Crystallization and preliminary X-ray studies of ornithine decarboxylase from Trypanosoma brucei

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 272-273

  Grishin, Nick V ^a   Osterman, Andrei L ^a   Goldsmith, Elizabeth J ^a   Phillips, Margaret A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

drug design; polyamines; pyridoxal phosphate

Indexed keywords

EFLORNITHINE; HYBRID PROTEIN; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE INHIBITOR; POLYAMINE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DECARBOXYLATION; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 0029928836     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199602)24:2<272::AID-PROT17>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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