Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of methyl-coenzyme M reductase from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 829-830

  Shima, Seigo ^a   Goubeaud, Marcel ^a   Vinzenz, Daniela ^b   Thauer, Rudolf K ^a   Ermler, Ulrich ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coenzyme F430; Methanogenic archaea; Methyl coenzyme M reductase; Protein crystallization; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

HEXYLENE GLYCOL; ISOENZYME; MACROGOL 400; MESNA; METHYL GROUP; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; METHANOBACTERIUM THERMOAUTOTROPHICUM; NONHUMAN; VAPOR; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0030925197     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021660     Document Type: Article

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