Defining the ATPase center of bacteriophage T4 DNA packaging machine: Requirement for a catalytic glutamate residue in the large terminase protein gp17

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 331, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 139-154

  Goetzinger, Katherine R ^a   Rao, Venigalla B ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

ATPase; DNA packaging; Terminase; Virus assembly; Walker B motif

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN P17; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BINDING KINETICS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA PACKAGING; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TERMINAL SEQUENCE; TRANSACTIVATION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS MUTATION;

MIRIDAE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0038499685     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00636-3     Document Type: Article

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