Structure of a specific acyl-enzyme complex formed between β- casomorphin-7 and porcine pancreatic elastase

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 456-462

  Wilmouth, Rupert C ^a,b   Clifton, Ian J ^a,b   Robinson, Carol V ^a   Roach, Peter L ^a,b   Aplin, Robin T ^b   Westwood, Nicholas J ^a   Hajdu, Janos ^a,b,c   Schofield, Christopher J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CASOMORPHINE DERIVATIVE; PANCREATIC ELASTASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME INHIBITOR INTERACTION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENDORPHINS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031005781     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0697-456     Document Type: Article

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