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Nitric oxide is generated under normal and pathophysiological conditions by three distinct isoforms of nitric oxide synthase (NOS). A small-molecule inhibitor of NOS (3-Br-7-nitroindazole, 7-NIBr) is profoundly neuroprotective in mouse models of stroke and Parkinson's disease. We report the crystal structure of the catalytic heme domain of endothelial NOS complexed with 7-NIBr at 1.65 A resolution. Critical to the binding of 7-NIBr at the substrate site is the adoption by eNOS of an altered conformation, in which a key glutamate residue swings out toward one of the heme propionate groups. Perturbation of the heme propionate ensues and eliminates the cofactor tetrahydrobiopterin-heme interaction. We also present three crystal structures that reveal how alterations at the substrate site facilitate 7-NIBr and structurally dissimilar ligands to occupy the cofactor site.

1FOJ is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bos_taurus Bos taurus] with <scene name='pdbligand=CAC:'>CAC</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=ACT:'>ACT</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=ZN:'>ZN</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=HEM:'>HEM</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=7NI:'>7NI</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=7I2:'>7I2</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=1FOJ OCA].  

[[Category: Masters, B S.]]

[[Category: Poulos, T L.]]

[[Category: Raman, C S.]]

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