Structural plasticity of thermophilic serine hydroxymethyltransferases

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 122-134

  Paiardini, Alessandro ^a   Gianese, Giulio ^a   Bossa, Francesco ^a   Pascarella, Stefano ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Archaea; Modified folates; Residue exchanges; Serine hydroxymethyltransferase; Structural adaptation; Thermophilic enzymes

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOLIC ACID; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; HEAT; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0037236096     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10268     Document Type: Article

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