Direct observation of an altered quaternary-structure transition in a mutant aspartate transcarbamoylase

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 383-390

  Tsuruta, Hirotsugu ^a   Vachette, Patrice ^b   Kantrowitz, Evan R ^c  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allosterism; Domain closure; Time resolved small angle X ray scattering

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBAMYL PHOSPHATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032101728     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19980601)31:4<383::AID-PROT5>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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