Structure, catalytic mechanism, and evolution of the glutathione transferases

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 2-18

  Armstrong, Richard N ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME INHIBITOR; FOSFOMYCIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EVOLUTION; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031021397     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx960072x     Document Type: Review

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