domain, and thereby it facilitates the IET from the FMN to the catalytic heme site. The structure of the functional output state has not yet been determined. In the absence of crystal structure data for NOS holoenzyme, it is important to experimentally determine the Fe...FMN distance to provide a key calibration for computational docking studies and for the IET kinetics studies. Here we used the relaxation-induced dipolar modulation enhancement (RIDME) technique to measure the electron spin echo envelope modulation caused by the dipole interactions between paramagnetic FMN and heme iron centers in the [Fe(III)][FMNH(*)] (FMNH(*): FMN semiquinone) form of a human inducible NOS (iNOS) bidomain oxygenase/FMN construct. The FMNH(*)...Fe distance has been directly determined from the RIDME spectrum. This distance (18.8 +/- 0.1 A) is in excellent agreement with the IET rate constant measured by laser flash photolysis [Feng, C. J.; Dupont, A.; Nahm, N.; Spratt, D.; Hazzard, J. T.; Weinberg, J.; Guillemette, J.; Tollin, G.; Ghosh, D. K. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 2009, 14, 133-142].

Indexed as

ArginineBiocatalysisElectron Spin Resonance SpectroscopyElectron TransportFerric CompoundsFlavin MononucleotideHemeHumansNitric OxideNitric Oxide Synthase Type IIArginineFerric CompoundsFlavin MononucleotideHemeNitric OxideNitric Oxide Synthase Type II

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PMID20695464
PMCPMC2931817
OpenAlexW2056913738

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