Overexpression of Bacillus subtilis phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase and crystallization and preliminary x-ray characterization of the free enzyme and its substrate-effector complexes

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 238-246

  Bentsen, Ann Kristin ^a   Larsen, Tine A ^a   Kadziola, Anders ^a   Larsen, Sine ^a   Harlow, Kenneth W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Dept of Protein Chemistry ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

allostery; nucleotide dependent enzymes; pyrophosphotransferase; substrate effector complexes

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; PLASMID DNA; RIBOSEPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBOSE-PHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; RIBOSEMONOPHOSPHATES;

EID: 0029867306     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199602)24:2<238::AID-PROT10>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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