Avoiding the Road Less Traveled: How the Topology of Enzyme-Substrate Complexes Can Dictate Product Selection

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 757-765

  Eliot, Andrew C ^a   Kirsch, Jack F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

1 AMINOCYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLATE SYNTHASE; 7,8 DIAMINOPELARGONIC ACID SYNTHASE; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; S ADENOSYL 4 METHYLTHIO 2 OXOBUTANOATE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; TRANSAMINATION;

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; LYASES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PYRIDOXAL PHOSPHATE; QUINONES; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 0142213274     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar0202767     Document Type: Article

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