Probing the active site of Tritrichomonas foetus hypoxanthine-guanine-xanthine phosphoribosyltransferase using covalent modification of cysteine residues

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 239, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 764-772

  Kanaani, Jamil ^a   Somoza, John R ^a   Maltby, David ^a   Wang, Ching C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical modification; Cysteine residues; Purine salvage; Substrate binding site; Thiol directed reagents

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME MODIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

TRICHOMONAS; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

EID: 0029949033     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0764u.x     Document Type: Article

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