Crystal structure of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvyltransferase, the target of the antibiotic fosfomycin

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1065-1075

  Schönbrunn, Ernst ^a   Sack, Stefan ^a   Eschenburg, Susanne ^b   Perrakis, Anastassis ^b,d   Krekel, Florian ^c   Amrhein, Nikolaus ^c   Mandelkow, Eckhard ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

domain movement; folding; hinge; peptidoglycan biosynthesis; sequence motif

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030587522     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00113-X     Document Type: Article

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