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Crystal structures of human endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and human inducible NOS (iNOS) catalytic domains were solved in complex with the arginine substrate and an inhibitor S-ethylisothiourea (SEITU), respectively. The small molecules bind in a narrow cleft within the larger active-site cavity containing heme and tetrahydrobiopterin. Both are hydrogen-bonded to a conserved glutamate (eNOS E361, iNOS E377). The active-site residues of iNOS and eNOS are nearly identical. Nevertheless, structural comparisons provide a basis for design of isozyme-selective inhibitors. The high-resolution, refined structures of eNOS (2.4 A resolution) and iNOS (2.25 A resolution) reveal an unexpected structural zinc situated at the intermolecular interface and coordinated by four cysteines, two from each monomer.

4NOS is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens Homo sapiens] with <scene name='pdbligand=ZN:'>ZN</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=HEM:'>HEM</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=H2B:'>H2B</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=ITU:'>ITU</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=H4B:'>H4B</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitric-oxide_synthase Nitric-oxide synthase], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=1.14.13.39 1.14.13.39] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=4NOS OCA].  

[[Category: Fischmann, T O.]]

[[Category: Weber, P C.]]

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