Functional assessment of surface loops: Deletion of eukaryote-specific peptide inserts in thymidylate synthase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology

Volumn 1430, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-13

  Munro, Edith M ^a   Climie, Shane ^b   Vandenberg, Elaine ^b   Storms, Reginald K ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b NPS Pharmaceutical Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Eukaryote specific; Surface loop; Thymidylate synthase

Indexed keywords

THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE CONSTRUCT; MUTANT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOMETRY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033001634     PISSN: 01674838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4838(98)00275-1     Document Type: Article

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