Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase: A crooked path from substrates to products

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 624-632

  Raushel, Frank M ^a   Thodent, James B ^b   Reinhart, Gregory D ^a   Holden, Hazel M ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BICARBONATE; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE HYDROLYSING); GLUTAMINE; ISOENZYME;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ALLOSTERIC SITE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BICARBONATES; CARBAMOYL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE-HYDROLYZING); CARBAMYL PHOSPHATE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUTAMINE; ISOENZYMES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032177977     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(98)80094-X     Document Type: Article

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