Sequence and structural features of the T-fold, an original tunnelling building unit

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 142-154

  Colloc'h, Nathalie ^a   Poupon, Anne ^a,b   Mornon, Jean Paul ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c LMCP   (France)

Author keywords

Folding motif; Oligomeric assembly; Sequence divergence; Structural similarity; Topohydrophobic network

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALDEHYDE-LYASES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; ENZYMES; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PTERINS; PURINES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; URATE OXIDASE;

EID: 0034192571     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(20000501)39:2<142::AID-PROT4>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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