Insights into the mechanism of domain closure and substrate specificity of glutamate dehydrogenase from Clostridium symbiosum

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 875-885

  Stillman, Timothy J ^a   Migueis, Antonio Miguel B ^a   Wang, Xing Guo ^b   Baker, Patrick J ^a   Britton, K Linda ^a   Engel, Paul C ^b   Rice, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Amino acid dehydrogenases; Conformational change; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Site directed mutagenesis; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM SYMBIOSUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033556161     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2335     Document Type: Article

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