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Table 2: Comparison of the binding properties of bcNOS to other bacterial NOS-like and mammalian NOS oxygenase domain proteins.

Binding constants (M) bcNOS bsNOS deiNOS iNOSoxy nNOSoxy imidazole 181 ± 13 384 ± 10 — 158 ± 6 — L-Arg 596 ± 161 129 ± 2 97 ± 10 175 ± 4 55 ± 4 L-Arg 11 ± 3 4.8 ± 0.1 — 16.1 ± 0.7 — NOHA 1.12 ± 0.01 — — — —

taken from [8]. taken from [11]. iNOSoxy: inducible NOS oxygenase domain. nNOSoxy: neuronal NOS oxygenase domain.