Crystal structure of Escherichia coli lytic transglycosylase Slt35 reveals a lysozyme-like catalytic domain with an EF-hand

Structure

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1167-1180

  Van Asselt, Erik J ^a   Dijkstra, Arnoud J ^b   Kalk, Kor H ^a   Takacs, Bela ^b   Keck, Wolfgang ^b   Dijkstra, Bauke W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

EF hand; Escherichia coli; Lysozyme; Lytic transglycosylase; Peptidoglycan

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0342901668     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(00)80051-9     Document Type: Article

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