Entropy in bi-substrate enzymes: Proposed role of an alternate site in chaperoning substrate into, and products out of, thymidylate synthase

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 255, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 522-535

  Birdsall, David L ^a   Finer Moore, Janet ^a   Stroud, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Enzyme; Thymidylate synthase; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

10 PROPARGYL 5,8 DIDEAZAFOLIC ACID; DEOXYURIDINE PHOSPHATE; IMIDAZOLIDINE DERIVATIVE; PTERIN; TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENTROPY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029865290     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0043     Document Type: Article

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