Crystal structure of Escherichia coli phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase: A new structural family with the P-loop nucleoside triphosphate hydrolase fold

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 126-143

  Matte, Allan ^a   Goldie, Hughes ^a   Sweet, Robert M ^b   Delbaere, Louis T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gluconeogenesis; Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase; Protein crystallography

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADENYLATE KINASE; BINDING PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; HYDROLASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); PROTEIN P21;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0029864575     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0072     Document Type: Article

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