Strategies to characterize the mechanisms of action and the active sites of glutathione S-transferases: A review

Drug Metabolism Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 569-643

  Van Der Aar, Ellen M ^a   Tan, Kian T ^a   Commandeur, Jan N M ^a   Vermeulen, Nico P E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE;

AFFINITY LABELING; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIMERA; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031950471     PISSN: 03602532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03602539808996325     Document Type: Review

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