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The high level of amino acid conservation and structural similarity in the immediate vicinity of the substrate binding sites of the oxygenase domains of the nitric-oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms (eNOSoxy, iNOSoxy, and nNOSoxy) make the interpretation of the structural basis of inhibitor isoform specificity a challenge and provide few clues for the design of new selective compounds. Crystal structures of iNOSoxy and nNOSoxy complexed with the inhibitors W1400 and Nomega-propyl-l-arginine provide a rationale for their isoform specificity. It involves differences outside the immediate active site as well as a conformational flexibility in the active site that allows the adoption of distinct conformations in response to interactions with the inhibitors. This flexibility is determined by isoform-specific residues outside the active site.

1QW4 is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus_musculus Mus musculus] with <scene name='pdbligand=ZN:'>ZN</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=HEM:'>HEM</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=H4B:'>H4B</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=3AR:'>3AR</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=1QW4 OCA].  

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