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nitrophorin

Known as: nitrophorin 4 
National Institutes of Health

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AnticoagulantsHemeproteinsHistamine Antagonists

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nitrophorin 1nitrophorin 2
nitrophorin 3

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2010
2010
Ultrafast dynamics of diatomic ligand binding to nitrophorin 4.
Nitrophorin 4 (NP4) is a heme protein that stores and delivers nitric oxide (NO) through pH-sensitive conformational change. This… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Ultrahigh resolution structures of nitrophorin 4: heme distortion in ferrous CO and NO complexes.
Nitrophorin 4 (NP4), a nitric oxide (NO)-transport protein from the blood-sucking insect Rhodnius prolixus, uses a ferric (Fe3… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Structural Dynamics Controls Nitric Oxide Affinity in Nitrophorin 4*
Nitrophorin 4 (NP4) is one of seven nitric oxide (NO) transporting proteins in the blood-sucking insect Rhodnius prolixus. In its… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Mechanisms of ligand discrimination by heme proteins
  • R. JainM. Chan
  • JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
  • 2002
  • Corpus ID: 39445667
Abstract. Several classes of heme proteins have been identified whose primary role is to sense and transport one of the three… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Ligand-induced heme ruffling and bent no geometry in ultra-high-resolution structures of nitrophorin 4.
The nitrophorins are a family of proteins that use ferric heme to transport nitric oxide (NO) from the salivary glands of blood… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Purification and cloning of the salivary nitrophorin from the hemipteran Cimex lectularius.
Cimex lectularius and Rhodnius prolixus contain salivary nitric oxide (NO) that may help them to feed on their vertebrate hosts… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Nitric oxide binding and crystallization of recombinant nitrophorin I, a nitric oxide transport protein from the blood-sucking bug Rhodnius prolixus.
A nitric oxide transport protein (nitrophorin I) from the salivary glands of the blood-sucking bug Rhodnius prolixus has been… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Purification and characterization of prolixin S (nitrophorin 2), the salivary anticoagulant of the blood-sucking bug Rhodnius prolixus.
The salivary anticoagulant of the blood-sucking bug Rhodnius prolixus was purified to homogeneity using a protocol consisting of… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
A salivary nitrophorin (nitric-oxide-carrying hemoprotein) in the bedbug Cimex lectularius.
Salivary gland homogenate of the bedbug Cimex lectularius caused vasodilation of the preconstricted rabbit aortic ring in the… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
High affinity histamine-binding and antihistaminic activity of the salivary nitric oxide-carrying heme protein (nitrophorin) of Rhodnius prolixus
The salivary glands of Rhodnius prolixus contain a nitrosyl-heme protein, named nitrophorin, that releases the vasodilatory and… 
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