Issue 72, 2017
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Chemical Communications

Change in the structure and function of lectin by photodissociation of NO†

T. Kurota, ORCID logo a   I. Sato,a   K. Kuroi, ORCID logo a   H. Hiramatsu ORCID logo *ab  and  T. Nakabayashi ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
E-mail: takan@m.tohoku.ac.jp

b Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, 1001, Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
E-mail: hiramatu@nctu.edu.tw

Abstract

We have shown here that the structure and sugar-binding activity of lectin can be changed by the photodissociation of NO. Intramolecular S–S bonds are photogenerated from SNO in the protein, which can be used to photo-control the structure and function of proteins.

Graphical abstract: Change in the structure and function of lectin by photodissociation of NO

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC04795A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
20 Jun 2017
Accepted
15 Aug 2017
First published
15 Aug 2017

Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 10014-10017

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Change in the structure and function of lectin by photodissociation of NO

T. Kurota, I. Sato, K. Kuroi, H. Hiramatsu and T. Nakabayashi, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 10014 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC04795A

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