Title : Decreased zinc affinity of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-associated superoxide dismutase mutants leads to enhanced catalysis of tyrosine nitration by peroxynitrite.

Pub. Date : 1997 Nov

PMID : 9349538






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1 Decreased zinc affinity of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-associated superoxide dismutase mutants leads to enhanced catalysis of tyrosine nitration by peroxynitrite. Tyrosine superoxide dismutase 1 Homo sapiens
2 The loss of zinc from wild-type SOD approximately doubled its efficiency for catalyzing peroxynitrite-mediated tyrosine nitration, suggesting that one gained function by SOD in ALS may be an indirect consequence of zinc loss. Tyrosine superoxide dismutase 1 Homo sapiens