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Moreover, a binding site in close vicinity to the expected flavin O 2 -interacton site is observed to be controlled by the redox state of the flavin and linked to the channel proposed to funnel the produced superoxide species from NrdI to the di-manganese site in protein R2b. These specific features are coupled to further structural changes around the R2b- NrdI interaction surface. The mechanistic implications for the control of reactive oxygen species and radical generation in protein R2b are discussed.","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2022,"id":306883,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9475,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":307009,"name":"Oskar Aurelius","orcid":"0000-0002-9268-351X","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":307005,"name":"Vivek Srinivas","orcid":"0000-0002-0265-1873","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":240869,"name":"In‐Sik Kim","orcid":"0000-0002-0258-6012","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":240882,"name":"Asmit Bhowmick","orcid":"0000-0002-6154-6635","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":240870,"name":"Philipp S. 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