Crystal structure of nitrile hydratase reveals a novel iron centre in a novel fold

Structure

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 691-699

  Huang, Weijun ^a   Jia, Jia ^a   Cummings, John ^b   Nelson, Mark ^b   Schneider, Gunter ^a   Lindqvist, Ylva ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

iron centre; metalloenzyme; nitrile hydratase; non heme iron; protein crystallography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031570299     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(97)00223-2     Document Type: Article

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