화학공학소재연구정보센터
Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.38, No.4, 614-615, 1999
Thermochromic conformational change of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum iron superoxide dismutase
First evidence of a room temperature thermochromism for the reduced form of the tetrameric iron superoxide dismutase (FeSOD) from the archaebacterium Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum is reported from paramagnetic NMR studies. Two sets of signals are identified from the relative temperature dependent intensities, corresponding to two different species. Evidence of a thermal two-state transition is given from the temperature dependence of the equilibrium constant K between the two species.