Refined X-ray crystallographic structure of the poliovirus 3C gene product

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 273, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1032-1047

  Mosimann, Steven C ^a   Cherney, Maia M ^a   Sia, Samuel ^a   Plotch, Steve ^b   James, Michael N G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystallography; Cysteine protease; Picornavirus; Protease; Proteinase

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEINASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; NONHUMAN; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031567786     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1306     Document Type: Article

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