Structural basis for the activation of phenylalanine in the non-ribosomal biosynthesis of gramicidin S

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 4174-4183

  Conti, Elena ^a,b   Stachelhaus, Torsten ^c   Marahiel, Mohamed A ^c   Brick, Peter ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Non ribosomal peptide biosynthesis; Peptide synthetases; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; GRAMICIDIN S; HYDROXYL GROUP; LUCIFERASE; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; PHENYLALANINE; PHOSPHATE;

ADENYLATION; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME;

ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID ISOMERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACILLUS; BEETLES; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GRAMICIDIN; HYDROGEN BONDING; LUCIFERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0030756031     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.14.4174     Document Type: Article

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