Hydride transfer during catalysis by dihydrofolate reductase from Thermotoga maritima

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 374, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 529-535

  Maglia, Giovanni ^a   Javed, Masood H ^a   Allemann, Rudolf K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hydride transfer; Kinetics; Stability; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; HYDRIDES; PH EFFECTS;

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; ENZYME;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERIVATIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; IONIZATION; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MEASUREMENT; MELTING POINT; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; TURNOVER TIME;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENERGY TRANSFER; FOLIC ACID; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NADP; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTONS; TEMPERATURE; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; THERMOTOGA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 0041761262     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20030412     Document Type: Article

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