Crystal structure of the Escherichia coli dUTPase in complex with a substrate analogue (dUDP)

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 532-538

  Larsson, Gunilla ^a   Svensson, L Anders ^a   Nyman, Per Olof ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DEOXYRIBOSE; DEOXYURACIL NUCLEOTIDES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHATES; PYROPHOSPHATASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; URACIL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029882967     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0696-532     Document Type: Article

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