A superfamily of archaeal, bacterial, and eukaryotic proteins homologous to animal transglutaminases

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1714-1719

  Makarova, Kira S ^a,b,d   Aravind, L ^b,c   Koonin, Eugene V ^b  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Catalytic triad; Evolution of enzymes; Iterative database search; Thiol protease; Transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 13A; CELL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; HISTIDINE; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTE; METHANOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; METHANOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0032800014     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.8.1714     Document Type: Article

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