The three-dimensional structure of Escherichia coli porphobilinogen deaminase at 1.76-Å resolution

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 48-78

  Louie, Gordon V ^a   Brownlie, Paul D ^a   Lambert, Richard ^a   Cooper, Jonathan B ^a   Blundell, Tom L ^a   Wood, Steve P ^a   Malashkevich, Vladimir N ^b   Hädener, Alfons ^b   Warren, Martin J ^c   Shoolingin Jordan, Peter M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E. Coli; Prophobilinogen deaminase; Selenomethionine; Tetrapyrrole biosynthesis; X ray analysis

Indexed keywords

PORPHOBILINOGEN DEAMINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; R FACTOR; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COENZYMES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROXYMETHYLBILANE SYNTHASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PORPHOBILINOGEN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UROPORPHYRINOGENS;

EID: 0030004401     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199605)25:1<48::AID-PROT5>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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