Engineering activity and stability of Thermotoga maritima glutamate dehydrogenase. II: Construction of a 16-residue ion-pair network at the subunit interface

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 289, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 357-369

  Lebbink, Joyce H G ^a   Knapp, Stefan ^b   Van Der Oost, John ^a   Rice, David ^c   Ladenstein, Rudolf ^b   De Vos, Willem M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glutamate dehydrogenase; Pyrococcus furiosus; Subunit interface ion pair network; Thermostability; Thermotoga maritima

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENATURATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STABILITY; HALF LIFE TIME; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSTABILITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 0033523004     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2779     Document Type: Article

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