Structure of a cephalosporin synthase

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6695, 1998, Pages 805-809

  Valegård, Karin ^a   Van Terwisscha Scheltinga, Anke C ^b   Lloyd, Matthew D ^c   Hara, Takane ^a   Ramaswamy, S ^b   Perrakis, Anastassis ^d   Thompson, Andy ^d   Lee, Hwei Jen ^c   Baldwin, Jack E ^c   Schofield, Christopher J ^c   Hajdu, Janos ^a   Andersson, Inger ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0032552110     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29575     Document Type: Article

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