Crystal structure of the protein drug urate oxidase-inhibitor complex at 2.05 Å resolution

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 947-952

  Colloc'h, Nathalie ^a   El Hajji, Mohamed ^b   Bachet, Bernard ^a   L'Hermite, Guillaume ^a   Schiltz, Marc ^c   Prangé, Thierry ^c,d   Castro, Bertrand ^b   Mornon, Jean Paul ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b SANOFI   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; URATE OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME INHIBITOR COMPLEX; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; URATE OXIDASE; XANTHINES;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS;

EID: 0030663655     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb1197-947     Document Type: Article

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