Radical species in the catalytic pathways of enzymes from anaerobes

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 523-541

  Buckel, Wolfgang ^a   Golding, Bernard T ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2 Hydroxyglutaryl CoA dehydratase; 4 Hydroxybutyryl CoA dehydratase; Benzoyl CoA reductase; Chorismate synthase; Coenzyme B12 dependent carbon skeleton mutase and eliminase; DNA photolyase; Lysine 2,3 aminomutase; Pyruvate formate lyase; Radical anion; Substrate based radical; Umpolung

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; ENZYME; HYDROLYASE; LYASE; MUTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RADICAL; SYNTHETASE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; REVIEW;

EID: 0032466214     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(98)00038-2     Document Type: Review

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