Structure and mechanism of the amphibolic enzyme D-ribulose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase from potato chloroplasts

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 287, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 761-771

  Kopp, Jürgen ^a   Kopriva, Stanislav ^b   Süss, Karl Heinz ^b   Schulz, Georg E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

( )8 barrel; Calvin cycle; Evolutionary conservation; Pentose phosphate epimerase; X ray structure analysis

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; EPIMERASE; RIBULOSE PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CATALYSIS; CHLOROPLAST; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIPOLE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; HYDROGEN BOND; ISOMERISM; NONHUMAN; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0033537899     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2643     Document Type: Article

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