Crystal structure of the protein serine/threonine phosphatase 2C at 2.0 Å resolution

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 6798-6809

  Das, Amit K ^a   Helps, Nicholas R ^b   Cohen, Patricia T W ^b   Barford, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catalytic mechanism; Metalloenzyme; Protein phosphatase 2C; Signal transduction; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; MAGNESIUM ION; MANGANESE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE PHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STRESS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030465532     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb01071.x     Document Type: Article

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