Pyruvate formate lyase is structurally homologous to type I ribonucleotide reductase

Structure

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 733-744

  Leppänen, Veli Matti ^a   Merckel, Michael C ^a   Ollis, David L ^a,b   Wong, Kenny K ^c   Kozarich, John W ^c   Goldman, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Enzyme mechanism; Pyruvate formate lyase; Ribonucleotide reductase; Structure; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; LYASE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0000062832     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(99)80098-7     Document Type: Article

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