2.9 Å Crystal structure of ligand-free tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase: Domain movements fragment the adenine nucleotide binding site

Protein Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 218-231

  Ilyin, Valentin A ^a   Temple, Brenda ^a   Hu, Mei ^a   Li, Genpei ^b   Yin, Yuhui ^c   Vachette, Patrice ^d   Carter Jr , Charles W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

Author keywords

ATP binding site; Induced fit; Maximum entropy; Nonpolar nuclei; Tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; LIGAND;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRICITY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS;

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDES; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; ELECTROSTATICS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRYPTOPHAN-TRNA LIGASE;

EID: 0033622155     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.9.2.218     Document Type: Article

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