Mechanisms of catalysis and allosteric regulation of yeast chorismate mutase from crystal structures

Structure

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1437-1452

  Sträter, Norbert ^a,b   Schnappauf, Georg ^c   Braus, Gerhard ^c   Lipscomb, William N ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allosterism; Claisen rearrangement; Pericyclic reaction; Transition state analogue inhibitor; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031573452     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(97)00294-3     Document Type: Article

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