Crystal structures of the key anaerobic enzyme pyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase free and in complex with pyruvate

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 182-190

  Chabrière, Eric ^a   Charon, Marie Helene ^a   Volbeda, Anne ^a   Pieulle, Laetitia ^b   Hatchikian, Etienne Claude ^b   Fontecilla Camps, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; COCARBOXYLASE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE; PYRUVATE SYNTHASE; PYRUVIC ACID;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESULFOVIBRIO; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTRONS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; KETONE OXIDOREDUCTASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXYGEN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PYRUVATE SYNTHASE; PYRUVIC ACID;

EID: 0032929940     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/5870     Document Type: Article

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