The crystal structure of a bacterial, bifunctional 5,10 methylene- tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase/cyclohydrolase

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1342-1349

  Shen, Betty W ^a   Dyer, David H ^a   Huang, Jie Yu ^a   D'Ari, Linda ^b   Rabinowitz, Jesse ^b   Stoddard, Barry L ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifunctional; Channeling; Cyclohydrolase; Dehydrogenase; Folate

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033060317     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.6.1342     Document Type: Article

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