Probing the active site of mitogillin, a fungal ribotoxin

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1019-1027

  Kao, R ^a   Shea, J E ^b   Davies, J ^a   Holden, D W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HYDROXYLAMINE; MUTAGENS; MYCOTOXINS; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; RABBITS; RETICULOCYTES; RIBONUCLEASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031816245     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00987.x     Document Type: Article

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