Crystal structure of a deubiquitinating enzyme (human UCH-L3) at 1.8 Å resolution

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 3787-3796

  Johnston, Steven C ^a   Larsen, Christopher N ^b   Cook, William J ^c   Wilkinson, Keith D ^b   Hill, Christopher P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Baptist Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Cysteine protease; Substrate specificity; Ubiquitin C terminal hydrolase

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; HYDROLASE; UBIQUINONE;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAPAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THIOLESTER HYDROLASES; UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 0031011721     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.13.3787     Document Type: Article

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