New sequence motifs in flavoproteins: Evidence for common ancestry and tools to predict structure

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 95-114

  Vallon, Olivier ^a,b  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b National de la Recherche Scientifique Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

Author keywords

Cofactor binding; Dinucleotide; FAD; NAD; NADP; Oxidase; Reductase; Rossman fold

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); AMINO ACID OXIDASE; DIMETHYLANILINE MONOOXYGENASE; DINUCLEOTIDE; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; FLAVOPROTEIN; FUMARATE REDUCTASE; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTOPORPHYRINOGEN OXIDASE; STEROID REDUCTASE; TRANSCORTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLAVIN-ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; FLAVOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033970608     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(20000101)38:1<95::AID-PROT10>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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