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SUBMITTER: Collman JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2481353 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Collman James P JP Dey Abhishek A Decreau Richard A RA Yang Ying Y Hosseini Ali A Solomon Edward I EI Eberspacher Todd A TA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080716 29
Cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) is a multimetallic enzyme that carries out the reduction of O2 to H2O and is essential to respiration, providing the energy that powers all aerobic organisms by generating heat and forming ATP. The oxygen-binding heme a(3) should be subject to fatal inhibition by chemicals that could compete with O2 binding. Near the CcO active site is another enzyme, NO synthase, which produces the gaseous hormone NO. NO can strongly bind to heme a(3), thus inhibiting respiration. How ...[more]