Location of the active site and proposed catalytic mechanism of pterin-4a-carbinolamine dehydratase

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 241, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 858-864

  Köster, Sandra ^a   Stier, Gunter ^b   Ficner, Ralf ^b   Hölzer, Manuela ^a   Curtius, Hans Christoph ^a   Suck, Dietrich ^b   Ghisla, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dehydratase; Hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 dimerization cofactor; Phenylalanine hydroxylase; Tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

HYDROLYASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 0029862429     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00858.x     Document Type: Article

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