Crystal structure of aspartate decarboxylase at 2.2 Å resolution provides evidence for an ester in protein self-processing

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 289-293

  Albert, Armando ^a   Dhanaraj, Venugopal ^a   Genschel, Ulrich ^a   Khan, Ghalib ^a   Ramjee, Manoj K ^b   Pulido, Rosalino ^b   Sibanda, B Lynn ^a   Von Delft, Frank ^a   Witty, Michael ^a   Blundell, Tom L ^a   Smith, Alison G ^a   Abell, Chris ^b  

^a Department of Biochemistry ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CARBOXYLYASE; ESTER;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESTERS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031960010     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0498-289     Document Type: Article

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