An evolutionary treasure: Unification of a broad set of amidohydrolases related to urease

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 72-82

  Holm, Liisa ^a   Sander, Chris ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

genome analysis; homology modeling; molecular evolution; protein family analysis; protein structure comparison

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE DEAMINASE; AMIDASE; CREATININE DEIMINASE; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; DIHYDROOROTASE; ENZYME; PHOSPHOTRIESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIGANDS; METALS, HEAVY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; UREASE;

EID: 0031000649     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199705)28:1<72::AID-PROT7>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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