The x-ray structure of a cobalamin biosynthetic enzyme, cobalt- precorrin-4 methyltransferase

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 585-592

  Schubert, Heidi L ^a   Wilson, Keith S ^a   Raux, Evelyne ^b   Woodcock, Sarah C ^b   Warren, Martin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALAMIN; COBALT; CORRINOID; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; S-ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VITAMIN B 12;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031849756     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/846     Document Type: Article

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