A glycyl radical solution: Oxygen-dependent interconversion of pyruvate formate-lyase

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 945-954

  Sawers, Gary ^a   Watson, Gregory ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; BACTERIAL ENZYME; FORMIC ACID; LYASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CATALYSIS; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENZYME REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREE RADICALS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0031866036     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00941.x     Document Type: Review

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